94 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT. 



distinguished him with preferments, entirely on 

 account of his vast learning and general merits. 

 On similar grounds, he appointed, at the re- 

 commendation of Isaac Vossius, then canon of 

 Windsor, the celebrated Paul Colomesius* to 

 the office of his librarian. But the individual 

 who reflects the highest credit on his patronage 

 is that eminent defender of the true Christian 

 faith. Dr. George Bull, afterwards Bishop of 

 St. David's. The Archbishop collated him, in 

 June, 1686, to the Archdeaconry of LlandafF, 

 '' entirely," as Mr. Nelson, the biographer of 

 Bishop Bull, states,^ *' in consideration of the 

 great and eminent services he had rendered to 

 the church of God by his learned and judicious 



William Needham^ fellow of Emanuel College. In 1689, he 

 was appointed by Archbishop Sancroft to the Chancellorship 

 of St. David's, and was also Rector of Alresford, Hants. 

 George Thorpe, also fellow of Emanuel. — He was collated to 

 the rectories of Bishopsbourn and Ickham, in East Kent ; 

 was afterwards Archdeacon and Prebendary of Canterbury. 

 Charles Trumbull, Rector of Stisted, hi Essex, and afteiwards 

 of Hadleigh in Suffolk. He was deprived for not taking the 

 oaths to King William. See Addenda to Ducarel's History 

 of Lambeth Palace, by Rev. Samuel Denne, p. 224. 

 * This was a learned French Protestant who settled in Eng- 

 land. He was collated by Archbishop Sancroft to the living of 

 Eynsford, in Kent ; continued to be his librarian till his depri- 

 vation, and died in 1692. 



t See Nelson's Life of Bishop Bull, p. 354. 



