splendid that had been seen in any place of worship since the
coronation. The Queen's drawingroom was, on that day, deserted.
Most of the peers who were in town met in the morning at Bedford
House, and went thence in procession to Cheapside. Norfolk,
Caermarthen and Dorset were conspicuous in the throng.
Devonshire, who was impatient to see his woods at Chatsworth in
their summer beauty, had deferred his departure in order to mark
his respect for Tillotson. The crowd which lined the streets
greeted the new Primate warmly. For he had, during many years,
preached in the City; and his eloquence, his probity and the
singular gentleness of his temper and manners, had made him the
favourite of the Londoners.46 But the congratulations and
applauses of his friends could not drown the roar of execration
which the Jacobites set up. According to them, he was a thief who
had not entered by the door, but had climbed over the fences. He
was a hireling whose own the sheep were not, who had usurped the
crook of the good shepherd, and who might well be expected to
leave the flock at the mercy of every wolf. He was an Arian, a
Socinian, a Deist, an Atheist. He had cozened the world by fine
phrases, and by a show of moral goodness: but he was in truth a
far more dangerous enemy of the Church than he could have been if
he had openly proclaimed himself a disciple of Hobbes, and had
lived as loosely as Wilmot. He had taught the fine gentlemen and
ladies who admired his style, and who were constantly seen round
his pulpit, that they might be very good Christians, and yet
might believe the account of the Fall in the book of Genesis to
be allegorical. Indeed they might easily be as good Christians as
he; for he had never been christened; his parents were
Anabaptists; he had lost their religion when he was a boy; and he
had never found another. In ribald lampoons he was nicknamed