will die; and in the next generation the unity of the Church will
be restored. On the other hand, if we consecrate Bishops to
succeed us, the breach may last through ages, and we shall be
justly held accountable, not indeed for its origin, but for its
continuance." These considerations ought, on Sancroft's own
principles, to have had decisive weight with him; but his angry
passions prevailed. Ken quietly retired from the venerable palace
of Wells. He had done, he said, with strife, and should
henceforth vent his feelings not in disputes but in hymns. His
charities to the unhappy of all persuasions, especially to the
followers of Monmouth and to the persecuted Huguenots, had been
so large that his whole private fortune consisted of seven
hundred pounds, and of a library which he could not bear to sell.
But Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth, though not a nonjuror, did
himself honour by offering to the most virtuous of the nonjurors
a tranquil and dignified asylum in the princely mansion of
Longleat. There Ken passed a happy and honoured old age, during
which he never regretted the sacrifice which he had made to what
he thought his duty, and yet constantly became more and more
indulgent to those whose views of duty differed from his.53

Sancroft was of a very different temper. He had, indeed, as
little to complain of as any man whom a revolution has ever
hurled down from an exalted station. He had at Fressingfield, in
Suffolk, a patrimonial estate, which, together with what he had
saved during a primacy of twelve years, enabled him to live, not
indeed as he had lived when he was the first peer of Parliament,
but in the style of an opulent country gentleman. He retired to
his hereditary abode; and there he passed the rest of his life in
brooding over his wrongs. Aversion to the Established Church