him in his confiderations upon a printed sheet, entituled, The fpeech of the late lord Ruffel, to the sheriffs; in which he gives an account of the dean's pious and friendly visits to his lordship, and commends him for difcharging himfelf from first to laft in all the parts of a churchman and of a friend.

In November 1687, the dean loft the laft furviving of his children, Mary, the wife of James Chadwicke Efq. by whom he left two fons, and a daughter. This lofs, as he obferyed in a letter of the eleventh of that month to Mr, Nelson, then in London, deeply pier ced his heart; "but I endeavour, adds he, to do as becomes me, and as I know I ought' This misfortune probably occafioned him to retire to Canterbury, whence he wrote again to that gentleman, on the feventh of December, to return his own and his wife's thanks, to him, and to thofe honourable perfons, who, upon Mr. Nelfon's motion, had been fo charitable in their contributions, most probably to the french proteftants in that city, fince he requefts him to lay out five pounds in french bibles bound, and to defire Mr, Firmin to fend them thither. Not long after this, the dean was feized with a diforder of the apoplectic kind, but escaped the confequences of it, without any return till that fatal one about seven years after. During the debate in parliament concerning the fettlement of the crown on king William for life, the dean was advifed with upon that point by the princefs. Anne of Den

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mark, who had at first refused to give her con fent to it, as prejudicial to her own right. Her favourite, the lady Churchill, afterwards dutchess of Marlborough, accordingly took great pains to promote the princeffes's pretenfons. But that lady foon finding, that all endeavours of this kind, would be ineffectual, that all the principal men, except the Jacobites were for the king, and that the fettlement would be carried in parliament, whether her royal highness would or not, and being fearful about every thing, which the princefs did while he was thought to be advised by her ladyship, fhe could not fatisfy her own mind till fhe had confulted with feveral perfons of undisputed wisdom and integrity, and particularly with the lady Ruffel, and the dean of Canterbury. She found them all unanimous. in the expediency of the fettlement propofed,, as things were then fituated, and therefore carried the dean to the princefs, who, upon. what he faid to her, took care, that no difturbance should be made by her pretended friends. the Jacobites, who had preffed her earnestly to form an oppofition. The dean s admitted into a high degree of favour and confidence with king William and queen Mary, before the latter of whom he preached at Whitehall, on the eighth of March 1688-9, his fermon. concerning the forgiveness of injuries, and against revenge, as he did on the fourteenth of April following, before both their majefties, at Hampton Court, that, on the care of our

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fouls, and the one thing needful. And on the twenty feventh of that month, he was promoted to an office, which required his frequent attendance near their majefties perfons, being appointed clerk of the clofet to the king. The refutal of archbishop Sancroft, to acknowlege the government of their majefties, made it neceffary to look out for a fucceffor to him. The king foon fixed upon the dean of Canterbury, for that purpofe, whofe defires and ambition had extended no farther than the exchange of his deanry for that of St. Paul's, vacant by the promotion of Dr, Stillingfleet to the bifhopric of Worcester, upon the death of Dr. Thomas. This was readily granted him in September 1689, and he was inftalled on the twenty first of November. It was indeed a confiderable diminution of his income, as he refigned at the fame time, the refidentiaryship' of St. Pauls. But he chofe, as has been already obferved, to difburthen himself of the load, and envy of holding two dignities together. Yet however fatisfied he was in that fituation, his majefty would not let him reft, till he fubmitted to a much higher poft, to which he had an almost inconquerable averfion.

Dr. Tillotfon had been in ftrict attendance at court in his office of clerk of the closet for ten weeks till towards the beginning of September 1689, when he obtained leave to retire for fome days, to his houfe at Edmonton, whence he wrote on the tenth of that month

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mark, who had at first refused to give her con fent to it, as prejudicial to her own right. Her favourite, the lady Churchill, afterwards dutchess of Marlborough, accordingly took great pains to promote the princeffes's pretenfions. But that lady foon finding, that all. endeavours of this kind, would be ineffectual, that all the principal men, except the Jacobites were for the king, and that the settlement would be carried in parliament, whether her royal highness would or not, and being fearful about every thing, which the princess did while he was thought to be advised by her ladyship, fhe could not fatisfy her own mind till fhe had confulted with feveral perfons of undifputed wisdom and integrity, and particularly with the lady Ruffel, and the dean of Canterbury. She found them all unanimous. in the expediency of the fettlement propofed,, as things were then fituated, and therefore carried the dean to the princefs, who, upon. what he faid to her, took care, that no difturbance should be made by her pretended friends. the Jacobites, who had preffed her earneftly to form an oppofition. The dean was admitted into a high degree of favour and confidence with king William and queen Mary, before the latter of whom he preached at Whitehall, on the eighth of March 1688-9, his fermon concerning the forgiveness of injuries, and against revenge, as he did on the fourteenth of April following, before both their majefties, at Hampton Court, that, on the care of our

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fouls, and the one thing needful. And on the twenty feventh of that month, he was promoted to an office, which required his frequent attendance near their majefties perfons, being appointed clerk of the clofet to the king. The refutal of archbishop Sancroft, to acknowlege the government of their majefties, made it neceffary to look out for a fucceffor to him. The king foon fixed upon the dean of Canterbury, for that purpose, whofe defires and ambition had extended no farther than the exchange of his deanry for that of St. Paul's, vacant by the promotion of Dr, Stillingfleet to the bifhopric of Worcester, upon the death of Dr. Thomas. This was readily granted him in September 1689, and he was inftalled on the twenty firft of November. It was indeed a confiderable diminution of his income, as he refigned at the fame time, the refidentiaryship of St. Pauls. But he chofe, as has been al ready observed, to difburthen himself of the load, and envy of holding two dignities together. Yet however fatisfied he was in that fituation, his majefty would not let him reft, till he fubmitted to a much higher poft, to which he had an almost inconquerable averfion.

Dr. Tillotson had been in ftrict attendance at court in his office of clerk of the closet for ten weeks till towards the beginning of September 1689, when he obtained leave to retire for fome days, to his houfe at Edmonton, whence he wrote on the tenth of that month

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