But, as times change, men change, and it is not impossible that Cromwell, the first real mover of the Root-and-Branch Bill of 1641, may now, fifteen years later, have looked speculatively sometimes at the old trunk in the timberyard.

It is certain that he treated with profound respect the man whose advice about any remodelling of Episcopacy would have been the most authoritative generally.

Ex-Primate Usher had lived in London through the Commonwealth and the Protectorate with the highest honour, pensioned at the rate of L400 a year, and holding also the preachership to the Society of Lincoln's Inn.

Cromwell had shown him every attention, and had consulted him on several occasions.

He had retired to Reigate a short time before his death, which happened on the 21st of March, 1655-6.