In less than a month the commons granted upwards of six millions for the service of the ensuing year, and established a lottery, with other funds, to answer this enormous supply.

On the thirteenth day of December, Mr.
Dolben, son to the late archbishop of York, complained to the house of two sermons preached and published by Dr.Henry Sacheverel, rector of St.Saviour's in Southwark, as containing positions contrary to revolution principles, to the present government, and the protestant succession.

Sacheverel was a clergyman of narrow intellects, and an overheated imagination.

He had acquired some popularity among those who had distinguished themselves by the name of high-churchmen, and took all occasions to vent his animosity against the dissenters.

At the summer assizes at Derby, he had held forth in that strain before the judges; on the fifth day of November, in Saint Paul's church, he, in a violent declamation, defended the doctrine of non-resistance; inveighed against the toleration and dissenters; declared the church was dangerously attacked by her enemies, and slightly defended by her false friends: he sounded the trumpet for the church, and exhorted the people to put on the whole armour of God.