Four Archbishops and eighteen Bishops were employed in looking after about a fifth part of the number of churchmen who inhabited the single diocese of London.

Of the parochial clergy a large proportion were pluralists and resided at a distance from their cures.

There were some who drew from their benefices incomes of little less than a thousand a year, without ever performing any spiritual function.

Yet this monstrous institution was much less disliked by the Puritans settled in Ireland than the Church of England by the English sectaries.

For in Ireland religious divisions were subordinate to national divisions; and the Presbyterian, while, as a theologian, he could not but condemn the established hierarchy, yet looked on that hierarchy with a sort of complacency when he considered it as a sumptuous and ostentatious trophy of the victory achieved by the great race from which he sprang.