His opinions respecting ecclesiastical polity and modes of worship were latitudinarian.

He owned that episcopacy was a lawful and convenient form of church government; but he spoke with sharpness and scorn of the bigotry of those who thought episcopal ordination essential to a Christian society.

He had no scruple about the vestments and gestures prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer.

But he avowed that he should like the rites of the Church of England better if they reminded him less of the rites of the Church of Rome.

He had been heard to utter an ominous growl when first he saw, in his wife's private chapel, an altar decked after the Anglican fashion, and had not seemed well pleased at finding her with Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity in her hands.