All his preferments would soon be vacant.

"Doctor Hough," said Penn, "may then be Bishop of Oxford.

How should you like that, gentlemen ?" Penn had passed his life in declaiming against a hireling ministry.

He held that he was bound to refuse the payment of tithes, and this even when he had bought land chargeable with tithes, and hallowed the value of the tithes in the purchase money.

According to his own principles, he would have committed a great sin if he had interfered for the purpose of obtaining a benefice on the most honourable terms for the most pious divine.