He is said to have exclaimed that if the Convention was determined on a revolution, the clergy would find forty thousand good Churchmen to effect a restoration, [471] Against the new oaths he gave his opinion plainly and warmly.

He declared himself at a loss to understand how any honest man could doubt that, by the powers that be, Saint Paul meant legitimate powers and no others.

No name was in 1689 cited by the Jacobites so proudly and fondly as that of Sherlock.

Before the end of 1690 that name excited very different feelings.
A few other nonjurors ought to be particularly noticed.

High among them in rank was George Hickes, Dean of Worcester.