Lloyd of Saint Asaph, who was the common friend of the Archbishop and of the Bishop elect, intreated and expostulated in vain.

Nottingham, who, of all the laymen connected with the new government, stood best with the clergy, tried his influence, but to no better purpose.

The Jacobites said every where that they were sure of the good old Primate; that he had the spirit of a martyr; that he was determined to brave, in the cause of the Monarchy and of the Church, the utmost rigour of those laws with which the obsequious parliaments of the sixteenth century had fenced the Royal Supremacy.

He did in truth hold out long.

But at the last moment his heart failed him, and he looked round him for some mode of escape.