Their mother had brought him a good fortune.

With that fortune, he always said, they must be content: He would not, for their sakes, be guilty of the crime of raising an estate out of revenues sacred to piety and charity.

Such merits as these will, in the judgment of wise and candid men, appear fully to atone for every offence which can be justly imputed to him.

[81] When he took his seat in the House of Lords, he found that assembly busied in ecclesiastical legislation.

A statesman who was well known to be devoted to the Church had undertaken to plead the cause of the Dissenters.