"Will you and your brethren," said Trevor to Lloyd, the nonjuring Bishop of Norwich, "disown all connection with Doctor Turner, and declare that what he has in his letters imputed to you is false ?" Lloyd evaded the question.

It was now evident that William's forbearance had only emboldened the adversaries whom he had hoped to conciliate.

Even Caermarthen, even Nottingham, declared that it was high time to fill the vacant sees.

[45] Tillotson was nominated to the Archbishopric, and was consecrated on Whitsunday, in the church of St.Mary Le Bow.

Compton, cruelly mortified, refused to bear any part in the ceremony.