Devonshire, who was impatient to see his woods at Chatsworth in their summer beauty, had deferred his departure in order to mark his respect for Tillotson.

The crowd which lined the streets greeted the new Primate warmly.

For he had, during many years, preached in the City; and his eloquence, his probity and the singular gentleness of his temper and manners, had made him the favourite of the Londoners.

[46] But the congratulations and applauses of his friends could not drown the roar of execration which the Jacobites set up.

According to them, he was a thief who had not entered by the door, but had climbed over the fences.