The consequence was that the steward was taken into custody and heavily fined.

Tillotson sent a kind message to assure his predecessor that the fine should not be exacted.

But Sancroft was determined to have a grievance, and would pay the money.

[52] From that time the great object of the narrowminded and peevish old man was to tear in pieces the Church of which he had been the chief minister.

It was in vain that some of those nonjurors, whose virtue, ability and learning were the glory of their party, remonstrated against his design.