[53] Sancroft was of a very different temper.

He had, indeed, as little to complain of as any man whom a revolution has ever hurled down from an exalted station.

He had at Fressingfield, in Suffolk, a patrimonial estate, which, together with what he had saved during a primacy of twelve years, enabled him to live, not indeed as he had lived when he was the first peer of Parliament, but in the style of an opulent country gentleman.

He retired to his hereditary abode; and there he passed the rest of his life in brooding over his wrongs.

Aversion to the Established Church became as strong a feeling in him as it had been in Martin Marprelate.