But with clergymen who had sworn allegiance to the Sovereigns in possession Sancroft would not even pray.

He took care that the rule which he had laid down should be widely known, and, both by precept and by example, taught his followers to look on the most orthodox, the most devout, the most virtuous of those who acknowledged William's authority with a feeling similar to that with which the Jew regarded the Samaritan.

[54] Such intolerance would have been reprehensible, even in a man contending for a great principle.

But Sancroft was contending merely for a name.

He was the author of the scheme of Regency.