He was perfectly willing to transfer the whole kingly power from James to William.

The question which, to this smallest and sourest of minds, seemed important enough to justify the excommunicating of ten thousand priests and of five millions of laymen was, whether the magistrate to whom the whole kingly power was transferred should assume the kingly title.

Nor could Sancroft bear to think that the animosity which he had excited would die with himself.

Having done all that he could to make the feud bitter, he determined to make it eternal.

A list of the divines who had been ejected from their benefices was sent by him to Saint Germains with a request that James would nominate two who might keep up the episcopal succession.