One phantom prelate pronounced the consecration of another phantom prelate uncanonical.

At length the pastors were left absolutely without flocks.

One of these Lords spiritual very wisely turned surgeon; another left what he had called his see, and settled in Ireland; and at length, in 1805, the last Bishop of that society which had proudly claimed to be the only true Church of England dropped unnoticed into the grave.

[56] The places of the bishops who had been ejected with Sancroft were filled in a manner creditable to the government.

Patrick succeeded the traitor Turner.