Fowler went to Gloucester.

Richard Cumberland, an aged divine, who had no interest at Court, and whose only recommendations were his piety and erudition, was astonished by learning from a newsletter which he found on the table of a coffeehouse that he had been nominated to the See of Peterborough.

[57] Beveridge was selected to succeed Ken; he consented; and the appointment was actually announced in the London Gazette.

But Beveridge, though an honest, was not a strongminded man.
Some Jacobites expostulated with him; some reviled him; his heart failed him; and he retracted.

While the nonjurors were rejoicing in this victory, he changed his mind again; but too late.