It is to be lamented that the signatures of Tillotson and Burnet, who were both present on that day, should be wanting.

Dorset was absent.

[399] Blount, by whose exertions and machinations the opposition to the censorship had been raised, did not live to see that opposition successful.

Though not a very young man, he was possessed by an insane passion for the sister of his deceased wife.

Having long laboured in vain to convince the object of his love that she might lawfully marry him, he at last, whether from weariness of life, or in the hope of touching her heart, inflicted on himself a wound of which, after languishing long, he died.