[358] Lambeth MSS., Gibson, vi. 18.
[359] Faithful account, &c.
[360] Lambeth MSS., Gibson, vi. 11.
[361] Burnet, ii. 303.
[362] Hist. of King William III, 513.
[363] Dr. Willis, William’s Military Chaplain, who became Bishop of Gloucester in 1714, was an extempore preacher. To this he “was at first led, no doubt, by the temper of his master, King William, who was accustomed to hear such kind of preaching in Holland, and could scarcely have borne to hear Doctor or Prelate read a sermon out of the pulpit at the congregation.”—Anecdotes of the Wesley Family, ii. 243.
[364] Own Time, ii. 305.
[365] It would look as if the conduct of William in reference to patronage did not please some of the Bishops. Patrick says, “We cannot serve His Majesty unless he will countenance those whom we commend to him, purely because they have deserved well of him, and have no friends to make their worth known but we alone.” Patrick’s Works, ix. 621. The date is misprinted 1731; I take it for 1701.
[366] The Bishop of Sarum’s Four Treatises appeared in 1695.
[367] See Life and Character of Stillingfleet, 93, 104, 111, 119, and Twelve Sermons preached on several occasions, between 1666 and 1672. Published 1696. The first of his episcopal charges is the only one I have seen. For the rest, I depend on the report of the biographer.