After all, he was a man of generosity and good nature, and very communicative; but, in his ten last years, was absolutely party-mad, and fancied he saw Popery under every bush.

He hath told me many passages not mentioned in this history, and many that are, but with several circumstances suppressed or altered.

He never gives a good character without one essential point, that the person was tender to Dissenters, and thought many things in the Church ought to be amended.
[Footnote 1: "His own opinion," says my predecessor, Mr Nichols, "was very different, as appears by the original MS of his History, wherein the following lines are legible, though among those which were ordered not to be printed 'And if I have arrived at any faculty of writing clearly and correctly, I owe that entirely to them [Tillotson and Lloyd].

For as they joined with Wilkins, in that noble, though despised attempt, of an _universal character_, and a philosophical language; they took great pains to observe all the common errors of language in general, and of ours in particular.

And in the drawing the tables for that work, which was Lloyd's province, he looked further into a natural purity and simplicity of style, than any man I ever knew; into all which he led me, and so helped me to any measure of exactness of writing, which may be thought to belong to me.' The above was originally designed to have followed the words, 'I know from them,' vol.i.p.