October 1705 'I am this day arriv'd to the 85th year of my age.

Lord teach me so to number my days to come that I may apply them to wisdom'.

And numbered, indeed, they then were; for on the 27th of February 1706 he passed quietly and peacefully away, retaining his faculties to the last.

And he was laid at rest in the Chancel of Wotton Church.
During the course of his long and distinguished life he had seen many stirring events, had taken part in many important affairs, had achieved much, and had suffered much.

He had outlived four reigns, two of which were terminated by a natural death, one by public execution, and one by abdication.