He did not, like a Puritan, torment himself and others with scruples about everything that was pleasant.

On the contrary, he was as keen a sportsman, and as jolly a boon companion, as any man who had taken the oath of supremacy and the declaration against transubstantiation.

He met his brother squires at the cover, was in with them at the death, and, when the sport was over, took them home with him to a venison pasty and to October four years in bottle.

The oppressions which he had undergone had not been such as to impel him to any desperate resolution.

Even when his Church was barbarously persecuted, his life and property were in little danger.