If any man had a claim to be mentioned with respect at Saint Germains, it was surely Sancroft.

Yet it was reported that the bigots who were assembled there never spoke of him but with aversion and disgust.

The sacrifice of the first place in the Church, of the first place in the peerage, of the mansion at Lambeth and the mansion at Croydon, of immense patronage and of a revenue of more than five thousand a year was thought but a poor atonement for the great crime of having modestly remonstrated against the unconstitutional Declaration of Indulgence.

Sancroft was pronounced to be just such a traitor and just such a penitent as Judas Iscariot.

The old hypocrite had, it was said, while affecting reverence and love for his master, given the fatal signal to his master's enemies.