as also by adding some new necessary Collects, and a particular Collect of Thanksgiving.  How many of those new Collects were worded by Dr. Sanderson, I cannot say; but am sure the whole Convocation valued him so much that he never undertook to speak to any point in question, but he was heard with great willingness and attention; and when any point in question was determined, the Convocation did usually desire him to word their intentions, and as usually approve and thank him.

[Sidenote:  New Offices]

At this Convocation the Common Prayer was made more complete, by adding three new necessary Offices; which were, “A Form of Humiliation for the Murder of King Charles the Martyr; A Thanksgiving for the Restoration of his Son our King; and For the Baptising of Persons of riper Age.”  I cannot say Dr. Sanderson did form, or word them all, but doubtless more than any single man of the Convocation; and he did also, by desire of the Convocation, alter and add to the forms of Prayers to be used at Sea—­now taken into the Service-Book.—­And it may be noted, that William, the now Right Reverend Bishop of Canterbury,[29] was in these employments diligently useful; especially in helping to rectify the Calendar and Rubric.  And lastly, it may be noted, that, for the satisfying all the dissenting brethren and others, the Convocation’s reasons for the alterations and additions to the Liturgy were by them desired to be drawn up by Dr. Sanderson; which being done by him, and approved by them, was appointed to be printed before the Liturgy, and may be known by this title—­“The Preface;” and begins thus—­“It hath been the Wisdom of the Church.”—­

I shall now follow him to his Bishopric, and declare a part of his behaviour in that busy and weighty employment.  And first, that it was with such condescension and obligingness to the meanest of his Clergy, as to know and be known to them.  And indeed he practised the like to all men of what degree soever, especially to his old neighbours or parishioners of Boothby Pannell; for there was all joy at his table, when they came to visit him:  then they prayed for him, and he for them, with an unfeigned affection.

I think it will not be denied, but that the care and toil required of a Bishop, may justly challenge the riches and revenue with which their predecessors had lawfully endowed them:  and yet he sought not that so much, as doing good both to the present age and posterity; and he made this appear by what follows.

[Sidenote:  The Bishop at Buckden]

[Sidenote:  Repairs and restorations]