to six hundred.  His anxiety that she should receive her income regularly and without stoppages was honourable to him.  Every quarterday he ordered the money, without any deduction, to be brought to himself, and immediately sent it to her.  Tillotson had bequeathed to her no property, except a great number of manuscript sermons.  Such was his fame among his contemporaries that those sermons were purchased by the booksellers for the almost incredible sum of two thousand five hundred guineas, equivalent, in the wretched state in which the silver coin then was, to at least three thousand six hundred pounds.  Such a price had never before been given in England for any copyright.  About the same time Dryden, whose reputation was then in the zenith, received thirteen hundred pounds for his translation of all the works of Virgil, and was thought to have been splendidly remunerated.544

It was not easy to fill satisfactorily the high place which Tillotson had left vacant.  Mary gave her voice for Stillingfleet, and pressed his claims as earnestly as she ever ventured to press any thing.  In abilities and attainments he had few superiors among the clergy.  But, though he would probably have been considered as a Low Churchman by Jane and South, he was too high a Churchman for William; and Tenison was appointed.  The new primate was not eminently distinguished by eloquence or learning:  but he was honest, prudent, laborious and benevolent; he had been a good rector of a large parish and a good bishop of a large diocese; detraction had not yet been busy with his name; and it might well be thought that a man of plain sense, moderation and integrity, was more likely than a man of brilliant genius and lofty spirit to succeed in the arduous task of quieting a discontented and distracted Church.

Meanwhile the Commons had entered upon business.  They cheerfully voted about two million four hundred thousand pounds for the army, and as much for the navy.  The land tax for the year was again fixed at four shillings in the pound; the Tonnage Act was renewed for a term of five years; and a fund was established on which the government was authorised to borrow two millions and a half.

Some time was spent by both Houses in discussing the Manchester trials.  If the malecontents had been wise, they would have been satisfied with the advantage which they had already gained.  Their friends had been set free.  The prosecutors had with difficulty escaped from the hands of an enraged multitude.  The character of the government had been seriously damaged.  The ministers were accused, in prose and in verse, sometimes in earnest and sometimes in jest, of having hired a gang of ruffians to swear away the lives of honest gentlemen.  Even moderate politicians, who gave no credit to these foul imputations, owned that Trenchard ought to have remembered the villanies of Fuller and Young, and to have been on his guard against such wretches as Taaffe and Lunt.  The unfortunate Secretary’s health and spirits had given way.  It was said that he was dying; and it was certain that he would not long continue to hold the seals.  The Tories had won a great victory; but, in their eagerness to improve it, they turned it into a defeat.