These were gratefully remembered, and opened the way, soon after the restoration, for his being admitted into ' holy orders,' by the Bishop of London, in IfiBl, for his being honored with the degree of doctor of divinity, gifted by the crown with the rectory of Fobbing, in Essex, and afterward by the Bishop, with that of Ijavingdon, in the sanui county; all showing that the changeiff government from commonwealth to kingdom, brought to him no great distress, nor interfered with the educational interests of his family. The scholar, the diplomatist, the statesman, who had been recognized throughout Europe as the representative of the Lord Protector in defence of the peojiles oppressed for conscience sake, was eminently (pmlified, of course, to tniin his only sou into sympathy with his ow n ideas and the martyr spirit of the exiles who were to seek tran.'^atlantic homes within his own lordly domain.
In this timing of events the Huguenot Pilgrims discerned a divine adjustment of means to ends as real and apt as was that traced by the Israelites in the predicted exaltation of the youthful Joseph to that ancient ' Lordship ' that prepared their way to the land of promise. Of the fine qualities of character exemplified by these heroic people, and the possibilities of their future, he was thoroughly appreciative. How different might have been their fortunes bad he, like some leading men of the period, favored the exclusive policy of the reigning monarch by whom the manorial charter had been granted, and whose measures, ere long, rendered the English Revolution a logical necessity. But all anti-