At the end of the year 1691 he removed into his new house, and on New Year’s-day at family worship he officiated himself, “in a very cold room where there never was a fire.” He would not employ a Chaplain. The preparation and arrangement of Laud’s MSS. for the press, occupied a good deal of his time, after which, in the month of November, 1693, his end approached. “It touched my spirits extremely,” says Mr. North, who visited him, “to see the low estate of this poor old saint; and with what wonderful regard and humility he treated those who visited him, and particularly myself.” His pious ejaculations were carefully recorded by his friends, and we are glad to find him saying to a visitor, “You and I have gone different ways in these late affairs, but I trust heaven’s gates are wide enough to receive us both. What I have done, I have done in the integrity of my heart.” The approach of mortality expands human charity, yet the ruling passion may be strong in death. Hence, though the dying man felt kindly towards all, he insisted that only Nonjurors should read prayers by his bedside, or officiate at his funeral. He entreated that God would bless and preserve His poor suffering Church, which by the Revolution had been almost destroyed; that he would bless and preserve the King, Queen, and Prince, and in His due time restore to them their undoubted rights.[226] Sancroft had an active but narrow intellect, a playful but feeble imagination, a careful but perverted judgment. His powers had been cultivated by study, and his productions indicate compass and command of learning. Living in a narrow circle, his prejudices were strong; and bitter memories of Presbyterian oppression at Cambridge followed him to the grave. His nature was not destitute of affection and generosity, and he seems not to have been morose; he was simple in his living, rather than ascetic in his temper. By no means a Ritualist, he decidedly opposed Romanism, though his sentiments were what would be called decidedly High Church. Of his conscientiousness, honesty, and self-denial, the sacrifice of the Primacy is a sufficient proof; and of his obstinacy, the conduct he manifested on leaving Lambeth, and the persistency he showed in nonjuring habits, afford abundant evidence. [Sidenote: TILLOTSON.]