. The life of Thomas Ken, D. D. : Bishop of Bath and Wells . r presse their relief at am sorry that the university made you not a more resjiectfuUreturn. I heartily congratulate you in the happinesse you enjoyin a good conscience, which is an anticipation of heaven, & am 190 CORRESPONDENCE WITH DR. SMITH, [chap. xxv. scrupulous of taking up too mucli of your time, which you so bene-ficially employ for the public, & for the future generation, to whomyou will make your memory pretious. God keep us in his reveren-tial love, resigned to his will, and mindfuU of eternity. Good D^ Smith, Y
. The life of Thomas Ken, D. D. : Bishop of Bath and Wells . r presse their relief at am sorry that the university made you not a more resjiectfuUreturn. I heartily congratulate you in the happinesse you enjoyin a good conscience, which is an anticipation of heaven, & am 190 CORRESPONDENCE WITH DR. SMITH, [chap. xxv. scrupulous of taking up too mucli of your time, which you so bene-ficially employ for the public, & for the future generation, to whomyou will make your memory pretious. God keep us in his reveren-tial love, resigned to his will, and mindfuU of eternity. Good D^ Smith, Yours very affectionately, THO. B. & 23 (1709). [There is. perhaps, a touch of the weariness of age and pain in the brevity ofKens answer to Smiths long letter, and in the hint, courteous, yet significant,that he is scrupulous as to taking up too much cf his time. It was the kind ofli Iter that would naturally terminate, or at least, suspend, the as a matter of fact it is the last letter extant. Smith died May 11, KEN S PATEN AND a drawing ly Mr. W. Singer (see p. 209). CHAPTER XXYL CLOSING YEARS AND DEATH. The years that followed the embittered controversy which wasroused by Kens resignation of his bishopric were, as I havesaid, a time of comparative calm. But they brought withthem, as was natural at his age, the loss of not a few friends,which must have made hira feel his loneliness more and two ladies of Naish died in 1708 ; Frampton, of all theBishops of the time the one most like-minded with himself, andwhom, as we have seen, he visited in his old age, in the sameyear ; Smith, in May, 1710. On January 1st of that last-named year, William Lloyd, the deprived Bishop of Norwich,was called to his rest, and his death left Ken as the last sur-vivor of the deprived Bishops. That event brought about anew crisis in his relations with the Non-jurors. He had, atthe time of Kidders death, declared his conviction that thedeath, or ce
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