CHAPTER VII.
A. D. 1710—1720.
Separation continued.—Death of Ken.—Wagstaffe's Death.—New Consecrations.—Controversies.—Higden.—Bedford.—Sacheverel.—Death of Queen Anne and Accession of George I.—The Whigs.—Death of Nelson and others.—Death of Compton.—Lockhart's Memoirs.—Death and Character of Hickes.—Bonwicke.—Brett joins the Nonjurors.—Is consecrated a Bishop.—The Rebellion.—Sufferings of the Nonjurors.—Welton's Conduct.—Question how far the Nonjurors implicated.—Writings.—Bennet's Nonjurors' Separation.—Hoadley's Preservative.—Hickes's Catholic Church.—Marshall's Defence.—Earbury.—Internal Disputes on the Usages.—New Communion Office.—Collier's Works in Defence of the Usages.—Spinkes's Works in Opposition.—Leslie's Views.—Brett's Works.—Collier's Desertion Discussed.—Separation of Nonjurors into two Communions.—Various Works.—Campbell's Middle State.—Sclater and King.
e are now entering on a most important period in the history of the Nonjurors. Some of the more eminent of their number had returned to the communion of the National Church: but many others resolved on the continuance of the separation under the Bishops, who had been consecrated by the deprived Prelates. Among the latter were Collier, Wagstaffe, Gandy, and other individuals of considerable eminence. After the return of Dodwell, Nelson, and Brokesby to the
