Editing Thomas Tenison (section)

==Under Queen Anne==

Along with [[Gilbert Burnet]], he attended King  William on his deathbed. He crowned William's successor, [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]], but during her reign was in very little favour at court:<ref>Gregg p.206</ref> the Queen thought that he inclined too much to the Low Church, and clashed repeatedly with him over her sole right to appoint bishops. She entirely ignored his wishes when she appointed [[Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet]], as [[Bishop of Winchester]]: when he tried to remonstrate, the Queen cut him short with the cold remark that  "the matter was decided." Only with great difficulty did he persuade her to appoint his nominee [[William Wake]], as [[Bishop of Lincoln]].<ref>Somerset, Anne ''Queen Anne'' Harper Press 2012 p.224</ref>

Increasingly he lost influence to [[John Sharp (bishop)|John Sharp]], [[Archbishop of York]], whom the Queen found far more congenial.<ref>Gregg p.146</ref> He was a commissioner for the [[Union with Scotland]] in 1706; but in the last years of the Queen's reign he was very much a secondary political figure, and from September 1710, though he was still nominally a member of the Cabinet, ceased to attend its meetings.<ref>Gregg p.141</ref> A strong supporter of the Hanoverian succession, who shocked many by referring to Anne's death as a blessing,<ref>Somerset p.540</ref> he was one of three officers of state to whom, on the death of Anne, was entrusted the duty of appointing a regent till the arrival of [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], whom he crowned on 20 October 1714.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=617}} For the last time at the [[coronation]] of an English monarch, the Archbishop asked if the people accepted their new King: the witty [[Catherine Sedley]], former mistress of [[James II of England|James II]], remarked: "Does the old fool think we will say no?". Tenison died in London a year later. He was instrumental in the last years of his life in the literary executorship of [[Sir Thomas Browne]]'s manuscript writings known as ''[[Christian Morals]]''.