1. Henry Sacheverell was impeached by the House of Commons and though he was found guilty, his light punishment was seen as a vindication and he became a popular figure in the country, contributing to the Tories' landslide victory at the general election of 1710.
Henry Sacheverell's relations included what he labelled his "fanatic kindred"; his great-grandfather John was a rector, three of whose sons were Presbyterians.
Henry Sacheverell was more proud of distant relatives who were Midlands landed gentry that had supported the Royalist cause during the Civil War.
The Hearsts were pious High Anglicans and were pleased with Henry Sacheverell, who was "always retiring to his private devotions before he went to school".
Henry Sacheverell was sent to Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1689, where he was a student until 1701 and a fellow from 1701 to 1713.
Henry Sacheverell, who had published several Latin poems, quoted Latin grammars to verify his Latin and apparently told Lloyd it was "better Latin than he or any of his chaplains could make".
Holte's wife years later claimed this was because Henry Sacheverell "was exceedingly light and foolish, without any of that gravity and seriousness which became one in holy orders; that he was fitter to make a player than a clergyman; that in particular, he was dangerous in a family, since he would among the very servants jest upon the torments of Hell".
Henry Sacheverell was threatened with prosecution for seditious libel after preaching a fiery sermon but this was dropped due to Henry Sacheverell's unimportance.
Henry Sacheverell's peroration included an appeal to Anglicans not to "strike sail to a party which is an open and avowed enemy to our communion" but instead to "hang out the bloody flag and banner of defiance".
In support of the Tory candidate at the 1702 English general election, Sir John Pakington, 4th Baronet, Henry Sacheverell published The Character of a Low-Church-Man.
Garrard later claimed no acquaintance with Henry Sacheverell, knowing him only by reputation.
Whigs later claimed that Henry Sacheverell was hired as a tool of the Tory party to deliver the sermon.
The historian Geoffrey Holmes claims there is no evidence for this as Henry Sacheverell's papers were destroyed after his death but that it was in Henry Sacheverell's character to deliver the sermon off his own bat.
Henry Sacheverell's audience included thirty clergymen and a large number of Jacobites and Nonjurors.
Henry Sacheverell identified the false brethren in the Church as those who promoted heretical views, such as Unitarians and those who would revise the Church's official articles of faith, and those who presumed "to recede the least tittle from the express word of God, or to explain the great credenda of our Faith in new-fangled terms of modern philosophy".
Henry Sacheverell attacked Dissenting academies as places where "all the Hellish principles of fanaticism, regicide and anarchy are openly professed and taught" and attacked occasional conformity as giving disloyal elements bases of official power.
Henry Sacheverell then claimed that "this spurious and villainous notion, which will take in Jews, Quakers, Mahometans and anything, as well as Christians".
The Occasionally Conforming Dissenters Henry Sacheverell saw as the enemy within.
Henry Sacheverell attacked "the crafty insidiousness of such wily Volpones".
The prospect for these false brethren, Henry Sacheverell claimed, was to take "his portion with hypocrites and unbelievers, with all liars, that have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone".
Henry Sacheverell ended the sermon by exhorting Anglicans to close ranks, to present "an army of banners to our enemies" and hope that the false brethren "would throw off the mask, entirely quit the Church of which they are no true members, and not fraudulently eat her bread and lay wait for her ruin".
Henry Sacheverell prepared the sermon for publication and consulted three lawyers, who all claimed it breached neither common or civil law.
George Ridpath's The Peril of Being Zealously Affected, but not Well attacked Henry Sacheverell, as did White Kennett's True Answer.
Henry Sacheverell had attacked a leading member of the government, Godolphin.
However, when the government lawyers examined the sermon, they discovered that Henry Sacheverell had chosen his words carefully to such an extent that they considered it uncertain whether he could be prosecuted for sedition.
The House resolved that Henry Sacheverell be impeached and he was put into the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms.
Henry Sacheverell was visited at his lodgings in Peters Street by prominent Tories such as the Duke of Leeds, Lord Rochester and Duke of Buckingham.
Henry Sacheverell became "the saviour of the Church and the nation's martyr-hero".
When Henry Sacheverell went to thank the peers who had voted for him who were still in London, "he was huzza'd by the mob like a prize-fighter".
Henry Sacheverell was given fifty vast dinners, numerable lavish suppers, including at least 22 private dinners.
Henry Sacheverell spent ten days with Lord Craven at Coombe Abbey, then went to New Hall Manor owned by his kinsman George Sacheverell.
Henry Sacheverell stayed with Richard Dyott, Sir Edward Bagot at Blithfield Hall, the Bishop of Chester, George Shacklerley at Crossford, Sir Richard Myddelton at Chirk Castle, Roger Owen at Condover Hall, Whitmore Acton, Lord Kilmorey, Berkerley Green at Cotheridge Court and Sir John Walter at Sarsden.
Only ten managers of Henry Sacheverell's prosecution were re-elected and Tories circulated division lists of those who had voted for or against Henry Sacheverell.
Henry Sacheverell's influence was all-pervasive, being linked to the safety of the Church and on the lips of election mobs, with his portrait being a favourite emblem of Tories.
Henry Sacheverell took as his text Luke 23:34, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" and titled it The Christian Triumph: or The Duty of Praying for our Enemies.
Henry Sacheverell attacked his Whig persecutors as "traitorous, heady and high-minded men" and upheld the doctrine of non-resistance.
Henry Sacheverell achieved renewed fame by attacking this as "an unparalleled insolence and a vile trampling upon royal ashes".
Henry Sacheverell left London and went on a new Progress through Oxford, Wiltshire and Warwickshire.
Eleven days after the riots, Henry Sacheverell published an open letter:.
Henry Sacheverell inherited the manor of Callow in Derbyshire in the summer of 1715 after George Henry Sacheverell died.
Henry Sacheverell purchased a landed estate in Wilden, Bedfordshire and in 1720 bought an elegant house in South Grove, Highgate, London.
Henry Sacheverell was buried at St Andrew's in the vault.