THE 



LIFE 



OF 



ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



PART I. 



FROM HIS BIRTH TO HIS CONSECRATION TO 

 THE SEE OF YORK. 



John Sharp was the son of Thomas Sharp, of 

 Bradford, in the county of York, by Dorothy, 

 the eldest daughter of Mr. John Weddal, of 

 Widdington, in the said county, a younger 

 branch of the Weddal's, of Earswick, near York. 

 Her mother was a daughter of the family of the 

 Cutt's, of Childerly, in Cambridgeshire. 



His father, Mr, Thomas Sharp, was the se- 

 cond or third son of the owner of an estate 

 called Woodhouse, near Bradford, being a 

 younger branch of the Sharp's, of Little Horton, 

 in the same neighbourhood : among whom there 

 had been kept up, as Mr. Thoresby says, not 

 only a succession of Thomas and John alter- 

 nately for many generations, but, what was much 



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