LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. iJ 



was able, considering that he had five children 

 more to provide for out of the profits of his 



trade. 



He was admitted of Christ's College in Cam- 

 bridge, on April 26, 1660, just before the re- 

 storation of the King, under the tuition of Mr. 

 Brooksbank, who was an acquaintance of his 

 father s, and took no small pains in discharging 

 the trust reposed in him. He encouraged his 

 young pupil to resort freely to him for a solution 

 of whatever difficulties he met with in the course 

 of his studies ; and, accordingly, when he went 

 to lectures at night in his tutor's chamber, he 

 constantly carried in his pocket a paper of ques- 

 tions, which had arisen from what he had read 

 that day ; and when the other pupils were dis- 

 missed, these matters were discussed and re- 

 solved. 



Mr. Brooksbank lived to receive some recom- 

 pense for the great care he took of his pupil at 

 this time ; for when Dr. Sharp was Archdeacon 

 of Berks, he procured for his tutor, by the in- 

 terest of the Lord Chancellor, the living of St. 

 Mary's, in Reading, within his own arch- 

 deaconry : and afterwards, he would have re- 

 signed the archdeaconry itself, in hopes of ob- 

 taining the favour that Mr. Brooksbank might 

 succeed him in that dignity ; but though the 

 bishop would not grant that request, yet he so 



