LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 15 



not be here forgotten ; and that was, his grace- 

 ful, distinct, and proper manner of reading the 

 lessons out of scripture, in the college chapel, 

 while he was bachelor of arts. There was some- 

 thing in his way of performing this part of the 

 service, so peculiar to himself, and so agreeable 

 to the taste of that great divine and philosopher. 

 Dr. Henry More^ that it gained him a friend 

 without his knowledge, and preferment without 

 his expectation. 



For having taken his master's degree in 1667, 

 and his leave of the University, despairing of a 

 fellowship, and being retired into Yorkshire to 

 prosecute his studies, with less expense to his 

 father, and there to wait the issues of God's 

 providence ;• — it happened, in the mean time, 

 that Sir Heneage Finch, then Solicitor-general, 

 wrote to Dr. H. More to recommend to him a 

 person who should be his domestic chaplain and 

 tutor to his sons. 



Upon this the Doctor recommended Mr. Sharp, 

 knowing his abilities to be equal to that charge, 

 and being pleased with such an opportunity of 

 testifying the esteem he had for him, from the 

 time of his observing his way of reading in the 

 chapel. 



Upon this recommendation of him, he was 

 called out of Yorkshire into Sir Heneage Finch's 

 family, before he had been a month with his 



