20 LIFE OF AUCHBISIIOP SHARP. 



Bishop Andrews's. Mr. Sharp, who ever dis- 

 liked playing upon words in discourses on reli- 

 gion, took occasion on a Christmas Day, when 

 he was directed to read Bishop Andrews's ser- 

 mon upon this text, " Thou shall call his name 

 Emmanuel,'" (where there is a whimsical jingle 

 upon the most solemn word in the sentence), to 

 lay his emphasis in such a manner on that pas- 

 sage which was most offensive to him, that Sir 

 Heneage perceived he intended to put him out 

 of conceit with that way of writing, which that 

 good Bishop sometimes affected. And the de- 

 sigh was answered ; for Sir Heneage never 

 ordered those sermons to be read again in his 

 family. 



The first sermon that Sir Heneage heard of 

 his chaplain's own composing, (and it was the 

 first that he made,) did so please him, that he 

 ordered one of his sons (who was afterwards 

 Lord Guernsey and Ailesford) to go and thank 

 him for it; and the kindness he had for him 

 seemed to increase every day. 



The first step that Sir Heneage made towards 

 his preferment, was upon the death of Dr. 

 Thomas Hodges, Dean of Hereford, and Rector 

 of St. Peter's, Cornhill ; to whom Mr. Sharp 

 had administered in e.rtremis, and had given the 

 absolution of the church, for which the Doctor 

 left him Pugeo jidei as a legacy. This living 



