22 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



shortly after, at his first visitation, he not only 

 lent him horses and servants, but put money in 

 his pocket to defray the expences. 



But notwithstanding these favours, he met 

 with some difficulty and disappointment upon 

 the first exercise of his new jurisdiction; for 

 having held his visitation before induction, when 

 he came to Salisbury to be inducted, the Dean 

 refused to execute the mandate, supposing that 

 he had acted illegally in visiting before he had 

 complete possession ; and, accordingly, he sent 

 him back to London, re infectd. But the At- 

 torney-general befriended him again, and within 

 a week or ten days, after good advice had been 

 taken in London, he returned to Salisbury, and 

 was, without further dispute, inducted upon the 

 same mandate, which he had brought down at 

 the first. 



Towards the latter end of this year, viz. in 

 November, 1673, Sir Heneage Finch was made 

 Lord Keeper, in which great post he continued 

 (as Lord Chancellor, after he was created Earl 

 of Nottingham) near ten years : whereby he be- 

 came, through the privileges of his office, a great 

 patron. And Archdeacon Sharp's interest with 

 his lordship (to whom he continued titular chap- 

 lain after he quitted the family till the year 

 1681, if not till the Lord Chancellor's death,) 

 gave him an opportunity, and an extraordinary 



