24 LIFE Ol ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



allow his lordship time and leisure to make 

 that inquiry which was necessary, to know the 

 characters of such as were candidates for pre- 

 ferment, he devolved this particular province 

 upon his chaplain, whose conscience he charged 

 with an impartial scrutiny into this matter ; 

 adding withal, that he would prefer none but 

 those who came recommended from him ; and 

 that, if he led him wrong, the blame should 

 fall upon his own soul. 



'* It is true that this was a great testimony of 

 my lord's entire confidence in the uprightness, 

 as well as capacity of his chaplain ; but the 

 world will quickly be satisfied with what cau- 

 tion and judgment his lordship took his mea- 

 sures, when they shall know, that his then 

 chaplain was Dr. Sharp, the present Lord Arch- 

 bishop of York, who fills one of the archiepis- 

 copal thrones of the Church of England, with 

 that universal applause, which is due to his 

 Grace's distinguishing merits : whose elevation 

 hath not deprived him of his humility, but he 

 exerciseth the same aftability and courtesy to- 

 wards all men, which he practised in a lower 

 sphere ; and that learning and piety, that inte- 

 grity and zeal for the glory of God, which 

 influence his Grace in the government of his 

 diocese, and of his province, were peculiarly 

 serviceable to the Earl of Nottingham, in the 



