28 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



had consulted him. Accordingly she did : and 

 Mr. Baxter not only consented and approved of 

 the proposal, but such was the opinion he had 

 of the Archdeacon, and such his esteem for him, 

 that he told her, had he a daughter of his own 

 to dispose of, he would not refuse her to Mr. 

 Sharp*. 



This put an end at once to all Mrs. Mosely's 

 difficulties, and the marriage was soon con- 

 cluded and solemnized at Clerkenwell Church, 

 by Dr. Tillotson. 



The first occasion of his becoming acquainted 

 with Dr. Tillotson, who was one of his intimate 

 friends, was this : — Not long after he came out 

 of Yorkshire into the Solicitor's family, going to 

 Mr. Joseph Tillotson, the Doctor's brother, a 

 wet and dry salter, or oil drawer, in London, 

 with a bill from his father, Sharp, who was of 

 the same trade in Bradford, he there happened 

 to meet with the Doctor himself; who, finding 

 Mr. Sharp to be his countryman, and a young 

 clergyman, setting out into the world, did, out 

 of his usual goodness and humanity, take par- 



* Mr. Baxter lived in great friendship with him for many 

 years afterwards, and did not only frequently attend at his 

 church at service and sermons, but at his sacraments. Mr. 

 Baxter's reasons for his occasional conformity, may be found 

 in his Life, publislied by Silvester, p. 437. 



