30 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHAllP. 



well as the conduct of his household affairs, 

 wholly to the care and management of his wife. 

 And, accordingly, on the day of his marriage, 

 he gave her his money, bidding her to be a 

 good steward with it, and with what she should 

 for the future receive for him, for he would 

 have as little concern with it himself as possible, so 

 long as she lived ; and he was as good as his 

 word, as there may be further occasion to shew 

 hereafter. 



Upon this change of his condition, he quitted 

 his patron's family, where he had hved eight 

 years and a half, and removed with his wife to 

 Mr. Rawlinson (his brother by this alliance, as 

 lately mentioned,) in Chancery -lane, with whom 

 he dwelt four years, intent upon the affairs of 

 his parish, and such studies as concerned his 

 office and duty in it, and more especially the 

 preaching part, which he had (as was before 

 observed) much neglected, till he became a con- 

 stant preacher. 



However, it was not long before his great 

 abilities this way were more publicly known. 

 The two first sermons that he printed were 

 preached before the Lord Mayor ; the third, be- 

 fore the House of Commons, on April 11, 1679 ; 

 but that which most tended to advance his cha- 

 racter in the pulpit, was his taking the Friday 

 lecture at St. Lawrence's Jury (which he did in 



