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next day waited upon his lordship with the notes 

 of his sermon, and read it over to him. Whether 

 the Doctor did this for his own justification, and 

 to satisfy his lordship that he had been misre- 

 presented, or whether my lord ordered him to 

 bring his sermon and repeat it before him, is not 

 certain ; but the latter seems most probable : be- 

 cause Dr. Sharp afterwards understood that his 

 lordship's design in sending for him and discours- 

 ing with him, was, that he might tell the King 

 that he had reprimanded the Doctor, and that 

 he was sorry for having given occasion of offence 

 to his Majesty ; hoping by this means to release 

 Dr. Sharp from any further trouble. However 

 it was, his lordship took upon him, while the 

 Doctor was reading over his sermon, to chide 

 him for several passages which the Doctor 

 thought gave no occasion for chiding ; and he 

 desired his lordship when he objected to these 

 less obnoxious passages, to be patient, for there 

 was a great deal worse yet to come. In fine, 

 his lordship having reproved him for what he 

 thought proper, and as much as would answer 

 his design, seemed well enough satisfied with 

 the rest of the discourse, and so dismissed him. 

 Not long after this, Sir Richard Lloyd and Sir 

 Thomas Exton were sent for to Windsor, for 

 their opinion about ordering the Bishop of Lon- 

 don to suspend Dr. Sharp ; but what opinion 



