LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 85 



Still advised to attend with his petition, which 

 he accordingly did a week after, on June 26, at 

 Windsor, whither the court was removed, and 

 he put his petition into Lord Middleton's hands, 

 who, the next day, June 27, told his Majesty 

 of it at the Cabinet Council; but his Majesty 

 would not suffer it to be read. The Lord Ro- 

 chester had promised the Doctor to be his friend, 

 and no doubt he was so, as far as he could. 

 The Doctor, finding no hopes of favour at this 

 time, returned the next day to London ; but he 

 was afterwards assured, that there were spies 

 upon him all the time he staid at Windsor, and 

 that if he had gone into any public house, 

 stories would have been made upon it ; — but 

 it fortunately happened, that he lodged and 

 staid the whole time with Mr. Jones, in the 

 College, and so gave no opportunities for scan- 

 dal of any kind. 



Upon this the Lord Chancellor Jefferies ad- 

 vised Dr. Sharp to get out of the way, who 

 thereupon, after two days stay in London, went 

 down to Norwich, July 1, where he continued 

 till the middle of December unmolested ; in 

 which time, as he says himself, they had done 

 the Bishop of London's work. For the court 

 having* got a plausible pretence of mortifying 

 that worthy prelate, and in his person the xohole 

 body of the clergy, and a good opportunity of 



