90 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



Several of the papers wrote by him at this 

 time, are now published at the end of the se- 

 venth volume of his Sermons. 



On Wednesday, March 28, 1688, his dear 

 friend. Dr. Claggett, died. He never lamented 

 any loss so much. And though he could not 

 refuse paying his last respects to his deceased 

 companion, by preaching his funeral sermon, at 

 Bassishaw Church, where Dr. Claggett had been 

 lecturer, yet, he used to say, that never any 

 task was more grievous to him than this was. 

 The same night he brought home Mrs. Claggett, 

 the disconsolate widow, to his own house, and 

 treated her with the utmost tenderness and 

 affection, the little time she survived her hus- 

 band. Dr. Claggett indeed, and he, had all 

 along lived with the greatest familiarity and 

 most entire confidence in each other, that was 

 to be imagined. They not only communicated 

 studies, but often carried them on together. 

 For the former not being so well furnished with 

 books as the latter, occasioned his frequently 

 making use of Dr. Sharp's library, which he did 

 as if it were his own, coming in when he pleased 

 with the freedom of a domestic, and prosecuting 

 his enquiries as he pleased, without the least 

 ceremony used, or interruption given on either 

 side. Indeed, if similitude of temper and man- 

 ners, if equality of age, and perfect conformity 



