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both parties, till the will was completely exe- 

 cuted. Nor was there any thing transacted re- 

 lating to this trust from the time that the will 

 was opened, to the time of their surrendering all 

 their concerns into the hands of the Company, 

 but in the presence and with the advice and 

 consent of the deputies of the Company, parti- 

 cularly Sir Thomas Vernon and Mr. Mould, 

 which latter kept the accounts of all things done 

 in this affair. This caution of theirs proved af- 

 terwards of great use, by enabling them to give 

 full satisfaction to some who had suspected, 

 upon false suggestions made to them, that the 

 executors had disposed of some of the Alder- 

 man's effects before they delivered in the sche- 

 dules to the Company. And this being sug-^ 

 gested at a time when they were both Metropo- 

 litans, would have been something more than a 

 blot upon their private characters, had they not 

 had sufficient evidences to recur to, of their 

 great care and honesty in the management of 

 the aforesaid trust. 



Not long after and in the same year, these two 

 friends, who still rose together both in their 

 characters and preferments, received notice of 

 more public trusts reposed in them by his Ma- 

 jesty, King William. Dr. Sharp received his at 

 Norwich, from the Earl of Nottingham, by the 

 following letter. 



