LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 105 



of your favour so long as I study to express 

 myself thankful for the benefits I have received, 

 I shall never need nor desire any other patron. 



"I thankfully accept the place. which the 

 King, through your Lordship's mediation, de- 

 signs for me. And if my abilities to serve God 

 and the church in that post were but equal 

 to my desires, I am sure neither his Ma- 

 jesty nor your Lordship will repent of your 

 preferring me. 



*' I hope to wait on your Lordship the 

 week after Michaelmas, for then my residence 

 here will be out. I pray God increase his 

 blessings upon your Lordship, and your family. 

 I am, my Lord, with the utmost sincerity, as I 

 have great reason, 



'* Your Lordship's, 



*' Most faithful, humble, 

 "and obliged servant, 



*' John Sharp." 



The next post brought him another letter from 

 Lord Nottingham, to acquaint him that the 

 King had appointed him one of the Commis- 

 sioners for preparing such alterations and amend- 

 ments of the Liturgy and Canons, and such 

 proposals for the reformation of Ecclesiastical 

 courts as might be laid before the Convocation 

 at their next meeting, and to require his atten- 



