106 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



dance on that commission the 3d of October 

 following. 



Upon this occasion, Dr. Sharp returned to 

 London immediately, and having waited on the 

 King, at Hampton Court, and kissed his hand 

 for his new Deanery (being introduced by Lord 

 Chief Justice Holt,) he deferred taking posses- 

 sion of it till he had discharged his trust with 

 respect to the Ecclesiastical Commission; which 

 he attended constantly in the Jerusalem Cham- 

 ber, so long as it sat. 



They who would know what progress was 

 made in this great design, and for what reasons 

 it proved at last ineffectual, after great pains 

 taken by the Commissioners, may consult Dr. 

 Nichols, who gives a full and particular account 

 of the proceedings. Only here, let it be remem- 

 bered, that when the Convocation sat, viz. on 

 Nov. 21st, Dr. Sharp was the person who first 

 moved that Dr. Tillotson might be chosen pro- 

 locutor. But it was carried for Doctor Jane ; 

 which was thought one principal reason why the 

 Commission itself failed of success. 



Dr. Sharp having done his part, and borne his 

 testimony for his friend, went down to Canter- 

 bury to be installed ; and the necessary affairs 

 of his new preferment, kept him from returning 

 to Convocation till the 14th of December, when 

 it was just upon the point of adjournment. So 



