LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. Ill 



fixed the thing. And on the next council day, 

 which was on the Wednesday or Thursday fol- 

 lowing, the King declared in Council who should 

 fill the vacant Sees, and who should succeed 

 into York and Lincoln when they fell. 



Thus amply did Dr. Tillotson requite the 

 smaller services that Dr. Sharp had done him 

 formerly; the chief of which was his obtain- 

 ing for him a residentiary ship at St. Paul's, 

 through his interest with the Lord Chancellor 

 Nottingham. 



Within a week after this, viz. on May 5th, 

 Archbishop Lamplugh died ; and on the 8th, the 

 news of his death came to town, and that very 

 night a warrant was signed for Dr. Sharp's suc- 

 ceeding him. And this was just a fortnight 

 after Dr. Tillotson had laid and proposed to him 

 this scheme. On the next day, the Lord Not- 

 tingham introduced him to kiss the King's hands. 



This point being thus secured to him, he went 

 down to Canterbury within a few days, to assist 

 at the election of his friend. Dr. Tillotson, to 

 that See ; which no doubt he did with the 

 greatest pleasure. Which having performed, 

 and settled his own affairs at Canterbury, and 

 taken his leave of that church, he returned to 

 town, and in a most affectionate discourse to 

 his own parishioners, he took his leave of them 

 also, having served them faithfully as their mi- 



