PART II. 



CONTAINING HIS CHARACTER AS BISHOP, AND 

 HIS PROCEEDINGS IN HIS DIOCESE. 



Doctor Sharp was in the forty -seventh year 

 of his age when he was advanced to the see of 

 York ; in which he sat longer than any of his 

 predecessors since the Reformation, viz. above 

 two and twenty years. 



As this dignity in the church brought him into 

 a new situation of life, and upon a more public 

 stage of action, and drew upon him a multipli- 

 city of business and a variety of trouble com- 

 monly attendant on great preferments, engaging 

 him in affairs not only very different from those 

 in which he had been concerned before, but 

 differing from each other, and of distinct con- 

 sideration in themselves, it will be requisite 

 from this period to make some alteration in the 

 method that has been hitherto taken, and in- 

 stead of proceeding in order of time, to lay 

 things together according to their subjects, and 

 suitable with their relations to each other ; that 

 is, to collect and put together such articles as 

 relate immediately to his diocese ami province; 



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