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I am confident my reasons are such, that if you 

 yourself were in my case, you would act as I 

 mean to do. And yet I believe your Grace to 

 be one of the best friends of the church ; and 

 upon that account all churchmen have reason 

 to pray for the continuance of your health and 

 prosperity, and none doth it more heartily 

 than," &c. 



. " Bishopthorp, Sept. 21, 1695." 



To the same purpose, he wrote again in 1698, 

 when the next election came on, to Alderman 

 Thomson, of York. 



*' As to matters of election (says he) you know 

 my principle, which is not to concern myself in 

 them, or to appear for or against any person 

 that the citizens of York think fit to propose for 

 their representative, this being a thing ivholly 

 foreign to my j)rovince" &c. 



More testimonies of the same kind might be 

 added from his letters upon this head, but these 

 already given are sufficient for the purpose they 

 are brought to answer. Only thus much it may 

 not be improper to add further, viz. : that he 

 made no scruple in the Borough of Ripon (where 

 the Archbishop hath a temporal jurisdiction) to 

 recommend such candidates as he himself ap- 

 proved of. Here he interposed his interest and 

 authority, and here only ; and accordingly he 

 was able to give a more satisfactory answer to 



