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LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



IV. An account of the ecclesiastical promo- 

 tions and benefices that are in the patronage or 

 gift of the Archbishop of York. 



V. The lives and acts of the Archbishops^ 

 from Paulinus, An. 625. This is brought down 

 to his predecessor. Archbishop Lamplugh. And 

 this treatise was made use of, and quoted by- 

 Mr. Le Neve, in his Lives and Characters of the 

 Protestant Archbishops, published 1720, under 

 the stile of MS. penes John Sharp, Armiger. 



With respect to his Metropolitical Church. 



I. The history of York Minster, from An. 627. 



II. The ecclesiastical estates, revenues, liber- 

 ties, and jurisdiction of the cathedral church 

 of York ; with an account of the dignities and 

 offices thereto belonging, ancient and present ; 

 and of the foundations, endowments, and ren- 

 tals of the several prebends now enjoyed therein. 



With respect to his Collegiate Church, at 

 Southwell, in Nottinghamshire. 



A short history of it, with an account of its 

 state and government, both before its dissolu- 

 tion, and since its refoundation ; and of the 

 foundations, earlier and later, of the sixteen 

 prebends there, with their estates, endowments, 

 and annual rentals. 



But the largest and most useful work of all, 

 was that which related to the possessions and 

 revenues of his Clergy, with an account of all 



