178 LIFE OF AUCHhJISllOP SHARP. 



my diocese to preach as a lecturer of this so- 

 ciety, because it would be giving an encourage- 

 ment to the breaking of those laws which I hold 

 myself bound in conscience to see observed as 

 far as I can. 



" I desire you (good Mr. Caryl), to represent 

 to the gentlemen these difficulties I have upon 

 me. I beg my service to them. I have spoke 

 my mind plainly, and without reserve. If they 

 can so agree among themselves as to come in, 

 as to the main parts, to the rules set down by Mr. 

 Woodward or Doctor Horneck (which are to be 

 found in that Doctor's Life, wrote by the Bishop 

 of Bath and Wells), I shall, with some little 

 alterations or additions, comply with them. 



" This is writ in very great haste, and I have 

 not time to take a copy of it. And therefore I 

 pray keep it, that I may have it again. 



" I am, your*s, 



" Jo. Ebor." 



Thus he quashed the design of a quarterly 

 lecture. And how well he judged of the advan- 

 tages that the dissenting ministers would make 

 of it, by claiming to be heard in their turns, ap- 

 peared not long after (though not within his 

 own diocese, where he prevented it, yet) in 

 another part of his province, as will be seen 

 hereafter. In the meantime, that he might shew 



