LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 199 



I have no design in the world in this represen- 

 tation I make to your lordship, but what I am 

 sure, if you knew my heart, you would not only 

 approve of, but thank me for, viz. the doing 

 some part of my duty to God, and paying all 

 the respects and service I am capable of to your 

 lordship. 



" And therefore I will not doubt of your 

 goodness in putting a kind construction upon my 

 action. 



*' I heartily pray God to bless your lordship 

 and your noble family. I am, my Lord, with 

 great sincerity, 

 ** Your lordship's most faithful humble servant, 



" Jo. Ebor." 



In another case, when a certain lady offered 

 him the nomination of the person whom she 

 should present to a living in her gift, in the dio- 

 cese of Chester, and he had given her ladyship 

 the choice or option of two men that he could 

 answer for, hearing something that led him into 

 suspicion that some dishonourable terms were de- 

 signed to be proposed to the clerk at his taking 

 the presentation, he took care in time to put in 



this caution in a letter to her *' But 



Madam, I must beg leave to represent to you, 



that if it be expected that the person that 



is to be presented by your ladyship, should 



