232 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



your Grace will please to make it as easy to the 

 King as the case will bear. For so the grant 

 will, in all probability, be the more speedy and 

 eiFectual, &c. 



it JVoTTINGHAM." 



It was afterwards concluded, that this pay- 

 ment should be made out of the tenths of the 

 diocese of Lincoln; which it accordingly was 

 in four years time. And iviih this sum a stipend 

 was established for a theological lecture, according 

 to the first institution. 



II. When a great part of Southwell church 

 was destroyed by fire occasioned by lightning 

 in the year 1711, the repairing of which damage 

 cost near three thousand pounds, he, by his 

 own bounty and interest, raised almost the third 

 part of that sum. He gave himself two hundred 

 pounds. He procured a grant of license to cut 

 down wood in the Queen's forest of Sherwood, 

 from the Duke of Leeds, to the value of two hun- 

 dred pounds ; and from the Duchess of Newcas- 

 tle, five hundred pounds, which last benefaction 

 was obtained of her Grace by the following 

 letter, which he wrote to her on that occasion. 



" May it please your Grace, 



** I am sensible it is a very unusual 

 confidence in one who has not the honour so 



