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as well as you will know at the eiid of twenty-eight 

 days; so that all delay will look like pure un- 

 kindness. 



*' I will not now meddle with the matter in 

 difference between you, you have had my 

 thoughts about it, and I have had your's. But 

 I must confess I am still of the opinion I was, 

 viz. that Dr. Atterbury, in the 213th, 14th, 

 15th and 10th pages has asserted nothing dero- 

 gatory to the Queen's supremacy, as in our con- 

 stitution, and by our laws it must be understood. 



" I find the Bishop of Sarum is perfectly of 

 his mind. And so he has owned himself in that 

 very book which he writ against Dr. Atterbury. 

 I must confess I am entirely in the sentiments 

 of that bishop, when he declares thus. * I 

 always thought that the king was no other 

 way head of the Church, than as he was the 

 head of the State, with whom the executive 

 power is lodged. And who is the head of the 

 legislative, in conjunction with the great body of 

 his Parliament.' 



•' And this is exactly the doctor's doctrine. 



" But I have forgot what I just now said, 

 that I would not enter into the merits. But 

 liow that I have broke my word, give me leave 

 to say a little more. 



** Of the three propositions which you would 

 have the doctor to renounce, the first I take to 



