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subscribe the revocation, as being unprecedented, 

 and, upon the bishop refusing thereupon to give 

 him institution, both sent up their accounts of 

 the matter, and their own reasons for what they 

 did, to the Secretaries of State, the Bishop to 

 Secretary Hodges, the doctor to Secretary Har- 

 ley; by whom the affair was laid before the 

 Queen. And her Majesty was pleased finally to 

 determine it by the actual exercise of her supre- 

 macy ; but withal ordered one of her secretaries 

 to acquaint the Archbishop that she was pleased 

 with all the steps that he had before taken in 

 that matter. 



There was another accidental difficulty arose 

 in this business, and threatened more disputes 

 with the dean from the bishop and chapter, had 

 not the Archbishop given a seasonable solution 

 to it. It seems, after Dr. Atterbury's patent 

 had passed the seals, the Lord Keeper started a 

 doubt about the legality of a clause in it which 

 expressed the deanery of Carlisle to be vacant 

 per translationem of Dr. Grahme to the deanery 

 of Wells ; whereas his lordship observed, that a 

 translation to a second deanery did not make 

 the first void, without a resignation, two dean- 

 ries being no more incompatible than two arch- 

 deaconries. 



Dr. Atterbury, upon this, consulted prece- 

 dents in the signet-office, and found that the 



