LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 277 



Church and kingdom. I am. Madam, with sin- 

 cerest esteem, affection, and duty, 

 *' Your electoral highness's 



" Most obliged, most humble, 

 " And most faithful servant, 

 *'' Jo. Ebor. 



After this a correspondence was kept open 

 for some years between the Electress and the 

 Archbishop, of which Mr. Bagnall's letter is 

 the next voucher. He returned from Hanover 

 with a compliment from her highness in 1704. 

 But not finding the Archbishop in London, he 

 wrote his instructions as follows. 



" London, June 13, 1704. 



" My Lord, 



" When I left the Court of Hanover, 

 which was about six weeks since, and whither 

 I went as chaplain to Mr. Foley. Her electoral 

 highness was pleased to command me to wait 

 upon your grace, and, if I mistake not her very 

 words (which I think I do not), ' to give you her 

 service.'' She would have returned by me an 

 answer to your lordship's letter in favour of 

 your kinsman, Mr. Cholmondley (and which he 

 did not receive till after his arrival at Berlin, 

 from whence he transmitted it to her highness), 

 but my sudden departure from thence would 



