280 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



at the Queeris eiyense to attend on the Princess 

 ^ Sophia (for this is the affair referred to), cannot 

 now be retrieved, yet enough may be produced 

 to shew that he was actually engaged in such a 

 project, and to satisfy reasonable persons in 

 any scruples they may have entertained con- 

 cerning his adherence to his former principles, 

 from any groundless reports or mere surmises. 



It was in the year 1711, that measures were 

 taken to bring the aforementioned design to 

 bear. The sentiments of the Court at Hanover 

 were sounded upon this occasion, and the pro- 

 posal met with approbation, provided a little Eng- 

 lish court were likewise formed there ; and her Royal 

 HighfiesSy by means of a civil list granted her in 

 England f were put into a condition suitable to a first 

 princess of the blood, and the relation she bore to the 

 Crown of Great Britain. The Archbishop, in 

 all probability, would have been highly instru- 

 mental in bringing both these points to bear, 

 had not the great affair of peace, then depend- 

 ing, disconcerted measures and prevented any 

 accomplishment of this design. The occasion 

 of his proposing a chaplain for the Electress, 

 will appear t^'fren we come to speak of his care 

 of the interest of the Church of England in 

 foreign parts ; it will be sufficient for the pre- 

 sent purpose to borrow a testimony as to the 

 other point from a letter of Monsieur Leibnitz 



