LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 297 



though it be acknowledged, perhaps, to be upon 

 principle, yet it will scarce be allowed to be 

 done with honour. 



The next day after this dispute happened, 

 viz. on Christmas eve, my Lord of Salisbury 

 writ a letter to him upon the same subject'; but 

 he seems not to have regarded what was wrote, 

 making no mention of the particulars of the 

 letter, or of any answer returned to it by him- 

 self. He approved in his own mind what he 

 had done ; and though he had thereby sensibly 

 displeased the bishop, yet he had the satisfac- 

 tion of meeting with a favourable reception 

 from his Majesty, with whom he received the 

 sacrament the day following, viz. Christmas 

 day ; and upon whom he waited a few days 

 after, viz. January 1st and 14th ; and remarks, 

 " that the King received him without any signs of 

 anger'' 



He had upon all other occasions manifested 

 his affection to his Majesty and his government. 

 He had, in the beginning of the same year, 

 readily signed the association, on account of the 

 assassination plot, with the rest of the lords, 

 He having first got leave, that a declaration of lohat 

 was meant by revenging*, should be entered upon 



* The word had been used on a like occasion, (viz. in the 

 association entered into when Queen Elizabeth was thought in 

 danger from supposed practices of Mary Queen of Scots), but 



