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his suggestion cannot possibly be applied ; by 

 treating with such as neither h?idi favour at Court, 

 or prospect from thence ; as Sir Bryan Stapleton, 

 Sir John Kay, Mr. Comers, &c. who were par- 

 ticularly influenced by the Archbishop himself, 

 and by his son, Mr. Sharp, then a member of 

 the House, in this affair. 



But, at the same time that he joined with 

 the Court in his endeavours to prevent the tack, 

 he spoke with great freedom to the Queen about 

 the occasional bill itself. He told her (Diary), 

 "that they would (he believed) bring it in every 

 session till it was passed, and that it must pass 

 some time or other ; that, if it did not, they 

 would fall upon my Lord Treasurer, in whose 

 power they thought it was to get it passed, if 

 he was so inclined; there being so many that had 

 dependance on him. That they were confident 

 their number was great enough to carry the 

 tack, and that he thought the true way to stop 

 it would be, that my Lord Treasurer should send 

 for any one of the leading members, and let 

 them know that if they would not attempt to 

 tack this bill, but let it come up to the House 

 of Lords by itself, he did promise them, that he 

 would do his endeavours with the Lords, that it 

 should pass. But (says he) I found she liked not 

 this proposal I told her it was reported that 

 my Lord had the last session told some of the 



