332 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



** She treated me with all the kindness and freedom 

 that ever she did in her life. She told me she 

 hoped all was quiet at York. I told her (plea- 

 santly), * Yes^ we were there most of us Whigs'" 



March 25, 1706. " I desired her commands 

 into the country, and pleasantly asked her whe- 

 ther I might leave the town with a good con- 

 science, that I was not under her Majesty's 

 displeasure. She assured me I was not." 



In the year that the prince died, he made 

 his first visit the day after the funeral. 



November 14, 1708. *' I waited upon the 

 Queen, who received me very kindly. We both 

 wept at my first coming in. She is in a very 

 disconsolate condition. I said all that I could 

 by way of comfort to her. She asked after my 

 health, and hath given me leave to come to her 

 whenever I please." 



And at their last farewell, May 10, 1713. 

 ** She parted with 7ne,'" says he, *' with all the ex- 

 pressions of kindness and good wishes that could be.'' 

 But perhaps the greatest mark of her esteem 

 and friendship for him was given by her after 

 his death, in the immediate appointment of the 

 man whom he desired to be his successor. 

 There was no favour she could have obliged him 

 in equal to this. Sir William Dawes was a 

 person, whom, for his very great worth and 

 abilities, and inviolable attachment to the in- 



