83G LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



she refused persons, as he thought, for being Tories. 

 (1705.) At another time, when he recommended, 

 the reason given for the refusal was, that the 

 person he proposed was a notorious Whig. (1713.) 

 He imagined she might depend upon the good- 

 ness of her own judgment as to the worth and 

 fitness of persons, if she would but make use 

 of it. And told her, when he proposed several 

 to her for a vacant bishopric, *' that whether she 

 put in any of his naming or no, she should put in 

 one of her own choice, and not have one put upon 

 her hy others.'' It is true, that most of those 

 who succeeded in preferments through his 

 friendship were reputed Tories. Yet his ap- 

 plications for his own friends were made with 

 all the justice and fairness that could be to 

 the characters of those of the other party, who 

 happened to have the same preferments in view. 

 For instance, when the living of St. James's 

 was void by the promotion of Dr. Wake, his 

 Grace proposed Dr. Moss as a Jit person for it; 

 and the Queen told him. She had thoughts of him 

 herself; yet Dr. Trimnel being occasionally 

 mentioned, he gave her a very good character of 

 him*. In which, though he did no more than 



* He had before said to my Lord Sunderland, in a letter, 

 June 14, 1703. " / heartily wish Dr. Trimnel had some good 

 preferment in the Church ; for he well deserves it, and indeed I 

 do not know a better man. If my good character of him to her 



