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and adjourning themselves at discretion. These 

 disputes having run a great length, the Lower 

 House petitioned they might have leave to 

 address the Queen to take this matter into her 

 consideration, and appoint persons to hear and 

 finally determine it. But the Upper House 

 thought it not proper that her Majesty should 

 be troubled with their controversies. Thus 

 things stood in the latter end of 1702. And the 

 next winter, upon the meeting of the Parlia- 

 ment, the Court apprehending these difficulties 

 might still increase, my Lord Treasurer took 

 an opportunity of speaking to her Majesty 

 before his Grace (November 11, 1703), and 

 " desired her that she would command my Lord of 

 York to take some pains hi putting an end to the 

 differences in Convocation ; for that he believed both 

 parties, by his Grace's means ^ might be brought to 

 an accommodation.'' And three days after, my 

 Lord ^Treasurer wrote to him the following 

 letter. 



" Sunday Night, Nov. 14, 1703. 



*' My Lord, 



" In pursuance of what I mentioned 

 the other day to your Grace before the Queen, 

 I understand Dr. Atterbury designs to wait 

 upon your Grace to-morrow morning, with 

 intentions to submit all to your conduct. 



