350 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



*' If you please to give him such a favourable 

 reception as may encourage his endeavours 

 towards composing the difference in the Con- 

 vocation, I hope it may lay a good foundation 

 for the peace of the Church, and great advan- 

 tage to her Majesty's service from it. 



" I am, with great respect, 

 *' My Lord, your's, &c. 



" GODOLPHIN." 



He applied himself accordingly to concert 

 measures with- the members of both Houses; 

 but chiefly Dr. Atterbury, of the Lower House, 

 and the Bishop of St. Asaph, of the Upper 

 (Dr. George Hooper). And in nine days time 

 he met the Archbishop of Canterbury at the 

 Cockpit, November 23 ; when they agreed upon 

 a meeting between two of the Upper House, 

 on the side of the Bishops, and two of the other 

 side. And the differences were for the present 

 at least laid asleep. The world hath been 

 already too much acquainted with the subject 

 of these controversies to make the repetition of 

 it, at this time of day, either necessary or 

 desirable. Nor do they, indeed, fall properly 

 within the compass of these Memoirs, to take 

 any further notice of them, than that the Arch- 

 bishop acted in this matter as a mediator or 

 umpire. 



