LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHAKP. 351 



But some years after (1710), he thought their 

 sitting and acting, when all these disputes were 

 blown over, might be of service to the Church ; 

 and accordingly he proposed it to the Queen. 



Thursday, November 30, 1710. " I had a 

 good deal of talk with the Queen about the 

 Convocation acting, which she is willing they 

 should, provided the matters they are to act upon 

 be first concerted. I mentioned, upon this occa- 

 sion, the Prussian affair. She told me of some 

 new injunctions which my Lord of Canterbury 

 had put into her hands, and which she would 

 put into my hands to peruse." 



Of the Prussian affair we shall give a more 

 particular account hereafter. In the meantime, 

 the sitting of the Convocation was forwarded, 

 and at an appointed meeting for that purpose at 

 the Bishop of Rochester's; where the Earl of 

 Rochester, Mr. Harley, and the Bishop of Bath 

 and Wells, were present; the Archbishop of 

 York proposed three several things for the Con- 

 vocation to consider of, if a licence were granted 

 for them to sit and act. 1. The state of the 

 Church, and the mischiefs that were done by 

 blasphemous and scandalous doctrines and pa- 

 pers which were spread about. 2. The affair 

 of the King of Prussia, ivho seemed inclined to 

 introduce the Liturgy of the Church of E^igland 

 into his kingdom. 3. The turning the writ de 



