LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 3G5 



testation, though earnestly applied to by several 

 lords to do it*. 



And here it may not be amiss to insert what 

 passed between him and my Lord Treasurer, 

 about the Church being in danger, a few weeks 

 before this debate came on in the Lords' House. 

 Meeting my Lord Treasurer, October 25, 1705, 

 in the House of Lords, and asking him how he 

 did, his Lordship coldly answered, *' as well as 

 a poor man could be, that was run down by them 

 whom he had endeavoured to obliged And then 

 he turned away. He was not a little sur- 

 prised with this answer and behaviour, because 

 he could not guess the reason of it. And *' the 

 next morning he sent to my Lord to desire 

 leave to wait upon him, which was granted. 

 When I came to him (says he), I told him, that 

 he had much surprised me with his answer to 

 my salutation the day before. And that I was 

 come to know what I had done that should so 

 disoblige him. He told me, that his answer 

 did not particularly relate to me, but that he 

 meant it of ' all of us who made such a cry about 

 the Church's being in danger.' I told him, he 

 could not charge me with that ; for a great 



* In the History and Proceedings of the House of Lords, 

 vol. II. p. 161, it is said, the Archbishop of York and Bishop 

 of Rochester protested afterwards. But no mention is made of 

 this in the Archbishop's Diary. 



