LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 383 



Dr. Radcliffe about D}\ Sacheverell, supposed to 

 be wrote 1709-10, and while the trial was yet 

 depending. For, besides that neither the sen- 

 timents nor diction in that letter resemble those 

 of the Archbishop's, there are things spoken of 

 him which prove the whole piece spurious, as *' his 

 recovery just before by the doctor s skill,'" whereas 

 he had been in good health all that winter; 

 and ** his applauding Dr. Ratcliffe' scare in making 

 interest for Dr. Sacheverell, and preferring the 

 divine's for his bail before the dukes." Whereas he 

 would have so little concern in Dr. Sacheve- 

 rell's affair before his trial, " that he refused to 

 peruse his answer to the articles of impeachment 

 which the Doctor hirnself brought him, and would 

 have shewed him. But he told him, that upon his 

 trial he could do him 720 favour, but he would do him 

 all right and justice that he could."" 



And then what follows in the aforesaid pre- 

 tended letter of his, fearing that they should not 

 have power enough to give a parliamentary sanction 

 to the doctrines, he (Dr. Sacheverell) had preached, 

 is something so unlikely to be credited, that it 

 needs no refutation. 



But to return from these digressions to the 

 consideration of points more material. The 

 next that offers itself is his Patronage of the 

 Episcopal clergy in Scotland. 



Anciently the Archbishops of York asserted 



