388 .LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



on so sad a subject. My Lord, I know that the 

 miseries are great even to the last extremities in 

 Scotland. I spoke to the ministers of state for 

 that kingdom, and pressed that an address might 

 be made to the King for receiving the charities 

 of well-minded people here, but, to my great 

 amazement, I found they were cold to the mo- 

 tion; they lessened the thing, and what through 

 a senseless piece of national pride ; what be- 

 cause they fancied an ill use might be made of 

 confessing they were in such extremities. — I 

 found nothing could then be done by them, so I 

 thought it became me to send my charity thither. 

 I sent ^200, the half of which I ordered to be 

 distributed by Mr. Chateris among the episcopal 

 clergy and their widows. I take my share in 

 the sense your Grace has of this great calamity 

 which lies on my country, as I pray God to 

 make them sensible of their sins, by which they 

 have drawn this on themselves, which will be 

 followed by heavier ones, both on them and us 

 if we do not repent. I am, with great duty and 

 a profound respect, my Lord, 



" Your Grace's most humble and 



'* most obedient servant, 



G. Sarum." 



" SalisbuTT/, 17th June, 1699." 



But in the beginning of the late queen's reign, 

 when the design of uniting the two kingdoms 



