400 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



liam's reign, by the agents of the Churches of 

 the Palatinate, and the state of those Churches 

 was laid before him, he wrote to his Grace of 

 Canterbury, to assure him, *' of his own readiness 

 to do his part, for the giving a supply for those 

 Chmxhes, whenever the King or his Grace should 

 direct the method." Having no answer to this, he 

 wrote next to the Bishop of London, who " he 

 hoped would take the case into his consideration, 

 and advise with my Lord of Canterbury, and peti- 

 tion the King for a brief or order for a private 

 collection among the clergy. For his own part, he 

 was heartily sorry for their condition, and would, 

 with all his soul, give them all the assistance he could 

 towards their relief" Which he did afterwards. 



King William and Queen Mary had granted 

 all their reign, or at least for many years of it, 

 a pension of 425/. to the Vaudois, in Germany. 

 But this pension having been struck off when 

 he came to be made the Queen's almoner, he 

 put into her Majesty's hands a memorial of the 

 pensions that had been paid in the late reign, 

 among which he set down this to the Vaudois ; 

 but this taking no effect, and the Vaudois minis- 

 ters pressing for the pension and the arrears, 

 he wrote to my Lord Treasurer as the properest 

 person to be applied to. 



" Give me leave (says he) to lay a matter 

 before you, which I think I am bound to con- 



