LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 407 



which was put in manuscript into the hands 

 of the King's bishop. 



A letter was wrote by Dr. Ursinus to his 

 Grace of Canterbury, pursuant to the King's 

 directions. And two copies of the high Dutch 

 version of the English Liturgy were sent along 

 with it; one for her Majesty the Queen, the 

 other for his Grace. And orders were given 

 to form a correspondence between the principal 

 of the clergy of both courts, about the means 

 of promoting the design. The letter and the 

 copies were put into the hands either of Baron 

 Spanheim, or M. Bo/iet, the King's ministers. 

 Her Majesty, upon the receipt of her copy, 

 ordered my Lord Raby, her minister at the 

 Court of Prussia, to return her thanks to the 

 King and to the bishop, which was done. But 

 it unfortunately happened, that the other copy, 

 and the letter, which were designed for the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, by some neglect or 

 mistake, were not delivered to him ; and the 

 more unfortunately, because they were assured 

 at Berlin, that they had been delivered to him 

 by Mr. Knyster, a subject of the King of Prus- 

 sia, then in England. This occasioned some 

 disgust ; and the king having often asked Dr. 

 Ursinus, what answer the Archbishop had given to 

 his letter^ greatly wondered, when the bishop. 



