408 LIIE Ol ARCHBISHOP SHAliP. 



after some time, continued to reply, that as 

 yet none had been sent*. And it was thought, 



* " Restabat tamcn ecclesiae reibrinatae una triumphi materies 

 quum temporum opportunitas obtulit quam tamen Archiepis- 

 copus noster praenimia cunctatione, timiditate vel abundante et 

 intempestiva cautela neglexit. Intelligo episcoporum in Boras- 

 sia ordinationemjuxta ecclesise Anglican.Te exemplar quam Rex 

 Borus religionis reformatse juxta ac literatorum Fautor per 

 regHa sua celebrari voluit, et ea de causa virum turn eruditione 

 tum pietate eximium D. Enestum Grabe in Angliam transmisit 

 in episcopum juxta ritus ecclesise Anglicanae ordinandum. Ve- 

 rum Archiepiscopus adeo non avide occasionem oblatam arri- 

 puit, ut frigide et oscilanter rem momenti gravissimi curaret, et 

 difRcultatibus et causationibus interjectis ita in longum petra- 

 scit et aliquando tandem irrita prorsus interciderit. Godrv. de 

 Prcesul. cont. per. D. Richardsony p. 167." It appears, from 

 this passage, that the learned writer of it had not a full and 

 complete information of the affair upon which this remark con- 

 cerning the Archbishop's conduct is formed. If Dr. Grabe 

 had been sent over in oirder to obtain a consecration here, it is 

 strange no mention should be made of it in any of the letters 

 and papers which came afterwards into the hands of Archbishop 

 Sharp, relating to this overture of his Prussian Majesty. Be- 

 sides, the first application that was made to his Grace of Can- 

 terbury by Dr. Ursinus, was not till the year 1705 ; whereas 

 Dr. Grabe was settled at Oxford in 1697, as appears by his 

 dedicatory epistle in the first volume of his Spicelegium Pa- 

 trum, prhited there 1698. And this was before his Prussian 

 Majesty was crowned, or took the title of King upon him, 

 which was not till 1700. And it was after that time this his 

 Majesty entertained the thought of introducing the Liturgy of 

 tlie Church of England in his kingdom. And in Dr. Grabe's 



