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teibury), was one of the chief occasions which 

 made the King grow cool in the design. 



But though the King seemed to have laid 

 aside his former intention, on account of the 

 above-mentioned discouragement, yet herein he 

 still shewed his good dispositions and inclina- 

 tions towards it, that from that time forward, 

 he did not suffer any eMempore effusions of 

 prayer in the chapel royal, but obliged his 

 chaplains to use a set form, though it were a 

 short one. And though the bishop and Dr. 

 Jablouski had no further prospect of setting the 

 affair on foot again with the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, yet they continued to cultivate a 

 good correspondence with the English divines 

 (hoping some favourable opportunity of moving- 

 it might offer itself), and particularly with Mr. 

 Ayerst, at that time chaplain to my Lord Raby, 

 then Ambassador at Berlin ; whom they called 

 into a participation of their councils, and who 

 proved of singular use to them in the promoting 

 the great design they had in view. It was 

 through this gentleman's hands, (even after he 



reason by which his Grace of Canterbury excused himself from 

 writing to Dr. Ursinus, seemed too trifling to have been alleged 

 on that occasion, yet, being the true reason, it is more for his 

 honour that it should be produced, than that the world should 

 be left at liberty to conjecture at large, and assign reasons for 

 him. 



