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ject, to introduce the Liturgy of the Church of 

 England first of all at Hanover. Of this opinion 

 were the Archbishop of York in England, M. 

 Leibnitz at Hanover, and Dr. Jablouski at 

 Berlin ; the three principals engaged in the 

 design, and holding a correspondence upon it, 

 through the hands of Mr. Ayerst, who, as is 

 said before, first projected or formed it. The 

 Archbishop's letters upon this subject cannot 

 be retrieved; and of those which were wrote 

 by Mr. Leibnitz and Dr. Jablouski, only a small 

 number remain, those written to Mr. Ayerst at 

 the Hague and at Utrecht ; and which he 

 chanced to preserve, though he had twice the 

 misfortune to lose the greatest part of his 

 papers*. 



Out of Monsieur Leibnitz's letter to Mr. 



* Extract out of Dr. Jablouski's letter to Mr. A., 15tli 

 August, 1711. " Accepi novissimas tuas, 4 Augusti scriptas 

 Unas cum inclusis a Rsslmo Archlepiscopo et D. D. Smaldridge, 

 quae quod gaudio baud mediocri me affecerent facile ipse con- 

 jecis. 17 Sept. 1712. Nuper etiam epistolam accepi a lissimo 

 Dom. /Jrchiepiscopo Eboracensi. Mittam vero ad Te. V. R. 

 Respondum teque orabo, ut ad Rdum patrem illud promovere 

 dignesis. 22 Aug. 1711. Negotium simul Hannoveramnn 

 quod reveru rebus nostris pondus baud leve addituruni videtur 

 pro virili urgebo. 8 Sept. 171 1. In iis quse Rmo Dono Episcopo 

 Bristoliens : inscriptse sunt (sc. litterae) negotium Hannovera- 

 num iis argumentis quae et tute mihi suppeditasti et sana ratio 

 dictat urgeo." See also the letters in the Appendix. 



