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Ayerst one large quotation has been made above, 

 as a testimony of the Archbishops readiness to 

 serve the ifiterests of the house of Hafwver, as 

 well as promote the honour of the Church of 

 England. Here follow a passage or two more 

 to show what opinion Mr. Leibnitz himself had 

 both of the Prussian and Hanover affair. In 

 his letter of June 28th, 1711, having mentioned 

 the inclination the Electress had to form a 

 Church according to the usage of the Liturgy of 

 England, he proceeds * " Monsieur TArche- 



* Thus Englished — " The Archbishop of York and the Bishop 

 of Bristol would do a considerable service to the Church and 

 State if they any ways contribute to it, as you tell me they 

 have had some thoughts of doing. And as the Elector of 

 Brunswick is now the first prince of the empire of the Con- 

 fession of Augshurgh, it will be a means of uniting the two 

 Churches the more closely. I had the honour one day to talk 

 pretty freely with the Elector on the Thirty-nine Articles of the 

 Church of England, and he very well comprehended that they 

 come much to the same with what is believed in this country. 



" They are a little too much Geneva stamp at Berlin ; yet, 

 since the King himself, the Bishop Ursinus, and Dr. Jablouski 

 are inclined to the Church of England, and I know are entered 

 into some correspondence about it, I hope that it will one day 

 come to something in spite of some rigorists that oppose it. 

 Mr. Ursinus and Mr. Jablouski did once confer with me on 

 these matters by order of the King, and likewise by my means 

 with some of our divines, who made some considerable progress 

 in this affair. The then English Envoy, Mr. Cresset, did like- 

 wise enter into it, and I have still some of the letters which lie 

 wrote to me on that subject, as likewise the correspondence of 



