LIFE OF WHARTON. 139 



Jam, bibliopole rem aggresso, typographus 

 opus inceperat." 



1690. Feb. 1 — The Archbishop refusing to 

 take the oaths, Mr. Wharton is disappointed of 

 the preferments designed for him by that pre- 

 late, as the chancellorship of Exeter, and 

 canonry of Canterbury, &c. 



Oct. 13. — xlgrees with Dr. Nixon, Canon of 

 Canterbury, to exchange his rectory of Chart- 

 ham with the Doctor's living of St. Michael, 

 Queenhythe, if he could obtain a dispensation 

 for holding with it his vicarage of Minster. 

 *' Rem illico aggressus sum, et dispensationem 

 sine summa difficultate et invidia maxima obti- 

 neri non posse sentiens, ab incepto destiti. 

 Semel quidem Jo. Sharp Decan. Cantuar. pin- 

 guem suam Vicariam S. iEgidii cum utroque 

 meo beneficio commutare pactus fuerat : verum, 

 amicis et episcopis consultis, ipse vir maxime 

 necessarius urbe excedere neutiquam est per- 

 missus. 



In the middle of November, upon a false re- 

 port of the death of Dr. Pindar, rector of 

 Brastead, the Bishop of St. Asaph, with the 

 concurrence of the Bishop of London, and at / 

 the desire^of Archbishop Sancroft, obtains of J 

 the King the promise of that living for Mr.^ 

 Wharton. 



*' Integra hyeme, operi de praesulibus Angliae, 



