as the other, [i e. ecclesiastical as well as civil] be appointed, assigned, and elected by the laws and orders of Kings and Princes. In the admission of many of these officers, [Bishops for example] be divers comely ceremonies and solemnities used [in ordaining them] which be not of necessity, but only for a good order and seemly fashion; for if such offices and ministrations were committed without such solemnity [of ordination] they were nevertheless truly committed: and there is no more promise of God, that grace is given in committing of the Ecclesiastical Office [by Ordination] than it is in the committing of the Civil Office [by the King's Letters Patents]. In the Apostles' time, when there were no Christian Princes, by whose authority ministers of God's Word might be appointed, there was no remedy then [no authority from God, as he supposes] for appointing Ministers.So sometimes the Apostles, and others, appointed Ministers of God's Word, sometimes the people did chuse such as they thought meet."

Barlow's Answer.

"That because they [the Apostles] lacked a Christian Prince, by that necessity they ordained other Bishops."

10th Question.

"Whether Bishops or Priests were first?

And if the

Priests were first, then the Priest made the Bishop."

Cranmer's Answer.

"The Bishops and Priests were at one time, and were no two things, but one office, in the beginning of Christ's Religion

Barlow's Answer.

"In the beginning they were all one."

11th Question.

"Whether a Bishop hath authority to make a Priest, by the Scripture, or no? And whether any, but only a Bishop, may make a Priest ?"

Cranmer's Answer.

"A Bishop may make a Priest by the Scripture, and so may Princes and Governors also, and that by the authority of God committed to them, and the people also by their elec

tion; for as we read, that Bishops have done it, so Christi an Emperors and Princes usually have done it; and the people, before Christian Princes were, commonly did elect their Bishops and Priests."

Barlow's Answer.

"That Bishops have no authority to make priests, without they be authorized of the Christian Prince. That laymen have otherwhiles made Priests."

12th Question.

"Whether in the New Testament be required any consecration of a Bishop and Priest, or only appointing to the office be sufficient ?"

Cranmer's Answer.

"In the New Testament, he that is appointed to be a Bishop or a Priest needeth no Consecration, by the Scripture; for election or appointing thereunto is sufficient."

Barlow's Answer.

"That only appointing is sufficient, without consecration."-Burnet's Collection of Records, Book III. p. 220.

No. XX.

Q. Elizabeth's dispensative Clause, inserted in her Commission for Parker's Consecration.

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SUPPLENTES nihilominus, Supremâ Authoritate nostrâ Regià, si quid, aut in his, quæ juxta Mandatum nostrum prædictum, per Vos fient, aut in Vobis, aut vestrum aliquo, Conditione, Statu et Facultate vestris, ad Præmissa facienda, desit, aut deerit eorum, quæ per Statuta hujus Regni, aut per leges Ecclesiasticas, in hac Parte, requiruntur, aut necessaria sunt : Temporis ratione, et Rerum necessitate, id postulante."--Bramhall's Consecration and Succession of Protestant Bishops justified, p. 88.

No. XXI.

Ac omnes Ecclesiasticas, Sæculares, seu quorumvis Ordinem Regulares Personas, quæ aliquas Impetrationes, Dispensationes, Concessiones, Gratias et Indulta, tam Ordines quam Beneficia Ecclesiastica, seu alias Spirituales

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Materias, prætensà Authoritate Supremitatis Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, licet nulliter et defacto obtinuerint, et ad cor reversæ, Ecclesiæ Unitati restitutæ fuerint, in suis Ordinibus et Beneficiis, per Nos ipsos, seu a Nobis ad id deputatos, misericorditer recipiemus, prout multæ jam receptæ fuerunt, secumque super his, opportunè in Domino dipensabimus."

-Card. Pole's Faculties, quoted by Bp. Bramhall in his Consecrat. and Succession of Prot. Bps. Justif. p. 64.

No. XXII.

Speed's Account of Bishop Fox's Mausoleum in Winchester Cathedral.

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THE Cathedral Church, built by Kenwolf, King of the West Saxons, that had been Amphibalus', S. Peter's, Swythin's, and now Holy Trinity, is the sanctuary for the ashes of many English Kings. For herein great Egbert, anno 836, with his son Ethelwolfe in 857; here Elfred, Oxford's Founder, in 901, with his Queen Elswith in 904; here the first Edmund before the conquest, in 924, with his sons Elfred and Elsward; here Edred in 955, and Edwy in 956, both Kings of England; here Queen Emme in 1052, with her Danish Lord Canute in 1035, and his son Hardicanute in 1042; and here lastly the Normans, Richard and Rufus in 1100, were interred. Their bones, by Bishop Fox, were gathered and shrined in little gilt coffers fixed upon a wall in the quire, where still they remain carefully preserved."Speed's Theat, of the Empire of G. B. (llantshire), p. 13.

They remained so indeed in Speed's time, (for he published his Theater in the reign of K. James the First); but in the subsequent civil wars, the fanatics made sad havoc in Cathedral Churches, and particularly in Winchester Cathedral. See the Supplement to the 2d Part of these Memoirs.

Note on Bishop Scot: see his Speech, p. 95.---Of this learned and worthy Prelate I am sorry it is not in my power to subjoin so full and satisfactory an account as I could wish, being forced to confess, that, after the strictest search, I find very little recorded of him in our Church History; from whence I have not been able to glean any thing material, besides the following particulars, viz. that "D. Scot was consecrated Bp. of Chester in 1556. That upon the commencement of Q. Elizabeth's persecution against the Catholics, he was deprived of his Bishopric, and committed to durance, for his refusing to take the Supremacy Oath and that, having the good fortune to escape from his imprisonment, he became a voluntary exile in Flanders, and died at Louvain.”

The End of the Appendix,

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PART II.

THE TRANSACTIONS OF K. HENRY VIII. AS SUPREME HEAD OF THE CHURCH.

§ I.-King Henry VIII. (being declared and acknowledged the Supreme Head of the Church of England) publishes Injunctions to the Clergy, and Articles of Religion; in both which he takes upon himself to act in the Character of a Supreme Ordinary.

HAVING finished our general account of the manner how, as also with what views, and upon what motives, the Spiritual Supremacy was invaded and carried by King Henry VIII. King Edward VI. and Q. Elizabeth, we shall now proceed to a more circumstantial detail of their conduct with regard to Ecclesiastical Affairs: it being our intention, in the Second Part of these Memoirs, to display more distinctly and particularly the Use they made of their Spiritual Authority.

Now as soon as King Henry VIII. was acknowledged by the Clergy to be supreme in Church Matters as well as State Affairs, he procured a Bill to pass both Houses, that *"That no constitution or ordinance shall be hereafter by the Clergy enacted, promulged, or put in execution, unless the King's Highness do approve the same by his authority and royal assent: and his advice, aid, and favour, be also interponed for the execution of every such constitution, to be made in time coming among his Majesty's subjects."And by virtue of this and some other acts of a similar nature (to be seen in Mr. Collier's Collection of Records, No. XIX. XX.) the Clergy are expressly required and enjoined neither to attempt, alledge, claim, or put in use any of the old canons, without leave from the Crown; nor yet to enact, promulge, or execute any new ones. And thus the King became most absolutely, in fact as well as title, the Supreme Head of the Church and Clergy of England.

And now, the power of the Clergy being utterly sup

*Collier's Eccl. Hist. Vol. II. B. i. p. 68; and his Collection of Records, No. XVII.