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mag'ros Edwardum Leades et?

Sacellanos familiares et domesticos n'ros com et dim n'ros veros, certos, l'timos, ac indubitatos procu'res, actores, factores, negociorumq; n'rorum gestores, et nuncios sp'iales ad infrascripta, rite, vice, no'ï'e, et Loco n'ris obeund. no'i'amus, ordinamus, facimus, et constituimus per p'ntes, damusq; et concedimus eisdem procu❜ribus n'ris com et eorum vtriq; (vt prefertur) per se dim et insolid., p'tatem generalem et Mandatum speciale, pro nobis, ac vice et no'i'e n'ris, coram Dilectis nobis in Xpo. filijs d'no decano et Cap't'lo eccl'ie n're cath'is et Metropolitice Xpi. Cantuar. eorumue in hac parte vicesgeren. quibuscunq; comparendi, et iustas causas ab'ie n're coram eis proponend. dicend. et profitend., Nosq; eo obtentu a p'sonali comparitione excusand., ac super veritate earundem, fidem de Iure requisitam faciend. ac Nos et p'sonam n'ram in realem, actualem, et corporalem possessionem n'ri Archie'patus Cantuarien. cum omnibus et sing❜lis suis honoribus, privilegijs, prerogatiuis, preeminentijs Iuribus et p'tinen. suis vniuersis sp❜ualibus et temporalibus iuxta et secundum ip'ius eccl'ie cath'is et Metropolitice Xpi. Cantuar. Statuta, Ordinac'o'es, et consuetudines (Legibus, Statutis, et prouisionibus huius Regni Anglie imp'ntiarum non repugnan.) induci, inuestiri, installari et intronizari, cum plenitudine Iuris Archie'palis, Cathedramq; siue Sedem Archie'palem in Choro eccl'ie memorate Archie'po ib'm ab antiquo assignari solit. et consuet. nobis quatenus videbitur expediens assignari et limitari petend., requirend. et obtinend., Necnon realem, actualem et corporalem possessionem, Installac'o'em et Intronizac'o'em d'ci Archie'patus Cantuarien. vice et no'i'e n'ris nanciscend. et adipiscend. ac illas sic nactas et adeptas ad vsum et commodum n'rum custodiend. et conseruand., ac per l'tima Iuris remedia tuend. et defendend.; Quodcunq; insuper Iuramentu. licitu. et approbatum, ac de Iure, Consuetudinibus et Statutis d'ce

7 A blank left (as before) for the other name.

eccl'ie cath'is et Metropolitice Xpi. Cantuar. in hac parte quomodolibet requisit. (Quatenus Consuetudines, Ordinac'o'es et Statuta h'mo'i Iuri diuino, ac Legibus et Statutis huius Regni Anglie non sint contraria vel repugnan.), in a'i'am meam et pro me prestand. subeund. et iurand. Necnon Iuramentu. ob'ie, et quodcunq; aliud Sacramentu. licitum et honestum de Ordinationibus et Statutis eccl'ie cath. et Metropolitice Xpi. Cantuarien. predict. modo premisso qualificatis a decano et Cap't'lo, Canonicisq; et ceteris Ministris eiusdem eccl'ie Archie'po ib'm exhiberi et prestari solit. et consuet. ab eisdem et eorum quolibet, ac vice et no'ibus n'ris recipiend. et admittend., Et generaliter o'ia et sing'la alia faciend. exercend. et expediend., que in premissis et circa ea de Iure seu consuetudine hactenus usitatis n'cc'ria fuerint seu q'mo'l❜t oportuna, etiamsi Mandatu. de se magis exigant speciale quam Superius est expressu., promittimusq; nos, ratum, gratum, et firmu. perpetuo habitur. totum et quicquid d'ci procu'res n'ri seu eorum alter fecerint seu fecerit in premissis vel aliquo premissorum sub ypotheca et obligatione o'ium et sing'lorum Bonorum n'rorum tam p'ntium q; futurorum, et in ea parte Cautionem exponimus per p'ntes, In cuius rei Testimonium Sigillum n'rum p'ntibus apponi fecimus. Dat. in Manerio n'ro de Lambehith Winton. Dioc. secundo die Mensis Januarij Anno d'ni secundu. Computatione. eccl'ie Anglicane Mill'imo. Quingen, Quinquagesimo, nono, Et n're Cons. Anno primo.

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Bishop Bonner's Testimony to the actual Ordination of the Elizabethan Bishops, and specially of Archbishop Parker, by the English Ordinal.

Note to Bramhall's Works, Vol. iii. p. 79:-"Bishop

Horne in 1563 (by authority of 5 Eliz. c. 1. § 6; and, as it would seem, under the immediate directions of the Primate and the Government-see Strype's Parker, Bk. II. c. 12) tendered Bonner the oath of supremacy, he being at the time in the Marshalsea, and consequently in Horne's diocese of Winchester; and upon his refusal to take the oath, certified him into the King's Bench.' Bonner upon this pleaded in exception to the certificate (besides other points, overruled), that Horne was not Bishop of Winton when he tendered him the oath; and this exception, as being sufficient if proved, was allowed by the Judges (after debate) to go before a jury. In support of this exception, Bonner urged (or intended to urge, for the cause was not tried) that Horne was 'not elected, consecrated, or provided, according to the laws of the Catholick Church and the Statutes and ordinances of this realm:' and the statutes specified were, 1 Mary, Sess. 2. c. 2, abrogating Edward VI.'s Ordinal (an objection which necessarily implies an acknowledgment of the fact of Horne's ordination, and by consequence of that of Parker and the other Bishops, by that Ordinal); and 25 Hen. VIII. c. 20, requiring as consecrators either an Archbishop and two Bishops, or four Bishops, which the said Doctor Horne had not,' i. e. (as it was explained,see Coke, Instit. Pt. IV. c. 74. pp. 321, 322), whereas Horne was consecrated by Parker and two other Bishops, Parker was not an Archbishop; because, of Parker's own consecrators, three had been deprived, and the fourth (Hodgkin) deposed (1 & 2. Phil. & Mary c. 8. § 13) as a suffragan. Both objections appear to have been suggested by Bonner himself. The former, which was common amongst Romanists at the time and afterwardssee e. g. Stapleton, Replic. ad Horni Flatum c. 1., in 1567; and Knott, Char. Maint. Pt. i. c. vi. § 22, in 1634) was that upon which the case ultimately turned. See Dyer's Reports, Mich. Term. an. 6 et 7 Reginæ (Eliz.), p. 234;-Coke's Instit. Pt. III. c. 2. p. 34. ed. 1648;

'Objections of Edm. Boner against the Process' &c. &c. 'made eyther before Dr. Rob. Horne' &c., from Foxe's MSS. ap. Strype, Annals, I. ii. 2-8;-MS. Bibl. Cotton. ap. Strype, Parker, Bk. II. c. i."

The case was suppressed, apparently because the lawyers thought the objections either legally valid, or at the least sufficiently so to cause trouble. And the summary remedy was applied of curing those legal objections by an Act of Parliament, 8 Eliz. c. 1.

Another Act (39 Eliz. c. 8) was passed against another legal cavil, which also takes for granted (as a thing indeed which no one had thought of disputing) the fact of the consecrations; viz. that the Commission for depriving the Bishops in 1559 had not been enrolled, and therefore that their deprivation, and by consequence the appointment of their successors, was not legal: see Coke, Instit. Pt. IV. c. 74. pp. 321, 322.

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Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London. From A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1563. ed. Nichols, 1848.

"The xx day of June [1559] were elected vi nuw Byshopes com from beyond the see, master Parker Bysshope of Canturbere, master Gryndalle Bysshope of London, docthur Score Bysshope of Harfford, Barlow [of] Chechastur. doctur Bylle of Salysbere, doctor Cokes [of] Norwyche."

"*** [Park]er electyd Byshop of Canturbere. The XVII day of Desember was the nuw Byshope of [Canterbury] Doctor Parker, was mad [e] ther at Lambeth."

"The xx day of Desember a-fornon was Sant Thomas Evyn, my Lord of Canturbere whent to Bow Chyrche and ther were V nuw Byshopes mad[e]."

[After the conclusive statements in Notes and Queries as quoted above p. 190, nothing need be said to defend the genuineness of Machyn's diary. It is necessary only to notice here, that Machyn, obviously and naturally, knew the facts only as a bystander who was in no public position would know them, at a time when newspapers were not. He mentions accordingly the elections of six Bishops under June 24: but of the six named, while three, Grindal, Scory, and Barlow, actually had their Congés d'Eslire to the sees which Machyn names, upon June 22, and a fourth, Cox, who was transferred to Ely in July, had his Congé d'Eslire for Norwich on June 5, the Congé d'Eslire for Parker was not issued until July 18, and Jewel (not Bill) was appointed to the see of Salisbury. Curiously enough, a letter of Jewel's, in the Zurich letters, dated probably July 20, 1559, mentions precisely the same five Bishops, and as "designati" to the same sees, omitting Bill, as Machyn does.

Also, on Dec. 20, Grindal of London, Cox of Ely, Sandys of Worcester, and Meyrick of Bangor, i. e. four (not five) Bishops, were confirmed at Bow Church, but not by Parker in person, although he consecrated all four the next day at Lambeth.

It is obvious to remark that such inaccuracies are natural enough in such a diary, but that no forger would have dared to make them.]