consecrating of the said Archbishops and Bishops, it is and may be very evident, that no cause of scruple, ambiguity, or doubt, can or may justly be objected against the said elections, confirmations, or consecrations, or any other material thing meet to be had or used about the same. "Wherefore for the plain declaration of all the premisses, and to the intent that the same may the better be known to every of the Queen's Majesty's subjects, whereby such evil speech as heretofore hath been used against the high state of Prelacy may hereafter cease, Be it now declared and enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, That the said Act and Statute made in the first year of the reign of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty, whereby the said Book of Common Prayer and the Administration of Sacraments, with other Rites and Ceremonies is authorised and allowed to be used, shall stand and remain good and perfect to all respect and purposes; and that such order and form for the consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops, and for the making of Priests, Deacons, and Ministers, as was set forth in the time of the said late King Edward VI. and added to the said Book of Common Prayer, and authorised by Parliament in the fifth and sixth years of the said late King, shall stand and be in full force and effect, and shall from henceforth be used and observed in all places within this realm, and other the Queen's Majesty's dominions and countries. "And that all acts and things heretofore had, made or done by any person or persons, in or about any Consecration, Confirmation, or investing of any person or persons elected to the office or dignity of any Archbishop or Bishop within this realm, or within any other the Queen's Majesty's dominions or countries. by virtue of the Queen's Majesty's Letters Patent or Commission sithence the beginning of her Majesty's reign, be and shall be by authority of this present Parliament, declared, judged, and deemed at and from every of the several times of the doing thereof, good and perfect to all respects and purposes; any matter or thing that can, or may be objected to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. "And that all persons that have been, or shall be made, ordered or consecrate Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, Ministers of God's Holy Word and Sacraments, or Deacons after the form and order prescribed in the said order and form how Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, Deacons, and Ministers should be consecrated, made and ordered, be in very deed, and also by authority hereof, declared and enacted to be, and shall be Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, Ministers and Deacons, and rightly made, ordered and consecrated; any statute, law, canon, or other thing to the contrary notwithstanding." No. IX. THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES. THE XXXVIth of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, as finally agreed upon, A.D. 1562, thirteen years after the publication of the Revised Ordinal, with its Preface, stands as follows: "OF CONSECRATION OF BISHOPS AND MINISTERS. "The Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops, and Ordering of Priests and Deacons, lately set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth, and confirmed at the same time by authority of Parliament, doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Ordering, neither hath it anything that of itself is superstitious and ungodly. And, therefore, whosoever are consecrated or ordered according to the rites of that book since the second year of the forenamed King Edward unto this time, or hereafter shall be consecrated or ordered according to the same rites; we decree all such to be rightly, orderly, and lawfully consecrated and ordered." The XXIIIrd "Of Ministering in the Congregation," also illustrates the subject under consideration :— "It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the sacraments in the congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have publick authority given unto them in the Congregation to call and send ministers into the Lord's Vineyard." same. No. X. DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE CONSECRATION OF WILLIAM BARLOW AND JOHN HODGKINS. Records concerning the Consecration and Appointment of 1. Commission to Consecrate Barlow, dated the 22nd of Feb. 153ş. Rex Reverendissimo in Christo patri Thomæ Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, totius Angliæ primati, salutem. Sciatis quod electioni nuper factæ in Ecclesia Cathedrali Assavensi, per mortem, bonæ memoriæ, Domini Henrici Standishe ultimi episcopi ibidem vacante, de venerabili et religioso viro Dom. Willielmo Barlowe priore Domûs sive Prioratûs de Bisham, ordinis S. Augustini Sarum dioecesis, in Episcopum loci illius et Pastorem, Regium assensum adhibuimus et favorem: Et hoc vobis tenore Præsentium significamus, ut quod vestrum est in hac parte exequamini. In cujus, etc. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium 22 die Februarii. (Rymer's Fœdera, Vol. xiv. 559.) 2. The Restitution of the temporalities of the Bishopric of St. David's, dated the 26th of April, 1586. Henricus VIII. etc. Sciatis quòd, quum Cathedralis Ecclesia Menevensis per mortem Richardi Rawlins, nuper episcopi Menev., nuper viduata, ac pastorali solatio fuerit destituta, et vacaverit, eo prætextu omnes exitus, et proficua, firmæ, redditus, reversiones, cum commoditatibus et emolumentis temporalium episcopatus illius a tempore mortis prædicti nuper episcopi, durante tempore vacationis episcopatus illius, nobis jure prærogativæ nostræ regiæ pertinuerunt et spectaverunt, ac pertinere et spectare dignoscuntur; quumque Præcentor et Capitulum dictæ Cathedralis Ecclesiæ post mortem prædicti episcopi, licentia nostrâ inde priùs obtentà, dilectum et fidelem nostrum Willielmum Barlow, nunc dictæ Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Menevensis per nos nominatum episcopum, in suum elegerunt episcopum et pastorem, reverendiss. in Chr. pater Thomas Archiep. * Vide also Parker's Register at Lambeth, fol. 179-182a, and fol. 205-207a, Cantuar. electionem illam acceptaverit et confirmaverit, ipsumque sic electum episcopum prædictæ Ecclesiæ Menevensis præfecit et pastorem, sicut per literas patentes ipsius archiepiscopi inde directas nobis constat; Nos nunc certis de causis et considerationibus nos specialiter moventibus, et ob sinceram dilectionem quam penes præfatum nunc episcopum gerimus et habemus, de gratia nostra speciali, ac ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris, dedimus et concessimus, ac per præsentes damus et concedimus, pro nobis, hæredibus, et successoribus nostris, quantum in nobis est, eidem nunc episcopo, omnia et singula, exitus, firmas, redditus, proficua, reversiones, advantagia, commoditates, feoda, et alia emolumenta quæcunque, cum omnibus et singulis suis pertinentiis et dependentiis omnium et singulorum honorum, castrorum, etc. In cujus rei testimonium, etc. Teste Rege, 26 die Aprilis, etc.-(Mason de Ministerio Anglicano, lib. iii. cap. 10, p. 365.) 3. Parliamentary Writ for the year 1536. Rex. . . . Archiepiscopo Cant:, totius etc. . . . . Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium 27 die Aprilis, Anno Regni sui vicesimo octavo. Consimilia Brevia diriguntur gorensi; T. Episcopo Menevensi ; Episcopo BanCustodi spiritualitatis Episcopatus. Wintoniensis, ipso Episcopo in remotis agente; etc. (Rymer's Fædera, vol. xiv., p. 563, 4.) 4. Writ for the year 1541, wherein Barlow is named before many Bishops certainly consecrated. Rex Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, totius etc. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium vicesimo tertio die Novembris, anno Regni sui tricesimo tertio. Consimilia Brevia diriguntur T. Episcopo Meneven. W. Episcopo Norwicen: R. Episcopo Landaven: J. Episcopo Hereforden: etc. (Rymer's Fadera, vol. xiv., p. 787). 5. Congé d'Eslire for a Bishop for the See of St. Asaph, after the translation of Bishop Barlow, dated the 29th of May 1536. Rex dilectis sibi in Christo Decano et Capitulo Ecclesiæ nostræ Cathedralis Assavensis, salutem. Ex parte vestra nobis est humiliter supplicatum ut, cùm Ecclesia nostra prædicta, per liberam transmutationem Willielmi Barlowe ultimi Episcopi ibidem electi, sit pastoris solatio desti * Vide end of this Appendix, p. 382. |