quatenus de jure possumus et absque cujusque præjudicio restituimus, rehabilitavimus et redintegravimus, prout tenore præsentium sic restituimus, rehabilitavimus et redintegramus; Sacrosanctæ Ecclesiæ clementia et Christiana charitate id exegentibus. Vobis igitur universis et singulis supradictis præfatum confratrem nostrum, sic ut præmittitur restitutum, rehabilitatum et reintegratum fuisse, et esse ad omnes effectus supradictos significamus et notificamus per presentes sigillo nostro sigillat. Dat. in Manerio nostro de Fulham die 14. mensis Julii Anno Dom. 1554, et nostræ Transla. Anno 15. A True Copy. F. R. BOND. 5. The Record of the Consecration of Miles Coverdale. THE terms of this Record are identical with those of that which sets forth the consecration of Scory. It stands on fols. 334-6 of Cranmer's Register at Lambeth, and immediately succeeds that of Scory. There is a palpable mistake of the scribe, who has put "Lambehithe, Winton: Dioces." instead of Croydon, where the consecrations took place on the 30th day of August 1551. In the attestation, the name of John Incent is wanting; though it appears in the Record of Scory's consecration. In both, the names of the consecrators are the same. 6. From the Register of the Cathedral Church of Exeter. THERE are abundant proofs here, over and above those already given, that Dr. Miles Coverdale, one of Archbishop Parker's consecrators, was himself duly consecrated. In the Exeter Register, folios 294-5, is entered the Mandate of Edmund Cranmer, Archdeacon of Canterbury, addressed to the Canons of the Cathedral Church of Exeter-because at that period the Deanery was vacant,-ordering them to install and enthronize the Right Reverend Miles Coverdale, Bishop of Exon, into the possession of the same Church, which Mandate recites his Consecration in these words : "Dudum pro parte Rev. in Xto Patris et Dn. Dn. Milonis Coverdale, Exon: Episcopi moderni ad Ecclesiam Cathedralem Exon per liberam resignationem Ioannis Voysey ultimi pastoris ibidem vacantem, in Episcopum et Pastorem ejusdem rite et legitime a sua Regia Celsitudine nominati, et a Reverend. in Christo Patr. et Dn. Dn. Thoma, permissione Divinâ Cantuar : Archiepiscopo, totius Angliæ Primati et Metropolitano consecrati fuimus debita cum instantia requisiti." The date of the Mandate, perfectly agreeing with that of the Record of his consecration, runs thus: "Dat. Londini ultimo die mensis Augusti, Anno Dom. millessimo quingentesimo quinquagesimo primo, Regnique metuendissimi supradicti Domini nostri Regis Edwardi Sexti anno quinto." As has been already shown, no Bishop can be installed and enthroned until he has been consecrated. The next entry relating to Bishop Coverdale occurs on folio 293 of this same Register, where is transcribed the certificate of the Chapter, certifying to the Archdeacon that his Mandate in question has been complied with, and obeyed-intimating that they had in pursuance of it formally installed and enthroned Miles Coverdale, Bishop of Exon, on the eleventh day of the September following. Three folios further on, i.e., on folio 296, the Mandate of Miles, Bishop of Exeter, is entered, directed to the President of the Chapter, ordering, empowering, and requiring that James Haddon, the recently-appointed Dean, should be installed into the Deanery of Exeter, the date of which runs thus: "Datum sub sigillo Nostro in Palatio Nostro Exon: nono die mensis Julij An. Dom. 1553 regnique Regiæ Majestatis supradictæ anno septimo nostræque Consecrationis anno secundo." So much for the evidence from the Register of the Dean and Chapter. 7. From the Register of Bishop Miles Coverdale. THIS Register begins with the following title :"Registrum Reverendissimi Milonis, permissione Divinâ Exon: Episcopi, incoeptum 12 die mensis Septembris anno Dom. 1551, et Consecrationis ipsius Dom. Milonis Epis. primo." Thus it is seen that the Bishop's personal Register is duly and properly commenced about twelve days after his consecration. On folios 1 and 2 of this volume occurs a commission granted by Miles, by divine permission, Bishop of Exeter, to Thomas Herle, for the exercise of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, the date of which runs thus: "Dat. Exon: in Palatio Nostro 17 die mensis Septembris. Anno Dom. 1551, regnique Regiæ Majestatis supradictæ anno quinto, et nostræ Consecrationis primo." On folios 5 and 6, the Institution of Leonard Bilson to the Prebend of Teinton-dated July 19th 1552, "Nostræ consecrationis anno primo." On folios 6 and 7 of the same appears the Mandate for Bilson's Induction, and bears date the same day, concluding with the words, "Nostræ Consecrationis anno primo." On folios 12 and 13, there are Registers of the Ordinations of Miles, Bishop of Exon-the title of which runs thus: "Registrum De Ordinibus Reverend. in Christo Patris et Dom. Dom. Milonis, permissione Divinà Exon: Episcopi celebratis in Diœces. Exon: diebus, annis et locis prout inferius continetur." We find ordinations, duly, formally, and regularly held on December 20th. 1551, on the 26th of the same month and year; on the 1st of January 1552; on the 3rd of July 1552; again on the 24th of the same year and month; as also on the 22nd of May, 1553. Some of them were held in the Bishop's private chapel, and others in the Cathedral Church of Exeter: all are regularly recorded; while in the last entry only (A.D. 1553) the following " Consecrationis suæ anno secundo occurs; facts which prove the Consecration of the Bishop himself to have occurred at Croydon at the period set forth in that Record of it, which is preserved in Cranmer's Register. No. XII. DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE CONSECRATION OF PARKER. THE whole of the documents given verbatim in this Twelfth Appendix are taken from the Register of Archbishop Parker at Lambeth. The volume itself, of a considerable size and bulk, is of vellum sheets. From the style and character of the writing, as well as from the order and care with which an accurate and uniform margin has been preserved throughout, it is clear that the Book was prepared before it was used and filled. The same handwriting which appears in Cranmer's Register appears likewise in this and occasionally the initials "A. H.," for "Anthony Huse," as in Cranmer's Register, are found appended, from which it is clear that the volume is a contemporary production. It contains Records of the Confirmations and Consecrations of Bishops, Institutions and Inductions of Clergy, Commissions, Visitations, and other formal instruments. These are entered carefully, orderly, according to their date, and in complete harmony both with custom and the law. The volume itself, on the first page, has a whole length heraldic illumination, representing the arms of the Archbishop impaled with those of the See of Canterbury, and surmounted with a mitre. The whole of the introductory paragraph stands in black letter. In the following reprint care has been taken to represent the records in question with their difficult abbreviations and contractions as literally and exactly as can be done with ordinary modern type. Registrum Reuerendissimi in Christo Patris et D'ni, D'ni Matthei Parker, in Archie'pum Cantuarien. per Decanu. et *The only exception to this statement is the Record of Parker's consecration, taken from the Library of C. C. C. Cambridge, added at the end of this Appendix. Cap't'im. Eccli'e Cath. et Metropolitice Epi Cantuarien. p’dict., vigore et auc'te Licentie Regie eis in hac p'te fact., Primo die Mensis Augusti Anno D'ni Millesimo quingentesimo quinquagesimo nono electi ac p'. Reuerendos P'res D'nos Till'um Barlowe nup. Bathon. et Wellen. E'pum, nu'c electum Cicestren. Joh'em Scorp dudu. Cicestren. E'pum, nu'c electu. Hereforden. Milone. Coverdale quo'da. Eron. E'pum, et Joh'em Hodgeskyn E'pum suffraganen. Bedforden., vigore L'raru. Commissionaliu. Regiaru. Paten. eis directaru. Nono die Mensis Dece’bris tunc prox. sequen. confirmati necno. p'. ip'os Reuerendos P'res. Auc'te p'dict. Decimo septimo die eiusdem Me'sis Dece'bris co'secrati Anthonio Huse armigero tune Re'grario primario dicti Reueren dissimi P'ris. Acta Habita et Facta in Negocio Confirmac'o'is CANTUR. electionis venerabilis et eximij viri mag'ri Matthei Parker Sacre Theologie Professoris in Archie'pum Cantuarien electi, Nono die mensis Decembris Anno D'ni Milli'mo quingen°. quinquagesimo nono, et Regni felicissimi illustrissime in Xpo. Principis et D'ne n're, D'ne Elizabethe Dei gr'a Anglie, ffrancie, et Hibernie Regine, fidei defens., etc. anno secundo, in Eccli'a parochiali Beate Marie de Arcubus London: Eccli'e Metropolitice Xpi. Cantuar: jurisdictionis immediate, coram Reuerendis in Xpo. patribus, D'nis Will'mo quondam Bathon: et Wellen: Ep'o, nunc Hereforden: electo, Milone Coverdale quondam Exon: E'po, et Ioh'e Bedforden: E'po suffraganeo, median. l'ris Commissionalibus paten. d'ce illustrissime D'ne n're Regine in hac parte Commissarijs inter alios, cum hac clausula, Quatenus vos aut ad minus quatuor v'rum, etc. Necnon cum hac adjectione Supplentes nihilominus etc. l'time fulcitis, in p'ntia mei ffrancisci Clerke notarij puci in actorum scribam in hac parte propter ab'iam mag'ri Anthonij Huse Reg'rarii etc. assumpti prout sequitur, viz. ACTA CONFIR- Die et Loco predict. inter horas octava. et nonam ante meridiem coram Commissarijs suprano'iatis comparuit p'sonal'r Ioh'es Incent notarius pueus ac p'ntauit eisdem reuerendis d'nis Commissarijs l'ras Commissionales patentes Regias eis in hac parte directas, humil'r PARKER ARCHI Supplicando quatenus onus executionis l'rarum Commissionaliu. patentium h'mo'i in se assumere, ac juxta earum continentia. procedend. fore in dicto Confirmationis E'PI CANT: |