1: By the Lawes, the King alone makes the choice of Bishops, although for forme the Chapiter chooseth him, whome the King names, yet they may not choose another. vide Iunium Eclesiast: l.3.c.11. whereas by all old Canons, & edicts of Empe= rours the Church should choose her Bishops. Origen in Levit: Hom:6 Cyprian l.1.epist:4 & 89 ubi ille Canon (inquit Athanasius) ut a Palatio mittatur is, qui futurus est Episcopus: Epist: adsolitariam vitam degentes.

2: They say by statute 1. Eliz: the King, & Arch-Bishop may appoint what Ceremonies they thinke may be for Gods glory &c.

3: By the goverment established it's not lawfull to appeale to any synode Provinciall, or Generall; but a persona ad personam, ab vnico ad vnicum, from Arch-Deacon to Bishop, from him to Arch-Bishop, from him to the King Anno 25 Hen: 8.

4: The high Commisssioners doe exercise the power of the Keyes, not as Cler- gymen, but as Commissioners; & soe can doe nothing, but what the King in person might doe, whose Commissioners they are.

5: By the Law the King may grant Commendams, to Bishops tot-quots, to Chap- laines power to be non-Residents, & Pluralities of Livings by the Court of facultyes./

Concerning Bishops./

1: The Arch-Bishop may dispense in all cases, wherein the Pope might dispense, if not against the word of God; then the Arch-Bishops place above Dukes, his Title Grace, other Bishops Count-Palatines, all Barons, & take place of temporall Barons.

2: The Bishops by the Law have sole power of Iurisdiction; they may alone excommunicate, absolve, deprive &c. a thing which all the old Canons are against: vide spalat: de Eclesia l.5.c.7.no.37. & plainely against scripture, & in the Primitive church the Bishop was onely the Præses of the Assembly, & did nothing without the rest of the Clergy. Feild l.5.c.30./49. Iunius de Clericis c.15. nota: 16. Tilen: Parænes: c.9. Whitaker de Pontifice qu: 1.c.3. sec: 29. Calvin Instit .l.4.c.4. sec:2. Bilson de Gubernat: cap:11. p.202 &c. shew it at large. & cap:12. Ambr: Basil: Cyprian, Tertullian in Apologet: Irenæus l.4.c.42.43. & Gratian: Decret: causa 15. qu.7. c.5 alledging that the Bishops might doe something solus in governing his owne Clergy, saith Bolus is for the excluding other Bishops, not his owne Clergy; sine quorum præsentia, sententia ejus erit irrita: soe allsoe Bilson c.11. Dr Feild ubi supra: Bacon even in the Papacy the Pope hath his Colledge of Cardinalls, & looke what sole power the Bishop useth in his Iurisdiction, the same useth the Arch-Deacon in his, yea the chancellour, & Officiall in Excommunication, & Absolution.

3: By the Lawes their Diocesses are exceedinge large, some 200 myles in length, some 7. or 800 parishes at least, then to them belongs the sole power of dedicating Churches, Church-yards, confirmation of children, Pro- bats of wills, power of disposing administrations, to take part of mens goods intestate to pious uses, to take Oaths of obedience to themselves, to divorce in divers cases for frigidity incurable, & for severity to se- parate a toro et mensâ, though not a vinculo, to have prisons for Heretiques, & men that stand excommunicated 40 dayes,

Deputing it to Chancellours, & Officials.

Bacon saith in all Lawes in the world those Offices, which require skill, & faithfullnes cannot be deputed to others, unlesse it be express ly contained in the originall Writt. What judge in any court may ap- point one to judge for him, the beginning of these Offices, & Officers Concil: Toletan:4. sub Honorio. 633. the Bishop was every yeare to visit Parish-Churches, & if he was hindred by sicknes, or businesse, then to send Præsbyteros probabiles, aut Diaconos, qui in Reditus Basili- carum, et Reparationes, et vitam Ministrantium inquirant. Quære whether this be not Ortus Archi-Diaconorum. Mention is made of them in 2d booke of Nice Councell Binius but they are suppositions ious. Chancellours mention is made of them Can:2. Chalcedon about yeere 450. but quære, whether those Ectici were Governours in the church, whether they were any other then Advocates, but after the synode of Chalcedon, & Carthage their power encreased; yet in Gregories time none but Clergy-men ruled in Church-matters, ut Iohannes Diaconus./

Officialls long after Huiusmodi officiales non ab Officio nomine, sed ab officio verbo nomen mutuantur./

Now by the Law these have power of Iurisdiction, Excommunication, Absolution, both over Clergy, & people, & that for mony-matters & being meere Lay-men: which the Bishop of Winchester in his Concio ad Synodum Act: 20. Attendite vobis shewes to be most abominable, & what-ever arguments strike at Lay-Elders, cut of them more strongly.

In every Cathedrall there are likewise established a Deane, & Chapiter, Canons, Prebends, Residentiaryes, Epistolers, Gospellers, Vi- cars, Choralls, Choristers, whoe most of them are by their place by the Law enabled to hold Livings, & be non-Resident, & the worke they are tyed to is the Cathedrall Mattens, & Evensong. What word of these in scripture many 100 yeeres after?

1: By the Law the Bishop may give orders to any man, whoe is a Grad- uate, or can render his faith in Latine, if he hath a Title.

2: By the established Goverment a Minister is to use the Ceremonies Toties-quoties, quære whether not perjured if omitt them after this Oath is taken?