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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
It would seem appropriate that this Conference assembled in this ancient cathedral and university city of Oxford should pay some brief tribute to the distinguished High Church prelate Dr Robert Skinner, the disciple and collaborator of Archbishop Laud. Especially is this so at the present time when overtures are being made to various nonconformist bodies with a view to their future reunion with the Anglican Church, for it is inevitable that the question of the significance of episcopal ordination and the episcopal system of church government will, in the course of these discussions, receive increasing and critical attention.
Page 242 of note 1 The Revd J. C. Bloomfield, rector of Launton 1850-95, MS History of Launton, transcript by the Ven. H. F. Kirkpatrick, M. A., to whom my grateful thanks are due.
Page 243 of note 1 Dean Stanley, Memorials of Westminster, 435.
Page 243 of note 2 Hall, , Contemplations, London 1824, 35 Google Scholar.
Page 244 of note 1 Rymer, Foedera.
Page 244 of note 2 Carey, H., Memorials of the Great Civil War 1646-52, I, 329 Google Scholar.
Page 245 of note 1 MS Tanner 48, f. 25.
Page 245 of note 2 In discussion exception was taken to the word ‘clandestine.’ It is difficult to determine what other word accurately describes what took place. Ordination is indeed the act of the whole Church, as was pointed out, but in the case of Bishop Skinner’s ordinations at Launton circumstan ces were distinctly abnormal. The Church of England was a proscribed and persecuted Church obliged to act in secret.
Page 246 of note 1 Wharton, , Life of Bathurst, London 1761, 37 Google Scholar. Plumptre, , Life of Ken, London 1888, 54, noteGoogle Scholar.
Page 246 of note 2 Skinner also desired to see published ‘an uniform book’ of Bishop’s Visitation Articles; see MS Tanner 48, f. 14, fragment of letter possibly to Sheldon when bishop of London. This was never published. The original letters of orders issued by Skinner to a priest ordained by him at Launton have been preserved, Bibl. Bod. Oxon. Ms. Ch. Somerset 165 A.