The royal writ for parliament

Henricus, Dei gratia rex Angliae et Franciae et dominus Hiberniae, custodi spiritualitatis episcopatus Bathonensis et Wellensis ipso episcopo in remotis agente, salutem. Quia de avisamento et assensu concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis et urgentibus negotiis nos statum et defensionem regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus, quoddam parliamentum apud Westmonasterium vicesimo primo die Ianuarii proximo fiituro [21 January 1510] teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum et cum ceteris praelatis, magnatibus et proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere et tractatum, vobis in fide et dilectione quibus nos tenemini, firmiter iniungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate et periculis imminentibus, cessante excusatione quacunque, dictis die et loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum praelatis, magnatibus et proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi, vestrumque consilium impensuri. Et hoc sicut nos et honorem nostrum ac salvationem et defensionem regni et ecclesiae praedictorum, expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis, nullatenus omittatis. Praemunientes priorem et capitulum Bathonensem, necnon decanum et capitulum ecclesiae Wellensis, ac archidiaconos totumque clerum eiusdem diocesis quod iidem prior, decanus et archidiaconi in propriis personis suis ac dicta capitula et eorum alterum per unum, idemque clerus per duos procuratores idoneos plenam et sufficientem potestatem ab ipsis priore, decano et capitulo divisim habentes, praedictis die et loco personaliter intersint ad consentiendum his quae tune ibidem de communi consilio dicti regni nostri, divina favente dementia, contigerit ordinari. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo septimo die Octobris anno regni nostri primo [17 October 1509].

The archbishop's mandate for a provincial council

[70b] Richardus, permissione divina Londoniensis episcopus venerabili viro Magistro Rogero Church decretorum doctori, reverendi in Christo patris et domini Domini Hadriani, tituli Sancti Chrysogoni presbyteri cardinalis, ecclesiaeque cathedralis Bathonensis et Wellensis episcopi,5 ipso reverendo patre absente et in remotis agente, vicario in spiritualibus generali, salutem, gratiam et benedictionem. Literas reverendissimi in Christo patris et domini Domini Willelmi, permissione divina Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, totius Angliae primatis et apostolicae sedis legati, noveritis nos cum ea qua decuit reverentia nuper recepisse verborum sequentium sub tenore:

Saturday 18 October 1679

Convocatio inchoata decimo octavo Octobris 1679 tempore Richardi Sterne Eboracensis archipiscopi.

Nomina praelatorum et cleri totius provinciae Eboracensis comparentium seu comparere debentium in convocatione sive synodo provinciali praelatorum et cleritotius Eboracensis provinciae vigore brevis regii in domo capitulari ecclesiae cathedralis et metropoliticae Beati Petri Eboracensis die Sabbati, decimo octavo videlicet die mensis Octobris anno Domini 1679 inchoanda, tenenda et celebranda seu potius inchoata, tenta et celebrata, coram venerabilibus viris dictidomini archiepiscopi commissionariis etc.

Prorogued by Dean Wickham.

Friday 31 October 1679

Nomina praelatorum et cleri totius provinciae Eboracensis comparentium seu comparere debentium in convocatione sive synodo provinciali praelatorum et cleri totius Eboracensis provinciae in domo capitulari ecclesiae cathedralis et metropoliticae Beati Petri Eboracensis die Veneris ultimo videlicet die mensis Octobris anno Domini 1679 tenenda et celebranda, coram venerabilibus viris domini Eboracensis archiepiscopi commissionariis etc.

Capitulum Southwell: Dr Iohannes Lake eorum procurator personaliter et exhibuit procuratorium.

Clerus Eboracensis: Dr Watkinson personaliter.

Prorogued by Dean Wickham.

Tuesday 27 January 1680

Nomina praelatorum et cleri totius provinciae Eboracensis comparentium seu comparere debentium in convocatione sive synodo provinciali praelatorum et cler totius Eboracensis provinciae in domo capitulari ecclesiae cathedralis et metropoliticae Beati Petri Eboracensis die Martis, vicesimo septimo die mensis Ianuarii anno Domini 1679 (stylo Angliae) tenenda et celebranda, coram venerabilibus viris Eboracensis archiepiscopi commissionariis etc. inter horas nonam et duodecimam ante meridiem eiusdem diei.

Eboracensis archiepiscopus per commissionarios decanum et Doctorem Brearey.

Decanus Eboracensis: [Tobias Wickham] personaliter.

Archidiaconus East Riding: Dr Brearey personaliter

Capitulum Southwell: Dr Iohannes Lake personaliter.

Clerus archidiaconatuum:

Nottingham: per Magistrum Crowbrow eius procuratorem.

East Riding: Nicholas Anderson et Gulielmus Mason personaliter

Cleveland: Mr Iohannes Burton personaliter

[Clerus peculiarium iurisdictionum]

Capituli Southwell: Mr Crowbrow personaliter

Howden et Howdenshire: Mr Tobias Conyers personaliter

Prorogued by Dean Wickham.

Friday 12 November 1679

Nomina praelatorum et cleri totius provinciae Eboracensis comparentium seu comparere debentium in convocatione sive synodo provinciali praelatorum et cleri totius Eboracensis provinciae in domo capitulari ecclesiae cathedralis et metropoliticae Beati Petri Eboracensis die Veneris, duodecimo die mensis Novembris anno Domini 1679 tenenda et celebranda, coram venerabilibus viris Eboracensis archiepiscopi commissionariis etc. inter horas nonam et duodecimam ante meridiem eiusdem diei.

Saturday 17 July 1680

Prorogued by Dean Wickham.

Convocation anno primo Caroliprimi regis held by Archbishop Abbot anno decimo quarto translation is, begun at St Paul's, London, videlicet 18 May 1625

[fos. 398-9] A writ to the archbishop for parliament, 17 May 1625. A writ for the convocation, 18 May 1625. Archbishop's mandate citatory to the bishop of London,

[fo. 400] A writ to prorogue to the 1st of June 1625. Prorogued by the vicar general by commission.

[fo.401] A writ to prorogue again to the 20th of June 1625. Prorogued by the vicar general by commission,

[fos. 401-5] List of both houses.

Proctors for the archdeacon of Leicester (Lincoln diocese):

Session 1. Monday 20 June 1625

[fo. 406] Archbishop goes by coach to London house and thence to St Paul's etc.

[fos. 407-8] Archdeacon of Canterbury's certificate with the king's writ and archbishop's mandate inserted.

Session 2. Wednesday 22 June 1625

[fo. 409] At Westminster. Protestations there as usual.

Session 3. Wednesday 29 June 1625?

Nothing remarkable.

Session 4. Wednesday 6 July 1625

[fo. 410] Bishop of Lincoln, lord keeper, president by commission, calls for the lower house, moves for subsidies.

Session 5. Friday 8 July 1625

[fos. 411-20] Grant of three subsidies of 4s, payable by half-yearly moieties. First payment, the 1st of December 1627. Last payment the 1st of June 1630.

Session 6. Tuesday 12 July 1625

[fo. 421] Prorogued by Dr Goad by virtue of the archbishop's writ and king's commission to Christ Church, Oxford, the second day of August 1625.

Session 7. Tuesday 2 August 1625

At Christ Church, Oxford. Archbishop present. Adjourned to the fifth instant at Merton College chapel.

Session 8. Friday 5 August 1625

At Merton College chapel, Oxford. Adjourned to the twelfth instant in the same place.

Session 9. Friday 12 August 1625

Adjourned to the thirteenth instant, the same place.

Session 10. Saturday 13 August 1625

[fo. 422] Dissolved by the archbishop in person by virtue of the king's writ.

The royal writ for parliament

Henricus octavus, Dei gratia Angliae et Franciae rex, fidei defensor et dominus Hiberniae, et in terra supremum caput, Anglicanae Ecclesiae reverendo in Christo patri Iohanni, eadem gratia Lincolniensi episcopo, salutem. Quia de avisamento et assensu concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis et urgentibus negotiis nos statum et defensionem regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus, quoddam parliamentum nostrum apud Westmonasterium, octavo die Iunii proximo fiituro [8 June 1536] teneri ordinavimus, et ibidem vobiscum ac cum ceteris praelatis magnatibus et proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere et tractatum vobis in fide [et] ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter iniungendo mandamus, quod consideratis dictorumnegotiorum arduitate etpericulis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die et loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum praelatis, magnatibus et proceribus praedictis supradictis negotiis tractaturi vestrumque consilium impensuri. Et hoc sicut nos et honorem nostrum ac salvationem et defensionem regni et ecclesiae supradictorum expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis, praemonentes decanum et capitulum ecclesiae vestrae Lincolniensis ac archidiaconos totumque clerum vestrae diocesis quod iidem decani et archidiaconi in propriis personis ac dictum capitulum per unum idemque clerus per duos procuratores idoneos plenam et sufficientem potestatem ab ipsis capitulo et clero divisim habentibus, praedictis die et loco personaliter intersint ad consentiendum hiis quae tune ibidem de communi consilio dicti regni nostri divina favente dementia contigerit ordinari. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo septimo die Aprilis anno regni nostri vicesimo octavo [27 April 1536].

Mandate for the convocation

Iohannes, permissione divina Londoniensis episcopus, venerabili viro Magistro Hugoni Corey legum doctori, reverendi in Christo patris Domini Edwardi Herefordensis episcopi in remotis agentis vicario in spiritualibus generali, salutem, gratiam et benedictionem. Literas reverendissimi in Christo patris et domini, Domini Thomae, permissione divina Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, totius Angliae primatis et metropolitani, breve etiam sive mandatum excellentissimi in Christo principis et domini nostri, Domini Henrici octavi, Dei gratia Angliae et Franciae regis, fidei defensoris et domini Hiberniae, ac in terra Ecclesiae Anglicanae sub Christo capitis supremi ad infrascripta continentes datas decimo die instantis mensis Maii [10 May 1536], noveritis nos cum ea qua decuit reverentia recepisse.

Solet observari ut postquam ingressi fuerint inferiorem domum in sedibus se decenter collocent. Et si aliqui ex eis sint consiliarii sive sacellani regiae maiestatis ut hi superiores sedes occupent, atque ut unus ex eis propter dignitatem et reverentiam, seu in eorum absentia decanus ecclesiae cathedralis Divi Pauli Londoniarum, sive archidiaconus Londoniensis, praesidentis offlcio in huiusmodi electione fungatur. Atque ut ad hoc rite procedatur, primum iubeat nomina omnium citatorum et qui tune interesse tenentur, a clerico dictae inferioris domus recitari et praeconizari. Notatisque absentibus, alloquatur praesentes atque eorum sententiam de idoneo prolocutore eligendo sciscitetur. Et postquam [6] de eo convenerint (quod semper quasi statim et absque ullo negotio perfici solebat) mox conveniant inter se de duobus eminentioris ordinis, qui dictum electum reverendissimo domino Cantuariensi in die statuto debita cleri reverentia et solemnitate praesentent. Quorum alter, sicut cum dies advenerit ipsum prolocutorem cum Latina et docta oratione praesentare tenetur, sic etiam idem praesentatus habitum doctoratus indutus consi—lem orationem ad dictum reverendissimum patrem ac praelatos et ceteros praesentes habere debet. Quibus finitis praefatus reverendissimus oratione Latina tarn electores quam praesentatores et praesentatum pro sua gratia collaudare, ac domum ipsam electionem sua archiepiscopali auctoritate confirmare et approbare non dedignabitur. Et statim idem reverendissimus Anglice (si placet) exponere solet ulteriorem beneplacitum suum hortandum clerum ut de rebus communibus quae reformatione indigeant consutent et refereant die statuto, ac ad hunc [7] modum de sessione in sessionem continuabitur convocatio, quamdiu expedire videbitur, ac donee de eadem dissolvenda breve regium eidem reverendissimo praesentetur.

Et secundum est quod quotiescunque prolocutor ad praesentiam reverendissimi causa convocationis ac tempore sessionis accesserit, utatur habitu praedicto, ac ianitor sive virgifer dictae inferioris domus ipsum reverenter antecedat.

Eiusdem prolocutoris est etiam monere omnes ne discedant civitate London, absque licentia reverendissimi, quodque statutis diebus tempestive veniant ad convocationem. Quodque salaria clericorum tarn superioris quam inferioris domus et ianitoris inferioris domus iuxta antiquam taxationem quatenus eorum quemlibet consuevit fideliter persolvant.

Royal writ for parliament

Elizabeth, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae et Hiberniae regina, fidei defensor etc., reverendissimo in Christo patri Matthaeo, eadem gratia Cantuariensi archiepiscopo, totius Angliae primati, salutem. Quia de avisamento et assensu concilii nostri, pro quibusdam arduis et urgentibus negotiis nos statum et defensionem regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus, quoddam parliamentum nostrum apud civitatem [270v] nostram Westmonasterium secundo die Aprilis proximo futuro teneri ordinavimus, et ibidem vobiscum ac cum ceteris praelatis, magnatibus et proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere et tractatum. Vobis in fide et dilectione quibus nobis tenemini firmiter iniungendo mandamus, quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate et periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione, quacunque dictis die et loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum praelatis, magnatibus et proceribus praedictis, super dictis negotiis tractaturis vestrumque consilium impensuris. Et hoc sicut nos et honorem nostrum ac salvationem et defensionem regni et ecclesiae praedictorum expeditioni dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis, praemonentes decanum et capitulum ecclesiae vestrae Cantuariensis, ac archidiaconos totumque clerum vestrae dioceseos, quod iidem decanus et archidiaconi in propriis personis suis, ac dictum capitulum per unum, idemque clerus per [27lr] duos [sic] procuratores idoneos plenam et sufficientem potestatem ab ipsis capitulo et clero divisim habentes, praedictis die et loco personaliter intersint, ad consentiendum his quae tune et ibidem de communi consilio dicti regni nostri (divina favente dementia) contigerint ordinari. Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium, decimo quarto die Februarii, anno regni nostri tertio decimo [14 February 1571].

Reverendissimo in Christo patri M[atthaeo], eadem gratia Cantuariensi archiepiscopo, totius Angliae primati, de veniendo ad parliamentum. Cordell

(Consimilis summonitio emanavit in 8 diem Maii anno Domini 1572 etc., apud Gorhambury, vicesimo octavo die Martii, anno regni nostri decimo quarto [28 March 1572].)

De summonitione convocationis

Elizabeth, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae et Hiberniae regina, fidei defensor etc., reverendissimo in Christo patri Matthaeo, eadem gratia Cantuariensi archiepiscopo, totius Angliae primati et metropolitano, salutem. Quibusdam arduis et urgentibus negotiis nos securitatem et [27 lv] defensionem Ecclesiae Anglicanae et pacem et tranquillitatem, bonum publicum et defensionem regni nostri et subditorum nostrorum eiusdem concernentibus, vobis in fide et dilectione quibus nobis tenemini, rogando mandamus quatenus praemissis debito intuitu attentis et ponderatis, universos et singulos episcopos vestrae provinciae ac decanos ecclesiarum cathedralium, necnon archidiaconos,

[fos. 206-7] List of the houses,

[fo. 208] Queen's writ of summons.

Session 1. Sunday 18 October 1601

[fos. 208-13] Archbishop's mandate; bishop of London's certificate. House called. The lower house required to choose a prolocutor. Absent contumacious. Archdeacon of Canterbury's certificate with the mandate inserted.

Session 2. Saturday 31 October 1601

[fos. 213-15] Protestation of the dean of Westminster to archbishop. Approbation of Dr Sutcliffe for prolocutor. Archbishop's commission to the bishops of London, Winton, Bath, Norwich, St Asaph, Lincoln and the dean of Canterbury to preside in his stead.

Sessions 3-4. Dates unknown.

[fos. 215-17] Nothing remarkable.

Sessions 5-6. Wednesday 18 November 1601 (AM and PM)

[fos. 217-26] Grant of four subsidies proposed, passed and engrossed. Payable within four years. First payment 26 March 1602. Last payment 26 March 1605.

Sessions 7-17. Dates unknown.

[fos. 226-9] Nothing of moment more than (in the ninth) the archbishop declares the queen's gracious acceptance of the said subsidies.

Session 18. Monday 21 December 1601

[fo. 229] The archbishop present exhorts the bishops to be diligent in their charges and careful to observe the canons of the last convocation, and particularly gives them caution of these things following, viz.:

• 1. Not to proceed in court upon apparitors promoting without churchwardens’ presentment, or other just inquisition.

• 2. That ecclesiastical judges hold not too frequent courts, nor oftener than once in five weeks.

• 3. That chancellors and officials call not men to several courts for the same fault.

• 4. To have yearly but once, not quarter bills of presentments.

• 5. To take care that the curates of non-residents be able persons and have good allowances.

• 6. That none but chancellors grant licences for marriage.

[fo. 230] Contumacious suspended. Archbishop, by the queen's writ, dissolves [the convocation].

Archbishop Whitgift's letter of 7 January 1602

Salutem in Christo. Your lordship hath by experience now found how the not reforming of the inconveniences crept into ecclesiastical inferior courts, specified in my letters sent unto you in April last, hath bred that effect which was then feared, even the multitudes of complaints made against them in the last parliament.

Names of those cited to attend the lower house of convocation ofl563

Canterbury

Nicholas Wotton, dean of Canterbury

[Edmund Gest, archdeacon of Canterbury]

Proctors: Thomas Becon (dean and chapter)

Stephen Nevinson

Richard Beseley

Rochester

[Walter Phillips, dean of Rochester]

John Bridgewater, archdeacon of Rochester

Proctors: John Bridgewater (dean and chapter)?

John Calverley

Percival Wilburn

London

Alexander Nowell, dean of St Paul's

John Mullins, archdeacon of London

Thomas Cole, archdeacon of Essex

Thomas Watts, archdeacon of Middlesex

John Pullen, archdeacon of Colchester

David Kemp, archdeacon of St Albans

Proctors: Thomas Watts (dean and chapter)

James Calfhill

John Mullins

Westminster

Gabriel Goodman, dean of Westminster

William Latimer, archdeacon of Westminster

Proctors: Richard Reeve1649 (dean and chapter)

Richard Norley

Winchester

John Warner, dean of Winchester

Stephen Cheston, archdeacon of Winchester

John Watson, archdeacon of Surrey

Thomas White, archdeacon of Berkshire

Proctors: Michael Reniger5 (dean and chapter)

Ralph Cockerell

John Ebden

Chichester

Hugo Turnbull, dean of Chichester

Thomas Spencer, archdeacon of Chichester

Edmund Weston, archdeacon of Lewes

Proctors: William Bradbridge (dean and chapter)

Thomas Soreby

Salisbury

Deanery of Salisbury - vacant.

Richard Chaundler, archdeacon of Salisbury

John Lawrence, archdeacon of Wiltshire

Proctors: James Proctor (dean and chapter) ?

Thomas Lancaster, treasurer of Sarum

Robert Pound

Bath and Wells

William Turner, dean of Wells

John Cottrell, archdeacon of Wells

James Bond, archdeacon of Bath

Justinian Lancaster, archdeacon of Taunton

Proctors: John Cottrell (dean and chapter)?

Walter Bower

John Cottrell

Bristol

George Carew, dean of Bristol

John Cottrell, archdeacon of Dorset

Proctors: Arthur Saul

Richard Hughes

Richard Guin

Exeter

Gregory Dodds, dean of Exeter

Robert Lougher, archdeacon of Totnes

[Henry Squire, archdeacon of Barum (Barnstaple)]

[George Harvey, archdeacon of Cornwall]

Proctors: Gregory Dodds (dean and chapter)

Robert Lougher

Richard Tremayne

Ely

Andrew Pearne, dean of Ely

Robert Wisdom, archdeacon of Ely

Proctors: Gregory Garth (dean and chapter)

John Bell

Thomas Ithel

Oxford

Thomas Sampson, dean of Christ Church, Oxford

John Kennall, archdeacon of Oxford

Proctors: James Calfhill (dean and chapter)

John Kennall

John Hill(s)

Norwich

John Salisbury, dean of Norwich

[Richard Underwood, archdeacon of Norwich]

Archdeaconry of Norfolk - vacant

Nicholas Wendon, archdeacon of Suffolk

[Miles Spencer, archdeacon of Sudbury]

Proctors: Thomas Roberts

John Walker

Acts of the convocation

[28r] Convocatio praelatorum et cleri Cantuariensis provinciae facta per reverendissimum in Christo patrem et dominum Dominum Iohannem, Dei gratia Cantuariensis archiepiscopum, totius Angliae primatem et apostolicae sedis legatum, in ecclesia cathedrali Sancti Pauli Londoniarum, die Lunae videlicet decimo nono die mensis Octobris, anno Domini 1444, indictione septima, pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini Domini Eugenii, divina providentia papa quarti, anno decimo tertio, et translationis dicti reverendissimi patris anno secundo.

Monday 19 October 1444

Eodem vero decimo nono die mensis Octobris, dictus reverendissimus pater archiepiscopus ad ecclesiam Sancti Pauli praedictae de mane se direxit et ibidem ad summum altare dictae cathedralis ecclesiae missam de Spiritu Sancto solemniter celebrabat, praesentibus in celebratione eiusdem reverendis in Christo patribus dominis Londoniensi, Eliensi, Bangorensi, Cicestrensi, Roffensi, Bathonensi, Wigorniensi et Asaphens’ episcopis; qua finita, praefatus reverendissimus pater, una cum confratribus suis episcopis supradictis, capellam Beatae Mariae in orientali parte ecclesiae cathedralis praedictae adiverunt, ubi facta collatione solemni (ut moris est) in Latinis per reverendum in Christo patrem et dominum Dominum Iohannem Roffensem episcopum, sumpto pro themate: ‘Vigilate et videte quia nescitis diem neque horam, lectum fuit incontinenti certificiatorium reverendi in Christo patris et domini Domini Roberti Londoniensis episcopi, tenorem continens subsequentem:

The bishop of London's certificate containing the archbishop's mandate and the royal writ

Reverendissimo in Christo patri et domino Domino Iohanni, Dei gratia Cantuariensis archiepiscopo, totius Angliae primati et apostolicae sedis legato, Robertus, permissione divina Londoniensis episcopus, oboedientiam reverentiamque omnimodam debitas cum honore. Mandatum vestrum reverendissimum vicesimo die mensis Augusti ultimo praeterito [20 August 1444] reverenter ut decuit recepimus, tenorem continens subsequentem:

Iohannes, permissione divina Cantuariensis archiepiscopus, totius Angliae primas et apostolicae sedis legatus, venerabili fratri nostro Domino Roberto, Dei gratia Londoniensi episcopo, salutem et fraternam in Domino caritatem. Literas domini nostri regis sub privato sigillo suo sigillato nuper recepimus in haec verba:

Royal writ of summons for 22 April dated 1 March.

Archbishop's commission to George Markham, Edward Rice, Henry Forster Mills, Robert Croft, John Eyre, Robert Markham, George Desmeth Kelly, Henry Kitchingman and John Ellis, dated 18 April 1820.

Saturday 22 April 1820

[Bishops:]

The lord archbishop of York [Edward Venables Vernon].

Shute [Barrington], lord bishop of Durham.

George Henry [Law], lord bishop of Chester. Thomas Armistead, M. A., his proctor.

Samuel [Goodenough], lord bishop of Carlisle.

George [Murray], lord bishop of Sodor and Man. George Markham, D. D., his proctor.

[The cleans of:]

York: George Markham, D. D.

Durham: James [Cornwallis], lord bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. Robert Gray, D. D., etc. (as above).

Chester: Robert Hodgson, D. D. Thomas Ward his proctor.

Carlisle: Robert Hodgson, D. D. Robert Markham his proctor.

[The archdeacons of:]

York: Robert Markham clerk, M. A., personaliter.

Nottingham: John Eyre, M. A. William Richardson clerk, his proctor appeared.

East Riding: Robert Darley Waddilove clerk, M. A.

Cleveland: Charles Baillie Hamilton clerk, M. A.

Durham: Richard Prosser, D. D. Robert Gray (as above).

Northumberland: Reynold Gideon Bouyer, LL. B. (Robert Gray as above).

Chester: Unwin Clarke clerk, M. A.

Richmond: John Owen clerk, M. A.

Carlisle: Charles Anson clerk, M. A.

Sodor and Man: George Markham his proctor appeared.

[The chapters of]

York: Robert Croft clerk MA; George Desmeth Kelly clerk, M. A.

Durham: Robert Gray, B. D., their proctor appeared etc.

Chester: Thomas Ward, M. A.

Carlisle: Robert Markham clerk, M. A.

Southwell: Richard Sutton, M. A., William Jackson, M. A.

Ripon: John Ellis clerk, B. A., their proctor.

[The clergy of the archdeaconries of:]

York: Henry Stephen Milner, D. D., Robert Affleck, M. A.

Nottingham: George Wilkins and Charles Nixon their proctors. James Richardson and William Bulmer clerks their substitutes.

East Riding: William Harry Edward Bentinck, John Gilby.

Cleveland: William Henry Dawney, William Carey, D. D.

Durham: Robert Gray, D. D., Edward South Thurlow. Robert Gray their substitute etc.

Northumberland: John Smith, M. A., Frederick Ekins clerk, M. A., their proctors.

Robert Gray etc.

Chester: Roger Jackson, clerk, M. A.

Richmond: Thomas Monson, M. A.

Carlisle: Walter Fletcher, M. A., Thomas Lowry, D. D.

Clergy of the jurisdiction of the dean and chapter of York: Edward Rice clerk, B. A., Henry Forster Mills clerk, M. A.

Clergy of the jurisdiction of the chapter of Southwell: William Beecher, M. A.

The archbishop's mandate

Simon, permissione divina Cantuariensis archiepiscopus, totius Angliae primas et apostolicae sedis legatus, venerabili fratri nostro Domino Michaeli, Dei gratia episcopo Londoniensi, salutem et fraternam in Domino caritatem. Quamvis a tempore quo Cantuariensi ecclesiae, Domino disponente, praefuimus, licet immeriti et indigni, corditer optassemus praelatos et clerum dictae nostrae provinciae a laboriosis et sumptuosis convocationibus et vexationibus praeservare; ipsosque in quiete fovere, ut Altissimo Regi regum possint liberius deservire; urgentia tamen et grandia pericula qui timeri potuerunt regno Angliae et eius sanctae ecclesiae in absentia regis nostri et maiorum, ac procerum suorum verisimiliter provenire, nisi festivo et salubriori remedio tarn cleri quam populi in regno remanentis consultius succurratur; multipliciter licet anxios nos compellant praelatos et clerum nostrae Cantuariensis provinciae, quorum tarn communiter quam singulariter in hac parte interesse vertitur, propterea specialiter convocare. Ad hoc etiam literas regias recepimus in haec verba: