This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... PROCEEDINGS IN THE CASE OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD, 1687-8. L 1686, July 17-The Appointment of Lords Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. At the Councill Chambers at Hampton Court, 17 July, 1686. H1s Majesty was this day pleased to declare that for the prevention of Indiscreet Preaching (his many Exhortations having proved ineffectual) he had granted a Commission for the inspecting Ecclesiastical Affairs to the Lord Archbishop, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, Lord President, the Bishops of Durham and Rochester, and the Lord Chief Justice Herbert. 2. The same. Letter to John Ellis, Esq. from....) What takes up most men here is a new Commission that his Majesty has issued out, whereby he is pleased to constitute seven Lords Commissioners for executing and exercising all ecclesiastical jurisdiction: viz. the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury1, the Bishop of Durham2, the Bishop of Rochester3, the Lord Chancellor4, the Lord Treasurer6, the Lord President6, and Lord Chief Justice Herbert. They have power and authority to visit and correct all offences, to enquire of any misdemeanors against the Ecclesiastical Laws, and to punish the offenders by suspension, deprivation, and excommunication, and other Church censures, according as they in justice shall think meet;--to examine into all irregularities and immoralities punishable by Church laws, and even into disorders in marriages; and to call before them and punish any offenders, or any that shall seem to be suspected persons; to cite and swear witnesses; to punish the obstinate and disobedient; to tax and condemn in costs the party prosecuting or prosecuted; to have a Registrar, who is Mr. Bridgman, and a Common Seal with the circumscription of Sigillum Dominorum Commissariorum S....
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