802 A P P E N D I X . Vindic. p. Mr. N. goeson, " in this the archbifhop [Cranmer] had a-principal 300, 302. " hand, for it was hisjudgment, that the 'exercifeofall epifcopal jurifdic- " tion depended upon theprince, and that as he gave it, he might reffrain it, or take it away at his pleafure." This affertion (lays our critick) is fupported by no quotation, and yet Mr. N. affirms in his preface, he has citedhis authorities in the margin. Admirable logick ! but the gentleman Cran. Mem.fhall now be gratified, " it was his [archbifhop Cranmer's] judgment p '41 " (lays Mr. Strype); that the exercife of all e ifco al urifdiátion de- Pp53ndix, , pended upon the prince, and that as he gave it, ohe might reftrain " it at his pleafure." Vindic. p. In the next page Mr. N. Pays, that by this law caufes concerning wills and 302' marriages were removed into the courts.ofWeftminfter-Hall ; whereas they were to be tried /fill in thefame court, but only in the king's name. This I apprehend to be right, and have therefore, placed it among the correc- tions. Hift. Punit. Mr. N. bas mßaken the communion qffices publfed 0548, 1549 No p. 36. miflake of Mr. N.'s but agreeable to Burnet's hory ofthe reformation, Vol. II. p. 63, 64. Vindic. p. The worfl part ofthe account Mr. N. gives of the d f utes about the 304. . VESTMENTS, is the rude and uncharitablecenfure hepales on thole divines Hilt. Purit that were willing to make the communion of the church as exteaa ave as they P 47' could. He defcribes them in this manner ; " thole divines that had flayed " ° in England, andweathered theftorm ofking HENRY'S tyranny by apo- " litick compliance, and concealment of their opinions : For this language " he quotes no author." For what language ? However the language is Ch. Hilt. Mr. Fuller's, and let this writer mark it ; " the founders of conformity B II' " were loch as remained here all the reign of kingHENRYVIII. and 1.4 " weathered out the tempeft of his tyranny at open fea, partly by a " POLITICK COMPLIANCE, and partly by a CAUTIOUS CONCEAL. " MENT OF THEMSELVES. There in the days of king EDWARD VI: " were pofleffed of the bell preferments in the land, and retainedmany " ceremoniespraElifed in the romfchurch." Vindic. p. Mr. N. fays, the oath bifhop Hooper re/tiled was the oath offupremacy ; 305, 306. but Mr. Fuller conceives it to be the oath of canonical obedience. This Hitt. Punit, learned gentleman might haveknown, that Mr. Fuller was convinced of P. 53 Etc). Hili. his miftake. The oath which Hooper (tuck at; (lays Mr. Collyer) was the Vol. II, oath of fupremacy, and not that of canonical obedience as is commonly P'3°7' fuppofed. Mr. Fuller had gone into the vulgar error, in his church hif- tory, but having confidered better of it, he correéted it in his book of worthies [Somerfetfhire.] And that this was the cafe (fays he) appears by Cranmer's objecting the danger of a pramunire ; for the bare difpenfrng with the oathofcanonical obedience had no fuch penalty annexed ; but if Hooper
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