Note 167 — Chapter IV
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The Reduction of Episcopacy, which bears Ussher's name, was not published till after his death, in 1656. Baxter says in reference to it, "I asked him (Dr. Ussher) whether the paper be his that is called, A reduction of Episcopacy to the form of Synodical Government; which he owned, and Dr. Bernard after witnessed to be his."—Life and Times, part ii. 206.
I may here observe that the Archbishop, according to his biographer, Elrington, appears always to have spelt his name with a double s.