Note 30 — INTRODUCTION.
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"To you, or three of you, whereof the Archbishop of Canterbury, or one of the bishops mentioned in the commission, or Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Gilbert Gerard, or some of the civilians, to be one."—Neal, i. 410.
There are subsequent commissions for the diocese of Norwich, 1589; for Manchester, 1596, 1597; for England and Ireland, 1600.—See Rymer, Vol. vii. 173, 194; xvi. 291, 400.
A commission was issued, 1629, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, &c., to exercise all manner of jurisdictions, privileges, and pre-eminences, concerning any spiritual or ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the realm; also to enquire, hear, determine, and punish all incests, adulteries, &c., and disorders in marriage, and all other grievous and great crimes.