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Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 1—The Church of the Civil Wars

Note 5 — INTRODUCTION.

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Stat. 1 Eliz. C.Q., lv. 3, 15.

When the Bills of Supremacy and Uniformity were read a third time in the House of Lords (April 26 and 28, 1558), the Bishops of York, London, Ely, Wigorn, Llandaff, Coventry and Litchfield, Exon, Chester, Carlisle, are mentioned in the Journals as dissentients from both the Bills.—Strype's Annals of the Reformation, i. 87, (Oxford edition.) In connection with the history of the Bill of Supremacy in Strype's Annals the student should read the history of convocation in Strype's Memorials, Vol. i. Chap. xvii. An extraordinary paper in favour of the King's supremacy, attributed to Gardiner, is given, p. 209.

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