Note 312 — Chapter VII
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On the Commissions to Cromwell as Vicar-general and Vicegerent cf. Burnet, vol. i. pp. 292–293 n., 342–343 n.; Collier, vol. ii. p. 104; Gutch, vol. ii. p. 192; Herbert, p. 202; Dixon, vol. i. pp. 244–247; Child, Church and State, pp. 78, 79. It is probable that the last writer has confounded the two commissions: certainly there is little reason to think that the title of Vicar-general was granted later than that of Vicegerent.