Hen Flamen, The enchord not being von passat, I have the satisfaction of communicating it to you. It is axompanied by a to fly of a bitter & some Forms of Testimonials, which I sent you by the Packet of last fronth. It is the Opinion here, that no more than thrace may -sacrate others at their return, if mon be found necessary. But Whether We inn consecrate any, or not, must get depand in the Answer Va He have written. Imm pour Hamble We mag am ΑΝΝΟ REGNI GEORGII III. REGIS Magne Britannia, Francia, & Hibernia, VICESIMO SEXTO. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Eighteenth Day of May, Anno Domini 1784, in the Twentyfourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence continued, by feveral Prorogations, to the Twentyfourth Day of January, 1786; being the Third Seffion of the Sixteenth Parliament of Great Britain. Printed by C. EYRE and the Executors of W. STRAHAN, Printers to the King's moft Excellent Majefty. 1786. [ 1567 ] ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO Georgii III. Regis. CA P. LXXXIV. An Act to empower the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Archbishop of York, for the Time being, to confecrate to the Office of a Bishop, Perfons being Subjects or Citizens of Countries out of His Majefty's Dominions. HEREAS, by the Laws of this Preamble. Bealm, no Perlon can be conte crated to the Dffice of a Bishop with out the King's Licence for his Election to that Dice, and the Royal Mandate under the Great Seal for bis Confirmation and Confecration: And whereas every Perlon who shall be confecrated to the faid Dffice is required to take the Daths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and also the Dath of due Dbedience to the Archbishop: And whereas there are divers Perfons, Subjeds of Citizens of Countries out of his Majesty's Domí nions, and inhabiting and reading within the laid Coun tries, who profess the Publick Wozhip of Almighty God, according to the Principles of the Church of England, and who, in order to provide a regular Succellion of Ministers for the Service of their Church, are defirous of having certain of the Subjects of Citizens of those Countries confecrated Bithops, accoding to the form of Confecration in the Church of England: Be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lods Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by [18 A 2] the |