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tions and the Parliament cooperated in Ecclesiastical Legislation and Business; with such further Information on this point as can be obtained from the State Papers. Strype, John. Ecclesiastical memorials, relating chiefly to religion, and the reformation of it, and the emergencies of the church of England under king Hen. VIII, king Ed. VI and queen Mary I; with large appendixes containing original papers, records etc. London, 1721, 3 vols. New ed. Oxford, 1822.-Ditto. Annals of the reformation and establishment of religion during reign. 1st ed. London, 1709; 2nd, London, 1725-31; 3rd, 1735 ff. New ed. Oxford, 1824.-Ditto. Memorials of Cranmer, first published in 1694. New edition, with additions, in 2 vols. Oxford, 1812. Special works relate to the lives of archbishops Parker, Grindal (new ed. Oxford, 1821), Whitgift.

Queen Elizabeth's

Weber, Georg. Geschichte der Kirchenreformation in Grossbritannien. Leipzig, 1856. 2 vols.

III. Ecclesiastical law.

Ayliffe, John. Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani. 1726. 2nd ed., London, 1734. (Arranged alphabetically.)

Brownbill, John. Principles of English Canon Law. Part I, General Introduction. London, 1883. (The author often transfers to the Church of England legal doctrines which in reality are peculiar to the Roman-Catholic Church.)

Burn, Richard. The Ecclesiastical Law. London, 1763. 2 vols. 9th ed., revised by Robert Phillimore. London, 1842. 4 vols. (Arranged alphabetically.) Clausnitzer, Ernst. Gottesdienst, Kirchenverfassung und Geistlichkeit der bischöflich-englischen Kirche. Berlin, 1817. (A short essay, in which

the actual circumstances at the beginning of the 19th cent. are, in particular, described.)

Cripps, Henry William. A Practical Treatise on the Law relating to the Church and Clergy. 6th ed., revised by C. A. Cripps. London, 1886. (Systematically arranged.)

Degge. The Parson's Counsellor, with the Law of Tythes and Tything. Two books, of which the first deals with the law as regards parishes, the second with the law of tithes.

Gibson, Edmund. Codex juris ecclesiastici Anglicani

methodically

digested with a commentary. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1761. (Statutes, canons, rubrics etc. under their proper heads.) 2 vols. Godolphin, John. Repertorium Canonicum; or An Abridgment of the Eccle siastical Laws of this Realm, consistent with the Temporal. 1 vol. London, 1678. 3rd ed. London, 1687. (Systematically arranged.)

Mocket, Richard. Tractatus de Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. First published in 1616; ordered to be burned. 2nd ed. London, 1638. 3rd ed. London, 1705. (A short treatise on the fundamentals of the church constitution.) Phillimore, Robert. The Ecclesiastical Law of the Church of England. 2 vols. London, 1873. Supplement, London, 1876.

Stillingfleet, Edward. Ecclesiastical Cases; vol. I relating to the Duties and Rights of the Parochial Clergy, vol. II relating to the Exercise of Ecclesi astical Jurisdiction. London, 1698, 1704.

Zouch, Richard. Descriptio Juris et Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum Canones et Constitutiones Anglicanas. First published in 1636. 2nd and 3rd editions incorporated with the corresponding editions of Mocket, 1638 and 1705. (Systematically arranged.)

IV. Some important authorities on parts of the history and law of the church, though not specially devoted thereto.

Coke, Edward. Institutes of the Laws of England. Part I contains a commentary to Littleton upon the different kinds of tenure. Part II contains & commentary to some of the more important laws especially of the 13th and

14th cents. Part III relates to criminal law [c 5, heresy; c 23, to depart the realm to serve forain princes; c 31, transportation of money; c 36, bringing in of bulls; c 37, receiving of Jesuites; c 50, clergy; c 51, abjuration and sanctuary; c 54, premunire; c 71, simony; cc 80-82, Kirchenfriede; c 84, fugitives etc. or such as depart the realm without licence. .; c 92, recusants]. Part IV contains a treatise on the various courts, among them the ecclesiastical.

Freeman, E. A. The History of the Norman Conquest of England, its causes and its results. 5 vols. London, 1867-76; in 1879, an index volume. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1870 ff. 3rd ed. Oxford, 1877 ff.

Gneist, Rudolf. Englische Verfassungsgeschichte, 1 vol. Berlin, 1882. Kemble, John Mitchell. The Saxons in England. A History of the English Commonwealth till the period of the Norman Conquest. London, 1848. New ed. by Walter de Gray Birch. London, 1876. 2 vols. [Bk. II c 8, the bishop; c 9, clergy and monks; c 10, income of clergy. Appendix B, tithes ; D, church-scot.] Palgrave (Cohen), Francis. The Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth. Anglo-Saxon Period. 2 vols. (the second consists of minor supplementary investigations, Proofs and Illustrations). London, 1832.Ditto. The History of Normandy and of England (to 1101). 4 vols. London, 1851-64. Reprinted, London, 1878.

Phillips, Georg. Versuch einer Darstellung der Geschichte des Angelsächsischen Rechts. Göttingen, 1825.-Ditto. Englische Reichs- und Rechtsgeschichte seit 1066 (to 1189).

Reeves, John. History of the English Law from the time of the Saxons to the end of the reign of Philip and Mary. 1st ed. (only to the reign of Henry VII) London, 1783, 1784. 2 vols; 2nd ed. London, 1787; 3rd ed. London, 1814. 4 vols. A fifth vol. continuing the history down to the end of Elizabeth's reign was published at London in 1829. New edition by W. F. Finlason, London, 1869.

Stephen, Jas. Fitzjames. A History of the Criminal Law of England. 3 vols. London, 1883.

Stubbs, William. The Constitutional History of England. Oxford, 1874-8. 3 vols. The references are to the following editions: vol. I, 5th ed., 1891; vol. II, 3rd ed., 1887; vol. III, 4th ed., 1890.

V. Statistics, lists of cathedrals, monasteries, bishops, etc.

Birch, Walter de Gray. Fasti Monastici Saxonici, or an Alphabetical List of the Heads of Religious Houses in England previous to the Norman Conquest, to which is prefixed a Chronological Catalogue of Contemporary Foundations. London, 1872.

Brady, W. Maziere. The Episcopal Succession in England Scotland and Ireland, 1400-1875, with appointments to Monasteries and Extracts from Consistorial Acts taken from manuscripts in public and private libraries in Rome, Florence, Bologna, Ravenna and Paris. Rome, 1876-77. (Relates only to the Roman hierarchy.)

The Clergy List [with which is incorporated the Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, containing complete lists of the Clergy in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies, including army, navy, prison, union and foreign chaplains etc. with degrees, orders and appointments, an alphabetical list of Benefices with the dedication of the churches, post town, railway station, county, incumbent, curates, annual value, patron, and population; the Cathedral Establishments, Rural Deaneries and Constituent Livings, list of Public and Private Patrons of Benefices, with value etc. Issued yearly.

Dugdale, W. (and Dodsworth, R.). Monasticon Anglicanum. 1st (Latin) ed. London, 3 vols. 1655-1673.-Several later editions. Most used is: Monasticon Anglicanum, A History of the Abbies and other Monasteries, Hospitals. Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales new edition enriched with

a large accession of materials ; the history of each religious foundation in English being prefixed to its respective series of Latin charters. Edited by John Calley, Henry Ellis, Bulkeley Bandinel. 6 vols. 1817-30. Last ed. 1846.-Stevens, John. The History of the Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, being two addi tional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum. 2 vols. London, 1722-23.

Le Neve, John. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, or a Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales and of the chief offices in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge from the earliest time to 1715. London, 1716.-Corrected, and continued from 1715 to the present time by T. Duffus Hardy. Oxford, 1854. 3 vols.

The Official Year-Book of the Church of England. London.

Stubbs, William. Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum. An Attempt to exhibit the course of Episcopal Succession in England, from the Records and Chronicles of the Church. Oxford, 1858. Printed as appendices are: 1, a table of Saxon kingdoms and marriages; 2, a table of Saxon and English sees; 3, a list of palls, 1070-1556; 4, dates of legations in the twelfth cen tury; 5, a list of suffragans and bishops in partibus; 6, a list of the bishops of Sodor and Man, 1066-1546; 7, catalogues of British and Welsh bishops; 8, indexes of bishops arranged under their sees.

Tanner, Thomas. Notitia Monastica, or an Account of all the Abbies, Priories and Houses of Friers, heretofore in England and Wales and also of all the colleges and hospitals founded before 1540. Published by John Tanner, London, 1714. (Original ed. under similar title Oxford, 1695.) Reprinted with additions, Jas. Nasmith, Cambridge, 1787.

Willis, Browne. An History of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbies and Conven tual Cathedral Churches together with a Catalogue of their Abbots, Priors etc. 2 vols. London, 1718, 1719. Additions by Richard Widmore (died 1764) in MS Cole XL, 86-88.

XV. Chronological table of the kings of England from the Norman Conquest to the present day."

William I

William II
Henry I
Stephen

Henry II
Richard I
John

Norman kings, 1066-1154.

1

25th Dec. 1066 (coronation; Harold fell, 14th Oct.)-9th Sep.
1087.

26th Sep. 1087 (coronation)-2nd Aug. 1100.
5th Aug. 1100 (coronation)-1st Dec. 1135.
26th Dec. 1135 (coronation)- 25th Oct. 1154.

House of Anjou (Plantagenets, direct line), 1154-1399.

19th Dec. 1154 (coronation)-6th July, 1189.

3rd Sep. 1189 (coronation)-6th Ap. 1199.

27th May, 1199 (reign reckoned from the coronation on Ascension day)-19th Oct. 1216.2

1 In the first centuries after the Norman conquest the right to the crown was based not on inheritance alone, but also on election by the magnates of the land Cf. Stubbs, Const. Hist. I, 366 ff. c 11 § 118. Thus on the death of each sovereign there was an interregnum. Until Edward I the reign began with the coronation which succeeded election.

"The years of John's reign are reckoned from Ascension day to Ascension day. Thus 1 Joh. begins on 27th May, 1199; 2 Joh. on 18th May, 1200; 3 Joh.

a The dates to Charles II are from Hardy's Syllabus to Rymer-Hardy also gives a table of contemporary sovereigns from the reign of William I to Cromwell inclusive.-In Perry, Hist. of English Church I, 539 and II, 587, there is a chronological view of the English kings, the archbishops of Canterbury and the popes.

Henry III

Edward I
Edward II

28th Oct. 1216 (coronation)-16th Nov. 1272.3

20th Nov. 1272+ (day of father's funeral 3)–7th July, 1307.
8th July, 1307 (recognition?)-20th Jan. 1327 (abdication;
died 21st Sept. 13277).

Edward III 25th Jan. 1327 (his reign is reckoned from the day after his
Peace was proclaimed )-21st June, 1377.

Richard II

22nd June, 1377-29th Sept. 1399 (day of abdication; when he died is not known).

House of Lancaster (branch line of Plantagenets), 1399-1461 (and 1470–1). 30th Sep. 1399 (recognition by parliament)-20th March, 1413. 21st March, 1413-31st Aug. 1422.

Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI

1st Sept. 1422-4th March, 1461 (proclamation of Edward IV).9

House of York (branch line of Plantagenets), 1461-85 (interval, 1470-1471). 4th March, 1461 (proclamation 10)-9th Oct. 1470.11

Edward IV
Henry VI

Edward IV
Edward V
Richard III

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9th Oct. 1470 (first measures in his name 12)-April, 1471.13
April, 1471 -9th April, 1483.

9th April, 1483-25th June, 1483.15

26th June, 1483 (day on which he declared himself king)-22nd Aug. 1485.

House of Tudor, 1485–1603.

22nd Aug. 1485-21st Ap. 1509.

22nd Ap. 1509-28th Jan. 1547. Edward VI 28th Jan. 1547-6th July, 1553.

on 3rd May, 1201; 4 Joh. 23rd May, 1202; 5 Joh. 15th May, 1203; 6 Joh. 3rd June, 1204; 7 Joh. 19th May, 1205; 8 Joh. 11th May, 1206; 9 Joh. 31st May, 1207; 10 Joh. 15th May, 1208; 11 Joh. 7th May, 1209; 12 Joh. 27th May, 1210; 13 Joh. 12th May, 1211; 14 Joh. 3rd May, 1212; 15 Joh. 23rd May, 1213; 16 Joh. 8th May, 1214; 17 Joh. 28th May, 1215; 18 Joh. 19th May, 1216.

3 Cf. also John de Oxenedes (Rer. Brit. Scr. No. 13) p. 163, on a changemade in 1234—in the mode of calculating the years of Henry's reign.

4 Hardy l.c. reckons the 20th Nov. in both years e.g. in 1284 and 1285.

5 Stubbs, Const. Hist. II, 106 c 14 § 179. According to Hardy l.c. the 20th Nov., the day of the king's proclamation, is reckoned as the beginning of his reign. Edward himself issued a proclamation apparently on the 23rd Nov.; the magnates had done so on 17th Nov. (Rymer, Foedera 4th Ed. I, 497).

6 Cf. Stubbs, Const. Hist. II, 329 c 16 § 249.

7 For a false report of Edward's escape to the continent see Stubbs in Chronicles of Edward I and II (Rer. Brit. Ser. No. 76) II p. ciii.

The proclaiming was repeated on the day of the coronation, 29th Jan. 1327.

Cf. Stubbs, Const. Hist. II, 386 c 16 § 256.

91st Sept. 1460 to 4th March, 1461 is reckoned as 39 Hen. VI.

10 According to Stubbs, Const. Hist. II, 107 c 14 § 179 and III, 195 c 18 § 355 the theory was now first recognized that the new reign began immediately on the termination of the old.

11 4th March to 9th Oct. 1470 is reckoned as 10 Ed. IV.

12 Edward IV fled on 3rd Oct. Henry VI was released from the tower 5th Oct. Stubbs, Const. Hist. III, 214 c 18 § 358.

13 Edward IV landed in England on 14th March, and at first acknowledged Henry VI as king. Shortly afterwards he proclaimed himself; on 11th Ap. he entered London where Henry was. On 14th Ap. and 4th May he defeated the Lancastrians; on 21st May Henry died, probably murdered. Stubbs, Const. Hist. III, 216 c 18 § 358. The second period of Henry's rule is called 49 Hen. VI. 14 Ap. 1471-3rd March, 1472 is reckoned as 11 Ed. IV.

15 When he died, apparently murdered by Richard's orders, is not known. Stubbs, Const. Hist. III, 231 c 18 § 360.

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Charles I

17th Nov. 1558-24th March, 1603.

House of Stuart, 1603–1714 (interval, 1649–60).

24th March, 1603–27th March, 1625.

27th March, 1625-30th Jan. 1649.

Commonwealth and protectorate 30th Jan. 1649 "-8th May, 1660.
Charles II

James II

8th May, 166018 (recognition by English Parliament)-6th Feb. 1685.

6th Feb. 1685-28th Jan. 1689 (day of resolution by parliament that the king had vacated the throne by flight. James died 16th Sept. 1701).

William III and Mary 13th Feb. 1689 (acceptance of the crown offered by parliament)-28th Dec. 1694 (death of Mary).

William III 28th Dec. 1694 1-8th March, 1702.

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16 6th July, 1554-24th July, 1554 is reckoned as 2 Mar.; 25th July, 1554-5th July, 1555 as 1 & 2 Phil. & Mar.; 6th July, 1555-24th July, 1555 as 1 & 3 Phil. & Mar.; 25th July, 1555-5th July, 1556 as 2 & 3 Phil. & Mar.; 6th July, 1556– 24th July, 1556 as 2 & 4 Phil. & Mar.; 25th July, 1556-5th July, 1557 as 3 & 4 Phil. & Mar.; 6th July, 1557-24th July, 1557 as 3 & 5 Phil, & Mar.; 25th July, 1557-5th July, 1558 as 4 & 5 Phil. & Mar.; 6th July, 1558-24th July, 1558 as 4 & 6 Phil. & Mar.; 25th July, 1558-17th Nov. 1558 as 5 & 6 Phil. & Mar. 17 Cf. § 7, notes 52, 53.

18 The reign of Charles II is counted as beginning on 30th Jan. 1649.

19 The years of William's reign were counted regularly on, without regard to Mary's death.

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