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Readings on the article in Magna Charta "Quod ecclesia Anglicana libera sit", etc., temp. Chas. II

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MS. Rawl. D. 836, fol. 7

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Prefaced by readings on the authority and occasion of the Charter.

Written in the time of Charles II. In a formal copyist’s hand, with occasional marginal notes in a hand which may be that of the author, as well as other notes in a third hand.

At fol. 40b the case is supposed of the erection of a bishopric in New England by letters patent, and consecration of a bishop, whose episcopal orders would stand firm even if "his people perhaps will not receive him".

At fol. 141 the writer mentions "some notes of one of my predecessors in this place Mr. Recorder Mason;" i.e. Robert Mason, Recorder of London, who was Reader at Lincoln’s Inn in the autumn of 1635.

Another reader at Lincoln’s Inn, serjeant [Erasmus] Earle, is mentioned at fol. 49, who lectured in the autumn of 1639.

That the readings were, however, subsequent to 1666 is proved by reference at fols. 55–58 to a case concerning the church of St. Mary, Aldermanbury, "demolisht by the fire".

Dates

  • Creation: temp. Chas. II

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1 item

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  • English

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MS. Rawl. D. 836, fol. 7

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