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Excerpt from Repertorium Canonicum, or an Abridgment of the Ecclesiastical Laws of This Realm, Consistent With the Temporal: Wherein the Most Material Points Relating to Such Persons and Things as Come Within the Cognizance Thereof, Are Succinctly Treated
Bifliop'z/fher' afiiifits, that they did bilhops among the Old Britains, for he' fuch but that all Memorials were loll: momenta epifcopal or Patriarchal Seat refided (e). For although London hath been for many Ages the Chiefelt of Erie Pag' 97 tain, and was no lefs than 1300 years time (d) Amnzian. Tar Oppielnm, and Angst/ta (a!) yet a modernqwriter of Marc. 11h. Great Learning and Authority, would have York as the more Ancient Metropolis of the Dioeefe of the Britain: (8) Philip (e); and that not onely becaufe it wasa Roman Colony 53113333 which Lona/on was not, as Onnphrins (contrary to fo Diatrib. 1. Great and plain Authority of Tacitus) doth affirm C f but alfo, for that the Em perour's Palace and Praetorian: in Imperio' likewife Tribunal or Chief Seat of Judgment, was 30mm there; whence by the old Hiftorian Spartianns it was (g) Spartz'an called Ciwitaa by way of excellency' (g). Ir' muff be iiiiciiiff. Atknowl'edg'd, that the very Original of things are\ to Com. In Ao us' much clouded in obfc'urity and uncertainty.> yet he qp'33 that duly confults Antiquity, will find, thatwhat'ra a'nlphnr n'e Diceto writes touching the Original of Epif copacy and Archiepifcopacy in Britain feems tqbeife the beft Analogy with the truth, comparing' Anti quary with another touching that Subjeet. This Ra a'nlphns ale Diceto was Dean of London, a very Ancient H ifiorian, he wrote the H iftory of England, from A. I 147. To 1193.in a Book entituled lmagines Hi/loriarnm; and in the Prologue to his Chronicle Ahhretriations fays, that'angnfline who by Pope Gregory was fent 'into England, An. After he had Converted Ethelhert King of Kent to the Chriliian Faith, went in the year 609. To Arles, where he was Confecrated Epifcopns Anglornm by Etherias Archbilhop of that place and being returned into Britain fent Lanrentins the Pref b - yter, ' and Petrns the Monk to Pope Gregory, giving him an account of Britains being converted to the Faith and himfelf made Bilhop thereof: Whereupon the faid Gregor} fent them back into England and with' them'feveral Divines to preach the Gofpel in this I e, which the Chief were Mellitus fat/tar, P'an z. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
