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in ihe defendants* balance on that 

 day. Mr. Topping, for the plain- 

 tiff, rested his case upon the al- 

 ternative, that if it were not 

 true, the plaintiff had suborned 

 three persons to perjure them- 

 selves, two of them ingenuous 

 and well-educated boys ; and at- 

 tributed the defendants' denial of 

 it to a mistake, of vvhich they were 

 not conscious, in the hurry of bu- 

 siness upon a Saturday, as the 

 24th was ; and that, the Satur- 

 day before they moved their bank- 

 ing business to another shop on 

 the Monday following. The At- 

 torney-General and Mr. Garrow, 

 were for the defendants. The jurj', 

 after retiring for some time, found 

 tiieir verdict for the defendants. 



Court of King's Bench, Friday, 

 Feb. 7.— The King, v. the Arch- 

 bishop oj" Canterbury, and the Bishop 

 of London. — This was a rule nisi 

 for a mandamus, calling upon the 

 defendants, or one of them, to 

 hear, examine, and determine, in 

 order to license the Rev. R. Po- 

 vah, LL. D. to preach the Friday 

 morning lecture, at the parish 

 church of St. Bartholomew, Ex- 

 change, London. The lectureship 

 was endowed in 1625, with 25?. 

 a year out of lands, and the 

 choice of the lecturer was given 

 by the founder to the inhabitants 

 of the parish. Upon the last va- 

 cancy, Mr. Shepherd, the rector 

 of the parish. Dr. Povah, and 

 another person, were candidates, 

 and the Doctor was chosen by a 

 majority of the parishioners. Upon 

 tendering himself to the Bishop 

 to be licensed, it was objected 

 to him that he had preached 

 against the doctrine of infant 

 baptism ; a charge which the 



Doctor denied, and the author of 

 which he requested to know. 

 This information was refused, and 

 Dr. Povah attended the Bishop 

 with the notes of the sermon, 

 which had been thus misrepre- 

 sented ; and tlie Bishop appeared 

 satisfied on that head ; but ob- 

 jected to him that he was only in 

 deacon's orders, and had in that 

 capacity outstretched his authority 

 in reading the absolution. This 

 practice Doctor Povah justified, 

 by the directions of the rubrick ; 

 and as to the competency of his 

 orders to warrant the licence in 

 question, Dr. Povah got himself 

 forthwith ordained a priest in full 

 orders, although, as the Bishop 

 alleged, and the applicant denied, 

 this was done in an irregular way. 

 This, and much more, appeared by- 

 many affidavits on both sides : the 

 Doctor had produced to the bishop 

 three different sets of testimonials, 

 his lordship having objected to the 

 testimony of some, and persuaded 

 the withdrawment of others : fi- 

 nally, Dr. Povah attended his lord- 

 ship with his perfect testimonials, 

 and his certificate of priest's or- 

 ders, and offered to read and sub- 

 scribe the thirty-nine articles, as 

 required by the act of uniformity, 

 13 and I* Car. II. c. 4. sec. 19. 

 when the Bishop's objections were 

 at last resolved into this ; that he 

 did not approve of Dr. Povah as 

 a fit person. The doctor there- 

 upon, called upon his lordship to 

 specify the reasons of that objec- 

 tion, and had tendered himself to 

 submit to any examination which 

 the Bishop thought proper to in- 

 stitute, but his lordship had not 

 thought proper to institute such 

 examination, or to specify the rea- 

 sons ot his refusal to license the 



applicant, 



