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it is declared, that what he shall ordain by 

 writing, under his great seal, shall be of as 

 good strength, force, value, and effect, to all 

 intents and purposes, as if it had been done by 

 authority of Parliament. 



But, as the statutes which were prepared in 

 pursuance of these powers, ivere not executed and 

 delivered in due form, and thought invalid through 

 that error and defect, the same powers were 

 renewed and given to Queen Mary (1st Marias, 

 c. 9.), that she might make good the deficiency ; 

 but, she making no further use of these powers, 

 than by setting forth the statutes of Durham 

 church, the same were a second time renewed 

 and given to Queen Elizabeth, in the first year 

 also of her reign. How it happened, that she 

 did so little towards establishing and rendering 

 effectual the king's statutes, or else providing 

 new ones m their room, is not material to en- 

 quire here ; (some account of it will be found 

 in Bishop Gibson's Codex, p. 206, and Strype's 

 Life of Parker, p. 342.) It is enough to the pre- 

 sent purpose, that she did, in pursuance and by 

 virtue of these powers, granted her by Parlia- 

 ment, give commission to Archbishop Sandys, 

 with other ecclesiastical commissioners for the 

 diocese of York, to draw up statutes for South- 

 well, which she gave in the twenty-seventh year 

 of her reign, under the broad seal, and in due 



