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sovereigns, the one absolute and the other li- 

 mited. 



"in. The supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction, 

 annexed to the imperial crown of this realm, 

 G^a be exerted no otherwise than in Parliament. 



** These three propositions separating her 

 Majesty's authority from her person, and im- 

 peaching her royal supremacy, are erroneous, 

 and contrary to the received doctrine of the 

 Church of England, as well as the known laws 

 of the realm ; and therefore (so far as they or 

 any of them are deducible from any thing that 

 I have heretofore asserted and published), I do 

 hereby openly and freely revoke and renounce 

 the same. 



** For," says his lordship, in his letter to the 

 Archbishop, " if the first of these propositions 

 be true, the Queen is not supreme head of the 

 Church in her personal capacity; since the 

 having the same authority is the very definition 

 which both the second canon and the 37th 

 article gives of her supremacy. If the second 

 be true, the unicus gubernator supremus in the 

 first article, to be subscribed before institution, 

 is nonsense. And if the last be law, an appeal 

 to the Queen's delegates (at least a commission of 



review afterwards), is very illegal Upon 



the whole, my Lord, if Mr. Dean consents not 

 to this proposal, and your Grace thinks that he 



