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their jurisdiction in that kingdom, and did ac- 

 tually exercise it over some sees, particularly 

 St. Andrew's, Glasgow, Candida, Cassa*, and 

 all on the south side of Edinburgh Frith, once 

 the dominions of the kings of Northumberland. 

 The whole plea, indeed, is now quite out of 

 doors, as to any pretence of jurisdiction or pri- 

 macy. But Archbishop Sharp may be said to 

 have revived the old claim in one respect, that 

 he professed to be the patron and friend of the 

 episcopal clergy, and suffered himself to be 

 their resort in their difficulties and distresses, 

 as much as if they had yet been a part of his 

 provincial charge. And they, on the other 

 hand, did as readily and naturally apply them- 

 selves to him, as if he had been their primate. 

 He was hardly settled in his province before he 

 received a remonstrance from them of their de- 

 declining state after the Revolution. In June, 

 1693, at their general convention at Edinburgh, 



* See Polydore Virgil, lib. 13. Spelman's Councils, torn, 

 ii. p. 5. Appendix to the Scotch History. Library by Nichol- 

 son. Liberty and Independency of the kingdom of Scotland 

 asserted. Edinburgh, 1702. Drake's Antiquities of York* 

 538, 539. 



Original charter of Thomas, the first Archbishop of York, 



preserved in the Archives of the Church of Durham. Whereby 



he assigns Tevegetedale to the Church of Durham, and sends 



his chrism to Glasgow, as an ordinary acknowledged act of 



jurisdiction. 



