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Church of England, he thought tJiat might be 

 the most proper medium wherein both parties 

 might meet*. The person who, above all others, 

 was instrumental in creating in the king a 

 favourable opinion of the discipline and Liturgy 

 of the English Church, and in improving his 

 good dispositions to establish them in his own 

 realm, was Dr. Daniel Ernestus Jablouski, a 

 man of great credit and worth, first chaplain to 

 the King of Prussia, and superintendajit or senior] 



* Neque vel Lutberani nostros vel nostratis homines Luthe- 

 ranorum ritus admissuri sunt: sed utrique in Ecclesiae Angli- 

 canre Liturgia commodissime convenire atque uniri possent. — 

 Epist. Jablouski. 



t Under the title of seniors, that Church has kept up a cha- 

 racter very much resembling that of our bishops. Since the 

 seniors received a second ordination, or consecration to their 

 office, and none can be received into the ministry but by impo- 

 sition of their hands, which character and power they are said 

 to have derived from a certain bishop, who turned Protestant 

 about or soon after the time of J. Huss. And they themselves 

 are supposed to be the remains of the Hussites, driven out of 

 Bohemia by the Emperors, and refuged chiefly in the proper 

 estate of King Stanislaus. There were usually three or four 

 of this order in Poland. But at this time Dr. Jablouski had 

 no colleague ; at least he was the only senior remaining in 

 Upper Poland. Extract of his letter to Mr. Aycrst, IStli 

 June, 1712, N.S. " Prodie Jidii et sequentibus, B, C. D. Syno- 

 dum celebrabimus de stabilienda religionis evangelica? in Polo- 

 nia securitate deliberatori. Quo tempore simul duo seniores 

 sive episcopi pro successione conservanda ordinabuntur. Etenim 

 a pluribus annis nullus in Polonia majore minister ob senioris 



