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sible to the bishops who were in possession of 

 the sees. 



A second measure, which he took, or at least 

 in which he concurred, still less justifiable, 

 was the providing for a regular succession of 

 nonjuring prelates and ministers. We derive 

 our principal information on this subject from 

 the author* of the Life of Mr. Kettlewell, one 

 of the most eminent nonjurors. It is stated 

 that at some period within the two or three 

 first years after the Revolution, probably in the 

 year 1691 or 1692, the exiled king ordered a 

 list of the nonjuring clergy to be sent over to 

 him: a list was accordingly made out, as per- 

 fect as could be procured in the existing state 

 of things, considering the unwillingness which, 

 for obvious reasons, many must have felt to 

 have their names appear in such a list. Out of 

 the number whose names were thus sent over, 

 it is related that, at the request of the nonjuring 

 bishops. King James nominated two for the 

 continuance of the episcopal succession, the 

 one to derive his spiritual functions and autho- 

 rity from Archbishop Sancroft, the other from 

 Bishop Lloyd, of Norwich, the eldest suffragan 

 bishop. The two appointed were Dr. George 



* Dr. Bircli states that this was Dr. Francis Lee, vrho com- 

 piled it from the papers of Dr. Hickes and Mr. Nelson. See 

 Life of Tillotson, p. 269. 



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