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domi manendum esset, segrotum se seu simu- 

 lare, seu somniari." 



A fellowship in his college being expected to 

 be vacant, and being intended for him, it was 

 necessary to qualify himself by going into 

 orders; for which purpose, on the 18th of 

 February, 168f ,he applied himself to the Bishop 

 of Durham (Crew), Peterborough (White), and 

 Rochester (Spratt), who had the administration 

 of the see of London, '* loco episcopi legitimi 

 iniquitate regia anno prsecedente suspensi." 

 The Bishops of Durham and Rochester objected 

 to the ordaining him, as being uncanonical, 

 since he had not completed his twenty third 

 year. But the Bishop of Peterborough insist- 

 ing that he should be examined, he passed 

 through his examination relating to the ancient 

 discipline of the church, the old errors, heresies, 

 and writers, and especially concerning the 

 opinions of Origen and Arius, with such success, 

 that all the bishops resolved to give him orders. 



" Finito examine, Episcopus Dunelmensis, 

 quern summa mei admiratio ceperat, atque ideo 

 forsan major, quod indoctus prae aliis praesul 

 esset, summa mihi coram reliquis episcopis 

 pollicitus est, si in manus ac familiam ejus me- 

 metipsum traderem, se nempe beneficium Ec- 

 clesiasticum opimum mihi, quam primum aetas 



