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CHAPTER II THE ORIGIN OF THE HIGH COMMISSION First Phase
(continued): The Actual Working Of Ecclesiastical Commissions,
1535-80. Until 1565 the chief work performed by these commissions
was visitatorial, and their functions, authority, and personnel
were dictated largely by expediency. They were intended to cope
with such cases as might need the supreme authority of the Crown,
and were to lapse as soon as their work was done. Nor can there be
much reason to doubt the ubiquity of the Commissioners for the
Province of Canterbury from 1549 to 55- While it is impossible to
demonstrate definitely what part theyplayed, they probably had a
share in everything of importance and in much that was not
important. But the growth of such an institution as the Court of
High Commission must be sought in the procedure, jurisdiction,
personnel of these commissions, rather than in a list of
monasteries dissolved, heretics tried, and bishops deposed, even
could we positively identify all the cases. We know little of the
methods employed by these commissioners. We can often learn what
they did, but rarely, if ever, find out anything definite about the
way they did it. In the accounts of trials for heresy, no mention
is usually made of the authority under which the judge or judges
were proceeding, nor of the form and limitations of their
commission, nor even whether they sat by commission at all. So many
kinds of commissions, general, special, local, and those for the
trial of a single case, existed at the same time, and so few
details of any heresy proceedings are preserved, that it is
practically impossible to distinguish the acts of one from those of
another with any approach to certainty. Disciplinary authority over
heretics, moreover, was by no means delegated exclusively to
commissi...
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