This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3Ill THE PROBLEM OF CONSISTENCY With the possible exception of Mary Stuart, hardly a character in all English history has been more discussed than Charles I. From the time he was born, opinions about him. differed; during his life-time, blood was freely shed for and against him; since his death he has been vilified and canonized, the eulogiums of Dr. Sacheverell being succeeded by the harsh judgments of Macaulay and his ilk. If there is one man whose opinions on Charles should be worthier of acceptance than another's, it is Dr. Gardiner. The briefest way of testing his views on this violent controversy is to examine his opinions on what has been for at least two centuries its moot point, the Eikon Basilike." Dr. Gardiner declared in the ninth volume of the textit{History of England, that it was a matter of indifference whether Charles or Gauden wrote that book, but he adds: "What I am concerned to affirm is that Charles's real character and views are portrayed in the book."1 What he thought the book showed Charles to be appears in the last volume of the textit{Great Civil War, where he says that the book is "a spiritual revelation of the inmost thoughts of the justest of sovereigns and the most self-denying of martyrs." His earlier idea that this was Charles's real character, he has now given up, for he goes on to say that the book "served to create an ideal image of Charles," and possessed "enough of dramatic veracity to convince all textit{who were prepared to believe it, that they had before them the real thoughts of the man."2 He then explains that this ideal view of the King secured its hold on men's imaginations because "it faithfully reproduced at least one side of Charles's character." Gardiner has thus said that this book shows us the real Charles, that it portrays an ideal Charles so unlike t...