The story of the ordination of our first bishops in Queen Elizabeth's reign at the Nag's-Head Tavern in Cheapside, thoroughly examined
An edition of The story of the ordination of our first bishops in Queen Elizabeth's reign at the Nag's-Head Tavern in Cheapside, thoroughly examined (1731)
and proved to be a late-invented, inconsistent, self-contradicting and absurd fable : with a view of the case between Horne and Bonner, and of the writings of Stapleton, Harding, and Sanders, whereby it is proved that neither Bonner nor those writers ever heard of the tavern-ordination ... : in answer to what is pretended to the contrary by F. Le Quien, in his two treatises, ann. 1725 and 1730, of the nullity of the English ordinations by an English anonymous writer of remarks on F. Le Couryer's dissertation in defense of their validity ...
By Thomas Browne
Publish Date
1731
Publisher
Printed for William Innys
Language
eng
Pages
495
Description:
subjects: Bishops, Church of England, Consecration of bishops, Early works to 1800, Episcopacy, Ordination
People: Michel Lequien (1661-1733)