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LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. x.
Church, and of the ministers thereof, as were in use in the
Church of England, by authority of Parliament, in the second
year of Edward vi. Now I have no doubt whatever that lights
were generally used at the celebration of the Sacrament through
out the Church of England, by authority of Parliament, in that
year. If I am wrong in this belief I am, of course, subject to
correction.
"
I must deprecate the use of such a phrase as that of set
ting you at defiance. It is simply impossible for a priest of the
Church of England to set at defiance any lawful exercise of the
authority of his Diocesan, since the Church has given abundant
power to her Bishops to compel obedience in such a case ; but
a matter of advice implies of necessity a discretionary power in
the person advised. . . . I remain, my Lord, your obedient
servant,
" MY
EDWARD STUART."
The Bishop of London to the Rev. E. Stuart.
"FULHAM PALACE, March [10], 1858.
DEAR SIR, I greatly regret that you should think it
right to disobey my command on your own private interpretation
of what you deem to be the law. Had you read the judgment
of the Privy Council in the Knightsbridge case, and Dr. Lush-
ington s previous judgment on the same, with the care that they
deserve, you would, I doubt not, have seen your error as to the
point of law. Your view of the obedience due to a Bishop and
of the interpretation of your oath seems to resolve itself into a
claim of right to resist all his admonitions unless he thinks it for
the good of the Church to enforce them by penalties
in a court
of justice.
"
I most deeply regret that one whom I believe to be so much
in earnest in his endeavours to labour among his flock should be
so far misled, and I earnestly trust that you will one day see how
wrong is the course you are pursuing. I shall not fail to be
ready to assist you in any way that may be consistent with the
unfortunate position in which you have, to my great sorrow,
placed yourself.
Believe me to be, my dear Sir, yours faithfully,
"A. C. LONDON."
Grave difficulties bad in the meantime arisen upon a
totally different subject ;
and again the arena of the strife