AS ATTEMPTED IN THE REIGNS OF KING HENRY VIII, KING EDWARD VI, AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. A NEW EDITION BY EDWARD CARDWELL, D. D. PRINCIPAL OF ST. ALBAN'S HALL. OXFORD: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. M.DCCC.L. THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARIES martyr, and some 8 by Gregg International Publishers Limited ead, Farnborough, Hants., England Printed in Germany lawyers and th canons and const as a just and com room thereof. A for this end both i and king Edward plied and finished excellent men und very elegant Lati and sir John Chek fied had God spar parliament. Such old ones had bee learnedest and bes PREFACE OF THE YEAR 1850. N this parliament [anno 1571, Eliz. 13.] was “IN the last effort, I think, made to bring into practice in this realm, by authority of parliament, a body of ecclesiastical and civil laws, that had been carefully framed by archbishop Cranmer, bishop Goodrick, Dr. Cox now bishop of Ely, Dr. May afterwards elect of York, Dr. Peter Martyr, Dr. Rowland Taylour afterward a holy martyr, and some other civilians and common lawyers and the rubbish of the old Popish canons and constitutions being laid aside, this, as a just and complete codex, to be used in the room thereof. Acts of parliament were passed for this end both in the time of king Henry VIII and king Edward VI. The work was closely plied and finished by the foresaid learned and excellent men under king Edward; and put into very elegant Latin by the pens of Dr. Haddon and sir John Cheke, and had certainly been ratified had God spared that king's life till another parliament. Such a body of laws to succeed the old ones had been many years desired by the learnedest and best men of the reformed religion. |