[34] _Commons" Journals_, viii. 406-408.

[35] _Ibid_., viii. 413.

[36] _Lords" Journals_, xi. 441-442.

[37] _Lords" Journals_, xi. 451.

[38] _Ibid_.

[39] Cardwell, _Synod_., p. 670.

[40] See Appendix.

[41] This fact should suffice to dispose of a theory propounded by some who attempt to save the face of the Church by representing the Act of Uniformity as the _ratification_ in Parliament of what had been already done by the Church. There is no historical basis for such a theory.

[42] _The Book of Common Prayer, etc., with notes, etc_., by A. J. Stephens, p. clxxiv.

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