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 case of several of these who were admitted to canonries is attempted to be got over by the statement that these and other such dignities have no cure of souls attached to them, and so might possibly be held by laymen. I will therefore adduce but very few, and those shall be such as had cure of souls in some shape or another. The well-known Dr. Saravia is the first instance I will mention. Saravia was made a minister in Holland and was employed in Guernsey in 1 564. Afterwards he became a schoolmaster at Southampton, and then Professor of Divinity at Leyden. Later than this he received preferment in the Church of England—not only a canonry of Canterbury, and afterwards of Westminster, but also the rectory of Great Chart in Kent, to which he was presented by Archbishop Bancroft. Now, there is no reason whatever to believe, but a total absence of any, that Saravia was ever re-ordained by any English bishop. No proof, no record of any such proceeding is produced, and had it been so, it would have invalidated entirely the statements of Overall, Morton, and Cosin already quoted. This is the more remarkable since Saravia himself preferred the Anglican to the Presbyterian discipline, and even wrote a work in defence of the three orders of the ministry, and also urged upon the unepiscopally-ordained ministers of Guernsey the propriety of taking episcopal orders, if they were natives of the island. In the last years of Richard Hooker's life, Saravia was his near neighbour and intimate friend, and is specially mentioned by Walton as having administered the Communion to him and his friends on the day before his death. This and his incumbency of Great Chart seem to settle the question so often raised of whether the privileges of an unepiscopally-ordained person in the Church of England did not stop short of the 'cure of souls.'

In the same way Peter du Moulin the elder, who was a very distinguished French Protestant pastor, became chaplain to King James I., and frequently administered the Communion to him, and was preferred to a canonry of Canterbury. He returned to France, and presided over a synod at Alaix which confirmed the decrees of Dort. Afterwards he came back to England, and was presented to a sinecure rectory in Wales, but on the death of James I. he once more returned to France, and became Professor of Divinity at Sedan, where he died at a great age in 1658. There is of course, in this as in the last case, not the smallest evidence, nor the least reason to believe, that Du Moulin was ever re-