[95] From Godly ministers in Exeter and Devonshire.—State Papers, Dom. Charles II., 1660, vol. i. 28.
- (Signed) Philip Nye
- Joseph Caryl
- Samuel Slater
- Richard Kentish
- George Griffiths
- Matt. Mede
- John Hodges
- William Hook
- Thomas Brookes
- George Cokayn
- Jo. Loder
- Thomas Malony
- Tho. Walley
- William Greenehill
- Matthew Barker
- Edward Pearce
- John Rowe
- Robert Bragg
- Jo. Baker
- Seth Wood
—State Papers, Dom. Charles II., vol i. No. 36.
[97] (Signed) John Angier, Nathaniel Heywood, Henry Newcome, Nathaniel Baxter, and many others. Peter Aspinwall signs himself "minister of Formby, where now more people go openly to Mass than to our Church." State Papers xxiv., 29.
[98] A new Act, touching the Royal Supremacy, was passed in the Scotch Parliament, January, 1661 (See Murray's Collection of the Acts), but that does not come within the limits of our history.
[99] Stat. 26 Henry VIII. c. i., repealed 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, c. viii., ss. 12–20. That Act was repealed by 1 Elizabeth c. i., ss. 1, 2. Except in certain particulars, provision is made for the ecclesiastical Supremacy of the Crown by 1 Elizabeth c. i., ss. 16-23.—Digest of Statutes ii., 1387. The doctrine of the Royal Supremacy arose as a counter-action of the doctrine of Papal Supremacy; and nothing in its way can be more dignified and noble than the preface to the Statute 24 Henry VIII., c. 12. The conflict between Papal Supremacy and national English Independence began long before the Reformation.
[100] Charles I. in 1646, 30.
[101] Clarendon's State Papers, ii. 237.
[102] Hist. of his own Times, i. 95.