[Magdalen] 14 November

[Roger Stokes]

On 15/11/2018 16:07, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Thank you, Ferdinand. I've always felt that the Scots took that, at least
> sub rosa, as another opportunity to stick it to the Brits. <g>


On a point of accuracy, Scotland is part of Great Britain so the Scots 
are Brits. At the time the law required all clergy ordained in the 
Church of England to swear allegiance to the monarch, which Seabury 
would not do. By the time Bishops White of Pennsylvania and Provoost of 
New York were consecrated in 1787 Parliament had changed the law so the 
Archbishop of Canterbury could preside at their consecration.

Roger