[Magdalen] 14 November

[ME Michaud]

BTW how are you guys handling the Brexit madness?
A couple of my friends seem to have their hair all aflame,
and one (an American citizen) is trying to sell his house and move into a
rental before the real estate market tanks.
The perils of living and working abroad, I guess.
And reminiscent of colonialism (the natives are restless).
-M

On Thursday, November 15, 2018, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>