31 MARCH 1933, Page 18

TILE OXFORD MOVEMENT [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The

Rector of Devizes, in his letter on this subject in your issue of March 3rd, states that Archbishop Laud wrote that " not one " of the Fathers accepted the modern theory of Apostolic Succession. Would Mr. Clarke be so good as to furnish a student with the reference? In his speech on Episcopacy in the House of Lords (pp. 194-198, ed. Oxford, 1840), the Archbishop certainly implies the opposite view. Is it possible that Mr. Clarke has mistaken for Laud's own a quotation from the, speech of his opponent, Lord Say and Seal ?—I am, yours, &c., St. Edwards House, West Malvern. G. H. TRENIANHEERE.