THE OXFORD MOVEMENT [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—The difficulty inherent in Mr. Lewis's contention is : (1) In his Assize Sermon, Mr. Keble protested against the suppression of superfluous Irish Sees ; if they had been
retained they could only have been held by statutory Bishops, appointed by the Crown by the authority of Parliament. (2) The exclusive right to nominate Bishops to be conse- crated by other Bishops so nominated has been even enlarged in recent times z thus, by " The Bishopric of Trion Act, 1876, her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of her most honourable Privy Council, to order and declare as follows—i. The Bishopric of Truro is hereby founded," &c. (Nineteenth Century. July, 1879, page 84). (8) The Act for the Sub- mission of the Clergy is in no sense a Concordat without a
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