"THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS BY LAW E STAB LISHED."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") So„—Failing better answers to Mr. Fletcher's inquiry in your paper of October 13th, he may be reminded that Statutes 1 Will. and Mary I., c. 6, 5 Anne I., c. 8,39 and 40 George IIL, c. 67, require a certain oath to be taken by the Sovereign at Coronation. Part of that oath is that the incoming monarch will, to the utmost of his power, "maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant Reformed Religion Established by Law," and will "maintain and pve- serve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as ,by law established."
Men skilled in matters legal may be able to supply fuller answers to Mr. Fletcher and "G C. P.," but this appears suffi- cient to show that the phrase in question is sanctioned by the Law and Constitution of the realm.—I am, Sir, arc.,
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