7 APRIL 1950, Page 20

SiR,—Mr. Gordon Crosse says that I misapprehend the position and

that there is no desire to deprive any churchman of his right of final appeal to the Crown in ecclesiastical causes. May I refer him to page 263 of the Archbishop of York's book, Church and State in England, from which it appears that there is a proposal by the "Canon Law Commission" to set up a Court of Final Appeal, of which the Archbishop'says: "While the other suggested Courts would be appointed by the Crown and be lay in their composition, this Court, though not directly appointed by the Crown, would have on it a majority of bishops."-1 BA, Sir, yours faith-