...to bring in any popish doctrine, contrary to that which is so established; nor will I ever give my consent to alter the government of this Church by archbishops, bishops, deans and archdeacons, etc.48 as it stands now established, and as by right it ought to stand, nor yet ever subject...

...established in the Church of England, as containing all things necessary to salvation" and would never "consent to alter the government of this Church by archbishops, bishops, deans, and archdeacons, &c., as it stands now established." The ambiguous abbreviation, "etcetera," was hastily...

...established in the Church of England, as containing all things necessary to salvation' and they would not consent to alter 'the government of this church by archbishops, bishops, deans and archdeacons etc...'.187 Charles clearly hoped that the canons, as he declared in his confirmation of...

...schoolmasters and university men by an oath to uphold the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England and never to give their consent 'to alter the government...of this Church by archbishops, bishops, deans, and archdeacons, &c., as it stands now established and as by right it ought to stand'. This latter canon...

...the status quo of church hierarchy by requiring all clergy and certain laymen to swear never to give consent 'to alter the government of this church by archbishops, bishops, deans, and archdeacons, etc. as it stands now established' (Synodalia, pp. 402-3). The first of the four satirical...

...indirectly, to bring in any popish doctrine contrary to that which is so established; nor will I ever give my consent to alter the government of this Church by archbishops, bishops, deans, and archdeacons, &c., as it stands now established, and as by right it ought to stand, nor yet ever to...

...by the bishops in the Convocation of 1640, demanding from all Anglican clergy that they would never "consent to alter the government of this Church, by archbishops, bishops, deans, archdeacons, et cetera, as it stands now established." However, as reflected in the quote above, Baxter...

...clerical taxes, and passed a succession of canons, including a canon imposing an oath, inter alia, not to consent 'to alter the government of this church by archbishops, bishops, deans, and archdeacons &c.' 74 Even if it had not implied that the office of archdeacon was too sacred to be abolished...

...underwrote the conservative measures of the 1630s, and which required ministers to swear an oath never to 'consent to alter the government of this church by archbishops, bishops, deans, and archdeacons, and etc, as it stands now established'. See the selection from BL, Add. MS 922, fol. 105...