The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . here was a return to the old custom ; and, as inthe judgment of the attorney and solicitor-general, the authority bywhicli the Bishops of London had acted in the Plantations was insuffi- Now York Col. Doc, in., p. :i7-. BrocUicads ULst. of New Yoi-k, u., p. 464. BEGINNINGS OK Tllli CUUKCII IN NEW YOUK. 155 cient, as it had proceeded simply from the royal instructions, fromtime to time, and, legally, the monarch could delegate his supremeecclesiastical jurisdiction only by his patent und(>r the great seal,such a patent was, in Februar
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . here was a return to the old custom ; and, as inthe judgment of the attorney and solicitor-general, the authority bywhicli the Bishops of London had acted in the Plantations was insuffi- Now York Col. Doc, in., p. :i7-. BrocUicads ULst. of New Yoi-k, u., p. 464. BEGINNINGS OK Tllli CUUKCII IN NEW YOUK. 155 cient, as it had proceeded simply from the royal instructions, fromtime to time, and, legally, the monarch could delegate his supremeecclesiastical jurisdiction only by his patent und(>r the great seal,such a patent was, in February, 1727, given to IJishop Edmund Gib-son, and another in April of the following year.^ It is interesting tonote, iu passing, that owing to dillerences arising l)ctween the arch-bishop and the king, the su[)erintendency of Sancroft over the coloniesin ecclesiastical atVairs was but short-Iivcid, and the king ordered thatthe ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Plantations should be exercisedby the Bishops of Durham, Rochester, and Peterborough, who adniin-. THE rOKT ASSl) LUATLL, OLD NEW YORK. isteied the See of London, in commission, during the suspension ofCom])tou.^ In the humble chapel within Fort James, New York, the Innes succeeded Mr. Clarke, as the orthodox chaplainof the garrison. ^Ir. Inness commission bears date of April 20,1686.^ The population of New York was now about eighteen thousand,and yet the sti-aitened chapel of the fort was the onl} jjlace of worshippossessed by the Establishment, and a garrison chaplain was the onl}^one in holy orders to minister the word and sacraments to the smallnumber of Englishmen who had come to this portion of the NewWorld. Colonel Dongan writes, in 1687, here bee not many of theChurch of England; and states that for the seven years last past, ^Vide an iuteie^tinpr foot-note ia Bioilheads ? Book of Deeds, vrn., pp. 13, 31, 39, quoted Hist, of New Yoi-k, u.; p. :. ia N. V. Pol. Pocs., ni., p. 415. IbiJ., II., pp. iX,
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