Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Vol. 2 (Book V)

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Table Of Contents The Bodleian Ms. of Book V. [1887.] Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. Book V. To the Most Reverend Father In God, My Very Good Lord, the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury His Grace, Primate and Metropolitan of All England. The Fifth Book. of Their Fourth Assertion, That Touching the Several Public Duties of Christian Religion, There Is Amongst Us Much Superstition Retained In Them; and Concerning Persons Which For Performance of Those Duties Are Endued With the Power of Appendix to Book V. London HENRY FROWDE Oxford University Press Warehouse Amen Corner, E.C. >Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity, Bk. V. Collotype: University Press, Oxford. Bodl. MS. Add. C. 165, fol. 1112.

[Back to Table of Contents] THE BODLEIAN MS. OF BOOK V. [1887.] Thefacsimile placed at the beginning of this volume represents one page in a manuscript of the Fifth Book of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity which was bought for the Bodleian Library by the Rev. H. O. Coxe in 1878 1. The MS. was bought from the representatives of the late Mr. Morison, into whose possession it had come through the Rev. William Woolston, of Adderbury, who died in 1817. He probably inherited it from his father Thomas Woolston, the master of a boys’ school in the parish of Adderbury, and son of William Woolston, of Olney, in Northamptonshire. The MS. (numbered Bodl. Addit. C. 165) consists of 227 leaves 2, of rather coarse paper, about thirteen inches by eight in size, presenting 453 pages. Save for occasional exceptions, it is written throughout in a clerk’s hand, having two clearly distinguished characters: in the one very formal and stiff and precise, used for the marginal notes, and also in the text for xceptions, it is written throughout in a clerk’s hand, having two clearly distinguished characters: in the one very formal and stiff and precise, used for the marginal notes, and also in the text for quotations, and occasionally for words requiring emphasis; in the other more like a court hand (with uniform and rather official-looking flourishes), and used for the ordinary course of the text. Both characters are shown on the page here given; in neither has the hand any resemblance to Hooker’s 3. It is clear that the MS. is that from which the first edition (1597) was printed “by John Windet, dwelling at Powles wharfe at the sign of the Crosse Keyes.” It bears on the first page the authorizing signature of Whitgift, as Archbishop of Canterbury. There are in the margin the printer’s roughly scrawled letters and numerals opposite to a scratch in the text, which is found to correspond with the beginning of a new sheet or leaf in this first edition 1. And at the end of the last leaf but two in the MS. there is the following note by the printer: “Good Mr.

which is found to correspond with the beginning of a new sheet or leaf in this first edition 1. And at the end of the last leaf but two in the MS. there is the following note by the printer: “Good Mr. Hooker I pray you be so good as to send us the next leafe that followeth this, for I know not by what mischance this of ours is lost, which standeth uppon the finishing of the book.” Either the missing leaf was found or else Hooker had a second copy of it made for the press, for in the MS. it is clearly written by the same hand as the rest. This note shows that Hooker kept his own MS. in his own possession; that only this clerk’s copy of it was sent to John Windet. But Hooker’s own hand appears unmistakably in many of the marginal notes; and the following are some of those which are most plainly in his writing. Notes 3 and 4 on p. 14; note 1 on p. 15; note 2 on p. 16; note 1 on p. 19; note 3 on p. 29; note 3 on p. 31; notes 1 and 2 on p. 32; notes 1 and 3 on p. 33; note 1 on p. 38; note 1 on p. 45; note 1 on p. 69. In the later part of the MS.

15; note 2 on p. 16; note 1 on p. 19; note 3 on p. 29; note 3 on p. 31; notes 1 and 2 on p. 32; notes 1 and 3 on p. 33; note 1 on p. 38; note 1 on p. 45; note 1 on p. 69. In the later part of the MS. …