" and the same men, who were preparing to violate one of the first duties of morality, affected
the highest regard for religion. History relates these extravagances of the human mind, without pretending
to justify, or even to account for them; and regulating her own opinions by the eternal and immutable laws
of justice and of virtue, points out such inconsistencies as features of the age which she describes, and records
them for the instruction of ages to come."- -ROBERTSON.

BY NATHANIEL HIGHMORE,

DOCTOR AND PROFESSOR OF CIVIL LAW, MEMBER OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND COMMISSIONED
ADVOCATE IN HIS MAJESTY'S COURTS OF ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.

FOR

LONDON:

PRINTED BY GEORGE SIDNEY, NORTHUMBERLAND STREET, STRAND,

J. BUDD, AT-The Crown and Mitre, PALL MALL;

WESLEY AND PARRISH,-Opposite the New Church, IN THE STRAND.

1810.

1.E.41.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page

PRELIMINARY SECTION:-Containing an Epistle Dedicatory to the Right Honourable Lord Erskine,
and two Pref tory Epistles to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.

SECTION THE FIRST:A Narrative of Facts

1-60

SECTION THE SECOND:-An Address to the Visitors, altered, in some particulars, from its

original Form

62-102

CTION THE THIRD:

-Report of a Motion made in the Court of King's Bench; to which is

annexed a Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice

Ellenborough

105-120

SECTION THE FOURTH :-A Petition to the King

123-126

SECTION THE FIFTH :-

-A Letter to a Noble Lord

129-137

SECTION THE SIXTH.-

-Four Letters to the Right Honourable Sir William Scott, Vicar General

of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canterbury

141-153

APPENDIX:

A Petition to the House of Commons; with two Clauses, expunged

from that Petition, in Consequence of their being charged by His

Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury with Mis-statement

157-160