...the character and extent of the supremacy of the Crown. This most important statute provides ' that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities, and...any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority have heretofore been, or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical...

...the character and extent of the supremacy of the Crown. This most important statute provides ' that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities, and...any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority have heretofore been, or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical...

...ecclesiastical power or authority before the said Act of 1 Eliz. had been or might lawfully have been exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation and correction of the same, and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, etc., and that every Bishop,...

...likewise please your Highness that it may be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that such Jurisdictions, Privileges, Superiorities, and...Spiritual and Ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual and ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for...