Excerpt from A Full Report of the Mastin V. Escott, Clerk, for Refusing to Bury an Clerk, Baptized By, a Wesleyan Minister: Containing All the Arguments on Both Sides and Judgment Delivered by the Right Honourable Sir Herbert Jenner, in the Arches Court of Canterbury, May 8th, 1841 England. Fourth, that from and after the Conferences holden at Hampton Court, in 1603, the practice of the Church of Rome, which had hitherto permitted the rite of baptism to be performed by laymen and midwives, under licence from the Bishops of their respective dioceses, and which practice had up to that period been tolerated by the reformed Church of England, was repudiated by the ecclesiastical authorities of this realmassembled at the said conferences; and in order to give effect to such repudiation, King James I. Directed an alteration to be made accordingly in the Liturgy of the Church of England, and from that period the Liturgy has not allowed the rite of baptism performed by unor dained persons to be valid, but has held the direct contrary. Fifth, that in the Liturgy, imprinted by the deputies of Christopher Barber, ' printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, a.d. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.