Excerpt from Union or Separation?: With Some Remarks Upon Number 1 and 2 of the New Series of S. Giles's Lectures There can, I suppose, be no doubt whatever that, at the Restoration of the Monarchy and Episcopacy in 1660-1, a very large proportion of the clergy who had not received Episcopal ordination were allowed to remain in their parochial charges upon no other condition than that of acknowledging the office and authority of the Bishop of the Diocese. Dr. Grub writes None of the Bishops, except Bishop Mitchell [of Aberdeen, who died early in insisted on te-ordaining ministers who had received only Presbyterian ordina tion, though they did not refuse to do so when asked, vol. Iii., p. 215. 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.