discourse of the Visitacion, there is nothing said concerning Popish recusants, as if the whole proceeding hath ben bent against poore unconformable ministers, and ye other not lookt after: May it please your majestie to be informed that hundreds of recusants have ben proceeded against by vertue of your majestie's High Commission, and fetched out of all parts of ye Province, & brought to Yorke, there to compound wth your majestie's Commissioners authorised for yt purpose; and your said commissioners have signified your majestie's pleasure that we should forbeare proceeding against such as compounded for their recusancy; and yet, if by any presentments it appeare unto us that they transgresse ye condicions of their said composicions, as by having their children christened by Popish Priests, or being maried by The neglect of punishing puritans breeds papists Popish Priests, or any the like offence of ecclesiasticall cognizance, we doe proceed against them both by the ordinary jurisdiction and by the power of your papists, majestie's High Commission."
The archbishop concludes his certificate with a report upon the Isle of Man.
"Having presumed thus much of your majestie's sacred patience I desire to informe you of another part of the Province, the Bishoprick of Man.[1] The Bishoprick consisteth of a Bishop, an Archdeacon, and seventeene parishes.
The jurisdiction is divided between ye Bishop & Archdeacon, wch ye Bishop exerciseth the one half of ye yeare, & ye Archdeacon the other.
The revenue of ye Bishoprick, as it now standeth upon the leases lett by ye former Bishop, is about £150 per annum and in vero valorce if it were out of lease, better than £300.
The patronage of ye Bishoprick, ye Archdeaconry, & all the Benefices in ye Isle, is in the Earle of Derbie. The Archdeaconry is of £60 value per annum. The corps whereof is a Benefice wth cure in the Isle. The former Bishop had the Archdeaconry in commendam, wch confounded ye jurisdiction, and in time would have swallowed up ye Archdeaconry into ye Bishoprick; but it is now otherwise setled, and ye Earle of
- ↑ This see became vacant by the death of bishop John Philipps on 7th August, 1633. William Forster was presented by the Earl of Derby, 26th December, 1633, and, having obtained the royal assent on 26th February following, he was consecrated 9th April, 1634.
