_Bishop Hooper's Argument on the Vestment Controversy._--Glocester Ridley,
in his _Life of Bishop Ridley_, p. 315., London, 1763, states, in reference
to Bishop Hooper's _Book to the Council against the use of those Habits
which were then used by the Church of England in her sacred Ministries_,
written October, 1550, "Part of Hooper's book I have by me in MS." Could
any one state whether that MS. is now in existence, or where it is to be
found? It is of much importance to obtain {222} an answer to this inquiry,
as Bishop Ridley's MS. Reply to Bishop Hooper is, for the first time, about
to be printed by the Parker Society, through the kind permission of its
possessor, Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., in the second volume of the
Writings of Bradford which I am editing; and, to make Ridley's reply fully
intelligible, access is needed to Bishop Hooper's _Book to the Council_.