Beccles.
356. _Bishop Trelawney._--To what parliamentary decision does Atterbury
allude in the subjoined extract from the dedication to Trelawney, Bishop
of Winchester, prefixed to his Sermons in four volumes, 1723?
"This and another parliamentary decision, which your lordship not long
after with equal difficulty obtained, and by which the bishop's sole
right to judge of the qualifications of persons applying for
institution was unutterably confirmed, are such instances of your
magnanimity and public spirit as will remain in memory while the
church or the law of England lasts."