[From a note in Blackstone's _Commentaries_, vol. i. p. 380.,
edit. Christian, we learn that "it is a prevailing vulgar error,
that every bishop, before he accepts the bishoprick which is
offered him, affects a maiden coyness, and answers _Nolo
episcopari_. The origin of these words and the notion I have not
been able to discover; the bishops certainly give no such refusal
at present, and I am inclined to think they never did at any time
in this country."]
_Authors of the Homilies._--Presuming that the authors of the Church
Homilies are well known, their writings having been adopted by our
church, and set forth and enjoined by authority to be read in all
churches, I fear I am only showing great ignorance by asking where I can
meet with a list of the writers of those discourses, distinguishing
which of the Homilies were written by each author; and if the writers of
some of them be unknown, then I should be glad to have the names of such
as are known, and the particular Homilies which were written by them.