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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853. Excerpt:... EEPLY TO ARCHDEACON CHURTON AND CHANCELLOR HARINGTON, ON, &c. I. ON THE TERM "CHURCH OF SCOTLAND" IN THE FIFTY-FIFTH CANON. The following Letter appeared in the Gruardian of Dec. 3, 1851, in reply to one by Archdeacon Churton in the same paper on Nov. 19 (which I give below), on the meaning of the term "Church of Scotland" in the 55th Canon:--To the Editor of the Gruardian. Sir: There is an old saying that, tua res agitur paries cum proximus ardet. On this principle, even if not on general grounds, you will perhaps allow me to make a few remarks on an article in your last Number, for November 19. Your correspondent, Archdeacon Churton, finds fault, in terms of positive ridicule, with " Bishop Lee," (as he calls him,) for saying, that in 1604, when our Convocation passed the 55th Canon, bidding the people to pray for the Church of Scotland, that Church "was then, as now, Presbyterian, and Episcopacy was not as yet established." To tlie Editor of the Guardian. e On peut licitement employer des termes equivoques, quand quelque cause raisonndble y engage."--Pere Lacroix. Sir: In the notices which I have seen in your paper and elsewhere, of Bishop Lee's late doctrinal exposition to the clergy of Lancashire, I have not discovered any allusion to his Lordship's new historical lights on the Church of Scotland. Bishop Lee is reported, in your paper of November 12, to have said that " the Church of England, in the 55th Canon, enjoined the people to pray for the Churches of England, Scotland, and Ireland; although the Church was then, as now, Presbyterian, and Episcopacy was not as yet established." His Lordship means, of course, the Church of Scotland; not of England or Ireland. As it is no special part of my duty to notice what may be said to the clergy on the ot...