archbishops of Canterbury, from Stephen Langton to Henry Chicheley, collected A.D. 1422-46, and digested in order of their subjects with large annotations, by William Lyndwood, Doctor of the Canon and Civil Laws, Official of the Court of Canterbury, Ambassador from King Henry the Fifth of England to the Courts of Spain and Portugal, Keeper of the Privy Seal, and afterwards Bishop of St. David's. This is the most authentic and valuable work upon Church law in England between the Conquest and the Reformation, and Johnson made full use of it both to illustrate the canons and also to correct the text of the less accurate copies of the constitutions contained in the second volume of Sir H. Spelman's Concilia.

The second work in the volume referred to is the Commentary of John Athon upon the Legatine Constitutions of Cardinal Otho, A.D. 1237, and those of Cardinal Othobon, A.D. 1268. John Athon, who was Doctor of the Canon and Civil Laws, and Canon of Lincoln, died A.D. 1351, and his work is therefore one of much value and authority*.

The third part of the volume contains the Provincial Constitutions in chronological order without the glosses of Lyndwood, but with the addition of many passages not to be found in the Provinciale properly so called. The degree of value belonging to this last portion is not easily determined, but it undoubtedly ranks below the other two portions as well as the text of Wilkins. It is referred to by Johnson as the "Oxford copy" or "Oxford edition," and by the present editor as Lynd. app.

Pits and others who followed him, have erroneously made the date of John Athon A.D. 1290, and it was so stated in the editor's preface to vol. i. of this work, p. iv. For the

full correction of the statement of Pits, see Johnson's Vade-Mecum, part i. p. 165, and John Athon's own words in Const. Othob., tit. 29, gl. Quod habita possessione, p. 129.

Many of the editor's notes in this second volume do not, as in the first, contain corrections of undoubted mistakes in reading or translation (see vol. i. Editor's Preface, p. vi.), but simply variations of the text of Wilkins from that of Lyndwood and J. Athon, translated by Johnson.

Queen's College, August 30, A.D. 1851.

JOHN BARON.

ABBREVIATIONS.

Lynd., Lyndwood's Provinciale.

A. or J. A., John Athon's Commentary upon the Legatine Constitutions of the Cardinals Otho and Othobon.

Lynd. app., the Provincial Constitutions, &c., arranged in the order of time, appended to the above works.

ed. Oxon. 1679.

A

COLLECTION

Of all the

Ecclesiastical Laws, Canons,
Anfwers, or Refcripts,

With other MEMORIALS Concerning the
Government, Discipline and Worship of the
Church of
of England,

From its first Foundation to the CONQUEST, that have hitherto been publish'd in the Latin and Saxonic Tongues :

And of all the

Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical, made since the CONQUEST, and before the REFORMATION, in any National Council, or in the Provincial Synods of

Canterbury and York,

That have hitherto been published in the
Latin Tongue.

Now first Translated into English, with Explanatory
NOTES, and such Glosses from Lyndwood and
Athone, as were thought most useful.

PART the Second.

By JOHN JOHNSON, M.A. Vicar of Cranbrook in the Diocese of Canterbury.

LONDON:

Printed for ROBERT KNAPLOCK in St. Paul's Church-yard, and SAMUEL BALLARD, in Little-Britain.

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