They concurred, however, in censuring some tenets favouring Arianism, broached and supported by Mr.Whiston, mathematical professor in Cambridge.

He had been expelled the university, and wrote a vindication of himself, dedicated to the convocation.

The archbishop doubted whether this assembly could proceed against a man for heresy: the judges were consulted, and the majority of them gave in their opinion that the convocation had a jurisdiction.

Four of them professed the contrary sentiment, which they maintained from the statutes made at the reformation.

The queen, in a letter to the bishops, said, that as there was now no doubt of their jurisdiction, she expected that they would proceed in the matter before them.