In this oration the Anglican Church was extolled as the most perfect of all institutions.
There was a very intelligible intimation that no change whatever in her doctrine, her discipline, or her ritual was required; and the discourse concluded with a most significant sentence.

Compton, when a few months before he exhibited himself in the somewhat unclerical character of a colonel of horse, had ordered the colours of his regiment to be embroidered with the well known words "Nolumus leges Angliae mutari"; and with these words Jane closed his peroration, [509] Still the Low Churchmen did not relinquish all hope.

They very wisely determined to begin by proposing to substitute lessons taken from the canonical books for the lessons taken from the Apocrypha.

It should seem that this was a suggestion which, even if there had not been a single dissenter in the kingdom, might well have been received with favour.

For the Church had, in her sixth Article, declared that the canonical books were, and that the Apocryphal books were not, entitled to be called Holy Scriptures, and to be regarded as the rule of faith.