But he issued a commission empowering any three of his suffragans to commit, in his name, and as his delegates, the sins which he did not choose to commit in person.

The reproaches of all parties soon made him ashamed of himself.

He then tried to suppress the evidence of his fault by means more discreditable than the fault itself.

He abstracted from among the public records of which he was the guardian the instrument by which he had authorised his brethren to act for him, and was with difficulty induced to give it up.
[79] Burnet however had, under the authority of this instrument, been consecrated.

When he next waited on Mary, she reminded him of the conversations which they had held at the Hague about the high duties and grave responsibility of Bishops.