"The same day that the House of Lords passed this ordinance of attainder against the Archbishop of Canterbury, they likewise passed an ordinance, That the Book of Common Prayer should be laid aside, and for establishing the Directory for Public Worship, which had been framed by the Assembly of Divines, and sent in parts to the Parlia ment, where the same had been debated and confirmed with such small variations as they thought necessary."-Rushworth, vol. ii. p. 839. This was passed January 4, 1645. On the 28th of August 1646, was passed An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons ... for the Ordination of Ministers by the Classical Presbyters; to continue in force for three years. It contains these words: "That all presbyters, who are hereby appointed and authorized to ordain, and shall according to this Directory ordain any one or more presbyters, are hereby declared to perform an acceptable service to this Church and kingdom, and shall have the protection of both Houses of Parliament for their indemnity." The presbyterian system had been established and recognised in forbidding the use of the Book of Common Prayer, by an Ordinance of Parliament, which on the 20th of October, 1645, directed, "that the several elderships respectively within their respective bounds and limits, have power to suspend from the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper all ignorant

and scandalous persons within the rules hereafter following, and according to the said rules and directions." But if any person should be dissatisfied with the sentence of the elders of his parish, he was at 66 liberty to appeal to the classical eldership, and from them to the provincial assembly, from thence to the national, and from thence to the Parliament."-Rushworth, part iv. vol. i. pp. 210, 212. Baillie in his Letters just published gives the same account of the spirit of the new system: "The model of government we have gotten it through the Assembly according to our mind: it yet sticks in the hands of the Houses. They have passed four ordinances at least about it, all pretty right,so far as concerns the constitution and erection of general assemblies, provincial synods, presbyteries and sessions, and the power of ordination. In the province of London and Lancashire the bodies are set up. That the like diligence is not used long ago in all other places it is the sottish negligence of the ministers and gentry in the shires more than the Parliament. That the power of jurisdiction in all things we require, excepting appeals from the General Assembly to the Parliament, is not put in ordinances long ago, it is by the cunning] of the Independents and Erastians in the House of Commons."-January 26, 1647. Baillie's Letters and Journals, vol. iii, pp. 1, 2. Edinburgh, 1842.