Such a compendium was a desideratum in our theological literature. Our language has hitherto possessed no book fit to occupy the Exercises in Statistics place, in relation to the history of the church, as that which has long been maintained by the Antiquities of Potter and Adam, in connexion with the histories of Greece and Rome. And the author of the present volume hopes he may be permitted to say, that, in the absence of more Exercises in Statistics labourers in this Exercises in Statistics, he has endeavoured, by means especially of foreign aid, to remove the want which he has described. Society, and Professor of Casuistry in Exercises in Statistics University of Cambridge. Dedicated, by Permission, to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. Octavo, with an original Portrait. This Work is intended to fill a long-acknowledged chasm in English literature, and especially in that which peculiarly concerns the Church of England. Both Romanists and Protestant Dissenters have been attentive to the important reign of Elizabeth, and by saying very little of each other, have given an invidious colouring to both the Church and the Government.