THE

English Ordinal,

ITS HISTORY,

VALIDITY, AND CATHOLICITY.

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, M.A.

OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD,

CURATE OF SAINT JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.

"One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require: even
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to
behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit His temple."

PSALM XXVII. Dominus illuminatio, 4.

LONDON:

FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE.

138. f. 81.

'Neque enim quorumlibet disputationes, quamvis Catholicorum et laudatorum hominum, velut Scripturas Canonicas habere debemus, ut nobis non liceat, salvâ honorificentiâ quæ illis debetur hominibus, aliquid in eorum scriptis improbare atque respuere, fortè invenerimus quod aliter senserint quàm Veritas habet, divino adjutorio vel ab aliis intellecta, vel a nobis. Talis ego sum in scriptis aliorum, tales volo esse intellectores meorum."-S. Aug. Epist. cxlviii. Comm. ad Fortun. § 15. tom. ii. col. 502. B.

TO THE REVEREND

CHARLES ATMORE OGILVIE, D.D.

RECTOR OF ROSS; CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH;

AND

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF PASTORAL THEOLOGY IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD;

WHO, IN THE DISCHARGE OF THAT OFFICE,

WITH THE LEARNING OF THE DIVINE

COMBINES THE MINISTERIAL EXPERIENCE OF A PARISH-PRIEST,

THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED,

WITH RESPECT AND GRATITUDE,

BY THE AUTHOR.

JERMYN STREET, S. JAMES',

1851,