History of Trinity Church
 

morum & virttim suarum donis Nobis multipliciter Comendatum ac
in Bonarum Liturarum studio & Scientia Eruditum & per nos & alios
quo ad omnia in ea parte requisita examinatum & approbatum, in
sacrum Diaconatus ordinem juxta morem & ritum Eclesise Angli-
canae in hac parte salubriter editos & provisos admisimus & promovi-
mus Ipsumque in Diaconum Rite & Canonice tunc & ibidem
ordinavimus. In cujus Rei testimonium Sigillum Nostrum Episco-
ple presentibus apponi fecimus. Datis die & anno p'dictus Nostrge-
que translationis anno vicesimo Secundo.                       H. London.

Tenore presentium Nos Henricus permissione Divina Londi¬
nensis Episcopus notum facimus Universis, quod die Secundo mensis
augusti anno Dom.—Millesimo Sexcentessimo nonagesimo septimo in
Capella nostra intra palatium nostrum de Fulham Middlesexiae, nos
p~fatus Henricus Londinensis Episcopus antedictos sacros ordines dei
omnipotentis p~sidio Celebrantes dilectum nobis in Christo Gulielmum
Vesey A. M. ex universitate oxon de vita Sua Laudabili ac morum et
virtutum Suarum donis Nobis multipliciter Comendatur ac in bonarum
literarum Studio & scientia eruditum & per nos & alios quo ad omnia
in ea parte requisita examinatum & approbatum in Sacrum Presbytera¬
tus Ordinem juxta morem & ritum Ecclesi^e Anglicanse in hac parte
Salubriter editos & provisos admisimus & promovimus Ipsumque in
presbyterum rite & canonice tunc & ibidem ordinavimus. In cujus
Rei Testimonium Sigillum nostrum Episcopale p~sentibus apponi
fecimus. Datis die & anno p~dictis nostreque Translationis anno
vicesimo secundo.                                                           H. London.

Henry, by divine permission Lord Bishop of London To all
to whom these presents Shall or may Consern, health in our Lord God
Everlasting. Whereas, by an Act of parliament made in the first year
of our Sovereign Lord & Lady King William and Queen Mary,
Entituled, an Act for the abrogateing of the oaths of Supremacy & Alle¬
giance and appointing other oaths : it is provided & Enacted that
Every person, at his or their respective admission to be incumbent in
any Ecclesiasticall promotion or dignity in the Church of England shall
subscribe & declare before his ordinary in Manner & form as in the
sd. act is conteined Now know yee that on the day of the date
hereof did personally appear before us, Mr. William Vesey to be ad¬
mitted to the Ministeriall function in ye City of New Yorke & subscribed
as followeth as by the said act is required. I William Vesey do declare
that i will Conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is
Now by law Established.     In Witness whereof we have caused our