would imagine, ought to be sufficient
to prove to any unprejudiced mind the falsity of that theory. Among
these, what I may call the "pallium touchstone,"--which still bears
its irrefragable testimony in the arms of the Archbishops of
Canterbury,[1]--has always appeared to me peculiarly conclusive.[2]

In the present small volume, Bishop Vaughan adds another to the series
of popular and instructive books which have made his name a household
word among Catholic writers. May its success and its utility be as
great as in the case of those which have preceded it.

[cross] LOUIS CHARLES,
_Bishop of Salford_.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Not in those of York since 1544, see Woodward's
_Ecclesiastical Heraldry_, p. 191 and plate XX.]

[Footnote 2: See _The Pallium_, by Fr. Thurston, S.J., (C.T.S.) and
the striking list in Baxter's _English Cardinals_, pp. 93-98.]

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

The following chapters were not intended originally for publication.
If they are now offered to the public in book form, it is only in
response to the expressed request of many, who listened to them when
delivered _viva voce_, and who now wish to possess a more permanent
record of what was said.

In the hope that they may help, in some slight measure at least, to
promote the sacred cause of truth, we wish them Godspeed.

[cross] JOHN S. VAUGHAN,
_Bishop of Sebastopolis_.

XAVERIAN COLLEGE,
MANCHESTER _January_, 1910.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE

I. GENERAL NOTIONS 3

II. THE POPE'S GREAT PREROGATIVE 18

III. WATCHMAN! WHAT OF THE NIGHT? 35

IV. THE CHURCH AND THE SECTS 53

V. THE POPE'S INFALLIBLE AUTHORITY 69

VI. THE POPE'S ORDINARY AUTHORITY 87

PART II.

THE ANGLICAN THEORY OF CONTINUITY IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,
OR
THE AUTHORITY OF THE POPE IN ENGLAND IN PRE-REFORMATION TIMES.

I. THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND BEFORE THE REFORMATION 107

II. THE OATH OF OBEDIENCE 117

III. THE AWKWARD DILEMMA 130

IV. KING EDWARD AND THE POPE 145

THE PUR