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ISiSiStbcf Kichard Hooker EDITORIAL COMMITTEE John E. Booty The University of the South (ret.) Georges Edelen Indiana University (ret.) Egil Grislis The W. University of Manitoba Speed Hill Lehman College and The Graduate The City University of New York Arthur Stephen McGrade The University of Connecticut David Novarr Center, 1987) (d. Cornell University R. J. Schoeck The P. University of Colorado (ret.) G. Stanwood The University of British Columbia Richard S. Sylvester (d. 1978) Yale University Laetitia The Yeandle Folger Shakespeare Library BOARD OF ADVISERS T. H. Aston (d. Arthur E. Barker W. D. J. Robert M. Kingdom Mortimer Levine 1985) (d. Herschel Baker Cargill 1990) Christopher Morris 1990) (d. Thompson (d. 1978) Peter Leland Carlson W. Patrick Collinson H. C. Porter Horton Davies Powel Mills Dawley A. P. d'Entrcves C. W. Dugmore (d. (d. O. B. Hardison.Jr. (d. 1985) 1993) O'Sullivan John M. Steadman H. R. Trevor-Roper 1985) Howard Webber 1991) James M. Wells (d. (d. Munz 1990) Editorial Expenses of this edition have been supported by grants from the Program for Editions of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, Research Foundation of the City University of New York. and from the The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker W. Speed Hill General Editor Volume Part Six, One Richard Hooker Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity Introductions; Commentary, Preface and Books I— IV W. Speed Hill General Editor with the assistance of Egil Grislis John Lee W. E. Booty, Georges Edelen, Gibbs, William P. Haugaard Arthur Stephen McGrade Contributing Editors medieval & Renaissance texts & studies New York Binghamton, 1993 & The publication of this volume has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency. © Copyright 1993 Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies State University of New York Bingham ton at Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Richard Hooker. / W. p. Speed cm. (Medieval Of die laws of ecclesiastical polity Hill, general editor — (The Folger & Renaissance ; John E. Booty : introductions and ... [et al.], commentary contributing editors, Library edition of die works of Richard Hooker, v. 6) & Texts Studies; v. 106) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0-86698-152-7 1. Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 1554-1600. Ecclesiastical polity. 2. Church of Eng- land—Doctrines—Early Works to 1800. 3. Church polity—Early Works to 1800. 4. Ecclesiastical law