Parliament  cdmost  in  a  panic  passed  severe  laws  against
all  recusants,  and  increased  the  penalties  against  all  who
refused  the  oath  of  allegiance  or  who  spoke  in  support  of
the  authority  of  the  Bishop  of  Bonift  The  discipline  of
the  Church  was  left  to  be  regulated  by  the  old  statute  of
Henry  viii.,  which  declared  that  as  much  of  the  mediaeval
canon  law  as  was  not  at  variance  with  the  Scriptures  and
the  Acts  of  the  English  Parliament  was  to  form  the  basis
of  law  for  the  ecclesiastical  courts.    This  gave  the  Bishops

^The  Zurich  LetUn,  etc.,  First  Series,  p.  74  ;  cf.  65,  6S,  64,  60,  68„
100,  129,  185.  Bishop  Jewel  called  elerioal  dreas  the  "relics  of  the
Amorites  "  (p.  52),  and  wished  that  he  could  get  rid  of  the  sar])Iice  (p.  100) ;
and  "the  little  silver  cross"  in  the  Queen's  chapel  was  to  him  an  ill-
omened   thing  (p.  55) ;  cf.  Strype,  AniudSt  etc.  i.  i.  360.
*  AnnaZs,  etc.  I.  ii.  562.
