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two later, that the uncommon rigour of the season
furnishes an unanswerable argument against assembUng
the Convocation. Wake wrote out himself and settled
with great care the form of the Convocation writ, which
he submits for Atterbury's approval, who writes, " I
have no manner of exception to ye Form of Writ which
your Grace hath been pleased to communicate to me."

As the actual meeting of Convocation draws near,
Wake becomes careful that everything should be in
order. There is a " method of Proceeding in ye Chapell
of Henry vii."at the opening. The Upper House can
only sit in the Jerusalem Chamber by leave of the
Dean ; on this Atterbury, who was Dean of Westminster
as well as Bishop of Rochester, is consulted, and he
encloses a letter from Tenison, asking his (Atterbury's)
consent to the use of the Jerusalem Chamber " a part
of yr Lordship's mansion house," as Tenison calls it.
Atterbury is now entirely at peace with his old opponent,
indeed they had come together at Exeter. " Whatever
ye expressions are if it appears by them that ye Jeru-
salem Chamber is made use of by my consent the end
of such a letter is satisfy 'd."

We propose to deal in Archbishop Potter's life
with the story of the Bangorian Controversy arising
out of the publications of the notorious Hoadly,
Bishop of Bangor. The first Convocation, summoned
under Wake as Primate, met in 171 7. Its proceedings
were almost entirely devoted to Hoadly, and form a
part of the story of the Bangorian Controversy, and we
have treated them accordingly ; as we have detailed
in our life of Potter, they ended in the silencing of
Convocation for one hundred and fifty years.
