An Essay On the Origin And Purity of the Primitive Church of the British Isles
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The only reservation in the oath, is the clause, salvo meo or dine, which does not signify '^ saving my allegiance to the crown, " as designedly mistranslated by the Irish advocates of the papacy, Dr. Butler, titular archbishop of Cashel, Mr. O^Leary, &c. But "■ saving the rights o£my own episcopal ort/er" against papal encroachment or usurpation. For the oath itself, when first proposed to the German pre- lates by Boniface, an English monk, usually called the Apostle of Germany^ who devoted hi...s services to the See of Rofne, and took a voluntary oath of obedience to Pope Gregory II. When he was appointed Archbishop of Mentz, met with violent oppo- sition from the German prelates. In order, therefore, to recon- cile them thereto, this saving clause was introduced in the form of the consecration-oath enjoined by Pope Gregory III. A. D. 24^ ^Accordingly, this same year, the parliament passed an act, prohibiting the payment of annateSy 731, and published in the Decretals oi Gregory IX.
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