These Seniors then, bycause their charge was not ouermuch, did execute their office in theyr own persons, without substitutes. Our lord Bishops haue their vnder officers, as Suffraganes, Chauncellours, Archdeacons, Officials, Commissaries, and such like.
You barely affirme without any proofe, that these Seniors then* 1.1 did execute their offices in their owne persons without substitutes: but your bare word is not of sufficient credite, although I think you will make a greate difference betwixte Seniors and Byshops: for they whome you call Seniors had no authoritie to preach, or to mi∣nister the Sacraments as Byshops haue.
That Byshops might haue substitutes and had so, it is manifest in the. 13. Canon. Ancyrani Concilij, whiche was about the yeare of our