G3, is in these words ; -- "You are to inquire whether there beany minister within yourGovernment who preaches and -administers the Sacrament in any orthodox church or chapel without being in due orders and to give an account thereof to the Bishop of London." The use of the word " Minis- ' ter" in these various Instructions is shown by the context of them, and markedly in this additional one to Cornbury, to mean and to designate clergymen only of the Church of England. And the same thing may be said of the term " Orthodox Church,'" for by law neither the King nor the Bishop could acknowledge, or have any ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, any Minister or any Church which did not belong to the Church of England. No other church and no other other clergyman could be, in the eye of the law, either of England or New York, orthodox. King William, as King, formally apjtroved the Ministry Act of 1()!)8 passed by the Legislature of New York, and as by the law of England he could not acknowledge any other church as orthodox or any other Ministers, as Ministers, except those of the Church of England, it follows that the words and terms of that act referred to the Church of England and only to that church. That this is the sense, and the only legal sense, in which these words were then used, is shown by an opinion of Sir Edward Northey, the Attorney-General, in 1705, asked by the Board of Trade anil Plantations, upon the grant of ecclesiastical power in the Patent of Maryland, which closes with these words, "and the consecrations of chapels ought to be, flw in England, by Orthodox Ministers only." -