In connexion with the evidence afforded by the Subscription and Ordination Books, above described, Dr Venn cites the additional facts supplied by the Consignation Books, as they were termed, in the diocese of Norwich, being the records of the Visitations of Dioceses by their bishops,—occasions on which every incumbent and curate of a parish was cited to appear, and, after the Restoration, every schoolmaster and teacher. The different dioceses, however, differ materially as regards the amount of evidence thus afforded, that presented by Norwich being exceptionally full; a feature which may be at least partially referred to the vigilance with which Matthew Wren ruled the diocese. But, in any case, if we were to extend our researches throughout England, and include all the men educated at the Colleges of both Universities, the aggregate of the clergy thus obtaining episcopal ordination after Episcopacy had been legally suppressed would be found to be very considerable; sufficiently so, indeed, to warrant us in concluding that those who desired episcopal ordination had no difficulty in obtaining it during the entire period in question, down to the very eve of the Restoration; while it is not less evident, that certain of those who thus obtained ordination, did so before,—in some cases, just before,—presentation to a living by the Parliamentary Committee.