Quote Originally Posted by Carolina Kiltman View Post
This is how the Anglican (Episcopal Church) in the new US got its bishops consecrated. The Scots were "non jurors" that is they had not taken an oath of loyalty to the Crown of England as the English bishops had.
Aye, they were indeed...the SEC had many clergy and laity in sympathy with the Jacobite cause, which brought on persecution in the 1700s by the Kirk.

Ironically, Seabury was a Loyalist during the Revolution, but the Church of England wouldn't consecrate him because of the loyalty oath to the sovereign.

Todd