Daily Courant in London, Middlesex

Continuation of the Arret of Paris against the Bishop of Laon

The piece discusses ecclesiastical and temporal power, defining jurisdiction as exterior royal authority and spiritual power as binding and loosing within the church. It contrasts church authority with sovereign rule, cites Justinian and Theodosius on episcopal jurisdiction, and notes ongoing debates between church and state across European capitals with brief colonial- and court-related updates from Moscow, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Stockholm, and Bremen.