"Whereas, our Provinces of Quebec , New Brunswick and Newfoundland are not yet divided or formed into dioceses as Bishops' sees ... know that we ... by these presents do give and grant unto you the aforesaid Bishop of Nova Scotia , power and authority ... to exercise jurisdiction spiritual and ecclesiastical in the aforesaid provinces ... we have further given and granted to you, the Bishop of Nova Scotia , full power and authority to confer the Orders of Deacon and Priest upon persons in the said Provinces, etc." This permission would be absurd if these Provinces were within his diocese. It will be seen by this, that the jurisdiction over the Canadian Provinces previously exercised by the Bishop of London was hereby transferred to the Bishop of Nova Scotia , although the ofN. S . was coterminous with the Province ofN. S ., and no mention is made of P.E.I. The Letters Patent of Bishop John Inglis appoints him "to be Bishop of the said see ofN. S ., and its dependencies" and further appoints him to "exercise jurisdiction, spiritual and ecclesiastical... within the Province ofN. B . and the Islands of Prince Edward , Newfoundland and the " in 1839 these Letters were revoked "so far as the same related to the Islands of Newfoundland and the and no further." The Letters Patent of Bishop Binney appoint him "to be Bishop of the said see of Nova Scotia , etc." and adds "And we do moreover by these presents give and grant to the said Hibbert Binney and his successor Bishops of N.S . and its dependencies during our will and pleasure, and no longer, the same power authority and jurisdiction in and throughout the said Island of Prince Edward as was given and granted by the aforesaid Letters to John Inglis the late Bishop of Nova Scotia and its dependencies, but no further or otherwise". Surely all this shows that P.E.I , was not part of the original diocese ofN. S .114 Canon Simpson turned next to the question of Provincial sovereignty as it affected the Island's historical relationship with the of Nova Scotia . He produced evidence which showed that the link between the Church of England on P.E.I , and the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Bishop of London over the area had not been completely severed by the creation of the see of Nova Scotia in 1787. The Bishop of London continued to hold at least equal nominal authority and jurisdiction over the Island as did the Bishop of Nova Scotia : in the Statues of P.E.I , there was an Act passed xiii year of George III (1803), sixteen years after the founding of the ofN. S ., ordering that no minister of the Church of England shall officiate until he produce "a testimonial that he hath been duty licensed by the Bishop of London or by the Bishop ofN. S ." This Act was not repealed until the xlii year of Victoria, so that until the year 1879, ninety two years after Bishop Inglis was consecrated, the Bishop of London had equal or superior authority to the Bishop of Nova Scotia in this Province. 174. Ibid. 151