Nagpur or Nagpore, an extensive inland province of British India, belonging m its civil administration to the Bengal, and in its militar3' to the Madras presiden- cy, extends immediately north-east of the Nizam's do- minions, in lat. 17° 15'l23o 5' N., long. 78° 3'-83o 10', and has an area of 7G,432 square miles, with a population of 4,050,000. The north part of the province is moun- tainous in character. The climate is not healthy, and is especially insalubrious in the extensive tracts of low, marshy land which abound in the province. The Gonds, supposed to be the aborigines, are the most remarkable class of the inhabitants. They rear fowls, swine, and buffaloes; but their country, forming the south-eastern tracts — about one third of the whole — is covered with a dense jungle, swarming with tigers. In the more fa- vored districts, where the inhabitants are more industri- ous, rice, maize, flax, and other seeds and vegetables are extensively cultivated. The mjahs of Nagpur, some- times called the rajahs of Berar, ruled over a state formed out of a part of the great Jlahratta kiiif^doni. Tlie dynasty, however, died out in 1853, and the terri- tory came into possession of the British. Tlie province has live divisions. Its cai)ital, Nagpur, has a popula- tion of 115,000. Inclusive of its extensive suburbs, it is seven miles in circumference. It contains no impor- tant edilices. The great body of the inhabitants live in thatched mud tents, interspersed with trees, which pre- vent tlie circidation of air and secrete moisture, thus rendering the town tuinecessarily unhealtliy. ^Missions are sustained here by the Church of England and other Pmtotant tiinlics. but little jirogress has as yet been inadc in cunvcrting tlie natives. — Chambers, s. v.
Nag's-Head Consecration designates the ques- tionalile way in which Homan Catholics assert that the apostiilieal succession was preserved in the Church of England. They aver that on the passing of the first Act of Uniformity in the first year of ((ucen Eliza- beth's reign, fourteen bishops vacating their sees, and all the other sees excepting that of Llandaff being va- cant, there was a difficulty in maintaining the hitherto unbroken succession of bishops from apostolical times; and tliat, as Kitchin of Llandaff refused to officiate at I'arker's consecration, the Protestant divines procured the help of Scory, a deprived bishop of the reign of Eil- ward VI, and all having met at the Nag's-IIcad tavern.
1 in Cheapside, they knelt before Scory, who laid a Bible on their heads or shoulders, saying, '* Take thou author- ity to preach the Word of God sincerely ;" and they rose up bishops of the New Church of England ! The story, which was first told by a Jesuit, Sacro Bosco, or Holy- wood, forty-five years after the event, intelligent Ko- manists themselves deny. Thus it is discredited by the Koman Catholic historian Lingard, and is carefully refuted by Strj-pe in his life of Parker. Tlie facts of the case are best stated in arcllbi^llop Bramhall's ac- count of the Nag's-Head fable (Works, p. 43G), and is the shortest and fullest refutation of the story: "They say that archbishoj) Parker and the rest of the Protes- tant bishops in the beginning of queen Elizabeth's reign, or at least sundry of them, were consecrated at the Nag's Head, in Cheapside, together, by Lishoij Sco- ry alone, or by him and bishop Barlow, without sermon, ^rithout sacrament, without solemnity, in the year 1559 (but they know not what day, nor before what public notaries), by a new, fantastic form. All this they main- tain on the supposed voluntary report of Jlr.Ncale (a sin- gle malicious spy), in private to his own party, long after the business pretended to be done, ^^'e say that arch- bishop Parker was consecrated alone at Lambeth, in the church, by four bishops, authorized thereunto by com- mission under the great seal of England, with sermon, with sacrament, with due solemnities, on the 17th day of December, A.D. 1559, before four of the most eminent public notaries in England, and particularly the same public notary was principal actuary both at cardinal Pole's consecration and archbishop Parker's." Wa may add that the election took place in the chapter-house at Canterbury', and the confirmation at St. Mar}--le-Bone'3 church in Cheapside. Scory, then elected to the see of Bedford; Barlow, formerly bishop of Wells, then elected to Chichester; Coverdale, formerly of Exeter, and never reappointed to any see ; and Hodgkin. suffra- gan of Hereford, were the episcopal officers who offici- ated at the consecration. The Nag's-Head ston,- prob- ably arose from the company having possibly gone from Bow church, after the confirmation, to take a dinner to- gether at the tavern hard by, according to the prevail- ing custom. The due succession of bishops in the Eng- lish Church it would .seem the Nag's-Head's fable has never proved to liave broken. Prof. Diillinger, at the recent Congress of the Old Catholics at Bonn (August, 1875), held that there can be no controversy regarding the legitimacy of Anglican ordinations, which was ques- tioned last j-ear by Orientals. He said there was no doubt of their succession. When, under queen Elizabeth, the present Episcopal Church was founded, those who disagreed were dismissed, and discussion turned on the legitimac)' of archbishop Parker's nomination. Of this there was no doubt. It was proved by his journal, the Kegister, and by contemporary history. To doubt it would be like the doubting of the man who sought to show that Napoleon I was a myth. The succession of the Eomish Church could be disputed. Things had oc- curred which would become formidable weapons if any- body cared to use them. But there was no room for doubt as to succession in the Anglican Church. See Courayer, Validity of the Ordinations of the JCmjlish (Ox- ford, 1844, new ed.) ; Baily, Ordinum Avylicanorum de- fensio (Lond. 1870); Soames, Hist, of the liiformation, iv, 691 sq. ; Wordsworth, /.Vr/<.<. /yiw/. iii, 383, n. ; Hard- wick, Ch. Hist, of the liefonnation, p. 22(> ; Burnet, Hist, of the Reformdtion, ii,"624; Baxter. Ch. Jllst. ].. 481; Enfjl. Rev. vi, 198; Ch. Rer. 1808 (.hi\y\ p. 301 ; Jfeth. Quar. Ret: 1874 (.Jan.), p. 169. See also Parker («/cA- bishop}. (J. H. W.)