At the instance of Gambold, who was exceedingly anxious that the Brotherhood should gain ground in England within the bosom of the Anglican Church, a Moravian synod, held in 1749, formally elected Wilson, the venerable Bishop of Sodor and Man, 'into the order and number of the antecessors of the General Synod of the brethren of the Anatolic Unity.
"The English Church in the Eighteenth Century"
Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
"It seemeth to us, sir," said they to the king, "that, if you think you have not a right to the conquest won by you and your antecessors from the King of England, you do not make proper restitution to the said king in not restoring to him the whole; and if you think you have a right to it, it seemeth to us that you are a loser by all you restore."
"A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times Volume II. of VI."
Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
Sirs, answered Louis, I am certain that the antecessors of the King of England did quite justly lose the conquest which I hold; and as for the land I give him, I give it him not as a matter in which I am bound to him or his heirs, but to make love between my children and his, who are cousins-german.
"A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times Volume II. of VI."
Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot