History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . esented her with a Bible,Elizabeth clasped the Book to her heart. In substance sheuttered words that echoed and gave the lie to her persecu-tion of subjects to her dying day. This present outshinesall I have received this day and is more precious and ac-ceptable than any. The Virgin queen in her after-anxietyto placate Rome and pose as a Defender of the Faith, mayhave deeply regretted her public Bible indorsement. Elizabeth essayed the impossible, when she endeavoredto merge the Roman System with t
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . esented her with a Bible,Elizabeth clasped the Book to her heart. In substance sheuttered words that echoed and gave the lie to her persecu-tion of subjects to her dying day. This present outshinesall I have received this day and is more precious and ac-ceptable than any. The Virgin queen in her after-anxietyto placate Rome and pose as a Defender of the Faith, mayhave deeply regretted her public Bible indorsement. Elizabeth essayed the impossible, when she endeavoredto merge the Roman System with that of the EstablishedChurch, though she was aided in this move by Bishop Whit-gift. In this bargain sale of principle, each of the fourforms of English worship gained as well as lost. Changeof front and tendency to weaken restrictions, gave the FreeChurchmen or Separatists a firmer footing in their struggleof divorce from the Established Church, their aim beingto live on a level with their faith. In the Puritan the swing of the unquenchable spirit 1-9 76 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS. of the free that scoured the Seven Seas, and with a hastilygathered volunteer fleet, aided by the elements and superiorseamanship, and reinforced by one thousand trained, expert naval artillerists borrowed fromthe Dutch Republic, after re-peated and urgent petitions fromElizabeths government, crushedthe mighty Spanish Armada. On the Orkney Isles werewrecked in 1588 many vessels ofthe Great Armada, consisting ofone hundred and twenty-nineships, twenty thousand soldiersand eight thousand sailors, someof whom introduced the patternsand taught the making of Scottish tartans. The Puritan power was manifested more intensely whenit assailed and outgrew the political churchmen who hadnurtured it from infancy to manhood. In the conflict, itmet former co-religionists, and faced in this one-sided warbigoted oppression — awar in which the leftcheek was turned to theenemy after the right hadbeen smit
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