. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1E1GHT0N, BROS. TOMB OF QUEEN ABBEY. Chap. II.] OLD ENGLAND. 75 CHAPTER IL—ECCLESIASTICAL HE general history of the progressof the mighty religious changes thatmark the present period, has beenglanced at in connexion with theproceedings of the monarch whosepersonal conduct and state policymainly originated those changes, andin connexion with the favour or dis-favour shown to them by his succes-sors, down to the final establishmentof the new faith duri
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1E1GHT0N, BROS. TOMB OF QUEEN ABBEY. Chap. II.] OLD ENGLAND. 75 CHAPTER IL—ECCLESIASTICAL HE general history of the progressof the mighty religious changes thatmark the present period, has beenglanced at in connexion with theproceedings of the monarch whosepersonal conduct and state policymainly originated those changes, andin connexion with the favour or dis-favour shown to them by his succes-sors, down to the final establishmentof the new faith during the reign ofElizabeth. And our previous no-tices of the subject have been neces-sarily confined, for the most part, to such generals. But if weconsider that every step in that eventful progress was won by themost sublime heroism on the part of individual men and women,many of them humble in position, and unknown even now by name,many of them among the most learned and eminent of the land,—if we consider the variety of circumstances evidenced by the fact,that the contest lay not only between people of the same county,-city, town, village, or hamlet, but even in thousands of cases betweenthe inhabitants of the same house; w
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