. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1653.— With an old hall hung about with pikes, swords and bows With a good old fashion, when Christmas was come,io caU in all his old neighbours with bagpipe and drum. 84. 86 OLD ENGLAND. [Bock V of the terror of imprisonment, but of the flames of martyrdom, inwhich he perished heroically in 1555. But it was not until the reign of Elizabeth that, as Fullerobserves, Puritanism was nursed and reared, and then by thecurious process of endeavouring to destroy it. The great influx ofexiles fr
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1653.— With an old hall hung about with pikes, swords and bows With a good old fashion, when Christmas was come,io caU in all his old neighbours with bagpipe and drum. 84. 86 OLD ENGLAND. [Bock V of the terror of imprisonment, but of the flames of martyrdom, inwhich he perished heroically in 1555. But it was not until the reign of Elizabeth that, as Fullerobserves, Puritanism was nursed and reared, and then by thecurious process of endeavouring to destroy it. The great influx ofexiles from Switzerland—nearly the whole of whom were in effectPuritans—gave a mighty impulse to the growing distaste for allthat had been preserved by the Reformers of the creed that hadbeen reformed. Objections were urged against the spiritual claimsof bishops—their sole right of ordination and discipline—theirtemporal dignities—the titles and offices of the various cathedralofficials—the jurisdiction of the spiritual courts—the promiscuousadmittance to the communion-table—to many things in the Liturgy—to passages in the marriage and burial offices—to the prohibitionof the clergyman from using his own prayers in public service-to godfathers and godmothers—
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