If an historian is a man of science, or a mere chronicler, then certainly Froude was not an historian.

He made no claim to be impartial.

He held that the Oxford Movement was not only endangering the National Church, but injuring the national character and corrupting men's knowledge of the past.

He believed in the Reformation first as an historic fact, and secondly as a beneficent revolt of the laity against clerical dominion.

He denied that since the Reformation there had been one Catholic Church, and as an Englishman he asserted in the language of the Articles that the Bishop of Rome had no jurisdiction within this realm of England.