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The Life of Froude

CHAPTER IV
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On the other hand he gave deep and lasting offence to High Churchmen, which they neither forgot nor forgave.

They could not bear the spectacle of a Church established by statute, of the king in place of the Pope, of Cromwell and Cranmer justified, of More and Fisher condemned.

While not unwilling to profit by Erastianism, they liked its origin kept out of sight.

Bishops appointed by the Crown and sitting in the House of Lords, though awkward facts, were too familiar to be upsetting.

The secular and Parliamentary origin of praemunire and conge d' elire were less notorious and more disagreeable subjects.
They were indeed to be found in Hallam.


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