Had she not been in earnest, and had she only meant to amuse the public or the court of France, this circumstance was of no moment.] [Footnote 18: NOTE R, p.203.

D'Ewes, p.328.The Puritanical sect had indeed gone so far, that a book of discipline was secretly subscribed by above five hundred clergymen; and the Presbyterian government thereby established in the midst of the church, notwithstanding the rigor of the prelates and of the high commission.

So impossible is it by penal statutes, however severe, to suppress all religious innovation.

See Neal's Hist.

of the Puritans, vol.i.p.