Excerpt from New England Leaders Cotton Mather affirms that the inhabitants of Aus terfield in Bradford's boyhood were a most ignorant and licentious people, and like unto their priest. Happily there is reason to believe the description ex aggerated. The curate Of the little church, Henry Fletcher, certainly had the clerical merit, then by no means universal, of residing in the community Of which he was the accredited spiritual leader; but the judg ment of the antiquary, the Rev. Joseph Hunter, ex pressed more than forty ...
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Excerpt from New England Leaders Cotton Mather affirms that the inhabitants of Aus terfield in Bradford's boyhood were a most ignorant and licentious people, and like unto their priest. Happily there is reason to believe the description ex aggerated. The curate Of the little church, Henry Fletcher, certainly had the clerical merit, then by no means universal, of residing in the community Of which he was the accredited spiritual leader; but the judg ment of the antiquary, the Rev. Joseph Hunter, ex pressed more than forty years ago, is doubtless correct, that Bradford owed little to Fletcher's ministry;2 and as to the widely prevalent unspirituality and ignorance Of the ministry and people of England at the close Of Elizabeth's reign there is abundant evidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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