This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...in the 17.) According to a paper somewhat Calendars are too few and too seatto be distrusted in this connection be-tered to be of any value for authencause of its early date (very likely ticating the number. Of the amount of actual nonresidence, we have no indications worth citing and can say with safety that it was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...in the 17.) According to a paper somewhat Calendars are too few and too seatto be distrusted in this connection be-tered to be of any value for authencause of its early date (very likely ticating the number. Of the amount of actual nonresidence, we have no indications worth citing and can say with safety that it was very likely more than was wise and a good deal less than our imaginations would conjecture. The ignorance of the clergy in general was surpassed by that of their parish officers, for, in many instances, the clerk could neither read nor write,2 and the wardens and questmen were "commonly poor artificers or other labouring men.'s Even when they possessed the best of intentions and the utmost good will toward the Church, men of that capacity could not very well make efficient administrators, and from their presence alone was sure to result a great deal of nonconformity, caused purely by ignorance of the law and by inefficiency in executing what they understood it to be. Add to such a condition of affairs, the extreme slowness of communication which made it difficult to spread abroad any exact information of what the law was. Add to this, the weakness of the ordinary administration which rendered it difficult to force men to obey the law, and we need seek no further for an explanation of the existence in the Church of widespread nonconformity. Aylmer declared in 1581 that there were not in the whole county of Essex, with its three hundred fifty odd parishes, seven churches where the service was performed in identically the same way, and yet he could find only three where the Prayer Book was not used.1 All this nonconformity, once brought into existence by the ignorance of the local clergy and officials, and by the weakness of ecclesiastical adm...
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