papers, correspondence, sermons, diaries, controversial works, and foreign comment. References in the footnotes to secondary works have been reduced to the minimum for the sake of the appearance of the printed page, but the writer has tried to express his sense of obligation to the work of others in the Bibliographical Appendix. It is hoped that the Appendix will serve the further purpose of assisting the American student, about to enter upon a study of Elizabethan ecclesiastical and religious history, to find his way in the somewhat confusing mass of the literature of the period. There remains the pleasant duty of expressing my. gratitude to the officials of the Public Record Office and of the British Museum for their courteous and painstaking assistance. To the Reverend Mr. Claude Jenkins, of the Lambeth Palace Library, who took the time to teach an American stranger how to read and handle the documents of the period, I owe one of my most pleasant memories of England and of Englishmen. To Miss Cornelia T. Hudson, reference assistant in the Library of Union Theological Seminary, I wish to express my thanks for friendly help in excess of the official courtesy with which I have met in all the libraries I have consulted. The mere acknowledgment of my debt of gratitude to Professor James T. Shotwell, of Columbia University, and to Professor William Walker Rockwell, of Union Theological Seminary, must necessarily express inadequately the value of the encouragement, the suggestions, and the hours of labor which they have so freely given. The kindness of Professor Edward P. Cheyney, of the University of Pennsylvania, in reading and criticizing the completed manuscript, and the help in reading the proof given by Professor F. J. Foakes Jackson, of Union Theological Seminary, have assisted materially in making the essay more readable. ARTHUR J. KLEIN. Vague conceptions of tolerance - Social nature of intolerance erance. - - II. POLITICS AND RELIGION - - - - - The death of Mary Tudor - England at the accession of - - - - III. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CATHO- LICS. - The lenient policy of the government The Rebellion of the I 7 35 - -- - - Spanish - Parliament of legislation - Act making further offenses treason Restraints of the Catholics - Failure of the fines and confiscations to pro- IV. CHURCH AND STATE - Formative period of Anglicanism - The Establishment an -- -- - 64 - - - Lack of unity in the early Anglican Church Causes of union of the Queen in Hooker's theory-Jewel's idea of the sovereign's Hooker's lack of confidence in the secular dominance over the Church - Changed attitude of Anglicanism toward dis- senting opinions Early uncertainty and liberality - Develop- ment of ecclesiastical consciousness paralleled by hardening of the Anglican spirit - Other causes for hardening - Early Anglican- ism intolerant of papal Catholicism - Changed basis of Anglican strength Moral condemnation of the Jesuits - Common ideals of Early Anglicanism and other forms of Protestantism Practical character of the early Church - Development of an- Complexity of dissent — Difficulties of classification - Loose use of the term “Puritan ” — Difficulty of distinguishing Puritan from Separatist — Precisianists — Presbyterians - Genetic use of the term "Congregational"-Anabaptists-Cleavage was upon lines of ecclesiastical polity The Fanatic Sects - Elements of discord in the Church Indifferent nature of the first questions of dispute Ceremonial differences The sympathies of the leaders in State and Church - Variety in the use of ceremonies - - - Parker's Advertisements - Legality of the Advertisements VII. PROTESTANT DISSENT (continued) Presbyterian polity tion --- - - - Scriptural basis of the system — Basis - VIII. CONCLUSION - Importance of the separation from the Roman Catholic . 159 183 |