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The Acts of Uniformity, by T.A. Lacey
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Title: The Acts of Uniformity Their Scope and Effect
Author: T.A. Lacey
Release Date: May 2, 2009 [EBook #28659]
Language: English
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The Acts of Uniformity
Their Scope and Effect
By
T. A. LACEY, M.A.
VICAR OF MADINGLEY
RIVINGTONS
34, KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN
LONDON
1900
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NOTE
The following paper, read at Oxford before certain members of the University, in November, 1899, is published at the request of some who heard it.
THE ACTS OF UNIFORMITY
The Acts of Uniformity are incidents in a great movement. They are far from being the most important of its incidents. Their importance has perhaps been exaggerated, and their purport is commonly misunderstood. My object is to place them in their true relation to other incidents. It is useless to study them apart; they cannot be understood except as details of a connected history. I shall confine myself, however, to a narrow, question: assuming the general history, I shall ask how the several Acts of Uniformity come into it, with what purpose and with what ultimate effect. To study