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Notes on the Local Progress of Protestantism in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Extract

I have deliberately called this paper notes only upon the wide subject of which it treats. It deals with some evidence; not all evidence available, yet enough, I think, to warrant some conclusions.

Progressive change and growth of opinions, or decay of opinions and their modification, are more powerful factors in bringing about political and social changes than wars or acts of government, but receive less attention than is their due from the difficulty of tracing them clearly.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1885

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page 63 note 1 English trade with the Netherlands was in 1566, before the war with Spain in the provinces, worth 12,000,000 ducats a year.—Guicciardini.

page 65 note 1 There is a vague mention of ‘a woman,’ name unknown, also in Gloucestershire, but it is by no means certain that she is not the same as another woman who died (was not executed) in Gloucester.

page 66 note 1 There is no evidence of any one being condemned, much less executed, in Bath and Wells. Foxe mentions ‘articles exhibited’ ‘against’ a certain heretic in that diocese, and that is all.

page 66 note 2 Only one even was an Oxford University man, Latimer.

page 67 note 1 Omitting the irregular proceedings in Guernsey, which lie outside the enquiry into English opinion.

page 69 note 1 There were riots in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, and Hampshire in 1549, but scarcely rebellions. Nor is it certain that they were religious; they were more likely social, like the Norfolk rising.

page 72 note 1 Law's Calendar of English Martyrs.

page 72 note 2 Removed for a time to Rheims, but used for the same purpose throughout.

page 73 note 1 Douai Register.

page 73 note 2 Foley, v. 7, p. 971.

page 75 note 1 N.B. I have counted all the Welsh counties in this division.

page 76 note 1 The list of members is from Gardiner's Fall of the Monarchy of Charles I., checked from other sources.