Book of Common Prayer, and their approval of everything contained in it, by reading before their congregations a certain formula before the feast of St. Bartholomew, or 25th of August next, on pain of deprivation. It was further enacted by other clauses, that no person should continue to hold any benefice who either was not already episcopally ordained, or should not be episcopally ordained before the said day of St. Bartholomew. This act at once winnowed the Church of England of Presbyterianism and Puritanism to the last particle. On the Sunday immediately preceding the day of St. Bartholomew most of the Presbyterian ministers preached their farewell sermons; and it is said that on that fatal day about two thousand of them resigned their livings in the national establishment.

As in England, so also in Scotland, Presbytery was put down at the Restoration. In that part of the island, however, Presbyterianism had a hold over the popular mind which it never had acquired in England; and its extinction there in consequence, instead of being carried by the national voice, was an act of mere force and violence done by the government against the almost unanimous wish of the country.

In Ireland also, in which episcopacy had been abolished by the Long Parliament, it was now restored in the same manner as in England and Scotland.

END OF VOL. XIII.

London: Printed by W. CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street.

Book of Common Prayer, and their approval of everything contained in it, by reading before their congregations a certain formula before the feast of St. Bartholomew, or 25th of August next, on pain of deprivation. It was further enacted by other clauses, that no person should continue to hold any benefice who either was not already episcopally ordained, or should not be episcopally ordained before the said day of St. Bartholomew. This act at once winnowed the Church of England of Presbyterianism and Puritanism to the last particle. On the Sunday immediately preceding the day of St. Bartholomew most of the Presbyterian ministers preached their farewell sermons; and it is said that on that fatal day about two thousand of them resigned their livings in the national establishment.

As in England, so also in Scotland, Presbytery was put down at the Restoration. In that part of the island, however, Presbyterianism had a hold over the popular mind which it never had acquired in England; and its extinction there in consequence, instead of being carried by the national voice, was an act of mere force and violence done by the government against the almost unanimous wish of the country.

In Ireland also, in which episcopacy had been abolished by the Long Parliament, it was now restored in the same manner as in England and Scotland.

END OF VOL. XIII.

London: Printed by W. CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street.