Disestablishment and Disendowment, what are They?

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Macmillan, 1874 - 54 pages
 

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Page 33 - There was no moment when the nation or its rulers made up their minds that it would be a good thing to set up an Established Church, any more than there was a moment when they made up their minds that it would be a good tiling to set up a Government by King, Lords, and Commons.
Page 19 - In popular language the Reformation sometimes means the throwing off of the authority of the Pope, sometimes the suppression of the monasteries, sometimes the actual religious changes, the putting forth of the English Prayer-Book and the Articles of Religion. Here are three sets of changes, all of which are undoubtedly connected as results of a general spirit of change; but, as a matter of fact, they were acts done by different people at different times, and those who, at any stage, wrought one change...

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