The Acts of Uniformity: Their Scope and Effect

by T. A. Lacey

[34] Commons' Journals, viii. 406-408.

[35] Ibid., viii. 413.

[36] Lords' Journals, xi. 441-442.

[37] Lords' Journals, xi. 451.

[38] Ibid.

[39] Cardwell, Synod., p. 670.

[40] See Appendix.

[41] This fact should suffice to dispose of a theory propounded by some who attempt to save the face of the Church by representing the Act of Uniformity as the ratification in Parliament of what had been already done by the Church. There is no historical basis for such a theory.

[42] The Book of Common Prayer, etc., with notes, etc., by A. J. Stephens, p. clxxiv.

Transcriber's notes: The footnotes were moved to endnotes and renumbered. Some words, such as "Mr" and "Parlt" are words that have a superscript ending with no punctuation.