See Spurs.
Episcopal Ordination Act (Scotland).
An Act passed by the Drunken Parliament in 1662, enacting that all holders of livings should be episcopally ordained. It is said that under this act some 350 ministers were deprived of their livings.
Equador, Confederação do.
A revolutionary society, formed at Pernambuco in 1824, with the object of seceding from the Empire of Brazil and forming a republic. Its leader was Paes de Andrade. The revolt was suppressed in the same year.
Era of Good Feeling.
The period of Monroe’s presidentship of the United States (1816-1820), during which there was a truce between the two great political parties.
Erastians.
The followers of Thomas Liebler, known as Erastus, a Swiss theologian (1524-1583). He held that the Church was a civil institution, and subject to the State, and that consequently the Church per se had no right to punish by excommunication or otherwise any offences against the Church, its doctrine or government, such right belonging to the State alone.