Puritanism in England (1)

Queen Elizabeth had embraced Protestants not for principle's but for expediency's sake. She, too, was glad to throw off the yoke of the Pope, who had made himself obnoxious to potentates by his encroachment on their temporal power, through his arm, viz., the clergy, (bishops, arch-bishops, etc.). The Catholics did not resent her rejection of the authority of the Pope. They, too, were eager to dispose of him for a similar reason. Elizabeth made the acceptance of her religious settlements as...