Excerpt from Historical Papers There is no history Of the Church of England which gives any adequate idea of the degradation into which religious Observances had fallen at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, and the con sequence is that few people understand the immense debt of gratitude which they owe to Archbishop Laud for the recovery from that condition - a recovery almost wholly due to his indefatigable endeavours to restore a more Catholic tone to doctrine and practice. We propose, therefore, in this and two following articles to supply this defect as far as may be possible. (guardian, Nov. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.