Excerpt from History of English Nonconformity, Vol. 1: From Wiclif to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Permanent settlement of the Church of England reached in Elizabeth's reign, 153. The Queen's primary consideration was the safety of her throne, 154. No strong religious conviction in her, 154. Dering, 154. Dangers of opposing Catholicism too markedly, 154. Elizabeth's love of order, 1 5 5. The gradual hardening of the ecclesiastical system, 155. The desire for quietude had to be realised by means of compulsion, 15 5. Changes in the Council, 156. Commission for revision of the Prayer Book, 156. The temporary procedure to be adopted, 156. The Device for alteration of religion, 157. The Queen's private service, 157. Her treatment of Bonner, 157. Protestant uncertainty, 157. Burnet on the Queen's View as to transubstantiation, 157. Neither Romanists nor Protestants content, 158. Bishop White's funeral sermon for Mary, 158. The gospellers, 158. Restoration of the Royal Supremacy, 159. Origin of the Court of High Commission, 160. The Act of Uniformity, 160. The Injunc tions and the Visitation, 161. Elizabeth's purpose becoming clear, 161. Compliance of the clergy, 162. Non-compliance of the Bishops, 162. Parker becomes Archbishop of Canterbury, 163. The new episcopal bench, 163. The Bishops remonstrate with the Queen as to her private service, 164. The Queen's growing antagonism to Romanism, 165. The Pope's Bull of deposition, 165. His efforts to convert the Queen, 165. The Interpretations and Considerations, and the Eleven Articles, 166. The second Supremacy Act, 166. The Puritan activity, 167. Puritan tinge in some of the Bishops, 167. Sandys of Worcester, 167. The condition of things in 1564, 167. The Queen's letter to Parker, 167. The Book of Articles, 167. Commencement of pressure on the Puritans, 168. The Book of Advertisements, 168. The doctrinal settlement, 169. Convocation and Articles, 169. The Parliament of 1571 requires subscription to the Articles, 170. The whole process organisation and nothing else, 170. The Queen's motive, 171. 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.