Excerpt from Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury: From St. Augustine to Juxon They who distinguished between the one Catholic Church, and the sects by which it was surrounded, were nearly driven to despair when they found a Presbyte rian (such as James I. Was supposed to be) ascending the throne. It seemed like a miracle in answer to prayer, when the new king accepted the Church, and recognised its real position as a part of the constitution which he had inherited. The weakness of will on the part Of James I. And the weakness Of character, which, though united with sin cere piety, characterised Charles I., led to those events which we have to record in the biographies of Laud and Juxon, -to the martyrdom of a primate and the death of a king. 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.