Excerpt from Memorable Women of the Puritan Times, Vol. 1 After the return of the Protestant exiles to England, upon the accession of Queen Elizabeth to the throne, the puritan battle, of which a miniature specimen had been exhibited at Frankfort, commenced in good earnest on a much wider field. So strong had the puritan party then become that, in' the famous convocation of the Lower House, in the year 15 62, they constituted the majority of those present, though they were out-voted by proxies on the other side. In that assembly they strenuously contended for the abrogation of vestments, copes, surplices, and organs in divine worship; against lay baptism, and the sign of the cross in baptism; and as to kneeling at the Lord's Supper, they urged that it should be left indifferent to the determination of the ordinary.3 The divines on the other side held fast by King Edward vi.'s Liturgy, and fortified their position from the vene rated names of Cranmer, Ridley, and others, by whomxit had been framed, and who had sealed the Reformation with their blood. 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.