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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
were so ignorant, that few of them could preach. Did men listen to their deprived pastors in the recesses of Chap VIII.} 1583 forests, the offence, if discovered, was visited by fines and imprisonment. A court of high commission was established for the detection and punishment of nonconformity, and was invested with powers as arbitrary as those of the Spanish inquisitors. Strype's Annals, III. 180. Haltham's England, i. 271—273. Rymer, XVI. 291—297, June 15, 1596, and 546—551, August 26, 1603. Mackintosh, III. 261, 262. Lingard, VII. 266. Men were obliged to answer, on oath, every question proposed, either against others or against themselves. In vain did the sufferers murmur; in vain did parliament disapprove the commission, which was alike illegal and arbitrary; in vain did Burleigh remonstrate against a system so intolerant, that the inquisitors of Spain 1584 July 1. used not so many questions to trap their preys. Burleigh, in Strype's Whitgift, 157. The archbishop<