This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1851 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. Bancboft"s LOVE OF POWEB OBJECT OF THE CLERGY IN ENHANCING THE PRETENSIONS OF THE CEOWN COLLEGE AT CHELSEA MARTYRDOMS CONDCCT OF JAMES IN REFERENCE TO VORSTIUS HIS TOLERATION OF ROMAN CATHOLICS--LETTER OF ARCHBISHOP ABBOT RISE OF WILLIAM LAUD THE SCOTCH CLERGY PUBLI-CATION OF THE "AUTHORISED VERSION" OF SCRIPTURE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COKE--BACON, THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL--PERSECU-TION OF FEACHAM IMMORALITY OF THE TIME---THE KING"S SPEECH TO THE JUDGES THE "TULCHAN" BISHOPS--JAMES"S ADDRESS TO THE PARLIAMENT OF SCOTLAND THE DOOK OF SPORTS--SELDEN ON TITHES DEATH OF QUEEN ANNE--THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE GREAT MOVEMENT--MRS. WELSH"S APrEAL "TO JAMES THE BISHOP OF CHALCEDON FUND FOR IMPROPRIATIONS WORKS ON LIBERTY PETITION OF EIGHT--LAUD AND THE BACK CHAEACTEB OF JAMES. Bancroft, not satisfied with the range of his archiepiscopatc, was intent on putting down nonconformity wherever he could detect its existence. The French churches in the Islo of Jersey had maintained a kind of presbyterianism, unmolested during the reign of Elizabeth, and its continuance had been guaranteed by James in a letter under the privy seal soon after his accession. But of this they were deprived by Bancroft. He tried similarly to oppress the churches of Guernsey, but he appears to have failed of his purpose. Even in the almost uninhabited English territories of the opposite hemisphere, he laboured for the same result. His great object, however, was, with the king at his side, to root out the remains of presbyterianism in Scotland, and to establish episcopacy in its place. "The real aim of the clergy in enormously enhancing the pretensions of the Crown," says Hallam, "was to gain its sanction and support for their own. Schemes of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, hardly less extensive t...