Volume II 1603-1660 - The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

INTRODUCTION. cxxxi
subject of contention among statesmen, divines, parishioners, and
worshippers. In our more fortunate domain, it was the one object
for whose care and preservation all were concerned, upon which all
looked with love and veneration, and on behalf of which none ever
failed in sympathy and support. The experiment of fifteen years
showed that the presbyterian system was not acceptable to the
English nation, and when once more the church was remitted to
the care of the episcopal clergy, it was, as it had been alike under
the reformation, the mass, the prayer book, and the directory, and as
in this nineteenth century it still continues to be, a true and lasting
bond of union between these antient brotherhoods of the law.
WINCHELSEA,
September, 1898.
F. A. INDERWICK.
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EFFIGY OF A BISHOP, FORMERLY DESCRIBED AS " THE TOMB OF
THE PATRIARCH." FROM A PRINT DATED 1803.