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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Acts of Uniformity, by T.A. Lacey This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Acts of Uniformity Their Scope and Effect Author: T.A. Lacey Release Date: May 2, 2009 [EBook #28659] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ACTS OF UNIFORMITY *** Produced by Elaine A. Laizure The Acts of Uniformity Their Scope and Effect By T. A. LACEY, M.A. VICAR OF MADINGLEY RIVINGTONS 34, _KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN_ LONDON 1900 _Price One Shilling: net_ NOTE The following paper, read at Oxford before certain members of the University, in November, 1899, is published at the request of some who heard it. THE ACTS OF UNIFORMITY The Acts of Uniformity are incidents in a great movement. They are far from being the most important of its incidents. Their importance has perhaps been exaggerated, and their purport is commonly misunderstood. My object is to place them in their true relation to other incidents. It is useless to study them apart; they cannot be understood except as details of a connected history. I shall confine myself, however, to a narrow, question: assuming the general history, I shall ask how the several Acts of Uniformity come into it, with what purpose and with what ultimate effect. To study immediate effects would be to engage in too wide an inquiry. We owe thanks to the men who drafted the statutes of the sixteenth century for their long argumentative preambles. These are invaluable as showing the occasion and purpose of the Acts. We shall not go to them for an uncoloured record of facts--their unsupported assertions will hardly, indeed, be taken as evidence for facts at all; but they tell us to what facts the legislator wished to call attention, and in what light he would have them regarded. The preamble of the first Act of Uniformity is among the most illuminating, and with its help we can assemble the facts in relation to which the purport of the Act must be determined. We are in the year 1548. Important changes in matters of religion had taken place; greater changes were in prospect. The processions before High Mass
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