Thanks, Nick.
2008/1/15, Nick Hudd <[log in to unmask]>:
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> Parliament moved to abolish episcopacy in January 1645. However, Anglican
> church life and administration had probably become impossible for a couple
> of years before that. On the other hand, some bishops may well have
> continued functioning (in a theological sense at least), and the
> consequences were civil as much as ecclesiastical, as I said. It also
> depended whether you were in a Parliamentary or Royalist area, and exactly
> when. The Cromwellian period was often a lurch from one experiment to
> another in both church and state. The way it finished was anarchic as I said
> before. (Others more capable than I have said all these things before).
> Cromwell himself, one suspects, was horrified at some of the radicalism with
> which he found himself surrounded, and at the disorganisation which ensued.
> He was probably a true idealist - we're no good at all at running things!
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> Nick Hudd
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