Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland

CHAPTER XI.

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Religious Toleration--Eminent Nonconformists--The Puritans--Oliver Cromwell--The Pilgrims--The Corporation and Test Acts--Their Origin--Their Effects upon Dissenters and others--Their Virtual Abandonment and Final Repeal--The first Triumph of the Reformers 117