Anti Episcopal

He gives a particularly spirited account of the racy Elizabethan anti-episcopal tracts published under the name "Martin Marprelate," but he also reminds us that the men who wrote and printed them were courting the risk of torture and execution. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It may be added that Punch was also a supporter of marriage with a deceased wife's sister, and that here again he found considerable scope for the display of his anti-episcopal animus. ❋ Charles Larcom (1921)

Catholics in their struggle for emancipation, which gained for itself an unfortunate notoriety for its liberalizing principles, and the generally anti-episcopal tendency of its action. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

By the accidents of the time he was induced to treat first, in his anti-episcopal pamphlets, of religious liberty. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)

In the same year he reads 'a most violent article on Milton by Macaulay, fair and unfair, clever and silly, allegorical and bombastic, republican and anti-episcopal -- a strange composition, indeed. ' ❋ John Morley (1880)

So for the most part the early anti-episcopal Protestants, Brightman for example; and even Hengstenberg has not disdained to fall back on this unworthy subterfuge; the mere statement of which involves its condemnation. ❋ 1807-1886 (1863)

But that this be not thought a tenet of anti-episcopal writers alone, let us hear what is said by one of our greatest opposites: (1051) _Neque defendimus ita_, &c. ❋ George Gillespie (1630)

In 1588-89, a series of virulently anti-episcopal tracts were published under the ❋ Unknown (2009)

(Milton published several anti-episcopal pamphlets in 1640-41). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Following his failed attempt to arrest the Five Members, Charles realized that he was not only immensely unpopular among parliamentarians, he was also in danger of London's pro-Puritan, anti-episcopal, and increasingly anti-royal ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the bishops attempted to take their seats in the House of Lords in late 1641, a pro-Puritan, anti-episcopal mob, probably organized by ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can’t imagine a more fundamentally anti-episcopal act. ❋ Sam Norton (2005)