Anglican Church

Bere had already preached against Young; he now demanded his dismissal. At this point, unfortunately, Patty More 's journal of the period ends. Young was encouraging his adult pupils to extemporary prayer—something strongly disapproved by...

An ordained clergyman, he held many positions in the Church of England , and lectured on divinity at St Paul's Cathedral. He was an adviser on Bentley's Miscellany and a founder member of the...

More than a decade after this, at sixty, PM returned to journalism, this time as an interviewer for The Observer colour magazine (only two years after this was launched, following the lead of the Sunday...

After taking his degree in 1842, he remained at Oxford and was elected to a Fellowship at Oriel College . Religious doubts led him to resign his fellowship before he was required to take orders...

At South Luffenham, MRvisited the needy, coached some girls who wanted to be teachers, took evening classes for those who had left school but still didn't know everything, [and] taught in the Sunday School...

WLB 's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied...

Long lines of people stood outside the City Temple (a leading centre of London Nonconformity) waiting to hear her speak, and police were called in to control the crowd. Singer Dame Clara Butt was among...

When she gave her first sermon at the City Temple in March of that year, she had had no thought but that this would be the end of preaching for me.

Back in England he established himself as a schoolmaster, having charge first of his nephews Edward and John Phillips, and then of a larger number of pupils. He was probably a teacher for seven...

After marriage and especially as help became more difficult to get, DW cooked, sewed, and sometimes picked fruit for sale. She partnered her husband at farming at their several Suffolk farms and was an indefatigable...

MM , at the palace of the Bishop of Chester and Lancaster, debated with Bishop Nicholas Stratford and other ecclesiastics on the legality, or rather the scripture authority for, compulsory payment of tithes to the...

DW 's anti-tithing campaign put her in the tradition of seventeenth-century writers like Mary Cary , Margaret Fell , and innumerable others; but whereas they condemned the Church of England for doctrinal reasons and in...

DW was arrested for repeatedly interrupting an Anglican service at Weymouth.

Early in the eighteenth century, the Covenant, Scotland's Glory above other Nations, was threatened by a malignant, ungodly, Prelatick Party. These men were waiting for the death of the Protestant champion William III and...

Helen Speight reads RS 's actions, in petitioning the government for support for herself and her children when her husband lost his income, in apparently leading a campaign fo harassment against the godly government appointee...