Excerpt from Sea Puritans <p>Sb Englishmen had at last flown at each other's throats, bulldog fashion the modern spirit had risen against the medieval spirit; shopkeeper, trades man, and mechanic were in arms against noble and professional soldier. On one side the passionate devotion of feudal times to a great central figure, the King, allied to an intense reverence for externals in r ligion, with its licence to live as one listed provided due tithe was paid to Mother Church; on the other, a dogged desire to choose for one's self the most desirable form of Government, to pay no impost without knowing why, and to worship as a man would: these gigantic forces arrayed against each other had rent the realm in twain. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.