"[A]fter eighty years of maturation, a hybrid church, thoroughly if murkily reformed in its doctrines, unreformed in its government, a mish-mash in its liturgy, had achieved not only an intellectual self-confidence but a rhythm of worship, piety, practice, that had earthed itself into the Englishman's consciousness and had sunk deep roots in popular culture."
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John Morrill, 'The Church in England, 1642–9', in John Morrill (ed.), Reactions to the English Civil War 1642–1649 (1982), p. 113
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