Excerpt from History of England From the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Vol. 9: Elizabeth It was neither possible however nor desirable to hold the balance entirely even. The new ideas were growing the old were waning. There was no anxiety to check the first or save the second. Each was to be allowed and enabled to follow its natural tendency in peace; and thus the formulas, as has been well said, though patient of a Catholic interpretation, were not ambitions of it; the Puritans could more easily use the English liturgy than the Catholics could dispense with the mass. The Puritans complained, but for the most part sub mitted. The Catholics, who conformed widely at first, tempted by the easy administration of the laws, foli away - especially in the northern counties-reconciled themselves to Rome, and watched and prayed either for a new sovereign, or for the interference of the Great Powers of Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.