Note 1269 — XXVI. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH.
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In 1576 she declared to Grindal, then Archbishop of Canterbury, “that it was good for the church to have few preachers, and that three or four might suffice for a county; and that the reading of the Homilies to the people was enough.”—Strype’s Life of Grindal, p. 221.—See also Strype’s Parker, Book II. chap. xx.