Note 141 — Chapter III
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The Somersetshire churchmen expressed themselves in moderate terms.—Hallam's Const. Hist., i. 527.
From Cheshire came two petitions, one signed by Episcopalians, the other by Puritans, calling prelates "mighty enemies and secret underminers" of the church and commonwealth.—Nonconformity in Cheshire. Introduction, xiv.