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 340 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 55. the English service. Their request was considered and refused, and their duties to the Church and to the Crown being thus forced into collision, the more devout among them became rapidly infected with disloyalty. The outward submission of the clergy at Elizabeth's accession is not to be construed into a real or even pre- tended approval of the changes which were then rein- troduced. They had hoped for a time that the Liturgy would have received the sanction of the Pope, and had England consented to submit to the Holy See, that sanc- tion might have been the price of the compromise. But many of them, when the hope passed away, reconciled themselves to the Catholic communion and sued for ab- solution for their unwilling apostasy. Noblemen who at first had attended the parish churches, no longer ap- peared there. The publication of the Bull precipitated the reaction, and thenceforward no one could pretend to be a sincere Catholic without at the same time de- claring himself a traitor. ' The people of Lancashire refused utterly to come any more to divine service in the English tongue/ Lord Derby forbade the further use of the Liturgy in his private chapel. 1 Grindal, who had been appointed Archbishop of York, found on arriving at his diocese that ' the gentlemen ' were ' not affected to godly religion/ They observed ' the old fasts and holidays.' * They prayed still on their strings oi beads.' In London he had been chiefly troubled with the overstraight Genevans. In the North he was in 1 The Bishop of Carlisle to Sussex, October 1 6, 1570: MSS. Border.