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 Struggle in England between King and Parliament 66 S both itself and the government by following a middle course, William which should lie between that of the Church of Rome and that archbiSiop^ of Calvinistic Geneva. He declared that it was the part of of Canterbury good citizenship to conform outwardly to the services of the Fig. 228. John Hampden state church, but that the State should' not undertake to oppress the individual conscience, and that every one should be at liberty to make up his own mind in regard to the interpretation to be given to the Bible and to the church fathers. As soon as he became archbishop he began a series of visitations through his province. Every clergyman who refused to conform to the