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 LECTURE II

week I traced the history of the first seven centuries of Christianity in our land. We saw how the Church was planted in England, and we watched it grow to what it was through many struggles and disappointments.

It is impossible in a few short lectures even to touch upon the chief outlines of all the events which have agitated the Church of England. To-night I shall have to pass over a good many years following the events related in the last Lecture. I will dwell more especially upon our struggles to resist the autocratic and domineering conduct of the Popes from the time of William the Conqueror's rule in England,