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 LECTURE III

I am going to speak of that change which took place in the Church of England known as the Reformation. The time covered by the events about to be related extends from the twentieth year of the reign of Henry VIII., 1529, to the death of Queen Elizabeth in the year 1603. The object which I have in view to-night is to show what the Reformation really was. As I have already stated, many people assert, and some of them believe, that at the Reformation an entirely new Church was made in England, and that before