Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

VI.
1636 AND 1866.
BY THE BEY. FEEDEEICK GEOEGE LEE, D.C.L.
ESERAL SECRETARY OP THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE
UJflTY OF CHRISTENDOM.
WHEN
King Charles the First ascended
the throne, there were those living whose
parents had known England prior to the ecclesi
astical breach, under Henry the Eighth, with
the rest of Western Christendom. These
latter had remembered the religious houses and
chantries unspoiled and undestroyed, before the
division between Rome and England seemed
complete and consolidated. Father Buckley,
Sigebert
the last surviving monk of West
minster, had died in the ninety-third year of
his age, only fifteen years ago. The memories
of More, Whiting of Glastonbury, and Fisher
had not been forgotten ; nor the words of good
counsel from others who, loving peace rather
than discord, and truth better than peace,
earnestly pleaded for a policy of moderation,