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- Title: 227
- Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
- Date of creation: 1890
- Extent: 2pp
- Material: Paper
- Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor
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The only mode of locomotion was on horse— back over rugged tracks which were infested by brigands.
It took more than a week to travel from London to Edinburgh, and even long after the reign of' Elizabeth no one attempted that perilous journey without taking a tearful farewell of his family and making his will.
There were no public schools to educate the young, no means of difiusing the knowledge and civilising influences that were restricted to the cathedral cities and universities.
One of the chief causes of the unsettled condition of the people was the hatred engendered by the new religious feuds.
Luther, as you are aware, preached in Germany the doctrines of the Reformation during the reign of Henry VIII.
Although the king adopted its elementary principles, and Protestantism rapidly gained ground in England, it was not established, not even clearly defined in its rites and Observances for many years.
Its introduction was resisted by the Catholics with fanatical intolerance, and as the Catholics and Protestants alternately gained the upper hand each party indulged in reprisals on the other.
Thus, during the reign of Henry and his son, Edward VI., Protestantism made considerable progress, but when, upon the death of Edward, his sister, Mary Tudor, a devout Catholic, ascended the throne, the most