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subjects towards their ruler; they live as he lives, believe
what he believes: in one word, do everything he
commands . . . they would accept Mohammedanism or
Judaism if the king believed in it, and it was the king’s will
that they should believe in it.’ To a foreign observer the
religious behavior of the English at that time looked most
peculiar. Religious uniformity remained the rule, as on the
Continent, but religion changed with each sovereign. After
having been schismatic under Henry VIII, and Protestant
under Edward VI, England became again, and without any
serious upheaval, Roman Catholic under Mary Tudor. (78)
Merely nationalist excitement about the English
vernacular was embedded in religious controversy in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Religion and politics had
become so interfused as to be indistinguishable. The Puritan