It has been sold, as Hugh Latimer testified, in England herself.

But with the English Court's independence of the Holy See came the principles of civil and religious freedom.
Few things annoyed Froude more than the attacks of Macaulay and other Liberals on Cranmer.

This was not merely sentimental attachment on Froude's part to the compiler of the Prayer Book.

He looked on the Marian Martyrs as the precursors of the Long Parliament and of the Revolution, the champions of liberty in church and State.

He would have felt that he was doing less than his duty if he had taught his pupils mere facts.