He believed in the Church of his childhood, and, unless the word be used in the narrow sense of the clerical profession, he never left it to the end of his days.

It was to him, as it was to his father, a Protestant Church, out of communion with Rome, cut off from the Pope and his court by the great upheaval of the sixteenth century.

It is unreasonable, and indeed foolish, to say that that opinion disqualified him to be the historian of Henry VIII., and Mary Tudor, and Elizabeth.

The Catholicism of Lingard is not considered to be a disqualification by sensible Protestants.
Froude's faults as an historian were of a different kind, and had nothing to do with his ecclesiastical views.

He was not the only Erastian, nor was he an Erastian pure and simple.