henrician

Example Sentences

• "With the recovery of religion in recent years more space became necessary; sometimes the great screens were removed, sometimes the services themselves were transferred to the nave, but in no single instance, I believe, was a screen erected in post-Henrician times as W. E. P. states, and for the purpose he has indicated."
• "The reader who is approaching for the first time the Henrician period, that compost heap for our modern political and religious institutions, will find this book as complete and useful a compilation of all the standing scholarship as he could wish."
• "He worked loyally for Edward VI, and Elizabeth for as long as he was allowed to. He was more Henrician than Gardiner,[…]."
• "Their reasons were many, but among them would surely have figured a doubt about the Henrician church, both in its theology and in its changes to the established pattern of clerical life."
• "The king seals his faith in Cranmer with what is piously not quite an oath (a more Henrician than Protestant one): 'God's blest mother, | I swear he is true-hearted' (154–5)."
• "Contemporary with St. Bernard’s mission to Languedoc is a letter addressed to him by Evervin, Provost of Steinfeld, imploring his aid against heretics recently discovered at Cologne—some Manichseans and others, evidently Henricians, who had betrayed themselves by their mutual quarrels. These Henricians boasted that their sect was numerously scattered throughout all the lands of Christendom, and their zeal is shown by an allusion to those among their number who perished at the stake."