Excerpt from Annals of the Low-Church Party in England, Down to the Death of Archbishop Tait, 1888, Vol. 1 This work is intended to be a contribution to the modern history of the Church of England; and of the Church of England exclusively, and not of her Irish sister, or of any of her Colonial or other daughters. This will account for the omission of much matter which might otherwise have been inserted, such as the rise of the Reformed Episcopal Church (or Churches, for the schism has already, like a hydra, become double). An excuse is perhaps needed for my use of the badly shaped adjective low-church. The term Evangelical is well known as that which the members of the party take to themselves. But I could not use it in reference to them without implying that I am myself not evangelical; which no minister of Christ could for a moment admit without denying his own principles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.