...one more or less of conjecture, and one cannot be sure of facts. However, our author continues : " The reinstated specimens are not offered as models...population at the intrusion of a foreign and onerous Xühurch sway, bringing with it a ministry to which a goaded people imputed fraud and exaction. As...

...it was a sad time for the poor farmers and their labourers, ground and oppressed as they were by " a foreign and onerous church-sway, bringing with it...ministry to which a goaded people imputed fraud and vexation." Loud and vigorous though, as it appears, useless were the outcries of the oppressed ; much...