This was no sooner agreed to than it was departed from
at the instance of a Dr. Cox, who refused to dispense with
the portions wliich had been objected to. This led to a
secession, and part of the congregation withdrew to ■
Geneva, wliere they discarded the service book entirely,
and substituted in its place the Genevan form of wor-

>. ship and discipline. The two parties became known as

' Conformists and Puritans. The death of Mary, the
jiccession gf Elizabeth, and her supposed sympathy with
the work of the Eeformation, jjidi;icp.d. the .fixijej^ hn^v.&.turri'
to their native land. " They came home threadbare,"
says Strype, " bringing nothing with them, but much

1 experience as well as learning."

Xf Elizabeth was not slow to take,a,,ds;antage of her nosi-
_tiQiL by asserting her absolute authority. The ecclesiastical

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edifice reared by Elizabeth rested mainly upon t_wq_pillars,
^he Act of Supremacy and the Act of Uniformity. These
' continued in force for more than a_;Century, and the system
built upon them, setting aside the period of the Long
Parliament and that of the Commonwealth, existed un-
changed till the passing of the Toleration Act in 1689 ^

The Act of Supremacy was entitled, A71 Ad restoring
to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction over the State,
ecclesiastical and sjnritual, and abolishing all foreign power
repugnant to the same.
