Excerpt from Three Essays: The Maintenance of the Church of England

Very few words are necessary to introduce these Essays to the reader.

They originated in the following circumstances: -

On June 9, 1871, soon after the decisive rejection by the House of Commons of Mr. Miall's Motion to disestablish the Church of England, Mr. H. W. Peek, M.P. for Mid-Surrey, called together several of his friends, including various members of both Houses of Parliament, and others of the Clergy and Laity, and laid before them the considerations following: -

1st. That though the mass of the people of Great Britain are both by principle and by habit deeply attached to their Church, great ignorance prevails as to its true relation to the State, and as to the grounds upon which such relation is to be defended and maintained.

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