Excerpt from A History of the English Church, Vol. 2 of 2: During the Civil Wars and Under the Commonwealth, 1640-1660 On the 23rd of May, 1646, the Long Parliament had consented to a compromise with the clergy. For the scheme of County Commissioners, to control action of presbyteries in cases of unenumerated scandals, a central single standing Parliamentary Committee was appointed. To the Presbyterian spirit it was by far the less of two evils; and, making up their minds to the situation, the clergy accepted the compromise, and decided to act in the long delayed setting up of the Government. Hardly more than a fortnight later, the House passed an order requesting all the ministers in the parishes of London and the Classes of the Inns of Court and Sergeants Inns forthwith to put in execution the ordinance concerning Church government. 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.