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Days, the Ember weeks and Rogationtide ; another asked whether he did 

 or did not wear surplice and hood.^^ These were for the Puritan ; for the 

 restored Royalist the questions were whether his hair was of an immoderate 

 or uncomely length/' whether he wore 'any coif, and wrought night caps, or 

 only plain night caps of silk, sattin, or velvet,' whether he wore ' any light- 

 coloured stockings,' or whether his dress was the ' gown with a standing collar, 

 and wide sleeves strait at the hands, and a square cap ' prescribed by the canon. 



The returns for the archdeaconry of St. Albans have been preserved 

 They show that the services and usage of the Church of England were being 

 restored without much difficulty though William Joel, vicar of Sarratt, 

 confessed that ' he did not constantly use the Surplis, nor Read the Prayers 

 accordinge to the Rubrick' ; moreover, the churchwardens ' declared that he 

 could not Read y^ Prayers for y® Quecne and the Duke.' ' My lord monished 

 him,' '^ and apparently Joel heard no more of the matter, for he was vicar 

 until his death in 1702.^^ 



Joel's attitude towards Roman Catholicism was probably that of the 

 majority of Hertfordshire folk both clerical and lay, for when James II was 

 succeeded by William and Mary very few in this county refused to take the 

 oath to the new rulers." In the archdeaconry of Huntingdon Alexander 

 Horton, rector of Norton, was deprived, and the same fate met Richard 

 Milles, vicar of Ridge, and William Sherlock, the controversialist rector of 

 Therfield, who both, however, afterwards complied.''* The curates of Eastwick 

 and Cheshunt were also nonjurors, while the oath was refused by Arthur 

 Battel, an usher at Hertford School, by Aaron Hodgson, an usher at Stanstead 

 Abbots, and by one Pulford, who may have been a layman.*"' The most 

 distinguished of this small body was Nathaniel Salmon,'*" who gave up his 

 curacy of Westmill and devoted the rest of his life to that study of the 

 antiquities of the county that produced his History of Hertfordshire. 



This ejection of High Churchmen following that of the extreme men 

 of the opposite school left the moderates in possession. Unfortunately that 

 fear of enthusiasm which is always present with those in authority had 

 spread to the middle classes ; preaching had lost its novelty, sacramental 

 teaching had been allied with abandoned political theories and survived their 

 discredit hardly. The Restoration had been followed by a great revival of 

 religious zeal that found expression in London in the building of churches 

 and the forming of the great missionary societies.'^ In the country no such 

 salient features of the change present themselves, but the stimulus was both 

 needed and felt, for there was much work to be done to the fabric of the 

 churches and to their equipment. Still more serious was the necessity laid 



21 Articles to be enquired of within the Archdeaconry of St. Albans . . . 1662 ; Articles to be enquired of 

 within the Archdeaconry of Middlesex, 1662. 



^^ Articles to be enquired of within the Archdeaconry of St. Albans . . . 1662. 



^' Articles to be enquired of within the Archdeaconry of Middlesex, 1662. 



"^ Visit. 1662 (Lond. Epis. Reg.). '^'^ Ibid. 



2S Urwick, op. cit. 335 ; Newcourt, Repert. i, 883. He had married in 1662 Mary widow of Henry 

 Child, the patron of the living (Urwick, loc. cit.). " Overton, The Nonjurors, 481. 



28 Ibid. 486 ; Newcourt, Repert. i, 874 ; Visit. 1680 (Lond. Epis. Reg.) ; Urwick, op. cit. 8zl n. ; 

 Did. Nat. Biog. 



2^ Overton, op. cit. 472, 481, 890. Charles Bankes is here called vicar, not curate, of Cheshunt, but 

 this seems to be 'a mistake (Newcourt, Repert. i, 822). '° Overtoru op. cit. 491 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 



31 See F.C.H. Lond. i, 341, 353-4- 



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