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Responses to the reformation seem often to have been motivated less powerfully by spiritual convictions than by emotional loyalties. One such loyalty was to former generations. This, by nourishing a reverence for tradition and a fear of innovation, might subconciously strengthen commitment to the old faith and engender suspicion of the new. A Sussex priest, in about 1538, longed for ‘the old fashion again’, while the southwestern rebels, in 1549, sought to restore the religion of ‘our forefathers’. Protestantism was dismissed by an Oxford preacher in 1536 as a ‘new sect’, and by the northern rebels in 1569 as a ‘new found religion’.1
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Whiting, R. (1998). Emotional Loyalties. In: Local Responses to the English Reformation. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26487-2_19
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