SOURCE: "English Political Sermons, 1603-1640," in The Huntington Library Quarterly, No. 1, October, 1939, pp. 1-22.
In the following essay, Davies examines the role played by English political sermons in forming public opinion about the country's government, and studies the "highly significant attempt by the crown to control pulpit utterances."
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