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Excerpt from Lives of the English Martyrs, Vol. 2: Declared Blessed by Pope Leo XIII. In 1886 and 1895 Though much constancy was displayed up and down the country,3 though England would never have changed at all if force had not been applied, still, the resistance was, it must be confessed, small. Unconstitutional pressure brought to bear by the Crown on a people so childlike in the trust they reposed in their rulers, so childish in their incapacity for self-help, had all the evil effect that might have been expected. The practice of the faith was laid aside with lamentable rapidity, considering the tenacity with which it should have been maintained. 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.