Thrown out

Charles IIToday, 24 August, is the 350th anniversary of an event in English history known as The Great Ejection. On that day in 1662 a law came into effect requiring all ministers in the Church of England to use the newly published Prayer Book or face ejection from their livings. It wasn't the book itself that was the real problem. There were points over which the Puritan wing of the church in particular disagreed strongly, but it had many good features and it is still used today. Rather it w...