20 JULY 1912, Page 17

ESTABLISHED PROTESTANTISM.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—In the "Speech of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, spoken at his death upon the scaffold on the Tower Hill, January 10th, 1C44," occur the following words: "I desire it may be remembered I have always lived in the Protestant religion established in England, and in that I come now to die." Dying words are said to bear a special impress of reality, and it seems a little hard that those who use the same expression as that voiced by the dying Archbishop, the whole- hearted Catholic Laud, should be so much abused in this year