ABSTRACT
An afterword can be many things but never the last word. As the appendix to Andrew Foster's absorbing chapter shows, virtually all the ecclesisasts associated with Chichester Cathedral were alumni of Oxford or Cambridge. Quinn argues that John Foxe, whose Acts and Monuments so shaped the later puritan outlook, tidied up serious dissensions that simmered between Sussex Protestants, smoothing over convictions that divided Predestinarians from others who might broadly be described as Free Willers. Foster's comments on Chichester Cathedral's library link usefully to work in this volume by Daniel Starza Smith, who presents new manuscript evidence about where Bishop Henry King acquired his books, who else owned or read them, and where they ended up after the 1642 siege of Chichester. In the north and south transepts of Chichester Cathedral, the casual visitor is struck by two enormous panel paintings fixed upon the ancient walls.
