ABSTRACT
Tractarians, so long as they did not ‘go over to Rome’, and evangelicalswere two sides of the same Anglican coin. Methodists and other Non-conformists might be seen as overexcited, disrespectful of the
proper ordering of society and even vulgar, but Roman Catholics were a
different matter altogether, for they had the taint of the foreign about
them; not the old Catholic families, of course, but the newcomers, the
streams of poverty-stricken Irish immigrants, as well as some high-profile
Tractarians who went over to Rome.
