ABSTRACT
The ‘No Popery’ cry expressed feelings as easily aroused by imitations of Catholicism as by the real thing. Although educated opinion towards the end of the century may have become more tolerant of Rome, it was still unprepared to put up with Romanism in the national Church. The last illustration of ‘No Popery’ is, therefore, a great legal struggle over ritualism; a case in which all the old fears of Catholic practice rose again to the surface to be turned against a prelate of the State Church—the case of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, whose trial before the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1890 was one of the most important, as well as one of the most extraordinary episodes in the religious history of the nineteenth century.
