Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — English Religions. [ARTICLE]

English Religions.

They reckon above twenty sorts of religion in London, every one having liberty of conscience to live according to his fancy. I was there in Lent; but little appearance of it was to be seen unless in the palace of St. Marcel (Somerset House), which belonged to the deceased Queen mother of England, in the chapel of which there are some Capuchins, who say many masses every day, and on Sundays service is performed there with great devotion. These Capuchins baptize and marry the Cathclics of London, and when they go to carry the sacrament to any one in the town they are dressed like gentlemen, and you would sometimes rather take them for captains than Capuchins; but they are obliged to do this to avoid the insults of the passengers and lower citizens.— Jorevin de Rocheford, 1672.