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Reality was his constant quest. It troubled him
little to adopt the form of worship used in the
Anglican Church, and in a few months the Act of
Toleration was passed which began for modern
England its career of freedom, hastening the time
when the free churchmen should exceed by seats *in
the chapel and church edifices the Conformists.
Yet before matters in New York settled down to
peace under liberty, there was to take place " the
Leisler episode," the truth concerning which has
so long suffered eclipse.