test-abolishing

Updated: May 7, 2025

Yet this was the man who, for the High Church party at Oxford, with its headquarters at Christ Church, under the flag of Doctor Pusey and Canon Liddon, was the symbol and embodiment of all heresy; whose University salary as Greek professor, which depended on a Christ Church subsidy, was withheld for years by the same High-Churchmen, because of their inextinguishable wrath against the Liberal leader who had contributed so largely to the test-abolishing legislation of 1870 legislation by which Oxford, in Liddon's words, was "logically lost to the Church of England."

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1