It has been pointed out that it leads by an easy logical step from the Anglican to the Roman Church.

The sisters had been properly educated in their religious duties, had been taught the Anglican faith carefully and well by their governess, Fräulein Müller, who had become a staunch Anglican before entering the families of the English nobility, and by the kind Vicar of Grasmere, who took a warm interest in the orphan girls.

He was an Anglican by faith or paternal inheritance, and though he knew nothing of the real hymns, they being for Dissenters, whom he contemned, he was religious at soul and objected to making light of religion.

These societies were, of course, distinctly Anglican in origin and character, and were stamped with the High Church theology.

The clergy also preferred these Anglicans to such a strong Swiss Protestant.