They forgot that the English Protestants not only retaliated on the Catholics when they got into power, but that the Bishops from whose fury, as John Milton said, our own Pilgrim Fathers fled, were Protestant Bishops and not Catholic.
Hoar highlights the retaliatory nature of religious persecution, emphasizing that it was Protestant Bishops who persecuted Catholics.
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