I appreciate all the responses to the question of the origin of the Episcopal church. I will pass them on to the author of D'Arcy .... Donna Southall. Now, if I may, a question of the early Church services in Jamestown. I've always gotten the impression that they were a somewhat irreligious group, but in the book D'Arcy, she has the hero arriving by ship in time for sabbath worship, that lasted many hours, and when he nodded off, he was clapped in the stocks for his transgression. The typical sabbath was three hours of preaching, a communal lunch, and back to church for two more hours of preaching. An awful lot of preaching that one cannot go to sleep on!These events, to me, sound more like the practices of the Puritans than the Anglicans. Am I wrong? Anne Anne Pemberton [log in to unmask] http://www.erols.com/stevepem http://www.erols.com/apembert http://www.educationalsynthesis.org To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html