Among the high churchmen of this period, we may mention Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) and, later on, William Law (1686–1761), who left the Church of England in 1714 because he refused to swear allegiance to the Hanoverian dynasty. The latitudianarians were mainly clergy of an academic bent who rejected dogmatism in theology and promoted what amounted to freedom of thought. In liturgical matters they were usually closer to the low church than to the high, but they did not sympathize