[3] Orthodox for the Church of England, and more broadly for followers of the Protestant Reformation, was that the cessation of miracles after the apostolic times ruled out the resort to exorcism or casting out of devils.
[4] On the other hand, a general Calvinist pattern might be applied, of thoughtful investigation of an "affliction" attributed to God, prayer and fasting, and a minister ultimately commanding a spirit to leave the afflicted person's body.
The exorcism in Norwich by its bishop John Parkhurst, in 1574, may have introduced a fast day in this context.
[6] When Richard Bancroft as Bishop of London undertook to limit Puritanism, he had the cessationist view advanced against Darrell.
[4] On the other hand, it stamped out the public use of exorcism by clergy of the church, until the period of the English Civil War.