By contrast to the notion of civil tolerance, in early modern Europe the subjects were required to attend the state church; This attitude can be described as "territoriality" or "religious uniformity", and its underlying assumption is brought to a point by a statement of the Anglican theologian Richard Hooker: "There is not any man of the Church of England but the same man is also a member of the commonwealth; nor any man a member of the commonwealth, which is not also of the Church of England."