CHAP. VIII.

Criminal Prosecutions on the Statutes regulating the Succession

to the Crown, and conferring on Henry the eighth the title

of Supreme Head of the Church of England:

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page 61

ib.

64

3. Other executions for the denial of the King's

Spiritual Supremacy

70

CHAP. XI.

Monastic Institutions :

Orders;

1.-Origin of the Monastic Institution ;-its principal

72

73

2.-Advantages derived from the Religious Orders. 77

89

90

95

1. The suppression of the Knights Templars;

2. The suppression of the Alien Priories;

3.-License granted by the Pope to cardinal Wolsey,

to dissolve several of the smaller Monasteries; 96

4. The dissolution of the remaining smaller Monas-

teries;

5.-The dissolution of the greater Monasteries;

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97

98

6. The loss, which learning sustained by the dissolu-

CHA P. XII.

Ecclesiastical Regulations in his reign:

page 104

1. Preliminary view of the different religious Sys-

tems;-of the Lutherans ;-Zuinglians ;-and

Calvinists; their different notions respecting

the ceremonial of religion, and the subjection of

its ministers to the state :-short mention of the

religious tenets of the primitive Anabaptists; 105

2.-Ecclesiastical regulations in the reign of Henry the

eighth, respecting the general reading of the

Bible in the English language, by the Laity ;-and

some account of the Anglo-Saxon Versions ;-

Tyndale's ;-Coverdale's ;-The edition of the

Bible by Cranmer ;-the Proclamations and legis-

lative enactments respecting them"; ·

3.-Ecclesiastical regulations of Henry respecting the

Faith and Devotions of his subjects; his Primer

-Ten Articles of Faith ;—Institution of a Chris-

tian Man;-Six Articles;

4.-Persecutions of those who opposed the Faith and

Doctrine of Henry; -

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108

114

117

5.-The death of Henry the eighth ;—Genealogical

Account of the descendants from Henry the

seventh till the Accession of the Stuart Dy-

nasty;

119

Edward the Sixth

CHAP. XIII.

121

1.-The regulations respecting the election of Bishops,

and the new admission of the actual Bishops to

their Sees;

122

* The author states in page 110, that the most ancient English translation
of the Bible is that of Wicliffe, This is a mistake; "The hole Byble
"was long before Wycliffe's days, by virtuous and well learned men
"translated into the English tong; and by good and godly people, with
"devotion and soberness, wel and reverently red." Sir Thomas Moore,
“Dial, III. c. 14. In the preface to Wicliffe's Bible by Lewis, mention is
made of two English translations of part of the Bible still existing in мs. and
anterior to Wycliffe's,

6. The suppression of Colleges, Hospitals and Chaun-

teries; general destruction of their Libraries, and

of the sacred or secular articles of use or ornament

belonging to them;

127

7.-Religious Persecutions during the reign of Edward

the sixth;

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CHAP. XIV.

Principal Ecclesiastical Occurrences in the reign of Queen

Mary, 1553;

131

1.—The return of the English nation to Communion

with the See of Rome;

2.-Persecution of the Protestants for Heresy ;

3-Execution of archbishop Cranmer ;

133

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3.-Division of the nation into a Catholic and a Protes-

tant party;

4.-Subdivision of the Protestants into Lutherans; 147

5.-Zuinglians;

148

7.-The Queen's preference of the Protestant party; 150

8.-Notification of her election to Pope Paul the

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fourth;

9.--Conciliatory proceedings of Pius the fourth 152

CHAP. XVI.

Queen Elizabeth declared head of the Church of England: 153

1.-Legislative Acts, conferring the Supremacy on

Elizabeth, and enjoining the Oath of Supre-

macy;

- 154

2. An Inquiry into the nature and extent of the

Spiritual Supremacy conferred by these acts on

ib.

1. Sanguinary Laws against the Catholics; -

2.-Probable amount of those who suffered Death under

Reasons assigned to justify the sanguinary Laws, enacted in

the reign of Queen Elizabeth against Catholics and the

rigorous execution of them: -

192

193

1. First reason assigned for the sanguinary Laws

against the Catholics;-the Bull of Pius the fifth,

and its renewal by Gregory the thirteenth and

Sixtus the fifth;

2.-Second reason.--The maintenance of the deposing

doctrine by the Missionary Priests; and the

activity of some English Priests, in giving effect

to the Bulls of Pius the fifth, and Sixtus the

fifth; -

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3.--Third reason,-Unsatisfactory Answers of the Priests

to the Six Questions on the deposing power of the

Pope, proposed to them by the Queen's Com-

missioners ;-Division of opinions of the Clergy on

this subject;

page 208

4.-Fourth reason,-The Establishment of the Foreign

Seminaries and the Missionary labours of their

Priests

5-Assertion that the Priests were executed, not for

their Religion, but for their commission of acts of

High Treason.

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CHAP. XX.

Alleged Plots of the Catholics against Queen Elizabeth: - 246

1. The Insurrection of the earls of Northumberland

2. The Treason of Francis Throckmorton;

3-Doctor Parry's project of Assassination ;

James the first, his Dispositions towards the English Catholics

at the time of his Accession to the throne.

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