AN

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

Chiefly of England,

FROM THE FIRST PLANTING OF CHRISTIANITY, TO THE END OF

THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES THE SECOND;

WITH A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE

AFFAIRS OF RELIGION IN IRELAND.

COLLECTED FROM THE BEST ANCIENT HISTORIANS, COUNCILS, AND RECORDS,

BY

JEREMY COLLIER, M.A.

NEW EDITION,

WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, THE CONTROVERSIAL TRACTS CONNECTED

CONTENTS

OF

THE SIXTH VOLUME.

PART II.-BOOK V.

Queen Mary, in danger of being surprised, retires into Norfolk, 1.-She writes to the

council, and claims their allegiance, 1.-They deny her title, and advise her to acqui-

esce, 2.-The lady Jane proclaimed, but accepts the title unwillingly, 3.-Several

persons of condition declare for queen Mary, 4.-Northumberland commands the

army for the lady Jane, 4.-Bishop Ridley preaches for the lady Jane's interest, 5.—

The fleet comes into the queen's service, 6.—She promises the Suffolk men not to

make any change in religion, 6.-She is proclaimed in London, 8.—The council

declare for the queen, 8.-She pardons most of those who had appeared against her, 9.

-The deprived bishops restored, 10.-A disorder at Paul's Cross, 11.-The queen

promises not to alter religion, 12.-All preaching without the queen's license forbid-

den, 12. The legality of the proclamation examined, 12.-The Roman Catholic

clergy censured by Saunders, 13.-Several of the reformed bishops committed, 14.-

The duke of Northumberland's trial, 14.-His speech, and character, 15.-Archbishop

Cranmer's manifesto, 16.—He is summoned before the council and committed, 17.—

His resolution, 18.—Peter Martyr permitted to quit the kingdom, 18.-Several of the

reformed withdraw beyond sea, 19.-Horne's apology for retiring, 20.-Treasons

enacted in the two last reigns repealed, 21.—The posture of affairs in the universities,

21.-The Oxford address penned by Jewel, 22.-Several ejected in both universities, 23.

-Holgate, archbishop of York, imprisoned, 23.—The marriage between king Henry

and Catharine of Spain declared lawful by the parliament, 24.-Several statutes touch-

ing religion repealed, 25.-An act against disturbing preachers, 26.-The duke of

Norfolk's attainder repealed, 27.—The parliament dissolved, 28.-Commendone sent

to the queen by cardinal Pole, 29.-The queen solicited to marry, 29.-She makes choice

of Philip of Spain, 30.-She resolves to close with the court of Rome, 30.-Cardinal

Pole stopped by the emperor in his journey to England, 31.—The queen writes to the

cardinal, 31.—Pole's instructions to Goldwell, 32.-The parliament dissolved, 33.—

Archbishop Cranmer, the lady Jane, &c., tried for treason, 36.—The archbishopric

vacant upon his attainder, 36.—The convocation meets, October 6, 37.—A dispute con-

cerning transubstantiation, 39.-Cheyney argues from a text of St. Paul, 39.-Ailmer

disputes from Theodoret, 40.-Philips urges a testimony of St. Austin, 40.—Christ

affirmed to eat his own body at the institution of the holy eucharist, 41.-This disproved

by Philpot, 41.-Philpot argues farther against transubstantiation, 42.-The testimony

of St. Chrysostom argued pro and con,43.--Cheyney argues against the corporal presence,

from Irenæus and Hesychius, 45.-Philpot argues against transubstantiation from the

property of human bodies, 47.-Whether the Church was before the Scriptures, 48.—

The convocation dissolved, 48.-The articles of the marriage between the queen and

king Philip, 48.-Pretences to draw the people into rebellion, 49.-The revolt headed

by the duke of Suffolk and Wyat, 50.-Sir John Cheek's death, 51.-Wyat encamps

at Rochester, 51.-Captain Brett and the Londoners desert to him, 52.-The duke of

Suffolk attempts to raise Warwickshire, but miscarries, 52.-The queen's speech at

Guildhall, 53.-Wyat marches to London, 53.-Loses time, 54.-And surrenders

himself, 55. The lady Jane and the lord Guilford executed, 56.-Her speech upon

the scaffold; her character, 56.-The duke of Suffolk beheaded, 57.-Wyat executed,

58. Wyat clears the princess Elizabeth and the earl of Devonshire at his death, 58.-

Rebelling upon the score of religion an unwarrantable expedient, 58.—Goodman's

justification of Wyat's rebellion, 61.-Some of the tenets of a book intitled "A Short

Treatise of Politic Power," 61.-A proclamation for foreigners to quit the kingdom,

62.-Articles sent down by the queen to all the bishops, 63.-Two commissions issued

out for depriving seven bishops, 64.—The reformed bishops turned out by the queen's

commission, and not by any synodical authority, 67.-The inferior clergy ejected upon

the score of marriage, 68.-The secular clergy not obliged to part with their wives,

and why, 69.—A new parliament, 70.—A farther account of the articles of the queen's

marriage, 70.-Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer conveyed to Oxford to dispute, 71.—

The convocation meets, April 3, 72.-The three questions for the disputation, 72.-

April 16, Cranmer's opinion concerning the sacrifice in the mass, 73.-Latimer's

belief concerning the real presence, 75.-Cranmer opposes Harpsfield, 75.-St. Chry-

sostom's passages concerning the holy eucharist to be construed by his epistle to Cæsa-

rius, and why, 76.-The bishops ill-used at the disputation, 77.-They are condemned

for heretics, 78.-A remark upon the censure, 78.-The archbishop's letter to the

privy council, 79.-A declaration touching matters of belief, set forth by several of

the reformed clergy in prison, 80.-Some irregularities of the reformed, 82.-The

arrival of king Philip, 83.-The marriage solemnized, 83.-Bonner's visitation, 84.-

The queen's direction to the privy council touching religion, 85.—Cardinal Pole's

arrival, 86.-His speech to both houses of parliament, 86.—The absolution pronounced

by the cardinal, 90.-Gardiner's sermon upon this occasion, 91.-Embassy to Rome, 91.

-The pope dies, 92.-The queen endeavours to promote Pole to the popedom, 92.—

The queen believed to be with child, 92.—Public prayers upon this occasion, 92.-An

unchristian prayer with relation to the queen, 93.-—An act to prevent such misbehaviour,

93. The convocation's address, that the cardinal would not insist on the restitution of

Church lands, 94.-A repeal of the statutes against the see of Rome, 95.-An address

of the lower house of convocation for recovering the privileges of the Church, 97.-

The statutes against heresy revived, 99.—The cardinal's commission for absolving the

province of Canterbury, 100.-He recommends gentle methods with the reformed,

101.-Gardiner moves for extremities in some cases, 101.-The preachers in prison

address the king, queen, and parliament, 102.-Some provocations given the govern-

ment, 103.-Several burnt for heresy, 105.-Bishop Hooper burnt at Gloucester, 106.

-And bishop Farrar at Carmarthen, 107.-Bishop Coverdale sent to Denmark, 108.

-The queen resolved to restore the abbey-lands in her possession, 108.-Pope Paul

IV. pretends to give Ireland the title of a kingdom, 109.-His bull allowed by the

queen, 109.-The pope demands full restitution of what has been alienated from the

Church, 109.-Flower wounds a priest at the altar, 110.-Several burnt for religion,

111. A remark upon the persecution, 112.-Gardiner refuses to proceed in sanguinary

methods, 113.-King Philip suspected for these rigors, 113.-King Philip's confessor

preaches against the persecution, 113.-The court complains of Bonner's remissness,

114. A proclamation against heretical books, 114.-Barrengdein's recognizance, 114.

-A petition against prosecuting the reformed, 115.-A defence of the proceedings

against heretics, 117.-Cranmer brought before the commissioners at Oxford, 120.-

Ridley and Latimer pronounced heretics, 121.-They are brought to the stake, 122.-

Something touching their character, 123.-Gardiner's death and character, 125.-A

story in Fox disproved, 125.-Gardiner's contest with Smith and Check about the

pronunciation of Greek, 126.-White, bishop of Winchester, 127.-First-fruits and

tenths restored by act of parliament to the Church, 128.-The convocation, 129.-

Cardinal Pole's plan for the reformation of both houses in convocation, 129.-Philpot

burnt in Smithfield, 135.—The final process against Cranmer, 135.-He appeals from

the pope to a general council, 136.-His belief concerning the holy eucharist, 137.—

His appeal is overruled, 137.-He is degraded, and put into the hands of the civil

magistrate, 137.-He signs a recantation of his doctrine, 138.-Dr. Cole's sermon at

Cranmer's execution, 140.-Cranmer's exhortation to the people, 141.-He recants

his recantation, 141.-He suffers with great fortitude, 142.-Something of his charac-

ter, 143.-Pole consecrated archbishop of Canterbury, 143.-A plot to rob the trea-

sury, 143.—An insurrection in Norfolk, 144.-An account of the misunderstanding

between the English refugees in Germany, 144.-An English Church opened at

Frankfort, 144.-The English at Zurich refuse to use any other form excepting the

English Common Prayer, 145.-Knox comes from Geneva, and is chosen minister at

Frankfort, 145.-Those at Strasburg offer something towards an accommodation, 146.

-Knox declines making use of the Geneva form till farther consultation, 147.—A

compromise proposed by Leaver, but rejected, 147.-The Knoxians censure the Com-

mon Prayer in their letter to Calvin, 148.-Calvin's answer, 148.-A compromise of

the difference, 149.-Cox, his party admitted to vote in the congregation, and become

a majority, 150.—A conference, 150.—A charge of high treason against Knox, 151.-

He quits Frankfort and retires to Geneva, 151.—The English Common Prayer-book

received at Frankfort, 152.-Bullinger's censure, 152.-Dr. Cox forms the Church

towards the English constitution, 152.-He writes to Calvin, 152.-Calvin's answer,

152.-A general account of the persecution, 153.—The queen founds several religious

houses, 156.—And the hospital in the Savoy, 157.—An attempt to settle some monks

at Glastonbury, 157.-An insurrection in the North, 158.-The queen declares war

against France, 159.-The pope takes away Pole's legatine character, and commands

him to Rome, 160.-The queen's letter to dissuade the pope from calling back the

cardinal, 160.-King Philip gains a battle against the French at St. Quintin's, 161.—

The Norfolk and Suffolk addresses for liberty of conscience, 162.-They declare

against the lawfulness of resistance, 162.—A farther account of the differences between

the English at Frankfort, 162.-The service used by the English refugees at Geneva,

165.-The election of ministers and elders' consistory, 165.-A discretionary latitude

allowed for extempore prayer, 166.-Excommunication not to pass upon any person

without the consent of the congregation, 168.-Some articles of inquiry set forth by

cardinal Pole, 169.-Orders from the privy council, 170.-A peace between the king

of Spain and the pope, 171.-The queen-regent of Scotland breaks the peace with

England, 171.-Calais, &c., taken by the duke of Guise, 172.-A parliament and

convocation, 173.-A commission to inquire into heresy, sedition, &c., 174.-The

Lutherans had an ill opinion of the English Reformation, and why, 176.-The queen's

death, 177.-Part of her funeral sermon, 177.-Something farther of her character,

179. Two colleges founded in Oxford, 179.-Cardinal Pole's character and death,

180.