A clergymen, Nowell, expelled from the Commons

Sad story of Justice Hales .

Troubles of Thomas Mountain.

Troubles of Lawrence Saunders, afterwards martyred

The Parliamentary session resumed

Act affirming the legitimacy of the Queen.

It charges Cranmer with the divorce of Katharine and Henry

It makes no mention of the papal authority

Act to repeal all the statutes of Edward concerning religion.

It made no mention of the papal authority

Remarkable language of the preamble.

It repealed nine Acts: those on uniformity, marriage of priests,

books and images, ordering of ministers, holidays

It set a day, December 20, for the Latin service instead of the English 66

It restored religion to the state of the last year of Henry VIII.

It left many of the clergy under danger, though it was not of itself an

Act of pains and penalties

Act against disturbers of ministers

Act against unlawful assemblies

.

Ib.

67

68

Trial of Cranmer, the Lady Jane, and some of the Dudleys, for

treason, November 13

Ib.

Cranmer's letter to the Queen .

The Sermon and Orations

Their condemnation confirmed by Parliament

He desires leave to open his mind to her in matters of religion

His see put in commission

Other Acts of the session

The abbey and chantry lands not to be restored: the session ends,

December 6.

Convocation, October 7

Mass celebrated at the high altar of St. Paul's

Weston, in his speech, denies that the Prayer Book ever passed

Convocation

In the writs for this Convocation the Queen bore the title of Supreme
Head.

Convocation meet for business, October 18
Weston, the Prolocutor, denounces the Short Catechism, the Forty-
two Articles, and the English Prayer Book

This Convocation made no reference to the Papacy

Weston's two bills on the Sacrament, and to disown the Catechism,

to which he required the clergy to subscribe .

Weston takes the position that the disputation is merely to answer
objections against accepted truth

Ib.

The Disputation continued, October 25: Philpot and the Prolocutor. 78

Haddon and Watson

81

Alleged haughtiness of the bishops

Pern protests against the Prolocutor's arrangement

The Disputation continued, October 27: Cheney and Watson, Phil-

pot and the Prolocutor

The Disputation continued, October 30: Philpot, Morgan, Harps-

field, and the Prolocutor

End of the Disputation.

Proceedings of the Upper House

Articles passed

The English Service forbidden by proclamation, December 20,

according to the new Act of Parliament

The old ceremonies restored

82

87

89

90

93

The attempt to set it aside absolutely .

Rome interfered with England from the beginning of the reign .

Consistory held in Rome immediately on the news of Edward's death,

July 29

:

The Pope writes to Pole, August 2.

Pole proposed to be sent as Legate to the Emperor, the French

king, and England, August 5

The Pope's letters to that effect

Pole in the monastery of Maguzzano

He writes to Mary a great hortation, August 15

He sends an agent into England named Penning

Who is joined in Flanders with a papal agent, Commendone

Commendone sees the Queen secretly, and returns .

99

IOI

Consistory held immediately, in favour of delay, September 15
Penning, before returning, sends Pole a letter from Mary, dated
October 8.

She commits herself to the reconciliation with Rome

Pole had already set forth, about the end of September, and advanced

to Trent

Thence to Dillingen, where he is stopped by the Emperor, Cctober

He receives discouraging letters, written in Latin, from Mary,

October 28

And receives a kind reply, with enquiries about filling vacant sees

and livings, January 23, 1554

106

He sends Goldwell into England with a Commission, and Instructions

to the Queen, to renounce Supreme Head, and so on

His high notion of his dignity as Legate

He advises that individuals may be absolved before absolving the

whole realm

He thinks little of the zealous Acts of Mary's first Parliament

Bale's Admonition, addressed to Gardiner and Bonner, October 1,

printed at Rouen

He describes the position accurately

And deprecates a persecution

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108

Ib.

109

III

112

Ib.

An English version of Gardiner's old book, De Vera Obedientia, with

Bonner's alleged Preface, published twice by one Michal Wood. 114

Proof that Michal Wood was John Bale

115

CHAPTER XXIII.

A.D. 1554.

The Queen's marriage agitated

Arrival of the embassage of the Prince of Spain, January 2

Gardiner draws up the contract of marriage so as to safeguard the

realm

. 116.

117.

Ib.

He announces it, and it is coldly received, January 19

Great commotions caused by the projected marriage: especially

Wyat's rising

Case of the Princess Elizabeth: her complicity with the plots of Wyat
and Courtney

Severities exercised thereon: which have been attributed to Gardiner 119

The Greys: execution of Suffolk, February 28

And of Lady Jane.

121

122

Ib.

The story of her cruel treatment: which treatment has been attri-

buted to Gardiner

. 123

Gardiner and Ponet at the time of Wyat's rising

125.

The doctrine of tyrannicide: William Thomas

. 126

Steady progress of the restoration of the old services in the churches 128

Restoration of pillaged ornaments, in London at least

Further order taken in religion: letters of the Queen and Articles

sent into every diocese, March 4

132

These order the restoration of the canons and ecclesiastical laws, the
suppression of heresy, the observance of the holidays that were
in the later years of Henry, and uniformity of doctrine

They order the deprivation of the married clergy

They made no reference to Rome.

Seven bishops deprived

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. 136

The two commissions upon them, the one Latin, the other English. Ib.

There was no reference to Rome in the proceedings: the Queen went

on her own authority as Ordinary .

. 137

In all of them the enquiry was about marriage and the Sacrament . 138

The particulars of only one of the examinations are preserved :

regulars and the secular clergy

144

Distinction made, though to no purpose, between the surviving late

Assumption that in taking the priesthood a vow of celibacy is taken. Ib.
The deprivations in the diocese of Lichfield

In the diocese of Bath and Wells (given at length in a note)

In the diocese of London

145

In the diocese of Norwich

In the diocese of Ely

Parties in the Council

155

. 158

Ib.

160

Rivalry of Gardiner and Paget.

Change in Gardiner: his violent demeanour

Character of Paget

Various proposals and notions

Second Parliament of Mary, April 2

Great changes in the composition of the Commons

The marriage articles ratified .

The speech of Gardiner thereon

He speaks of further measures in religion

He proposes the revival of the See of Durham

Tunstall appears in the House of Commons: the bill passed

The Commons afraid of a general restitution of church lands

Bill about the Queen's power: curious debate

Other bills about the succession, and the King's person

Religious measures of this Parliament.

They take away the pensions of surviving monks married

Two bills for persecution started in the Commons, and stopped in the

Lords: : one of them was to revive the Six Articles

The Commons send up a bill to secure the abbey lands.

It is rejected, but they are assured that detainers will not be disturbed Ib.

The Queen dissolves Parliament, May 5 : melancholy meaning of her

speech

This Parliament made no acknowledgment of the papal pretensions. Ib.

Paget secretly withdraws his opposition to persecution

The attempt of the House of Commons to persecute caused wide
alarm

Several laymen fled abroad

John Fox in exile expostulates with Parliament on the apprehended
revival of the Six Articles .

Convocation

The Queen not called Supreme Head in the summons

A deputation appointed to dispute with Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer,

April 5.

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Ib.

172

. 173

1b.

174

Ib.

.

Ib.

The disputations to be held in Oxford, not London

The Convocation deputation to be reinforced by doctors of both

Universities

Philips, Dean of Rochester, recants before Convocation

.

New regulation for introducing members of the Universities to act in

Convocation

Hooper comments on the lawless spirit displayed by Convocation

Ridley and Cranmer in the Tower: leniently treated.

Latimer in the Tower, treated more rigorously

Ridley's Conferences with Latimer

Their description of the Mass, as it was become

175

Their retort to the imputation of heresy, and of forsaking the Church 179

The three bishops put in one room, with Bradford also, in the Tower 181

The three bishops sent to Oxford for the disputation, April 10

The opposing doctors collected at Oxford, April 13

The three Articles to be disputed: the Cambridge credentials

The proceedings

Cranmer brought before the delegates.

. Ib.

. 182

He denies the three Articles, and is remanded to express himself in
writing.

Ridley and Latimer successively before the delegates.

They deny the three Articles, and are remanded to express themselves

183

. 184

185

186

ль.

Ib.

Ib.

. 187

He insists on reading the answers that he had written to the Articles 195

He is at last cut short; and disputes with Smith, Harpsfield, and

others

. 196

His disputation compared with that of Cranmer

Latimer before the delegates, April 18

His written answers to the three Articles

. 198

.

He holds a sort of disputation with Weston, Smith, and Tresham

200

16.

202