THE

HISTORY

OF

THE REFORMATION

OF THE

Church of England ;

BY

HENRY SOAMES, M.A.

RECTOR OF SHELLEY, IN ESSEX.

VOL. IV.

REIGNS OF THE QUEENS
MARY AND ELIZABETH.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR C. & J. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL.

PREFACE

TO THE

FOURTH VOLUME.

THE earliest historian of the English Reformation appears to have been Foxe. The venerable martyrologist, however, has rather presented us with a series of valuable documents and important statements, than with a continuous narrative. Within a few years after the appearance of his work, Sanders, a plotting English Romanist, published a copious treatise in defence of the papal supremacy, containing numerous aspersions upon those who had aided in emancipating England from that usurpThese misrepresentations were promptly exposed by Ackworth and Clerk, under the pa

ation.

b De Vis. Mon. contra Nic. Sanderi Mon. #poλeyoμeve. G. Acwortho authore.