landed possessions become an ob-
ject of cupidity to the king, 223.
Cranmer's advice to suppress them
is followed, 251. Bill to suppress
the minor convents, 253, 254. Will-
ingness of some of the friars to sur-
render their convents, and re-enter
the worldly life, 260.
Convocation, the lower house of, pe-
tition against those tenets, as errors,
which are peculiarly the Protestant,
255. The upper house of convoca-
tion not unanimous in its views, ib.
Articles of faith set forth by the
clergy in Henry VIII.'s reign, ib.
Corneford, John, and others, the last
auto-da-fé in Mary's reign, 359.
Their prophetic words, ib.
Corporeal presence in the sacrament of
the Lord's supper.
See TRANSUB-
Councils-of Bari, 77. Of Clermont,
160. Great Council of St. Alban's,
151. In St. Paul's, 152. Fourth
Lateran council, 157. Synod held
as to Wicliffe, 191-193. Council
of Constance consigns to the flames
Jerome of Prague, John Huss, also
the bones of Wicliffe, 215. Of Trent,
296, 378, 409. The conference at
Hampton Court with the Puritans,
398-407. Synod of Dort, 409.
Courtney, bishop of London, 190, 191.
Tries the reformer Wicliffe, 195. Is
made primate, 196.
Coverdale's Bible allowed to be read,
241. Completed and licensed, 263.
Prohibited, 275. He returns from
exile, 367.
Cox, Dr., preceptor to Edward VI.,
280. Bishop, 366.
Cranmer, archbishop, his character
given, 226. Succeeds Warham as
primate; desires to have the Scrip-
tures translated, 241. His advice to
Sir T. More, 246. Disputes with
Lambert the martyr, 265. The Six
Articles, enjoining celibacy as one of
them, endanger the archbishop, who
had married the daughter of Osi-
ander the reformer, 267. Cranmer
supposed in danger from Henry, 269.
The Romanists do not succeed against
him, 272. Interview with Henry
VIII. at Whitehall, 273. He is kept
standing by the Privy Council at the
door, 274. Produces the king's ring,
and appeals to him, ib. Henry's
prediction as to him, 275. Cran-
mer's renunciations of certain popish
doctrines on the accession of Ed-
ward, 281. He prepares a liturgy,
284, 294. His discretion in the
establishment of the reformed Church,
296. His severity to Joan Bocher,
297. Imprisoned at Oxford, 346. Is
the chief object of Mary I.'s hatred,
340. The Romanists hated him as
the chief promoter of the Reforma-
tion, 345. He prepares for the worst,
346. Attainted of treason for coun-
tersigning the young king's will, ib.
Solicits and obtains a pardon, ib.
With what design Mary I. pardons
him on that score, ib. Condemned
as a heretic with Latimer and Rid-
ley, ib. A new commission in his
case deemed expedient, ib. Bishop
Brooks' address to him to renounce
his errors, ib. His learning and
gentleness in his own defence, 347.
Acknowledges his marriage and his
children, ib. Cited to Rome, a mere
matter of form, ib. Bonner's insolent
exhibition of Cranmer's fallen con-
dition, ib. Being condemned, ap-
peals to a general council, and signs
a recantation, 348. Death-sermon
preached in St. Mary's church, Ox-
ford, by Dr. Cole, 349. Mercy
withheld, ib. Cole asserts that Cran-
mer is converted, 351. Cranmer's
prayer, ib. He declares his genuine
faith, 353. His regret for having
recanted, and he holds forth to the
flame his hand that signed the paper,
ib., 354. His constancy and holy
death, 354. His martyrdom the
most injurious to Rome, ib.
Cromwell, Thomas, his character, 226.
Friendly counsels to Sir T. More,
245-247.
Cromwell, Oliver, about to emigrate; is
Cromwell, Oliver-continued.
detained by an embargo, 428. Rise
of, 432. His government, 481. His
remorse, and motives of conduct, ib.
Anarchy after his death, ib.
Customs, royal; Henry II. asserts his
privileges and maintains the ancient
customs of the realm, 89, 114, 115.
Cynegils, king of Wessex, receives
baptism, 29.
Danes, landing of in England, 38.
Their wild and fierce mythology, ib.
The Scalds or Bardic historians, ib.
Odin, and the giants of Scandinavian
mythology, 39-42. Their piracy,
and many fleets commanded by
princes, 43. Voluntary death es-
teemed a means of future happiness,
ib. Their sanguinary disposition, ib.
Inhuman cruelties, ib. Torture, ib.
Human sacrifices, ib. They become
Christians in England, 44. And pro-
pagate the faith in Scandinavia, 45.
Pillage the monasteries, 50. They
burn the libraries of the monks, ib.
Dynasty of Canute and its results,
66. New invasion; they put the
archbishop of Canterbury to death,
ib. They nevertheless conform to
the Anglican Church, ib. Their ha-
bits of excess imitated by the Eng-
lish, ib.
Darcy, Lord, beheaded for engaging in
the northern rebellion against Henry
VIII., 258-260.
David, St., his reported visions at
Glastonbury, 52.
Deans, the Urban and Rural, 49.
Deira, province of, ecclesiastical anec-
dote, 14. Its celebrated king Edwin,
20-28.
Deluge, traditions of the, 11.
Dering, Sir Edward, portrait of, 432.
His bill against the vote of bishops
in Parliament, 433. He defends
the Church, 436, 449. Prints his
speeches, 450. His book burnt, and
he is expelled the House, 451. His
misfortunes, ib.
Directory of the Puritans, 474, 475.
Dissenters, the Nonconformists assume
this name, 495.
Divorce, canon against, 47.
Dobs, Sir Richard, lord mayor, 330.
Doctrine of Augustine, 17, 36.
Dominic, St., institutes his monastic
order, 183. Preaches the crusade
against the Albigenses, ib. Legends
of the Dominican monks, 184.
Adopted by the Virgin Mary, ib.
Theory of dispensations, 185.
Dominicans, their zeal in praise of their
institutor, 184. Their influence over
men's minds, 185.
Dort, synod of the Protestants at, 409,
419.
Douay, college of Jesuits, founded
by Cardinal Allen, 378. Transplant-
ed to Rheims, ib.
Druids, their belief and doctrine, 3.
Their mythi, 4. Their revenues by
prophesying, ib. Sacred fire, 5. The
mistletoe, ib. Magic and abomina-
tions, ib. Burnings, 6. Final de-
cline of their superstition, 12. Re-
sort to excommunication to enforce
their authority, ib.
Dunstan, his family, 51. Anecdotes of
his childhood, ib., 52. Legend re-
garding him at Glastonbury, 53. Is
in favour with Athelstan, ib. Musi-
cal misadventure, 54. He becomes
a monk at Glastonbury, 55. He
takes the devil by the nose, ib. Is
appointed by Edmund to be the abbot,
56.
His reform of church discipline,
58. Enforces celibacy, ib. In fa-
vour with Edred, 59. His quarrel
with King Edwy, ib. Is banished,
and the devil chuckles at the con-
fiscation of his effects at Glastonbury,
ib. Retires to Ghent, 60. Tri-
umphant return, ib. Odo's complai-
sance with regard to Dunstan's con-
secration, ib. Bishop of London, 61.
When primate, supports the preten-
sions of the Benedictine monks to
be the officiating ministers, ib. Mi-
racles, 63. His council, and the
catastrophe at Calne, the flooring
giving way, 63, 64. His death, 6-1.
Reputed sanctity, ib. In character
a monk, 65. Barefaced imposture,
ib.
Dutch, republic, establishment of the,
419.
Eadbald, king of Kent, 21. He for-
bids the Saxon idolatry, 22.
East, the philosophy of the Persians,
170.
Easter, mythological origin of the word,
12.
Ecclesiastical government in the Saxon
times, 49. Reform of the regular
and secular clergy promoted by
Ecclesiastical government-continued.
Dunstan, 57. Just administration of
the Church by Lanfranc, 71.
See
CHURCH.
Edgar chosen by the Northumbrian in-
surgents in place of King Edwy, who
is dethroned, 60. His compact with
the monastic party, 62. On his death
the queen takes part with the secular
clergy, ib.
Edmund succeeds his brother Athel-
stan, 56. Makes Dunstan abbot of
Glastonbury, ib.
Edred succeeds King Edmund, and fa-
vours Dunstan, 56. His premature
death, 59.
Edward III. refuses to do homage to
Urban V. Controversy between
Wicliffe and the see of Rome con-
sequent on the pope's threats, 187,
188.
Edward VI. succeeds his father at nine
years of age, 280. His uncle Sey-
mour protector, ib. Reproves his
courtiers respecting episcopal lands,
290. Insurrection in Devonshire,
292-295. The religious malcon-
tents originate prophecies against the
king and nobility, 295. Somerset
the protector succeeded by Northum-
berland, 296. The young monarch
reluctant to sign the warrant against
Joan Bocher, 298. His dialogue
with Bishop Ridley; he founds
Christ's Hospital, ib. Also St. Tho-
mas's, St. Bartholomew's, and Bride-
well, 299. His death, ib.
Edwin, king of Deira (of the Northum-
brians), 20. Early anecdotes of, 21,
23. Espouses Edilburga, a Christian
princess, 23. He permits Paulinus
to accompany the queen to Northum-
berland, ib. He converses with this
great missionary, and forbears from
sacrifices to idols, 24. Is exhorted
by Pope Boniface by letter, ib. Is
extraordinarily converted by Pauli-
nus, and proposes the adoption of
Christianity to his council, 25, 26. Is
baptized together with his people, 28.
Slain in battle; and his Northum-
brians for a time compelled to return
to paganism, 28.
Edwy, king, 59. His queen Elgiva was
his relation, ib. Offence given by
the young monarch to Dunstan, ib.
Rudely assailed by that abbot, he
disgraces and banishes him, ib. The
king and his young queen become
victims to the ambition of the haughty
churchmen Odo and Dunstan, 60.
His violent death, 61.
Elfin, archbishop of Canterbury, 61.
Perishes in the Alps, ib.
Elgiva, story of this ill-fated queen, 59,
et seq.
Elizabeth, prayer of Latimer for the
princess, 337. Rejoicings at her ac-
cession, made by the people on the
evening of Mary's decease, 360. Ce-
cil, her principal secretary, 361. Her
public entry into London, ib. Her
treatment, in custody at Woodstock,
ib. She proceeds temperately in
establishing the Reformed Church,
363. She deprives the turbulent bi-
shops, and appoints new, 366. She
refuses to acknowledge the authority
of Rome, ib. Danger to the RE-
FORMATION from the Romanists, 368.
They, however, submit to the queen's
measures, 369. They acknowledge
the queen's SUPREMACY, and thus keep
their churches, ib. The Protestant
ministers thereby kept out of cures,
ib. Letter of Elizabeth, containing
advice to Bonner and the intolerant
churchmen, 370. She does not per-
mit the nuncio of Pius IV. to land,
377. The Reformation divided Eu-
rope in religion, ib. Imprisonment
of Mary Queen of Scots by Elizabeth
impolitic, 374. Fear of sinister re-
solves on the part of Mary and the
Guise family, ib. Insurrection in the
North of England aided by Scotch
papists, suppressed, ib. Elizabeth is
excommunicated by Pius V., ib.
Oath of Supremacy, 375. She is re-
quested to give a meeting to Catha-
rine de Medicis and declines, 377.
Prayers in England for the perse-
cuted; also even for persecutors, ib.
Conspiracies to be feared from the
Jesuits, 379. The queen obliged to
be severe against the propagandists
of the bull of Pius V., 380, 381.
The executions on that score, ib.
Elizabeth's duplicity with regard to
Mary of Scotland, 383. Mary be-
headed, ib. Two English papists be-
tray fortresses in the Low Countries,
384. Sir William Stanley, ib. The
invincible Armada, 385. Intention,
success being presumed, to consign
Elizabeth to the Pope's care, ib. The
English preparations to resist, ib.
Anabaptists delivered to the flames,
386. Leicester protects the Puri-
tans, 388, 389. The queen fears
these innovators in religion more than
the Romanists, 392. The clergy, ib.
Powers of the High Court of Com-
mission, 394, 406. Conformity es-
sential to the stability of a church,
394. Last years of her reign, 396.
Ely, President of St. John's, urges
Cranmer to repentance, 354.
ENGLAND; the Angles conquer Bri-
tain, 11. Their idolatry and man-
ners, ib. Their objects of worship
enumerated, 12. History of their
conversion to Christianity by Augus-
tine and Paulinus, 14-29. Causes
of the unvarying success of these
establishers of the Christian faith,
30-37. Condition of the island on
the invasion by the Northmen and
their warlike princes, 32. Slavery
and serfship, ib. Learning intro-
duced as a consequence of the Chris-
tian religion, 33. Religious fervour
evidenced by kings and people, 35.
Ecclesiastical institutions under the
Heptarchy, 46. Introduction of tithes;
their nature, ib., 47. State of learn-
ing, 47, 50, 67. Moral influences of
the Danes' intemperance, 66. De-
pravity, ib. Conducive to the suc-
cess of William of Normandy, 67.
The conqueror displaces all Saxon
priests from the ministry, ib. Arch-
bishop Lanfranc, 68. John made
king, on the principle that the crown
was elective, 143. Events of his
reign, 144-155. The barons force
John to sign Magna Charta, 155.
Benefits of this charter acceptable at
the time to the English, ib. Italian
priests and Lombard usurers in Eng-
land, 187. Statute of mortmain, ib.
Edward III., 189. John of Gaunt,
Duke of Lancaster, 190. Reign of
Richard II., 191. The civil wars
gave some respite from religious per-
secution, 220. Henry VII.'s reign,
ib. Affairs of the Church, and se-
verity of persecution in the reign of
Henry VIII., 222-279. The truly
pious reign of King Edward VI.,
280-299. The PERSECUTION in the
reign of Mary I., 300-360. Eliza-
beth confirms the REFORMATION, in
her
prosperous reign, 361-395.
James I.'s religious principles, 396,
et seq.
Condition of the Church in
the time of Charles I., 415-481.
Cromwell relieves the country from
Presbyterian intolerance, 481. New
troubles of religion in the reigns of
Charles II. and James II., 483-512.
The REVOLUTION carried for the pre-
servation of the Protestant Estab-
lished Church, 514-516..
Episcopacy established in the Reformed
Church, 296. Objected to by the
Nonconformists and Puritans, 390.
Temporalities restored by James I.
to the bishops, 429. Bills in Parlia-
ment to abolish Episcopacy, 432.
Eorpwald, king of East Anglia, em-
braces Christianity, 28.
Eostre, this goddess the same as As-
tarte, 12.
Erasmus, extract from, 221. His ver-
sion of the New Testament, 228.
Friendship for Sir T. More, 236.
Erastians, the sect called, 477.
Ethelbert, king of Kent, espouses Ber-
tha, 16. His reception of Augustine,
17. His religious toleration and con-
version, 19. His authority, ib. He
builds a church in London, ib.
Ethelfrith, king of Bernicia, 20. Is
slain in battle, 21.
Ethelwolf, father of Alfred, establishes
tithes, 47.
Eucharist, the; doctrine of transub-
stantiation, 177, et seq. The sacra-
ment explained, 198.
Excommunication by the pope and his
legates; its terms explained, 107, 108.
Nature of an interdict, 110.
Falkland, Lord, 432.
Fanatics, their severities exercised
against themselves, 172. Absurd
modes of aspiring to be saints, 173.
Farrer, bishop, assists Bradford in his
argument, 324. Suffers at Carmar-
then, 326.
Fawkes, Guy, his treason prompted by
fanaticism, 411.
Fénelon, archbishop of Cambray, 161.
Ferdinand, king of Arragon, demands
that the Earl of Warwick should be
put to death, 225, 226.
Fisher, bishop of Rochester, implicated
in misprision of treason, 244. He is
executed, 250, 350.
Fitz-Peter, Geoffrey, earl of Essex, 151.
Fitzurse concerned in the murder of
Thomas à Becket, 131. His advice
to fly disdained by that primate, 134.
He smites the prelate, ib.
Flanders, war for independence and re-
ligion in the Low Countries, 384.
The republic of Holland, 419.
Fox, John, quotation from, 216. His
son and biographer, 263. Fox's ac-
count of Hooper, 307, 312. Of Lati-
mer, 337. Of Gardiner, ib. Of
Cranmer, 350. The Martyrologist's
letter to Elizabeth against burning
the Anabaptists, 386. His opinions,
388.
France, Louis VII., enmity to Henry
II. of England, 100-115. Philippe
Auguste, 143. Henri II.; dissen-
sion with Spain, and hostile to Eliza-
beth, 373. Charles IX.; massacre
of St. Bartholomew, 376. Assassin-
ation of Henri III., 411.
Francis d'Assise, St., stays the progress
of the Reformation, 182.
His re-
puted conformity to the holy living of
our Saviour, 184.
Franciscans; institution of the order of
Friars Minor, 182. Luxury of the
White Friars, 183. Number of friars
and nuns calculated, ib. They offend
the pope, who establishes the Do-
minicans in opposition to them, 186.
The Observant Franciscans suppress-
ed by Henry VIII., 252.
Frith, John, a disciple of Tindal, 237.
Is determined to preach a reforma-
ation, ib. His Treatise upon Tran-
substantiation, 238.
Fuller, quotations from, 9, 36, 216, 219,
220, 255, 280, 285, 291, 339, 371,
395, 408.
Gardiner, Stephen, severity of Bishop,
240. Writes in vindication of King
Henry VIII., 250. Family he de-
scended from, 263. Physiognomy
and character, ib. His policy, ib.,
264. Instigator of the trial of Lam-
bert, 265. Tries Anne Askew, who
is condemned, 270. Out of favour
with Henry, 275. Deprived of his
see, 285. Restored, and tries the
Protestants, 306, 314. His fear of
Elizabeth, 337. His character, ib.
Dies, ib. His charity partial, 358.
Garnet, a Jesuit, executed for the Gun-
powder Plot, 412.
Gaunt, John of, protects the reformer
Wicliffe from the vengeance of the
prelacy, 190, 191.
Geneva, Church of, 296, 388, 391. Dis-
cipline of, 420.
Germany, struggle between the em-
perors and the Roman pontiff's for
supremacy, 75. Rival emperors set
up, ib. The emperor writes to Eli-
zabeth to restore the deprived clergy,
371.
Ghosts said to revisit this sublunary
scene, 175.
Giants, legends regarding them, in the
ancient religion of the North, 39.
Giles, St., executions of Lollards, in
Ficket-field near, 213.
Glastonbury, first church in Britain
founded at, 8. Destruction of the
abbey, 9. Account of St. Dunstan,
51. Site of the first church, reputed
such, 52. Legends of Dunstan ex-
plained, 53, 55. St. Dunstan, abbot,
56. Affray respecting the office and
liturgy proposed by Thurstan the
Norman abbot, 72. At the Reform-
ation, the abbey is converted into a
weaver's workshop, 290, 291. Its
manuscripts destroyed, 291.
Glebe lands, nature and extent of, 48.
God, the holy name of, 12. The three
dispensations, that of the Father, of
the Son, and that of the Holy Spirit,
explained, 185.
Gods, false, of the Druids, 4.
Godmundham; the great heathen tem-
ple destroyed by King Edwin, 27.
Gothic conquests; results described, 12.
Grafton, Richard, causes Coverdale's
Bible to be printed, 263.
Gregory the Great witnesses the sale
of Anglo-Saxon slaves at Rome, 14.
His intended apostleship to Britain,
15. Is chosen pope, ib. He com-
missions St. Augustine to England,
ib., 36, note.
Gregory VII. (Hildebrand) demands
that William I. should do fealty to
him for his crown, 70. His ambi-
tion, 73. Sanctity and visions or
dreams, ib. Disclaims all temporal
authority over the Romish Church,
ib. Defends the possessions and
wealth of the Church against royal
power, ib. A rival pope, 75. His
principles, 161. He hesitates before
he sanctions the doctrine of transub-
stantiation, 177,
Grey, Lady Jane, appointed by Edward
VI. to be his successor on the throne,
300. Her death, ib.
Grindal, Bishop, 388.
Grotius, his advice to Laud, 454.
Guelphs and Ghibellines, their fierce
contests, 75.
Guise, the duke de, related to, and a
supporter of, Mary Queen of Scot-
land, 373, 377.
Hale, Sir Matthew, counsel to Arch-
bishop Laud, 464.
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