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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