Mary, Queen of Scots-continued. pretensions to the English crown rest on the question of Elizabeth's legiti- macy, 373. Dangers from Mary of a new religious persecution, ib. Con- spiracies in her favour, 382. Pro- phetic speech as to her death by the king of France, 383. Elizabeth's duplicity; Mary beheaded, ib. Mary II.; letter from the Princess of Orange to Dr. Sancroft, 497. The deposition of James II.; and the English Revolution, 512-516. Masses for the dead, 174. Case of Henry VIII.'s will, 283. Private
masses, so lucrative, abolished, ib. Matilda, empress, hostile to the promo- tion of Becket, 84.
Mellitus, early bishop of London, 21. He sails with Justus to France, 22. Mendicant Friars, the, 185.
of the order relaxed, ib. Merits, monkish doctrine of, 170. Mission, Christian, to England, 15, 16. Zeal of Jesuit missionaries, 378, et seq.
Mistletoe, Druidical rites regarding the, 5.
Monachism early in Britain, 10. Sup- ported by Dunstan, 58. Encouraged by Archbishop Lanfranc, 70. Era of the institution of the White Friars and Black Friars, 182-186. Ill- regarded at Oxford, 188. Monasteries and monks, special objects of plunder to the Danes, 50. The monks put to the sword, ib. The rule and discipline of abbeys, 53. Increase of religious houses; their ill effect felt, 187. The convent lands laid claim to by the state, 222. Car- thusians, several executed for deny- ing the supremacy of Henry VIII., 247. Dissolution of the monasteries
by Henry, 251. In what degree their preservation might have been useful, 252. Bill for seizing the pos- sessions of the lesser convents, 253. The monks and nuns accused of bad morals, a chief plea for their impover- ishment, and confiscation, ib. Twen- ty-six abbots had votes in Parlia- ment, ib. The fate of the aged monks demanded some pity for their unexpected destitution, 254. Their possessions dispersed by grant, sale, and exchange, ib. Abbots executed for the rebellion on account of re- ligion, 260. Henry VIII. immedi- ately confiscates and suppresses the remainder of the monasteries, ib. Produce by sale of the abbey lands
Monasteries-continued.
ill employed, 288. Pillage, 290, 291. More, Sir Thomas, quoted respecting old versions of the Bible, 192. Em- ployed to write against Tindal's ver- sion, 234. His character influenced by the times, 235. His devotion, 236, Controversial works, ib. His spirit of persecution, 237. He is accused, 245. Is cited before the council to take the oath of the succession, and refuses the preamble, 246. His trial, 249. His defence, ib., 250. His calm behaviour on the scaffold, 250. Various speeches he made, recorded, ib. Writings, 284, 350. Music, Church, 34, 47, 54. Muster-books, by way of census, 292.
Nix, bishop of Norwich, saying of, 221, 229.
Nonconformists unwilling to wear the square cap, &c., 388. Their clergy, 391. Ejected from their benefices, 413. See PURITANS. Discontented with Laud's enforcing the Church rubric; they desire to emigrate to Holland, 428. Detained by an em- bargo; the chiefs of the sect, Pym, Hambden, and Cromwell, remain, ib. The different sects of, 489, 490. They emigrate, 492.
Norfolk, dukes of, 272, 382. See HOWARD.
Northumberland, Dudley, duke of, a patron of Hooper, 285. Protector in minority of Edward VI., 296. He marries his son to Lady Jane Grey, 300. His death, 350. Northumbria, introduction of the Chris- tian religion, 24. Avowal by Coifi the priest, that the gods of his super- stition were powerless to do good, 26. Coifi burns his temples, and Paulinus establishes the religion of Christ, 27.
Nun, the Kentish, revelations feigned by her, to bring an image into repute, 243. She declares against Henry VIII.'s divorce from Catharine, ib. She predicts his death, ib. Her pro- phecies collected, and preached on by the Franciscans, ib. Her rash accomplices in these impostures hasten her trial and execution, 244. Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas More brought into trouble by their folly in listening to her, 244, 245, 250.
Odin, the god, 12; and Friga, 40. Odo, the primate, supports the views of Dunstan, 58. His insolence to young Edwy, 59. His cruelty to Elgiva, whom he brands, 60. His death, 61.
Oglethorpe, bishop of Carlisle, 365. Oiscinga, Saxon title explained, 16. Oldcastle, Sir John, or Lord Cobham, denounced for heresy, 201. Henry V. interrogates him respecting a book of heresies belonging to his library, 202. His determined reply, ib. Resistance to the service of a citation, ib. His profession of faith, 203. Frowned on by Henry, he appeals to the pope, 205. His ex- amination, 206. He abides by his writing, on his faith, as delivered to Archbishop Arundel, ib. Trial, 207. His prayer of repentance, and pro- phetic words against the then exist- ing Church, 208. His disputation with his cruel judges, 208-211. His sentence to the flames, 212. His reply, ib. Rumours of insur- rection prejudice him with Henry V., 213. Reward for taking Cobham, alive or dead, 214. After four years discovered in Wales, he is hanged above a fire, ib. Final consequences of his firmness of religious principle and his martyrdom, ib.
Olver, the Norwegian, 43. Omer's, St., the college was founded by the Jesuits, 378.
Orange, prince of, assassination of, 384. Orange, William III., his preparations against James II., 508. He lands at Torbay, 512.
Orientals, philosophy of the Persians, &c., 170. Oriental MSS. of the Bod- leian Library, 427.
Osbern, biography of Dunstan, 60. Osmund, bishop of Salisbury, compiles a liturgy, which is adopted, 72. Oswald, son of Ethelfrith, slays Cad- wallon the British hero, 28. De- feated by Penda, 29.
Oswy, an Anglo-Saxon king, maintains the Christian worship, 29. Oxford, endowment of its colleges, 187. Inclined to the tenets of the Lol- lards, 201. Twelve inquisitors ap- pointed, ib. Study of Hebrew and Greek introduced, 224. Colleges endowed by Wolsey, 252. Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, fellow-prisoners at, 320. Death of Ridley and Lati-
Oxford-continued.
mer, 326-336. Of Cranmer, 350- 354. Munificence and endowments of Laud, 426, 427.
Paganism of the Anglo-Saxons, 11- 13. Its want of influence with the Saxon nations, 30. Is readily over- thrown by the missionaries from Rome, 31. Each king being con- verted, his people willingly adopt the new religion, 32. Heathen priests make small resistance to the religious revolution, 33. Savage mythology of the Danes, 38. The Scalds and bards, ib. Worship of Odin, 39-42. Obscene and san- guinary rites, 43.
Palmer, Julius, martyrdom of, 355.
He had witnessed the death of Cran- mer, ib. Pandulph, legate from Innocent III. in England, 148, et seq. He receives John's submission to the pope, 149. Restores to him his crown, 150. Styles him a dutiful son of the Church, 153.
Parishes, limits defined, 48. Registers for marriages, &c., 282. Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, 231, 366, 368. His doctrine that of Bil- ney and Barnes, 367. His direc- tions relative to the oath of supre- macy, 375. His moderation, 413.
His tomb violated by the Puritans, 447.
Parliament generally subservient to the will of Henry VIII., 248, 252. Elizabeth attentive to its enactments, 376. Upon the Gunpowder-treason, it enacts that the oath of allegiance should be taken by papists, 412. The Commons refuse supplies to Charles I., 415. The Lords fine Dr. Manwaring, who preached that the king had power to levy_taxes, 425. The Parliament releases Prynne and his companions, 431. Bill pro- posed against bishops voting, 432. "Protestation," similar to the Scot- tish" Covenant," 433. The "Com- mittee of Religion," the "Root and Branch" parliamentarians propose measures subversive of the Church, 435-438. They abolish Episcopacy, 480. Confiscations of Church pro- perty, ib. Return of Charles II. 482. Parr, Katharine, queen of Henry VIII., 269. She favours the Reformation,
Parr, Katharine-continued.
269. Is in danger of condemnation for heresy, 272, 273.
Patrick, St., at Glastonbury, 52. Paul IV., pope, contemporary with Elizabeth, 363.
Paulinus sent from Rome as coadjutor to Augustine, 23.
Paul's, St., founded, 19. Synod held in, 191. The cathedral threatened with demolition, 446. Rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren, 496. Paul's Cross, St., 219. Bearing a fag- got there, commanded to those who recanted, 228. The "invisible an- gels" pretended miracle, 302. Bill appointed preacher there by Elizabeth, 362. Parker, 367. Pead, son of the Mercian king Penda, establishes the Christian religion, 29. Pecock, Reynold, bishop of Chichester, account of his opinions, 217. Ac-
cused of heresy, 218. Saves his life by an act of abjuration, 219. His writings burnt, 220. His opinions,
Pelagius born in Britain, 169. Denied
original sin, ib. He advocated free will, ib. His contest with Augus- tine, ib.
Pembroke, earl of, negotiates between
John and the barons, 154.
Pembroke, earl of, on the trial of Arch- bishop Laud, 465.
Penance, held to be of the character of a sacrament, 255.
Penda, king of Mercia, a heathen, 28. His victories, ib., 29. Pennington, alderman, 432. Percy, lord, the earl marshal, 191. Persecution, the tenth, 9, 10. Of the Albigenses and Waldenses, 183, 186. Of the Franciscan friars, ib. Of the Lollards, 197, 215. Of the Re- formers by Henry VIII., 227, et seq., 264. In the reign of Mary I., 300,
et seq. Persons, Father, compassionates the persecutors for their trouble in con- demning so many heretics, 338. Peter's pence, a tribute to the bishop of Rome, 103, 119.
Peter of Pomfret, prediction by, 149. His play on the words Ascension Day, ib. It is fulfilled, but the pro- phet is hanged, 150.
Peters, Hugh, 456. His abuse of Laud, 461, 467.
Petre, Father, confessor to James II., 502.
Philip Augustus, king of France, 143.
Philip II., and Mary, 300. His con- fessor Alonso de Castro, 324. His designs upon Elizabeth, 337. In- terferes in her favour, 361, 383. His wars in Flanders, 384. The Ar- mada fitted out against England, ib. Philosophy, schools of Roman, their influence, 7.
Philpot, archdeacon, assists Bradford in disputation, 324. His courage, 340. Desire to make him change his reso- lution, 340-344. Burnt in Smith- field, 345.
Pilgrimage, early, to Jerusalem and Sy- ria, 10. Discouraged, on the Reform- ation, 281.
Pius IV. sends a nuncio with a con-
ciliatory letter to Elizabeth, 372. Pius V. excommunicates Queen Eliza- beth, 374. His pretensions, ib. Pro- pagandists of his bull against the English queen, 380.
Pocklington, Dr., deprived of his bene- fice, 438.
Pocock, Bishop, the traveller, delivers the counsel of Grotius to Archbishop Laud to fly, 453.
Pole, Cardinal, 293. As legate, orders the trial (by a commission of pre- lates) of the bishops Ridley and La- timer, 330. Is the head of the Ma- rian persecution, 348, 358. He dies at the same time as Mary, 365. Pontigny, Cistercian abbey of, 103, 110.
Popes, early Roman pontiff, some enu- merated: Gregory the Great, 14, et seq. Boniface, 24. Gregory VII., or Hildebrand, 70, 73, 75. Alexander III., 85. Innocent III., 144—154, Urban V., 189. Urban VI., 195; &c. &c. Paul IV., 363. Pius IV., 372. Pius V., 374.
Poor, relief to them administered by ministers of religion, 49, 55. Ques- tion whether the seizure of lands be- longing to monasteries and convents would be an ultimate benefit to the poor or not, 223. Edward VI.'s en- dowments of hospitals for their edu- cation and relief of the sick, 298, 330.
Præmunire, statute passed in the reign of Richard II., 222. It is made the engine for the destruction of Wolsey, 227. The higher clergy being liable to its penalties, compromise with Henry VIII., ib., 375, 479. Prague, Jerome of, martyrdom of, 215. Prayer Book, the Common, 435, 487, 488, 490.
Prayers for the dead, declared by Con-
vocation to be good and charitable, 256. Presbyterian Church government in part compatible with an Episcopal Church, 477.
Presbyterians, their proposals to Charles
I., 479. Their strength in the reign of Charles II., 487. The Act of Uniformity proposed, ib. Letter from Calamy proving discontent with the Declaration, 488.
Prideaux, bishop of Worcester, 449. Priestcraft of the time of St. Dunstan, 57. In the time of Lanfranc, 74. Of the Druids and Kelts, 107. Principles, the Two; or Dualism, 170. Of right and wrong, 176. Printing, importance of its invention, 223. On religion forbidden by Mary I., 302.
Protestants, they come into power at the court of Edward VI., 283. They hold a synod at Dort, 409, 419. See REFORMATION and CHURCH. Prynne, Bastwick, and Burton, amerced and condemned to lose their ears by the Star-chamber, 423. Prynne's avowal in his old age of the justice of the sentence, 424. He is released by Parliament, 431. His enmity to Laud, 456. He prints the primate's diary, 463. It is brought forward on his trial, ib.
Psalmody, the Puritans were all prac- tised in the Psalm Book, 475. Purgatory, the pope said to have au- thority over, 173.
Puritans, their rise and principles, 388.
To what they object, 389. Their dislike of Rome and of Episcopacy, 390. Their intolerance, 392. The refractory clergy, ib. Archbishop Bancroft represses them, but his suc- cessor Abbot favours the Puritans, 413, 414. The danger foretold of their triumph over the throne, 415. Their idea of the paramount efficacy of preaching, 417. The chief Puri- tans prevented from embarking for Holland, 428. Their clergy ape the intolerance, the infallibility, and spi- ritual despotism of Rome, 429. The Covenant, its object, ib. Puritanical party in Parliament, their persever- ance, 433-435. The Root and Branch men," 432, 435. Their de- sires carried in Parliament, 412- 447. Their defacing of churches, 447. Triumph of the Puritans com- plete, 474, 476. Their confession of faith is Calvinistic, 476. Their
hatred of the Church liturgy, ib. They forbid the use of the Book of Common Prayer, 478. They abolish Episcopacy, 480. Their rules and penal statutes, 481. Cromwell re- strains their ambition and avarice, ib. Their turbulence on the acces- sion of Charles II., 486. Called Dissenters, 495, 496.
Pym detained in England by an em- bargo, 428. Exhibits articles against Laud, 452.
Quakers, persecutions of the, 496.
Redwald, king of East Anglia, 19. His successor Eorpwald, 28. REFORMATION, the, corruptions that led to it, 173-180. The first reformers, 181. Discontent in England re- specting Italian priests, 187. John Wicliffe, 188. Ejected from the mastership of Canterbury-Hall, he appeals to the pope, 189. His op- position to the see of Rome, 190- 195. His disciples, the Lollards, condemned to the flames, 196, 197. Progress of the Reformation, 227, et seq., 234, 242, 255, 262. Six Articles, 266. The Romanists have almost influence with Henry VIII. to stay the Reformation, 268, 275. The Reformation impoverishes the clergy, 288. Statesmen aggran- dized and enriched themselves by it, 296. See CHURCH; EDWARD VI.; ELIZABETH.
Register, Church, of parishioners for charitable purposes, 49.
Regular and secular clergy, their dis- tinction, and tendency of either, 57. Presumed purity of the regulars,
Relics, impostures as to them discover- ed on the suppression of the mon- asteries, 261.
REVOLUTION, the English, 512-516. Reynolds, Dr., speaks for the Puritans, at a conference in presence of James I., 398, 407. He conforms, 489. Made bishop of Norwich, 49. Rich, Lord, shows some kindness to Philpot on his trial, 343. Richard I. crowned in the lifetime of Henry II., 120. Seized by the Duke
of Austria and delivered to the Ger- man emperor, 143. Richard II., in his reign a synod was convened to inquire into the alleged heresy of John Wicliffe, 191. tention of the Statute of Præmunire, 222. Ridley, Bishop, his argument with Hooper, 286. His interview with Edward VI. respecting charitable actions, 298. Reconciliation in pri- son with Hooper, 309. His pious ejaculation to Bradford, 321. His character portrayed, 327. His fare- wells, 328. His demeanour before the Bishops-Commissioners for the trial of him and Latimer, 330. Acknow- ledges a spiritual, denies a corporeal presence in the sacrament, ib. His degradation upon condemnation, 334. His tears for his sister, 335. His execution, together with Latimer, 336, 337. His prophetic hopes of the ultimate success of the Reforma- tion, 366. Rogers, John, proto-martyr in the Ma- rian persecution, declared Rome to be the Church of Antichrist; and also against transubstantiation, 303. Romans, as conquerors, introduce their superstitions into Britain, 7. Their intolerance of Christianity, 8. The tenth persecution extended to Bri- tain, 9, 10. Their paganism and the Latin language vanish on the Saxon conquest, 13.
Rome, Church of, corrupt spirit of, 50. A system of priestcraft, 57. Its unity and supremacy, ib. Policy, 58. Wealth and endowments of its Church in various kingdoms, 74. Its authority above kings asserted by Gregory VII., 73, 74. Some ex- cuse made for this pontiff's mea- sures, 75. His ambitious views for an universal church-rule possibly beneficial to that age, ib. Variance of the papal system, and doctrines, from true Christianity, ib. Kings disposed to seize on Church revenues and possessions threatened with cen- sures and excommunication, ib. val popes, 76. Archbishop Anselm attends Urban at Rome, ib. Ques- tion of investiture, 78. Adjustment of it, and homage by prelates to princes, permitted, 79. Enjoins ce- libacy for priests, 58, 62, 79. Its power to protect offending clergy from the secular authority, 86. Privi- lego of the canons, 87. Excommu-
Rome, Church of,-continued. nication, 107. Its arrogance in dis- posing princes, 109. Interdicts, 110. Its power to coerce kings, ib. Pre- tensions of Rome epitomised in the struggle regarding Becket; Alexan- der III.'s pontificate, 111, 139. How far its authority submitted to by Henry II., 140. The pope deposes John of England, 146. Designs of Rome, 148. John resigns, and re- ceives his crown back again from Pandulph, 149, 150. Consequences resulting therefrom, 150, et seq. Eng- land esteemed but a fief of the papal see, 156. The fourth Lateran coun-
cil, 157. Usurpations of Rome established, 158. Corruptions, doc- trinal and practical, of the Romish Church, 159. View of the papal system, 159–170. What advan- tages were in reality derived to Christianity therefrom, 159. Asylum or sanctuary, ib. Reading of Scrip- tures forbidden, 161. "Tradition, or the unwritten word," set up instead, 162. Worship of saints, 163. Re- lics and bones of saints, ib., 164, 261. Images, 165. Healing by relics, &c., 166. Papal bulls, ib. Miracles, ib. The Virgin Mary; Romish doctrine and worship, ib. Images of the Vir- gin, 167. Modern idolatry, ib. How far the Church of Rome resembles heathenism, 168. Doctrines of Pe- lagius, 169. Fanatics, 171. Purga- tory, 173. Indulgences sold by the pope, 174. Object of pilgrimages: miraculous images and portraits, ib. Masses for the repose of the dead, ib. Confession and absolution, 175. Doctrine of transubstantiation, 176. Plenitude of power and supremacy above kings, claimed by the pope, 177. Secular laws not to avail against his decrees, 178. Infallibility of the pope, 179. Rise of the Re- formation, 181, et seq. Franciscans, and Dominicans, 182, 183. These religious orders turn the popular tide that had been in favour of a Church reform, 183. But they become the scandal of the Church by vice and impostures, ib. The Three Dispensa- tions, and book called the Eternal Gospel, described, 185. Many of the Franciscans consigned to the stake for heresy, 186. The Inqui- sition instituted by their adversaries the Dominicans, ib. Wicliffe desig- nates the pope as the "Man of Sin," 190. The assertion of infallibility
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