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London. Jan. 29. 1871.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
CHAPTER VI.
THE PROTESTANTS.
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The Lollards[16]
Presentation to Religious Benefices in the Fourteenth Century[17]
Statutes of Provisors[21]
Rise of the Lollards[25]
John Wycliffe[26]
Theory of Property[28]
Insurrection of Wat Tyler[29]
Wycliffe's Influence declines[30]
Death of Wycliffe[31]
Insurrection of Oldcastle[34]
Close of the Lollard Movement[35]
New Birth of Protestantism[37]
The Christian Brothers[38]
Luther[39]
Multiplication of Testaments[40]
William Tyndal[41]
The Antwerp Printing-Press[42]
The Christian Brothers[43]
Wolsey's Persecutions[49]
Story of Anthony Dalaber[57]
Escape of Garret[69]
Perplexity of the Authorities[70]
The Ports are set for Garret's Capture[71]
Garret goes to Bristol, and is taken[72]
The Investigation at Oxford[73]
Doctor London's Intercession[74]
The Bishop of Lincoln[75]
Oxford is Purged[76]
Temper of the Protestants[77]
The Fall of Wolsey brings no Relief[78]
Sir Thomas More as Chancellor[79]
Contrast between Wolsey and More[88]
Martyrdom of Bilney[89]
Martyrdom of James Bainham[90]
Feelings of the People[92]
Pavier the Town Clerk[93]
The Worship of Relics[94]
Roods and Relics[95]
The Rood of Dovercourt[96]
The Paladins[97]
Early Life of Latimer[98]
He goes to Cambridge[100]
Latimer's Education[101]
His Fame as a Preacher[102]
He is appointed Chaplain to the King[103]
His Defence of the Protestants[104]
He is cited before the Bishops[105]
Latimer before the Bishops[106]
Thomas Cromwell[109]
Will of Thomas Cromwell[116]
CHAPTER VII.
THE LAST EFFORTS OF DIPLOMACY.
Mary of Hungary[125]
The King is cited to Rome[127]
Clement refuses further Delay[128]
Isolation of England[129]
Henry urgent against the Interview[130]
He appeals to a Council[132]
Terms of the Appeal[134]
Legal Value of the Appeal[136]
Cranmer's Sentence known at Rome[137]
Measures of the Consistory[138]
Henry again calls on Francis[140]
He will not surrender his Marriage[141]
He will not repeal his Legislation[142]
He urges the Rupture of the Interview[143]
Recal of the Embassy[144]
England and Germany[145]
Birth of Elizabeth[149]
Clement arrives at Marseilles[150]
The Interview[151]
Bonner at Marseilles[152]
Bonner and the Pope[153]
The Pope rejects the Appeal[157]
Proposal for a Court to sit at Cambray[158]
Francis implores Henry to consent[159]
Henry refuses to revoke the Laws against the Papacy[160]
State of England[162]
The Princess Mary[165]
Queen Catherine[168]
The Nun of Kent[170]
State of Feeling in England[178]
Proposed Marriage of the Princess Mary[181]
The Nun of Kent[183]
Disgrace of Mary[184]
The Countess of Salisbury[185]
The Nevilles[187]
General Superstition[191]
Proposals for a Protestant League used as a Menace to Francis[192]
The Protestant League[194]
The Court of Brussels[196]
Meeting of Parliament[197]
Perils of the Reformation[198]
Cromwell[199]
Opening Measures[200]
The Congé d'Élire[201]
Abolition of Exactions[204]
Closing Protest[205]
Apology of Sir Thomas More accepted by the King[206]
Obstinate Defence of Fisher[208]
The Bill proceeds[209]
Execution of the Nun[210]
Her last Words[211]
The Act of Succession[212]
The first Oath of Allegiance[216]
Clement gives final Sentence against the King[218]
Obscurity of the Pope's Conduct[222]
Mission of the Duke of Guise[223]
The French Fleet watch the Channel[224]
The Commission sits to receive the Oath[225]
More and Fisher[226]
More before the Commission[227]
He refuses to Swear[228]
Debate in Council[229]
The Government are peremptory[230]
Concession not possible[231]
Royal Proclamation[232]
Circular to the Sheriffs[233]
Death of Clement VII.[236]
CHAPTER VIII.
THE IRISH REBELLION.
State of Ireland[237]
The Norman Conquest[238]
Absentees[239]
The Norman Irish[241]
Weakness of the English Rule[248]
Distribution of the Irish Clans[249]
The Irish Reaction[251]
Condition of the People[253]
English and Irish Estimates[254]
Ireland for the Irish[255]
Coyne and Livery[256]
The Geraldines of Kildare[257]
Deputation of Lord Surrey[261]
Return of Kildare[265]
Foreign Intrigues[266]
Desmond intrigues with the Emperor[267]
Geraldine Conspiracy[268]
Kildare sent to the Tower[270]
The Irish Rise[271]
The Duke of Richmond Viceroy[272]
Third Deputation to Kildare[273]
Ireland in its Ideal State[274]
New Aspects of Irish Rebellion[275]
Ireland and the Papacy[276]
Kildare is sent to the Tower[277]
Desmond and the Emperor[278]
Corny O'Brien[279]
The Holy War of the Geraldines[280]
General Rebellion[281]
Siege of Dublin[282]
Murder of Archbishop Allen[284]
Fitzgerald writes to the Pope[285]
Dublin saved by the Earl of Ormond[286]
A Truce agreed to[287]
Delay of the English Deputy[288]
Ormond again saves Dublin[289]
The Deputy sails from Beaumaris[290]
Mismanagement of Skeffington[291]
Delay and Incapacity[292]
Burning of Trim and Dunboyne[293]
Skeffington will not move[294]
General Despondency[295]
Disorganization of the English Army[296]
The Campaign opens[297]
Siege of Maynooth[298]
Storming of the Castle[299]
The Pardon of Maynooth[300]
The Rebellion collapses[301]
Lord Leonard Grey[302]
Fitzgerald surrenders[303]
Dilemma of the Government[304]
Execution of Fitzgerald[305]
End of the Rebellion[306]
CHAPTER IX.
THE CATHOLIC MARTYRS.
State of England in 1534[307]
Temper of the Clergy[308]
Order for Preaching[310]
Secret Disaffection among the Clergy[312]
The Confessional[313]
Treasonable Intrigues[317]
Catholic Treasons[318]
Persecuting Laws against the Catholics[319]
The Act of Supremacy[322]
The Oath of Allegiance[326]
Election of Paul the Third[328]
Anxiety of the Emperor[330]
Proposals for a Catholic Coalition[331]
Counter-Overtures of Francis to Henry[332]
Attitude of Henry[333]
Distrust of France[335]
England and the Papacy[336]
The Penal Laws[337]
The Battle of the Faiths[338]
The Charterhouse Monks[339]
The Anabaptist Martyrs[357]
Fisher and More[359]
Fisher named Cardinal[364]
The Pope condescends to Falsehood[365]
Fisher Tried and Sentenced[366]
Execution of Fisher[367]
Sir Thomas More[368]
Effect upon Europe[377]
Letter to Cassalis[382]
Reply of the Pope[385]
Bull of Deposition[386]
Intrigues of Francis in Germany[388]
England and Germany[390]
CHAPTER X.
THE VISITATION OF THE MONASTERIES.
Visitation of the Monasteries[396]
The Abbey of St. Albans[402]
Commission of 1535[407]
The Visitors at Oxford[409]
Progress of the Visitors[413]
Visit to Langden Abbey[415]
Fountains Abbey[417]
The Monks at Fordham[419]
The Monks of Pershore[421]
Rules to be observed in all Abbeys[423]
The Black Book in Parliament[427]
Discussion in Parliament[429]
Conflicting Opinions[431]
Smaller Houses suppressed[433]
The Protestant Bishops[435]
State of London[437]
The Vagrant Act[439]
Remission of Firstfruits[440]
Dissolution of Parliament[441]
The Work accomplished by Parliament[442]
CHAPTER XI.
TRIAL AND DEATH OF ANNE BOLEYN.
Death of Queen Catherine[443]
Anne Boleyn[446]
Anne Boleyn committed to the Tower[454]
The Tower[457]
Cranmer's Letter to the King[459]
Cranmer's Postscript[461]
Preparations for the Trial[468]
True Bills found by the Grand Juries[469]
The Indictment[470]
The Trials[476]
The opposite Probabilities[480]
Execution of the five Gentlemen[483]
The Divorce[484]
The Execution[486]
The Succession[488]
The King's Third Marriage[490]
Opinions of Foreign Courts[491]
Meeting of Parliament[492]
Speech of the Lord Chancellor[493]
Second Act of Succession[495]

CHAPTER VI.

THE PROTESTANTS.

Where changes are about to take place of great and enduring moment, a kind of prologue, on a small scale, sometimes anticipates the true opening of the drama; like the first drops which give notice of the coming storm, or as if the shadows of the reality were projected forwards into the future, and imitated in dumb show the movements of the real actors in the story.

Prelude to the Reformation in the fourteenth century.

Such a rehearsal of the English Reformation was witnessed at the close of the fourteenth century, confused, imperfect, disproportioned, to outward appearance barren of results; yet containing a representative of each one of the mixed forces by which that great change was ultimately effected, and foreshadowing even something of the course which it was to run.

There was a quarrel with the pope upon the extent of the papal privileges; there were disputes between the laity and the clergy,—accompanied, as if involuntarily, by attacks on the sacramental system and the Catholic faith,—while innovation in doctrine was accompanied also with the tendency which characterized the extreme development of the later Protestants—towards political republicanism, the fifth monarchy, and community of goods. Some account of this movement must be given in this place, although it can be but a sketch only. "Lollardry"[1] has a historyThe Lollards forerunners, not fathers, of the Reformation. of its own; but it forms no proper part of the history of the Reformation. It was a separate phenomenon, provoked by the same causes which produced their true fruit at a later period; but it formed no portion of the stem on which those fruits ultimately grew. It was a prelude which was played out, and sank into silence, answering for the time no other end than to make the name of heretic odious in the ears of the English nation. In their recoil from their first failure, the people stamped their hatred of heterodoxy into their language; and in the word miscreant, misbeliever, as the synonym of the worst species of reprobate, they left an indelible record of the popular estimate of the followers of John Wycliffe.