CONTENTS

OF

THE FOURTH VOLUME.

PART II.-BOOK I.

King Henry VIII. a learned and promising prince, 1.-He is contracted to Catharine of

Spain in his father's reign, 1.—The pope's dispensation in favour of the marriage, 2.—

Sir R. Morisin employed in several embassies in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Ed-

ward VI., 2.-K. Henry protests against the contract when prince of Wales. He was

born June 28, 1491, and the protestation bears date, June 27, 1505; but afterwards

marries the princess, 2.-The pope sends the king a present, 3.—And endeavours to

make him break with France, 3.-A council summoned at Pisa, 3.-Several persons

abjure for heresy, 4.-Grebel orthodox in some points, and heterodox in others, 4.-

A council at Lyons, 5.-Voided by the council of Lateran, 6.-Fox recommends

Wolsey, 6.-Somewhat of Wolsey's character, 6.-Smith, bishop of Lincoln, his

benefactions, 7.-The death of cardinal Bambridge, 7.—The abbot of Winchelcomb's

sermon gives occasion to a debate concerning the exemption of the clergy, 8.-Hun

prosecuted for heresy in the bishop of London's court, 9.-He is found dead in the

bishop's prison, 10.—The articles with which Hun was charged before the bishop, 11.

-Sir Thomas More's defence of the process in this matter, 11.-Dr. Standish cited

before the convocation, 12.—He is charged with tenets derogatory to the privilege and

jurisdiction of the Church, 13.-He is abetted by the temporalty, 13.-His answer,

14. He is seconded by Vesey, 15.-The judge's opinion upon the case, 16.-The

clergy desire this matter may be referred to the court of Rome, 18.-Dr. Horsy and

Dr. Standish are discharged, 18.-Luther appears against indulgences, 19.-Tetzel

writes against Luther, 20.-Luther writes a submissive letter to the pope, 20.-Eccius

and Prierias publish books against Luther, 20.-He replies, 21.-The opinions con-

cerning the indulgences, 21.-Luther is cited to Rome, 22.-His cause referred to

cardinal Cajetan, 22.—Cardinal Cajetan blamed for his rough treatment of Luther,

22.-The pope publishes a bull in defence of his authority and the indulgences, 23.—

Luther appeals from the pope to a council, 23.-He advances to new articles, 23.-

The pope condemns forty-two of Luther's tenets, 23.-Luther burns both the pope's

bull and the canon law, 24.-The pope denied a contribution by the English clergy,

24.-Sweating sickness, 25.-Campegio sent into England to demand a tenth of the

clergy, 25.—He is refused, 25.—Cardinal Wolsey made legate à latere, 25.—He is

blamed by Polydore Virgil for overstraining his authority, 25.-The statutes of the

university of Oxford put into the cardinal's hands, 26.-He founds a Greek lecture at

Oxford, 27.—A faction in the university against this language, 27.—A severe charge

against the clergy disproved, 27.-Some of those prosecuted in Fox misbehave them-

selves, 29.-Dr. Collet's death and benefactions, 30.-The ancient form of electing a

dean, 30.-The king writes against Luther, 31.-His dedication to the pope, 31.-

Luther's assertion of no sacrifice in the holy eucharist, 32.-This the king endeavours

to disprove, 32.-The king argues against Luther's notion of contrition, 36.-He en-

deavours to prove auricular confession from Scripture, 37.-And from the usefulness

and benefit of the practice, 37.-Luther allows women to receive confessions, 38.-

Giving absolution and receiving confessions the privilege of the priesthood, 38.-The

Church misrepresented by Luther in the doctrine of satisfaction, 39.-The benefit of

confirmation proved from Scripture, 40.-And the testimony of the Fathers, 41.-

Luther's unsound opinions concerning orders, 42.-The king argues from the Mosaic

dispensation, 42.-And from several places in the New Testament, 42.-The Fathers

alleged for this purpose, 43.-Farther proof from the New Testament, 43.-The king

endeavours to prove extreme unction a sacrament from a text in St. James, 44.~

Luther excepts against the canonicalness of this epistle, and pretends it unworthy the

apostolical spirit, 45.-The king proves the Epistle St. James's by the testimony of

St. Jerome, 45.-This farther proved by an inference from Luther's principles, 45.-

The institution of the sacrament above the commission of an apostle, 46.-The king's
reply to this objection, 46.—A conjecture upon Luther's excepting against the canoni-
calness of St. James's epistle, 47.-Dr. Powell writes against Luther, 48.-But is
afterwards executed for denying the king's spiritual supremacy, 48.-Cardinal Wolsey
summons a convocation, 49.-A large subsidy granted by the clergy, 49.—Cardinal
Wolsey makes for the papacy, and endeavours to engage the emperor, 50.-Adrian VI.
chosen pope, 51.-The death of Adrian, 51.-Cardinal Wolsey renews his attempt to
gain the popedom, but miscarries, 52.-The cardinal congratulates Clement VII., 52.
-Wolsey dissolves some lesser monasteries for the endowment of the colleges founded

by him, 53. The memory of the monks defended against some imputations laid upon

them, 53. The cardinal complained of by the religious, 54.-The king's letter to the

cardinal, 55.-The cardinal defended from the charge of sacrilege, 56.-The cardinal's

noble foundation of the college at Christ Church in Oxford, 57.-The French ambas-

sador excepts against the legitimacy of the princess Mary, 62.-Whether the instrument

the bishops subscribed was a declaration of the unlawfulness of the marriage, or only

their consent to debate the question, 66.-The king resolves to disengage himself from

his marriage, 68.-Cardinal Wolsey's letter to sir Gregory Cassaley, concerning the di-

vorce, 69.-Reasons for the pope's granting a dispensation, 69.-Bulls gained by surprise

not binding, 70.-Bilney's abjuration, 70.-Patrick Hamilton suffers upon the score of

religion in Scotland, 72.-The articles with which he is charged, 73.-Friar Seaton sus-

pected for heresy, 74.-Some singularities in his doctrine, 74.-He is convented before

the bishop, 75.-Seaton goes off to Berwick, and from thence to London, 75.—He

writes to the king of Scotland, 75.-Henry Forrest suffers for defending Patrick Hamil-

ton, 76.-Several others are prosecuted for heresy in Scotland, 76.-Mistress Catherine

Hamilton, her answer, 77.—Cardinal Wolsey sends instructions to the king's agents

at Rome concerning the divorce, 77.-Cardinal Pucci procures a commission to try

the cause, and a dispensation from the pope, 79.-The pope desires the king not to

make use of these authorities for some time, 79.-His reasons for this request, 80.-

The purport of the dispensation, 80.-The difficulty of the pope's circumstances, 80.-

The commission brought over by Gambara, 80.-The pope not absolutely tied by the

sentence of the delegates, 81.-The pope privately suggests an expedient to the king,

81.-Instructions given to sir Francis Bryan and Mr. Vannes, the king's agents at

Rome, touching the power and disposition of that court, 83.-Cardinal Wolsey's

letter to the king's agents at Rome, to get the marriage annulled, 85.-He writes to

the pope upon the same business, 85.-Cardinal Wolsey renews his attempt to gain

the popedom, 86.-Bulls for the suppressing several monasteries, 87.-A decretal bull

for the legates to proceed on transmitted from hence to Rome, 87.-A bull of less

comprehensive form signed by the pope, 88.-Cardinal Campegio arrives in England,

89.-Campegio taxes the queen with misconduct, and persuades her to retire to a

monastery, 90.-His discourse unsuccessful, 90.-Bishop Fox's death and character,

90.-The king's speech to the lords, &c. to silence the clamours about the divorce,

91.-A particular correspondence between the king and Anne Boleyn, 92.-Two

letters of Anne Boleyn's to Wolsey, 93.-The king's postscript to him, 93.-The pope

refuses to let the bull be shown to the privy council, 94.-The reasons of this incom-

pliance, 95.-Cardinal Wolsey's complaint of the pope's unfair dealing, 95.-He desires

an enlargement of the commission for trying the cause, 96.-A close union between

the pope and emperor, 97.-Exceptions against the brief of Julius II., 97.—The em-

peror solicits an avocation of the cause to Rome, 98.-The two legates' letter to the

pope, 98.-They suggest the danger of not satisfying the king, 98.-And deliver them-

selves with great freedom, 99.-The pope's excuse to Wolsey, 99.-A hearing con-

cerning the divorce at Blackfriars, 99.-The king and queen appear in court, 100.—

The queen's speech, 100.—The king clears Wolsey from first suggesting the divorce,

101. The king's letter to his ambassadors at Rome, 101.-The queen's counsel argue

against the divorce, 101.-The queen solicits the emperor to insist on an avocation,

101.-A protestation against the proceedings of the legates, 102.-The pope grants an

avocation; and concludes a treaty with the emperor, 102.-Cardinal Campegio adjourns

the court to October, 103.-The king much dissatisfied with the proceedings of the

legates, 104. The pope sends the king a brief to exempt him from the inhibition, 104.

-The two cardinals wait upon the queen, but to no effect, 104.-Anne Boleyn the

cardinal's enemy. Conjectures upon the cause, 105. The cardinal ordered to deliver

up the broad seal, and deliver up York-place, 105.-His compliance in both instances,

106. He makes the king a large present, 106.—He is indicted in a præmunire, 106.—

He pleads the king's letters-patent, 107.—But declines the contesting it any farther,

107. His discourse with judge Shelley, 107.-Articles exhibited against the cardinal

by the privy council, 108.-In this impeachment it is confessed the cardinal had the

king's license to exercise his legatine commission, 114.—Remarks upon some of the

articles, 119.-The cardinal misrepresented by Fox. He is not charged in the articles

with saying, "I and the king," 120.-The cardinal pardoned and restored to the

archbishopric of York, 123.-A conjecture upon the cardinal's ruin, 123.-Fox

misrepresents the cardinal, 123.-He is arrested for high treason, 124.—But

refuses to surrender himself to the earl of Northumberland, 124.-He falls

sick and dies at Leicester, 124.-His character and benefactions, 125.—An un-

charitable inference in Fox, 126.-A parliament called, 130.-Lutheranism gains

ground in England, 130.-Incompliance and rigour wrong expedients, 130.-

Complaints of the exactions and misconduct of the clergy, 130.—A speech in the

house of Commons concerning religion, 131.-The lords spiritual passed the last bill

concerning mortuaries without opposition, 135.-Office of a chaplain, 135.-Suing to

the court of Rome for dispensations prohibited, 135.-The first check upon the pope's

supremacy, 136.-"Supplication of Beggars" answered by sir Thomas More, 137.-Some

of the singularities of this book, 137.-A proclamation to suppress the Lollards' books,

138.-Dr. Crone's recantation, 138.-An extract of the opinions of the Wickliffists, 140.

-The warning the preachers were obliged to give the people against reading the censured

books, 145.—The persons attesting the instrument, 149.—The king consults the uni-

versities about the divorce, 150.-This expedient not suggested by Cranmer, 150.-

The divorce opposed by the masters of arts in Oxford, 151.-The masters excluded

the convocation, 151.-The question determined by a committee of doctors, &c., 152.

The Oxford antiquary defended, 152.-The university of Cambridge divided about the

divorce, 153.—But at last they decree for it, 154.-Croke's negotiation in Italy about

the divorce, 155.-The universities of Padua and Bononia declare for the divorce, 155.

-The judgments of the universities in France, 156.-Croke complains of the Lu-

therans, 157.-The opinion of Ecolampadius, 157.—Of Bucer, 157.-Zuinglius and

Grynæus, 158.—A pretended letter of Calvin's, 158.—The reasoning in this letter not

conclusive, 158.-Melancthon a favourer of polygamy, 159.-Some German divines

charged with abetting this doctrine by Cranmer, 160.-The resolution of the Lutheran

divines in the case of the divorce, 161.-Whether the pope allowed polygamy, 161.—

An abstract of the arguments of those who wrote against the divorce, 162.-The reply

of those who wrote on the king's side, 164.-A remark upon the argument, 165.—

Whether the universities, &c. delivered their opinions gratis, 165.-An address to the

pope from the nobility, &c., 167.-The pope's answer, 169.-A proclamation against

acting upon the pope's bulls, 172.-The pope inclined to give the king satisfac-

tion, 172.-The censures of the universities read in parliament, 173.-The convo-

cation determine for the divorce, 173.-But three of the bishops, &c. were against it,

173. Two messages sent to the queen upon this business; but to no effect, 174.-The

clergy brought under a præmunire for owning cardinal Wolsey's legatine authority,

174. They compound with the king, 174.—Their case considered, 175.-The clergy

acknowledge the king supreme head of the Church, but not without a reserve, 177.—

Several forms proposed, 178.—Their submission not drawn in a petition, but acknow-

ledged in a grant, 179.-Reginald Pole not present in convocation, 179.-The clergy

pardoned by act of parliament, 180.-The convocation at York more dilatory in passing

the acknowledgments, 180.-Bp. Tunstal's remonstrance against the king's title of

supreme head of the Church and clergy, 181.—The king's answer to the objections

upon this argument, 182.-Bylney suffers for his tenets at Norwich, 184.-Fox denies

his recantation, 184.-The grievances of the commons with respect to the clergy

redressed in several statutes, 185.-Payment of annates extinguished under some pro-

visos, 186.—The pope's censures overruled in case he refused a composition, 186.—

An address of the commons against the clergy, 188.-The convocation's first answer

to the supplication of the commons, 188.-Gardiner's letter of excuse to the king, 190.

-The clergy's second answer to the supplication, 190.-Articles sent by the king to

the convocation, 193.-The king complains of an inconsistency of oaths taken by the

clergy, 194.-The bishops' oath to the pope, 194.-Their oath to the king, 195.—

Whether any dangerous inconsistency between these oaths, 195.-The clergy reputed

loyal in preceding reigns, 196.-The king's complaint draws the clergy towards com-

pliance, 197.-But they refuse to go the length of the king's demands, 198.-By their

last submission, they are only barred the enacting new canons without leave from the

crown, 198.-Three other bishops, London, Lincoln, and St. Asaph, admitted it con-

ditionally, 199.-The king writes to the conclave to make the bishop of Worcester a

cardinal, 199.-The business of the divorce farther pursued, 200.-A priest im-

prisoned for maintaining the pope's authority, 201.-The death of archbishop

Warham, 201.-Battle-abbey visited by the archbishop of Canterbury, 202.—

An interview between the kings of England and France at Calais, 203.—The king

privately married to Anne Boleyn, 204.-Dr. Bennet's proposals to the pope for the

deciding the business touching the divorce, 204.-The religious houses of St. James's

and Christ Church, London, suppressed, 205.-Some of Tyndal's opinions, 205.-Fox

affirms Tyndal misreported, 205.—Appeals in causes testamentary, matrimonial, &c.,

prohibited under præmunire, 207.-The king expostulates with the pope, and pro-

poses his retiring to Avignon, 208.-A treaty between the pope and the French king,

209.-The French king goes off from king Henry's interest, 209.-Cranmer promoted

to the see of Canterbury, 209.-Papal bulls for bishops not yet prohibited, 210.-

Cranmer scruples the taking an oath to the pope, but complies upon the expedient of

a protestation, 210.-This expedient not wholly defensible, 211.-The question about

the divorce debated this year in convocation, 211.-A mistake concerning nineteen

universities rectified, 212.-What members sat in each house of convocation, 213.—

Latimer preaches against purgatory, &c., 214.-His submission, 214.-The king

attempts to prevail with queen Catharine to relinquish her marriage, but without

success, 214.-The sentence of the divorce pronounced by Cranmer, 215.—The

proceedings censured, 216.—The king endeavours to justify himself to foreign princes,

216. The emperor not satisfied, 216.-The court of Rome highly disgusted, 217.—

The king's agents at the interview at Marseilles, 217.-Queen Catharine refuses to

acquiesce, 218.-The king and the archbishop of Canterbury appeal from the pope to

a general council, 219.-A speech at the council-board in defence of the papal supre-

macy, 219.-An answer on the other side, 221.-Resolutions at the council-board,

226.—The king endeavours to prevent a rupture with the pope, 226.-The bishop of

Paris employed at Rome in this affair, 226.-The consistory, displeased with some

proceedings in England, give sentence against the king, 227.-Some arguments for the

regale considered, 228.-The case of Abiathar not serviceable to the regale, 229.-

The authorities from the New Testament and the Fathers seem inconclusive, 231.

BOOK II.

Endeavours used to satisfy Fisher, bishop of Rochester, 233.-Bishops preach against

the pope's supremacy at St. Paul's-cross, 234.-The bishops' peerage owned by the

house of lords, 234.—A repeal of 2 Hen. IV. cap. 15, concerning heresy, 234.—A

remark upon this preamble, 237.-The clergy not to meet in convocation, nor to

make canons without the king's license, 238.-The monasteries put under the juris-

diction of the crown, 238.-Payment of annates wholly extinguished, 239.-The

election of bishops settled, 239.-All payments for faculties, &c., formerly made to

the see of Rome prohibited, 239.-The parliament claims an authority to abrogate all

human laws, 240.-The archbishop of Canterbury empowered to grant dispensations,

&c., 240.-The king empowered to commissionate two bishops for this purpose,

in case of the archbishop's refusal, 240.-The subjects prohibited the going to

general councils, 240.-An act for swearing the subjects to the succession of

the issue of the queen, 241.-The laws of God not dispensable by the pope, 241.

-Fisher, bishop of Rochester, and sir Thomas More, refuse swearing to the

whole act, 242.-Friar Peto and Elstow preach against the king's second marriage,

243.-Elstow's resolution, 244.-A message to queen Catharine to relinquish her

claim, but without success, 244.-The imposture of the Maid of Kent, 245.-She and

her accomplices confess the cheat, and are executed, 246.-Her speech at the place of

execution, 246.-Sir Thomas More's letter to the king, 247.-Death of pope Clement

VII., 251.-The king impowered to visit and reform all heresies, &c., 251.-Remarks

upon the statute, 252.-The authority of Christian princes over ecclesiastical synods,

252. A discourse concerning the king's ecclesiastical supremacy, 253.-Concerning

the determining what are heresies, 255.-Whether the common lawyers are proper

judges concerning the king's ecclesiastical supremacy, 262.-The convocation at York,

&c., declare against the pope's supremacy being "jure divino," 266.-The same done

by the convocation of Canterbury, 266.-First-fruits granted to the king by act of

parliament, 267.-Words made treason, 268.-The election and authority of suf-

fragans, 268.-Instructions for the inquiry into the estates of the religious and

clergy, 269.-Bishop Fisher's trial, 271.-He suffers with great fortitude, 274.-

His speech, 275.-His character, 275.-He seemed too forward in giving credit to

the Maid of Kent, 276.-Fox's charge against him disproved, 277.-Pope Paul

III., his extravagant bull against the king, 277.-An apology published in Latin

for the king, 278.-Sir Thomas More farther examined about the supremacy,

278. The discourse between the solicitor and sir Thomas More, 279.-His trial,

279. His death and character, 281.-Sir, Thomas More's opinion as to the pope's

supremacy, 282.-The king the author of the book against Luther, 282.-Several

anabaptists burnt, 283.-The king's letter against preaching up the pope's supremacy,

283.-Orders for regulating the pulpit, and bidding of beads, 285.-An overture to

close with the pope, 289.-The king endeavours to strengthen himself by foreign

alliances, 289.-The king consults about the dissolution of the monasteries, 290.-

A speech against the suppression of religious houses, 291.-Another for it, 292.-

The king orders a visitation of the monasteries, 293.-Cromwell made visitor-general,

294.-Vicar-general and lord-vicegerent the same office, 294.-Cromwell authorised

to constitute deputies for a general visitation, 295.-Layton and Leigh solicit to be

made visitors, 295.-The archbishop takes a license from the king for his visitation,

295.-Bishop Stokesly's appeal against the archbishop's visitation, 296.-A regal