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