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scandalous life with Henry VIII., 175,
180; made Marchioness of Pembroke,
181; married to Henry VIII., 182; at the
Tower for her coronation, 188; becomes
Queen, 188; her life as Queen, 194; her
yellow mourning, 195; alleged adultery
of, 196; her trial, divorce, and execu
tion, 196, 197; Bishop Fisher's head,
422; Sir T. More's picture, 424
Boleyn, Mary, and Henry VIII., 93,
197, n.; her marriage, 124
Boleyn, Sir Thomas, ambassador to
France, 118; sent to Germany about the
divorce, 143; weeps under Wolsey's re-
buke about the divorce business, 153
Boleyns and Blunts connected, 110, n.
Bonner, Bishop, employed at Rome on
divorce business, 181

Book of Ceremonies, 492

Books, destruction of, at Reformation,
387

Bocking, Dr., and the Nun of Kent, 413
Breviary, Anglican, reformed, 496
Bribes taken by Cromwell, 329
Brown, Archbishop, his arrogance, 322, n.
Buckmaster, Dr., at court, 168
Bulls, admission of, prohibited, 249
Burckhardt, agent for Lutherans to Eng-
lish court, 471
Burning alive, 529

"Butcher's dog," origin of this saying,
43

CALPHURNIUS, first Greek professor at
Oxford, 64

Calvin, his influence on early Dissenters,
546

Cambridge, visitation of it for heresy pre-
vented by Wolsey, 65; and the divorce
question, 162; senate debating the di-
vorce question, 164; list of delegates
on divorce business, 166, n.; its decree
on divorce business, 167, n.; the vice-
chancellor at court, 168; innovators,
527

Campeggio made legate, 53; detained at
Calais, 55; leaves England, 56; on
Wolsey's objects, 57; takes leave of
Henry VIII., 94; a married cardinal,
97, n.; his luggage searched for Henry
VIII.'s letters to Anne Boleyn, 125, n.;
his second visit to England, 137; sus-
pected of double dealing, 152; adjourns
the court of legates, 152, 154; sends
the divorce cause to the Pope for ad-
judication, 154

Canon abrogating certain holy-days, 490
Canons, Henry VIII.'s extravagant de-
mands respecting them, 227; Convoca-
tion's decision respecting them, 227
Canon Law never properly revised, 229
Capon, William, Dean of Ipswich College,
71

Cardinal, Wolsey made, 43, 52

Cathedrals of new foundation, 371
Catherine, Queen, interested in Wolsey's
colleges, 67, 79; and her first husband,
102; married to Henry VIII., 104;
discrepancy of age between her and
Henry VIII., 104, 106, 111; her love
for Henry VIII., 105, 195; her seven
children, 106; doubts as to legality of
her marriage, 113; suggested to her to
go into a convent, 138; declares herself
to have been a maiden at her marriage
with Henry, 146; refuses to recognise
court of the legates, 146; appeals from
legates to the King himself, 146; her
proud exit from the legates' court, 148;
appeals to the Pope, 152; finally dis-
missed by Henry VIII., 179; her opinion
of Cranmer and his court at Dunstable,
186; divorced from Henry VIII. by
sentence of Cranmer, 188; movement
to promote her restoration, 189; her
marriage to Henry VIII. declared valid
by Clement VII., 190; her last days,
191, 194

Catholicity of Church of England, 270, 522
Caxton's "Festivale," 495
Censors of monks, ascetic, 354
Ceremonies, Reformation
of, 492

"Rationale"

Champernown, Mr., how he got a priory,
374

Changes in Church lawful, 1, 19

Chantries, growth of, 31; property given
to Henry VIII., 353

Characteristics of early sixteenth cen-
tury, 19

Charles V., his confidence in Wolsey, 44,
n.; his saying about Wolsey, 43, n.;
at war with Pope, 132; and divorce
question, 143, 189; his foolish boast
about the divorce business, 144; supports
Queen Catherine's appeal to the Pope,
152

Christ Church founded by Wolsey, 66;
its original dimensions, 70
"Christian brethren," 525
"Christiani Hominis Institutio" of Eras-
mus, 444, n.

Church, attacks on its property, 284; in-
jured by monasteries, 286; property,
inalienableness of, 379; ordinarily gov-
erned by local synods, 430; the "In-
stitution"
on, 450
Churches, abominable use of, by Puritans,
273

Church of England, independence of,
achieved by clergy, 255; principle of
its independence, 261; declared to be
still Catholic, 270; finally rejected papal
jurisdiction, 278; receives decrees of
General Councils, 432; union with Ger-
man Lutherans, 469; doctrine, settle-
ment of in Henry VIII.'s reign, 480;
law of about holy-days, 489

Clement V. and lands of Knights Tem-
plars, 291
Clement VII. victim of his predecessors,

244; his great provocation of England,
247; an "unclement bishop," 249
Clergy indicted in King's Bench, 203;
pardoned by mercy and compassion of
Henry VIII., 211; "submission" of,
212, 227; intellectual narrowness of at
Reformation, 426; protest against re-
ligious errors, 435; their courage saved
the liberties of the Church, 237, 255;
petition of against annates, 250; sug-
gest extinction of papal supremacy,
253; causes of reaction among, 256;
general repudiation of papal authority
by, 275, 276, 278; alleged extortions
of, 391; their exemption from secular
jurisdiction, 396; their income grudged
by laity, 404; extortion not proved
against, 405; their money rights an
easy prey, 405; benefit of, 406; did not
oppose abolition of it, 410; ordered
to preach from the Ten Articles, 443
Clermont, Council of, 34

Clinton, Lord, his share of monastic
spoils, 378

Coke refuses oath against Lollardy, 532, n.
Colchester, two abbots of, executed in
one year, 345

Colet, his Convocation sermon, 10; a
friend of Wolsey, 48; his reformation
sermon, probably Wolsey present, 48;
his treatise on Seven Sacraments, 429
College of Physicians founded by Wolsey,
68

Colleges founded out of monasteries, 363,

n.

Colleges of clergy, property given to
Henry VIII., 353; pleas for, 372
Colonies, rise of, 20, n.

Commandments, the "Institution" on the
Ten, 453

Commission of 1530 about translating
Bible, 508

Committee for discussion of Six Articles,
473

Commons, House of, its servility to
Henry VIII., 202, 203; their accusation
of the clergy, 212; threatened by Henry
VIII., 307; Act of Dissolution opposed
in, 307; on heresy, 533
Communicants, medieval, address to, 33
Communion in one kind only, 33; in both

kinds, medieval continuance of, 34;
rare in pre-Reformation times, 35; in
both kinds restored after death of Henry
VIII., 36

Confession, Latimer on, 441, n.
Conferences with German Protestants, 470
Confirmation, Church of England doctrine
about, 459

Congé d'élire, the, 263, 264, 266; abo-
lished for a time, 267

Consensus of bishops, 446
Constance, Council of, 6, 33
Continuity of Church of England, 2, 270
Constitution of Archbishop Arundel re-
specting English Bibles, 505

Constitutions of Wolsey for general re-
formation, 59; for the Augustinian
order, 62

Constitutional abuses, 21

Controversy on pronunciation of Greek, 64
Convicts, benefit of clergy, chiefly laymen,
408

Convocation on divorce question, 183; re-
plies to accusation of House of Com-
mons, 221; answer to Commons utterly
disregarded, 225; its existing relation
to the Crown, 237; leading the Refor-
mation, 250; repudiated papal autho-
rity, 275; and Dr. Standish, 397; re-
buked by Henry VIII. in 1516, 399;
refuses to receive Cromwell's deputy,
433, n.

Convocation of York represented in that
of Canterbury, 437, n.
Convocations, the two united by Wolsey
85, 86

Cook, Abbot of Reading, his inscription,
351, n.

Corpse presents, 402

Correspondence between Henry VIII. and
Anne Boleyn, 124
Corruption of judges, 21
Court holy water, 169

Coverdale's English Bible, 510; imperfect
character of his Bible, 513

Cranmer and the divorce business, 128,
n; works the divorce business at Cam-
bridge, 162; and marriage of Anne
Boleyn, 182; becomes Archbishop, 183;
opens his court at Dunstable, 185; is
licensed to hear the divorce cause, 185;
collusion with Henry VIII., 184, 187;
decrees nullity of marriage between
Henry VIII. and Catherine, 188; di-
vorces Henry VIII. from Anne Boleyn,
197; said to have suggested title of su-
preme head, 204, n.; alleged speech of
his respecting Warham and the Royal
Supremacy, 208, n.; suspends episcopal
jurisdiction, 297; on conduct of monastic
visitors, 300; sends gifts to conciliate
Cromwell, 330; pleads for clerical col-
leges, 372; on frauds connected with dis-
solution, 373; dealings with monastic
spoils, 378; and the Nun of Kent, 415;
appeals to general couucil, 432; and the

Institution of a Christian Man," 464;
mandate about reading "Institution,"
465; annotated copy of "Institution,"
466, 468; confers with German Protes-
tants, 471; and Act of Six Articles, 475;
and the "Rationale" of ceremonies, 492,
n.; on early English Bibles, 503; on
those who brought scandal on the English

Bible, 504; excuses those who opposed
translation of Bible, 506; prepares for
an authorized version, 509; thanks
Cromwell for setting up Bible in
churches, 511; his Bible, 514; his in-
difference about burning a heretic, 537;
his Erastianism encouraged anti-Church
party, 554

Creeds, Ten Articles on the, 439; "Insti-
tution" on, 447

Croke, Dr., alias Blunt, his character, 155,
n.; Professor of Greek at Cambridge,
65; sent to get university opinions on
the divorce, 155
Cromwell, his ears boxed by Henry VIII.,

47; said to have suggested title of
supreme head, 204, n.; his staff of
ribalds, 273, n.; agent in dissolving
monasteries for Wolsey, 290; suggests
attack on monasteries, 294; his steady
perseverance in spoliation, 309; en-
courages discontented monks, 314, 315;
his letter promising security to monas-
teries, 318, n.; his avarice well-known,
329; his memoranda about monastic
property, 331, n., 341; his idea of a
trial and of evidence, 349; character of,
355; bribes nobility with grants from
monastic spoils, 373; his share of
monastic spoils, 377; his assumption
in convocation, 433, n.; sentences a
heretic to be burned, 538; supported
anti-Church party, 554

Crown plate, order of Henry VIII. to sell,
325

Cup, the, withheld from laity, 33

DARCY, Lord, and Pilgrimage of Grace, 321;

declines invitation to Court, 325; be-
headed on Tower Hill, 326
Degeneracy of fifteenth century, 4
Delaber, Anthony, 527, n.
Devotional changes in reign of Henry
VIII., 499

Dishonesty of Henry VIII., 305
Dispensations, &c., from Rome abolished,
269

Dissent, rise of, 522

Dissenters adepts at verbiage, 546
Dissolution, first Act of, 302; second,
352

Divines, list of those engaged on "Insti-
tution," 445, n.

Divorce of Henry VIII. and Catherine,
first suggestions of, 117, 149; Bishops
consult respecting, 128; university
opinions suggested, 129; supposed
conference of foreign divines, 131, n.;
the legates open their court, 144; peti-
tion of Lords and Commons to the
Pope, 156; Clement VII. forbids any
sentence except his own, 178
Doctrinal abuses, 29

Doctrine, dealings with under Henry VIII.,

426, 480; review of work of clergy in
synod, 430

Donatives and Peculiars, 288, n.
Doubt and unbelief at Reformation, 430
Durham, Prior of, doubles Cromwell's
"pension," 329; treasures of concealed,
348; its chapter library, 388; book of
gospels, 503

ECCLESIASTICAL Courts, leniency of too
great, 407

Edward III., commission respecting plu-
ralities, 23

Edward IV., alleged son of, 540, n.
Election of bishops, 262, 263
Elizabeth, Queen, birth of, 182
England and Rome, the old quarrel be-
tween, 238, 247; an independent empire,
259

English call for reform at Council of Basle,
24; treatment of Popes, 239, 240, 241
Englishmen carefully excluded from Papal
throne, 88; not to plead at foreign tri-
bunals, 248

Enquiry, spirit of, aroused, 429
Episcopate, extension of by Wolsey, 49,
69,90

Erasmus and John Watson, 27; his com-
mendation of Wolsey, 63; invited to
Cambridge by Fisher, 65; seems to
class Wolsey among Luther's admirers,
73; on Wolsey's gentle courtesy, 73;
his opinion of Queen Catherine, 105; a
sinecure English rector, 413, n.; influ-
ence of on Reformation, 427; wrote an
"Institution of a Christian Man," 444,
n.; his exposition of the Creed, &c.,
444, n.

Errors protested against by clergy in 1536,
435
"Erudition of any Christian Man," the,
468; editions of, 469, n.

Eucharist, unconsecrated wine at, 33;
unbalanced medieval theories of, 35;
Roman parody of its consecration, 244,
n.; Protestant parodies of, 273, n.; Ten
Articles on, 441

"Evil May-Day," 365, n., 395
Exemption of monasteries from episcopal
control, 287

Extortions of clergy, 391

Extremes of credulity and incredulity, 481

FAGGOT bearers and wearers, 83, 84, 85;

bearing in Edward VI.'s reign, 524
Falstaff and Lord Cobham, 532, n.
Fanaticism of Puritans, 84, n.
Faversham, the Abbot of, 309
Fees, the grievance of, 401
Feudal system, end of, 19

Fisher, his sermon at St. Paul's, 83; his
strong opposition to the divorce, 150;
left in Tower without sufficient clothing,
201, n.; his parable about a supreine

head, 206; consulted by Convocation
when too infirm to be present, 226;
counsel for Queen Catherine, 145; his
prescience of events, 403; his attainder,
415; and the Oath of Succession, 419;
last hours and execution, 419; shot at
from Sir. T. Boleyn's house, 423
Fitz-Roy, Henry, Duke of Richmond, 109,
110, n.; present at Anne Boleyn's exe-
cution, 197

Fitzwilliam on state of popular feeling at
dissolutions, 320

Forbes, Bishop, on fifteenth century, 4
Foreigners, wanton attack of Londoners
on, 395

Founders, monastic lands restored to, 376
Fountains, Abbot of, conceals church plate
and jewels, 328

Fox, Bishop of Hereford, 137, n.; helps
to manipulate Cambridge on divorce
question, 166; and the "Institution,'
464; sent to confer with German Pro-
testants, 470

Fox, Bishop of Winchester, glad to give
up office, 45; on reformation of Church,
59, n.; on reformation of monks, 363
Foxe has no real charge of severity against
Wolsey, 73; idea of a scarlet robe, 83;
misstatement about effect of Six Ar-
ticles, 478; on early English Bibles,
504

Francis I. wished Wolsey to be Pope, 88,
n.; his great respect for Wolsey, 89
Frith and others put in Beauchamp Tower
to be converted, 528; burned for heresy,
536
Froude's misrepresentation of a document,
222, n.; amusing mistake of, 315, n.;
compares "Supplication of Beggars"
and Vagrant Acts, 384, n. ; exaggerated
statements of, 401; misstatement of,
528, n.

Fuller on grants of monastic spoils, 374;
on cutting up Bibles, 502, n.

GARDINER and the divorce business, 134;
threatens the Pope, 135; secretary to
legates, 145; foresees alienation of Eng-
land from See of Rome, 153; agent for
the divorce business at Cambridge, 163;
on Royal Supremacy, 230, n.
Gardiner, Bishop, his list of Latin words

to be retained in English Bibles, 519, n.
Garrett, Thomas, visiting Oxford, 526
German Mass in 1530, 497, n.
Giraldus Cambrensis preaching to the
Welsh, 494, n.

Giustiniani's description of Wolsey, 44;
on English contempt for papacy, 55;
on anxiety of England for a royal heir,
107; description of Henry VIII., 111;
on Evil May-Day, 395
Gladstone on relation of convocation to
the Crown, 236, n.

Glastonbury, Abbot of, sends gifts to con-
ciliate Cromwell, 330; tried and exe-
cuted, 345; impression made by his
execution, 351; treasures of abbey con-
cealed, 348

Gospels and Epistles read in English, 497, n.
Grammont suggests illegality of marriage

between Henry and Catherine, 114;
tries to mediate between Henry VIII.
and Clement VII., 177
"Great Bibles," 516

Greek first printed with English type, 64,
n.; at the universities, 65; learned at
Cambridge by Erasmus, 427

Gresham, Sir Richard, buying Fountains
Abbey, 371; pleads for hospitals, 372.
Grinceus suggests to Henry VIII. to have
two wives, 178, n.

HALLAM, Dr., at Council of Pisa, 5
Hardwicke on influence of Wickliffe,
523

Heath, afterwards Archbishop, sent to
confer with German Protestants, 470
Henry V. dissolved alien priories, 291
Henry VII.'s policy in marrying his sons
to Catherine of Arragon, 103

Henry VIII.'s treatment of Cromwell, 47,
355; Wolsey's influence with, 45; his
opposition to Wolsey, 46, 47, n.; asks
for Wolsey to be made cardinal, 51; his
huge thanks to the Pope, 52; thanks
Pope for making Wolsey legate, 57; his
entire assent to Wolsey's legateship,
58; confiscates Wolsey's endowments,
64, 70; his treatise on Seven Sacraments,
73, 81, 429, n. ; interested in Wolsey's
colleges, 78; thinks heretical book-
sellers fear fines more than excommuni-
cation, 79; his controversy with Luther,
80; misunderstandings with Wolsey, 90;
and Mary Boleyn, 93, n., 197, n.; dis-
likes Wolsey's munificence, 93; alienated
from Wolsey, 94; betrothed at twelve
years of age, 103; married to Catherine,
104; protestation against betrothal,
104; forsakes Catherine, 108; intrigue
with Elizabeth Blunt, 110; alienation
from Catherine, 111; his person de-
scribed, 112; alleged cause of alienation
from Catherine, 113, n.; divorce from
Catherine said to be suggested by Anne
Boleyn, 117; probable motives for
divorce from Catherine, 117; Corre-
spondence with Anne Boleyn, 124;
wants to have two wives at once, 133,
135, 141, 178, n.; proposes to take a
vow of chastity, 138; makes public the
divorce business, 139; before the two
legates, 145; his account of the legates'
court, 148, n.; openly declares the
Queen's virtues, 148; scolds Oxford
M.A.'s, 171; threatens Oxford with a
plague of hornets, 172; finally separates

from Catherine, 179; appeals to General
Council, 190, 432; marries Jane Sey-
mour the day after Anne Boleyn's exe-
cution, 197; graciously pardons his
people, 202; his first ecclesiastical
spoils, 203; claims title of the Supreme
Head of the Church, 205; his view of
the Royal Supremacy, 210; his ulti-
matum to the clergy, 225; how to at-
tend the Pope's summons, 241; early
idea of papal jurisdiction, 246; his last
letter to the Pope, 265, n.; his praise of
the Observants, 272, n.; his probable
grounds of law in dissolving monasteries,
292; pecuniary wants of, 293, 325; re-
pudiates his debts by Act of Parliament,
293;

visits the House of Commons,
302; intends to sell Crown plate, 325;
conduct towards leaders of Pilgrimage
of Grace, 326; cruelty of, 340, 365, n.;
financial operations on the Church, 353,
n.; own estimate of his agents, 356;
orders monks and canons to be "tied
up" wholesale, 365, n.; bishoprics
formed by, 371; received fifty millions
from monastic spoils, 371; prodigality
of,372; grants of monastic property made
by, 374; cruelty of his vagrant laws, 383;
charges Anne Boleyn with Sir T. More's
death, 424; message to Convocation
about religious discords, 434; and Ten
Articles, 437, n. ; and the "Institution,"
465; annotated copy of "Institution,'
466; sends "Institution" to Diet of
Spires, 467; takes part in conferences
with German Protestants, 471; drafted
Act of Six Articles, 475; hindered refor-
mation of Service Books, 499; hinders
translation of Bible, 520; legislation
against heresy, 542

Heresy, laws against, 528

Heretical books at Oxford, 67, 68
Hewett burned for heresy, 536
Holy-days, abrogation of some, 488
Homilies in English, 495

Horsey, Dr., and Richard Hunn, 394
Hord, Edward, Prior of Hinton, 340
Hunn's case, 392

IMAGE-WORSHIP, 38, 454, 483
Imaginative devotion in England, 36
"Impropriations," meaning of, 25, n.
Indulgences, traffic in, 37

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Innocent VIII., character of, 242
Intellectual reformation, need of, 427
Institution of a Christian Man, 444; con-
tents of, 445; on the Creed, 447; on
the Lord's Prayer, 448; on the Sacra-
ments, 457; revised edition contem-
templated, 466; disliked by anti-Church
party, 466; Latin translation of, 467;
republication of, 469, n.
Investiture, 262

Ipswich College, foundation-stone of, 71,

n.; dedication festival of, 72; demo-
lished by Henry VIII., 72

Irish Church in sixteenth century, 28, n.
Italian jealousy of Wolsey, 88
Italy, profligacy of, 244

JEWEL keeper's accounts, 369
Judges, corruption of, 21, n.

Julius II., dispensation for second mar-
riage of Queen Catherine, 103, 131;
character of, 243

Jurisdiction, ecclesiastical, transfer of
from Pope to Archbishop of Canterbury,
268; the "Institution" on, 461
Justification, the Ten Articles on, 443

KENT, Nun of, 413; confessed her impos-
ture, 415; executed, 415
"King's Book," 469, n.

Kneeling at royal audiences, 47, n.
Knight, Dr., sent to the Pope about the
divorce, 132

Knights Templars dissolved, 291
Knights of St. John suppressed, 353
Kyme, Mrs., alias Anne Askew, 538

LABOUR on holy-days regulated, 489:
present law respecting, 491

Laity alienated from medieval Church,
28; deprived of the Cup, 33; infre-
quent communions of, 35; persecuting
spirit of, 224, n.; and dissolution of
monasteries, 317

Lambert's disputation in Westminster
Hall, 472, n.; burned for heresy, 537
Lancaster Herald's parley with Aske, 324
Lands of dissolved monasteries, 370
Lansdowne MS. account of attack on
Church property, 284, n.
Lascelles, John, burnt, 540
Lateness of communion in one kind in
England, 33

Latimer on accusations against monks,
360; pleads for clerical colleges, 372;
on poverty resulting from dissolution,
385; on decay of learning, 386; preached
to reforming Convocation, 433; on con-
fession, 441, n.; and the "Institution
of a Christian Man," 464; Aspersio
wrongly attributed to him, 485, n.; on
antiquity of prayers for the dead, 487,
n.; on ceasing from labour on holy-
days, 488; on using English in divine
service, 495; licensed as general preacher
by Wolsey, 528; on brave deaths of
heretics, 553

Latinized words retained in English Bibles,
519, n.

Laud, Archbishop, on powers of local
synods, 431

Lascelles, John, burned, 540

Laws, projected college of, 68

Laws respecting heresy, 528; their irreli-
gious character, 545

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