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
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,
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.
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
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
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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