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 supreme

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.
Grinous 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,
101; 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 ir
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

Lay bishop of modern times, 22
Layton, Dr., 296, 298; an active packer
up of plunder, 303, 328; character of,
358

Learning, decay of, after dissolution, 386
Lee, Archbishop, and Pilgrimage of Grace,

321, 324, 326; injunction for reading
Institution, 465; injunction for reading
Epistles and Gospels in English, 497
Lee, Dr. Rowland, married Henry VIII.
and Anne Boleyn, 182

Legates à latere, foreign, inadmissible, 54
Legends, absurdity of some, 39
Legh, Dr., character of, 357

Leo X., character of, 243; his preferments,
248, n.

Lessons read in English, 496

Life, Bishop Fisher on stewardship of, 420
Linacre a friend of Wolsey, 64; first
president of College of Physicians, a
clergyman, 68

Lincoln, Wolsey Bishop of, 51
List of medieval pluralists, 24, n.
Litany publicly used in English, 498
Lollard's Tower at St. Paul's, 393
London, Dr., only defaces churches, 343;
character of, 358

Londoners, excitability of, 394
Longland, Bishop of Lincoln, Wolsey's
agent in founding Christ Church, 66;
urges Wolsey to severity with heretics,
77; not original suggestor of divorce,
114, 115, n.; urges on Wolsey against
Oxford heretics, 526

Louth, reception of a commissioner at,
320

Lupset, tutor to Wolsey's son, 64
Luther's "Babylonish captivity," 80; his
early writings suppressed, 80; gives
dispensation for two wives to Philip of
Hesse, 178, n.; his sayings about Rome,
244; influence on early Dissenters, 545
Lutheran errors, forty-two condemned by
Wolsey, 81

Lutherans and union with Church of
England, 469

Lyndewood on early English Bibles, 505,

n.

MALET, writer of Reformation "Ration-
ale," 492, n.

Manning on struggle between England and
Rome, 247

Margaret of Savoy called Wolsey her
father, 44, n.
Mariolatry, 32

Marler, Anthony, licensed to sell Great
Bibles, 515, n., 517

Martyrs, character of so-called, 541
Mary, Princess, birth of, 107; provoca-
cations she underwent for twenty years,
411

Masses for souls, increase of, 31; bought
and sold, 31, 32;

Masters, Richard, and the Nun of Kent,
413

Matthew's English Bible, 511

Matrimony, Church of England doctrine
about, 458

Mediævalism worn out, 18

Mediæval abuses continued to modern
times, 18; exhortation to communi-
cants, 33

Melancthon invited to England, 471
Mendicancy increased by dissolution of
monasteries, 380

Meopham, Archbishop, his caron about
holy-days, 489

Middle classes, rise of, 19; object to pay
fees to clergy, 400

"Mirror of our Lady," 35, n., 39
"Mistress

gets a monastic
manor for her puddings, 374
Monasteries, Wolsey's reformation of, 53,
68, 91, n.; dissolution of many neces-
sary, 278; original excellence of system,
280; periods of their foundation in
England, 281; outgrew wants of the
Church, 281; absorbing all the land,
282; how their wealth accumulated,
282, 284; attacked by Commons in
1410, 284, n.; restraints on acquisition
of property, 285; their wealth invited
spoliation, 286; too independent of
Church system, 287; necessity for refor-
mation, 289; dissolution suggested by
precedent of Wolsey, 290; novelty of
alienating property from Church, 291;
lands reverting to founders, 291, 292;
first visitation of, 295; the visitors,
296; starving out the monks, 299
visitations only pro forma, 301, 327
first Act of Dissolution, 302; second
Act, 353; their reformation not really
attempted by Henry VIII., 304, 327;
Act of 1536 declares the larger ones
well ordered, 305; amount of property
taken in first dissolution, 308; spies
sent to them, 313; subornation of crime
at visitation, 315; promised security by
Cromwell, 318; general prostration of
monks by audacity of Cromwell's acts,
318; attempt to restore them, 323;
second visitation of, 327; treasures of
concealed, 328, 348; lands made over to
laymen in hope of saving them, 328;
attempts made to buy off destruction,
330; solemn forebodings of their in-
mates, 331; character of "surrenders,"
337, 339; forgery of surrenders, 338;
real feeling of monks about surrender-
ing, 339; a parallel modern surrender
supposed, 340; plate, jewels, &c., taken
by the King, 342; walls to become
stone quarries, 342; unlicensed plunder
of, 344; evidence as to moral condition
of, 354; summary of facts as to their
dissolution, 361; not blameless, 362;

their abolition foreseen, 362; destroyed
through non-reformation, 364; general
amount and fate of property, 369;
grants of their manors by Henry VIII.,
374; fate of some who received their
property, 379; social results of their
dissolution, 380; poverty following their
dissolution, 386; their dissolution a
national tragedy, 390

Monks, allowance to, going willingly, 301;
kept registers, 322, n.; "voluntary"
surrenders, 334, 337; their fate at the
Reformation, 364; their slaughter by
Henry VIII., 365; building after Re-
formation, 365; employed as chantry
priests, 366; clerical, their difficulties
after the Reformation, 367; their pen-
sions, 367; made beggars by dissolution,
381
Morality of monasteries, 354; character
of evidence against, 361, n.
More, Sir Thomas, on purgatory, 30; on
Mariolatry at Coventry, 39, n.; helped
Wolsey to introduce Greek into Oxford,
65; reads opinions of universities in
Parliament, 161; on papal jurisdiction,
246; on Hunn's case, 392; his attainder
and pardon, 415; and the Oath of Suc-
cession, 418; execution of, 423; on
Anne Boleyn, 423; his death charged on
Anne Boleyn by Henry VIII., 424; his
portrait thrown out of window by
her, 424; on early English Bibles, 505,
n.; his severity towards heretics, 534
Morrice, Ralph, on 1534 translation of
Bible, 510

Mortmain, Statutes of, 285

Mortuary fees regulated, 402

Mountjoy, Lord, in charge of Queen
Catherine, 191; his indignant resigna-
tion, 193, n.

Myrk's instructions to parish priests, 33
n., 35, n.

NATIONAL independence springing up, 19;
responsibility for religious abuses, 40
New influences working in Henry VIII.'s
reign, 19

Non-residence, mediæval, 7, 21
Non-resident bishops, 29, n.

Norfolk, Duke of, his share of monastic
spoils, 378

Norman-French Bible of thirteenth cen-
tury, 504, n.

Northampton Priory, Act of Surrender,
335

Northumberland, Duke of, his share of
monastic spoils, 378
Nun of Kent, 413

Nuns, shameful temptations offered to, 315
Nuremberg, mass at in 1530, 497, n.

OATH of Supremacy, 234; of Succession,
417

Obedience of Church of England to Catho-
lic Church, 432

Official demands for reformation at Coun-
cil of Basle, 8

Oldcastle, Sir John, 532, n.

Oldham, Bishop, on founding new monas-
teries, 363

"Ora pro nobis" thrusting aside "Libera
nos Domine," 492

Orders, Holy, Church of England doctrine
about, 459

Oxford suggestions for reformation at Pisa,
5; Wolsey's professorships, object of,
49; letter of Wolsey to, 50, n.; Wol-
sey's good will to, 63; heretics, 74, 78;
broadsheets in 1521, 78; pressed by
letters from Henry VIII. on divorce
business, 170; unmanageable on divorce
business, 170; its decree respecting the
divorce question, 171, 173, n.; inno-
vators, 526

PANIC among the monks, 319, 327
Papal Supremacy, the "Institution" on,
452

Papal remonstrances on disregard shown
by England, 239

Papacy, morale of, 212, 243, 244; why
despised by Englishmen, 244, 245
Papal jurisdiction rotting away befor
Henry VIII., 245

Papal supremacy, withdrawal from sug-
gested by clergy, 253

Pardoners a despicable class, 37
"Parish priests," old meaning of, 27
Parish registers, their origin, &c., 322, n.
Parliament tuned to opinions of Henry
VIII., 156

Parliament. See Acts of

Parr, Lord, his share of monastic spoils,
378

Parr, Queen Catherine, probably plotted
against Henry VIII., 539

Partridge, Sir Miles, wins church bells at
play, 375

Patriarch of England and France in-
tended, 88, 247, n.

Paul's, old St., great size of, 82, n.
Paul's Cross sermons used for agitation,
395

Peace, the way to by preparedness for
war: origin of saying, 137, n.
Penance, Ten Articles on, 440

Penny, Bishop of Carlisle, on Wolsey's
reformation plans, 60

Percy, Lord, and Anne Boleyn, 118; de-
nies betrothal to her, 123

Peter Martyr alleges cruelty of Henry to
Catherine, 107

Petre, Sir William, 433, n.

Philip of Hesse had two wives at once,
178; his confiscation of monasteries,

292

Picturesque history, 401