ABBEY interior before the Dissolution, 332
Abbot of Reading, his inscription in
Beauchamp Tower, 351

Abbot of Vale Royal protests against
forged surrender, 338

Abbot of Glastonbury, the, 345
Abbots of Colchester executed, 345
Abbots, twelve, executed as traitors, 326;
refractory, turned out, 337; pliant ones
put in, 338; accused, made bishops,
338, 360; mitred, influence of broken,
345

Abel, Thomas, his attainder, 415; rebus
in the Tower, 416; execution, 416, n.
Abendon, Dr., at Council of Constance, 6
Abuses in Church of England, 10; con-
stitutional, 21; doctrinal, 29
Abusive habits of Dissenters, 546
Acts of Parliament, Præmiunire, 16 Rich.

II. c. 5, 199; pardon of clergy, 22 Hen.
VIII. c. 15, 23 Hen. VIII. c. 19, 211 n. ;
Uniformity, 2 & 3 Edw. VI. c. i. 223,
n.; Submission, 25 Hen. VIII. c. 19,
229; renewing commission to review
canons, 27 Hen. VIII. c. 15, 229;
Supremacy, 26 Hen. VIII. c. 1, 230,
233; making denial of Supremacy trea-
son, 26 Hen. VIII. c. 13, 231; repeal
of Treason Act, 1 Edw. VI. c. 12, 232;
early one on Supremacy, 33 Edw. III.,
233, n.; existing Act of Supremacy, 1
Eliz. c. 1, 234; repeal of Act of Supre-
macy, 1 & 2 Phil. & Mary c. 8, 234;
jurisdiction of Crown, 1 Eliz. c. 1, 234;
Mortmain, 9 Hen. III. c. 36, 285; dis-
solution of monasteries, 31 Hen. VIII.
c. 13, 352; annates, 23 Hen. VIII. c.
20, 253; confiscating university and
chantry property, 37 Hen. VIII. c. 4,
353; ecclesiastical jurisdiction, 25 Hen.
VIII. c. 21, 255, n.; appeals, 24 Hen.
VIII. c. 12, 257; submission of clergy,
25 Hen. VIII. c. 19, 261; provisors,
25 Edw. III., 13 Rich. II., 263; first-
fruits [appointment of bishops], 25
Hen. VIII. c. 20, 265; suffragan bis-
hops, 26 Hen. VIII. c. 14, 267, n.; eccle-

siastical jurisdiction [Peter's Pence], 25
Hen. VIII. c. 21, 28 Hen. VIII. c. 16,
269; annates, 23 Hen. VIII. c. 20, 277;
appointment of bishops, 25 Hen. VIII.
c. 20, 277; authority of papal bulls,
&c., annulled, 25 Hen. VIII. c. 21,
277; 17 Edw. II. c. 3, Templars' lands,
291; 21 Hen. VIII. c. 26, repudiation
of Hen. VIII.'s debts, 293, n.; Peter's
pence, &c., 25 Hen. VIII. c. 21, 295;
dissolution of monasteries, 27 Hen.
VIII. c. 20, 302; vagrants, 22 Hen.
VIII. c. 12, 27 Hen. VIII. c. 25, 382;
great number relating to Church in
Henry VIII.'s reign, 400, n.; fees for
wills, 21 Hen. VIII. c. 5, 401; mor-
tuary fees, 21 Hen. VIII. c. 6, 402;
pluralities, 21 Hen. VIII. c. 13, 403;
tithes, 27 Hen. VIII. c. 20, 404; re-
straining benefit of clergy, 25 Edw.
III., iii. c. 4, 4 Hen. VII. c. 13, 408;
23 Hen. VIII. c. 1; 23 Hen. VIII. c.
9; 28 Hen. VIII. c. 1; 32 Hen. VIII.
c. 3, 409; succession, 25 Hen. VIII.
c. 22, 417; legalizing Oath of Succes-
sion, 26 Hen. VIII. c. 2, 419; Six
Articles, 31 Hen. VIII. c. 14, 473; re-
pealing Six Articles, 1 Edw. VI. c. 12,
478; qualifying Act of Six Articles, 35
Hen. VIII. c. 5, 479; forbidding work
on holy-days, 6 Hen. VI. c. 3, 488,
490; regulating labour on holy-days,
& 6 Edw. VI. c. 13, 491; against here-
tics, 5 Rich. II. c. 5, 530; de hær.
comb., 2 Hen. IV. c. 15, 531; against
heretics, 2 Hen. V. c. 7, 532; against
heresy, 25 Hen. VIII. c. 14, 542; Six
Articles against heresy, 543; against
heretics, 34 & 35 Hen. VIII. c. 1, 544
Act of Dissolution, first, summary of, 306
Act of Six Articles drafted by Henry
VIII., 475; contents of, 476; re-action
caused by it, 479; results of, 478
Adrian VI. wished for reformation, 243,

n.

Aldhelm, Bishop, a translator of Scrip-
ture, 503

Aless, Alexander, 434

Alfred, King, a translator of Scripture,
503

Alien priories dissolved, 291
Alienation of laity from Church, 28
Ammonius, his advice to Erasmus, 354, n.
Anabaptists, foreign, in England, 429;

protested against by clergy, 435; im-
portation of, 550; burning of, 552
Anglican memorial to Council of Pisa, 6;

sermon at Council of Constance, 7
Annates Act, 254; sequel of stated, 265
Annates, compensation offered for, 254;
great amount of, 254

Anti-Church party, growth of, 524; not
persecuted by Wolsey, 528; consoli-
dated, 545; indefinite principles of, 546
Apparent variations not necessarily er-
rors, 3

Appeals, Statute of, 182

Appeals to Rome, origin of, 257; abo-
lished, 258; injustice and inconvenience
of, 260

"Appropriations," meaning of, 25, n.;
evil of, 26

Ap Rice, John, 296, 297; against Dr.
Legh, 300

Aquinas, his classification of sacraments,
457

Arthur, Prince, married as a boy, 102;
died at fifteen, 102

Arthur released by Wolsey, 528
Articles, the Six, 476

Articles, the Ten, framed by clergy, 436;
promulgated by crown, 438; on the
creeds, 439; baptism, 440; on penance,
440, eucharist, 440; justification, 443;
to be preached by clergy, 443; on cere-
monies, 483

Articles, the Thirteen, 470, 472, n.
Arundel, Archbishop, and the English
Bible, 505

Aske, Sir Robert, heads Pilgrimage of
Grace, 321; receives Lancaster Herald
in state, 324; invited to court, 325; and
hanged at York, 326

Askew, Anne, and her story, 538
"Aspersio," an ancient English, 485, n.
Audley, Lord, his share of monastic spoils,

377; on discussions about ceremonies,
482, n.; and Act of Six Articles, 473
Augmentations, Court of, 308
Augsburg, Confession of, 470, 472; influ-
ence on early Dissenters, 454
Authorized Version, early attempts at one,
505, 507, 509; begun by bishops, 518;
hindered by Henry VIII., 520
"Ave Maria," the, Church of England
doctrine about, 456

BAINHAM burned for heresy, 536
Bale on destruction of libraries, 387
Balthasar on character of Henry VIII.,
109

Benefit of clergy, 406; restrained by early
Acts, 408; abolished by Reformation
Acts, 409

Bible, medieval knowledge of, 501; early
printed in Latin, 502, n.; Norman
French of Thirteenth century, 504, n.;
authorized version of projected in 1408
and 1530, 505; commission of 1530 for
translating, 508; set up in churches,
510; English, allowed to be read in
private, 512; private translations un-
trustworthy, 513; large number early
circulated, 513

Bibles, early English, 503; English, in
Henry VIII.'s reign, 506

Bidding Prayer on royal Supremacy, 209
Bilney released by Wolsey, 84, 528;
burned for heresy, 534

Bishops, mediaval, litigious, 7; non-re-
sident, 22; accused by House of Com-
mons, 212; effectually resist Henry
VIII.'s tyranny by union, 227; to be
consecrated without bulls, 254; who
had been abbots and priors, 360; an-
cient English mode of appointing, 262,
264; papal interference with their ap-
pointment, 263, 264; statutory settle-
ment of their mode of appointment,
265; suffragan, 267, n.; obliged to
maintain "benefit of clergy" convicts,
408, 409; English, and English Bibles,
521

Blackstone on mitigation of cruel punish-
ments, 529

Blasphemous parodies authorized by
Cromwell, 273, n.

"Bloated monks," 355

Blunt, Elizabeth, and Henry VIII., 109;
her last husband's share of monastic
spoils, 378

Bodleian Library, copies of the "Institu-
tion" in, 466

Boleyn, Anne, and the abbess of Wilton,
92; her alleged suggestion of Cathe-
rine's divorce, 117; her girlhood in
France, 118; her engagement to Lord
Percy, 118; letter respecting her be
trothal, 123; her eagerness for the
divorce, 125; her letters to Wolsey,
126, n.; thwarts Wolsey, 160; her

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 "Rationale"
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,

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, mediæval, 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