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PART I.
HENRY VIII.
Introduction
§ 1. The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey. His Speech to the King's Commissi
oners upon being arrested. Reflections upon it, and the Cardinal's Plea
§ 2. How the Clergy were drawn into a Præmunire and fined. Foreign
Universities bribed to declare for the Divorce. The King assumes the
title of Supreme Head of the Church of England. This title acknow-
ledged by the Clergy with a limitation
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§3. Cromwell advanced to the dignity of the King's Vicar-General_in
Spirituals Mr. Salmon's mistakes caused by his implicit faith in Bp.
Burnet. King Henry discovers the cruelty of his temper. Puts to
death the old Catholics and the new Gospellers promiscuously· · And
why. Abstract of his six famous Articles of Religion. Mr. Fuller's
character of King Henry VIII.
§ 4. A short view of some of the most remarkable Acts of Parliament,
upon which the King's Supremacy was established
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§ 5. A recapitulation of K. Henry's Spiritual Powers and Prerogatives
Reflections upon them.. Bp. Bramhall's Objections answered
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§ 6. K. Richard the Second's famous Statute of Præmunire. Remarks
upon it
EDWARD VI.
$7. K. Edward VI. succeeds his Father. His minority is abused, to
the prejudice of the Church, and his Conscience is unserviceably di-
rected Dr. Heylin's Character of K. Edward's Parliament.. Mr.
Collier admits the truth of it..The Doctor dates the commencement
of the Reformation from the beginning of this reign..Mr. Fuller's
whimsical account of the rise and progress of Nonconformity, or
Puritanism
§ 8. Some account of the Dissolution of the Bishopric of Durham
QUEEN MARY.
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§ 9. Queen Mary disclaims the Supremacy, and reconciles the nation
to the See of Rome, by its Representatives in Parliament.. Cardinal
Pole, in quality of the Pope's Legate, absolves them from all Ecclesi. astical Censures
§ 10. Queen Mary displaces the Edwardian Intruders, and restores the
Catholic Bishops to their respective Sees. A short Character of King
Edward's Bishops. The Dissolution-Act of the Bishopric of Durham
is repealed. The Preamble to that Act
§ 11. Animadversions on the supposititious Martyrs of this reign. They
suffered not on account of Religion only: witness their treasonable
Prayers and seditious Books
§ 12. A specimen of the spirit of Mr. Strype's imprisoned Saints
§ 13. The deplorable Catastrophe of Repingdon Abbey Church. How
and by whom the Abbey Lands were secured to their respective Gran-
tees or Purchasers.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH.
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§ 14. Elizabeth, in her first Parliament, reclaims the Supremacy, but
changes the title of Supreme Head into that of Supreme Governor
of the Church. A political finesse, but no abatement of her Father's
Supreme Power Ecclesiastical. Her Supremacy is opposed by the Cath.
Prelates and party. She publishes her Admonition Reflections upon
it, and the change of the Supremacy Title Mr. Tilney's Case, &c.
§ 15. Some account of the High Commission Court, and the Use that
was made of it in Q. Elizabeth's reign. Mr. Collier's Observations
§ 16. The lamentable consequences of Q. Elizabeth's Supremacy..
Some instances of her burning Heretics, and other Executions of Pro-
testant Dissenters, are recounted
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17. Mr. Collier's Account of a sanguinary Paper presented to Q.
Elizabeth by the House of Commons, wherein she is petitioned to dis-
patch the unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots
§ 18. The difference of Q. Elizabeth's behaviour towards the Catholics
and Puritans
§ 19. Conclusion of the first Part.
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Appendix to the First Part.
1. Part of Pope Clement VII.'s Letter to K. Henry VIII..
2. A dissuasive Harangue of a Privy Counsellor, favourable to the
Papal Authority
3. Extract of a Discourse concerning the Royal Supreme Power Eccle-
siastical, which Mr. Collier tells us he found in the Paper Office, &c.
4. An Act for the repeal of two several Acts made in the time of K.
Edward VI. touching the Dissolution of the Bishopric of Durham
5. Archbishop Heath's, Bishop Scot's, and Abbot Feckenham's
Speeches against Q. Elizabeth's Supremacy, and the new Liturgy, or
Book of Common Prayer, with some Account of the Speakers
6. An Abstract of K. Henry VIII's Injunctions to his Clergy, published
in 1539
7. A Taste of the Mala Dogmata
8. A short Abridgment of K. Henry's Articles of Religion
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Distich from Mercantius
10. Extract of Cardinal Pole's Buli of Dispensation, as far as it relates
to the new Bishoprics, Hospitals, &c. erected by K. Henry VIII.
11. Chanteries and Free Chapels, what?
12. Mr. D.'s disingenuous Quotation of the genuine Words of Mr:
Collier
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13. An instance of Stephen Marshall's frantic Zeal for the Good Old
Cause
15. A Copy of K. Henry VIII.'s last Will and Testament, as far as it
regards Religious Matters ...
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17. Cranmer's Ordination Faculties, extracted out of his Commission
18. The Rubric
16. K. Henry VIII.'s last Speech to his Parliament, with some short Re-
flections upon it
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19, Bp. Burnet's Account of the singular Opinions of Cranmer about
Ecclesiastical Functions and Offices
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20. Q. Elizabeth's Dispensative Clause, inserted in her Commission for
Parker's Consecration
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21. Extract from Cardinal Pole's Faculties, quoted by Bp. Bramhall in
his Consecration and Succession of Protestant Bishops justified
22. Speed's Account of Bp. Fox's Mausoleum in Winchester Cathedral 130
PART II.
Transactions of K. HENRY VIII. as Supreme Head of the Church.
§ 1. K. Henry VIII. publishes Injunctions to the Clergy, and Articles of
Religion; in both of which he takes upon himself to act in the cha-
racter of a Supreme Ordinary
§ 2. The King takes it into his head to reform the Regulars, and pro-
cures an Act of Parliament to dissolve the lesser Houses. The Pre-
amble to that Act. Corrodies explained
§ 3. Some previous remarks upon the King's destructive Scheme of a
general Dissolution of all the Monasteries in England
§4. K. Henry absolves the Religious from any farther obligation or
observance of their monastic Vows. Cromwell is appointed his Ma-
jesty's principal Commissary in the grand affair of the general Disso-
lution. The names of some of his Sub-deputies. Copy of an Instru-
ment or Act of Surrender. A remarkable Letter from Richard Bella-
sis to Lord Cromwell
§ 5. Of the six Bishoprics erected by King Henry VIII...The erection
is confirmed by Cardinal Pole in the Reign of Queen Mary..The
changes at Westminster
§ 6. Sir Wm. Dugdale's Account of the Suppression of our English
Monasteries
§ 7. K. Henry makes a second irruption into the Patrimony of the
Church He puts the Bishoprics under Contribution, and procures a
grant of the Chanteries, Free Chapels, &c.
§ 8. Mr. Collier's judicious Remarks upon the general Disssolution of
Abbies. He plainly shews that the Abbies were serviceable to the
Public upon several accounts. He rescues and defends the Monks
from the imputation of Ignorance
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§ 9. The Motives that induced K. Henry VIII. to dissolve the Religi-
ous Houses, &c. are recited and answered
§ 10. The Fruits of K. Henry VIII.'s Reformation
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The Deeds of K. EDWARD V1. as Supreme Head of the Church. § 1. K. Edward commences his Reformation with preparatory Iujunc- tions. What Catholic Bisheps were deprived, &c. during this reign
§ 2. Cranmer takes out a Commission to exercise the Jurisdiction and
Authority of an Archbishop during the King's Pleasure Mr. Collier's
Reflections upon this Transaction; and his Answer to Bp. Burnet's
ridiculous Parallel
§ 3. The Edwardian Bishops are prevailed upon by Cranmer's example,
to exchange their Charter of Divine Institution for Letters Patents,
and to become the King's Ecclesiastical Sheriffs••The form of a Bi-
shop's Letters Patents
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