Historical Memoirs of the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics

HISTORICAL MEMOIRS

OF THE

ENGLISH, IRISH, AND SCOTTISH

CATHOLICS,

SINCE THE REFORMATION;

WITH

A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY
ANTECEDENT TO THAT PERIOD,

AND IN THE HISTORIES OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH,
AND THE DISSENTING AND EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONS;

AND SOME

HISTORICAL MINUTES RESPECTING THE TEMPORAL POWER
OF THE POPES; THE SEPARATISTS FROM THE CHURCH
OF ROME BEFORE THE REFORMATION; THE SOCIETY
OF JESUS; AND THE GUELPHIC FAMILY.

BY CHARLES BUTLER, Esq.

OF LINCOLN'S-INN.

ΦΩΝΑΝΤΑ ΕΠΙΕΙΚΕΣΙ.

IN FOUR VOLUMES:

VOL. III.

THIRD EDITION,

CORRECTED, REVISED, AND CONSIDERABLY AUGMENTED.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

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CONTENTS

VOLUME THE THIRD.

CHAP. LXIV.

Charles the Second-Commencement of his Reign-Declaration

at Breda-Persecution of the Protestant Dissenters