Queen Mary, in danger of being surprised, retires into Norfolk, 1.-She writes to the
council, and claims their allegiance, 1.-They deny her title, and advise her to acqui-
esce, 2.-The lady Jane proclaimed, but accepts the title unwillingly, 3.-Several
persons of condition declare for queen Mary, 4.-Northumberland commands the
army for the lady Jane, 4.-Bishop Ridley preaches for the lady Jane's interest, 5.—
The fleet comes into the queen's service, 6.-She promises the Suffolk men not to
make any change in religion, 6.-She is proclaimed in London, 8.-The council
declare for the queen, 8.-She pardons most of those who had appeared against her, 9.
-The deprived bishops restored, 10.-A disorder at Paul's Cross, 11.-The queen
promises not to alter religion, 12.-All preaching without the queen's license forbid-
den, 12. The legality of the proclamation examined, 12.-The Roman Catholic
clergy censured by Saunders, 13.-Several of the reformed bishops committed, 14.—
The duke of Northumberland's trial, 14.-His speech, and character, 15.-Archbishop
Cranmer's manifesto, 16.-He is summoned before the council and committed, 17.-
His resolution, 18.-Peter Martyr permitted to quit the kingdom, 18.-Several of the
reformed withdraw beyond sea, 19.-Horne's apology for retiring, 20.-Treasons
enacted in the two last reigns repealed, 21.-The posture of affairs in the universities,
21. The Oxford address penned by Jewel, 22.-Several ejected in both universities, 23.
-Holgate, archbishop of York, imprisoned, 23.—The marriage between king Henry
and Catharine of Spain declared lawful by the parliament, 24.-Several statutes touch-
ing religion repealed, 25.-An act against disturbing preachers, 26.-The duke of
Norfolk's attainder repealed, 27.—The parliament dissolved, 28.-Commendone sent
to the queen by cardinal Pole, 29.-The queen solicited to marry, 29.-She makes choice
of Philip of Spain, 30.-She resolves to close with the court of Rome, 30.-Cardinal
Pole stopped by the emperor in his journey to England, 31.—The queen writes to the
cardinal, 31.-Pole's instructions to Goldwell, 32.-The parliament dissolved, 33.—
Archbishop Cranmer, the lady Jane, &c., tried for treason, 36.-The archbishopric
vacant upon his attainder, 36.-The convocation meets, October 6, 37.-A dispute con-
cerning transubstantiation, 39.-Cheyney argues from a text of St. Paul, 39.-Ailmer
disputes from Theodoret, 40.-Philips urges a testimony of St. Austin, 40.-Christ
affirmed to eat his own body at the institution of the holy eucharist, 41.-This disproved
by Philpot, 41.-Philpot argues farther against transubstantiation, 42.-The testimony
of St. Chrysostom argued pro and con,43.--Cheyney argues against the corporal presence,
from Irenæus and Hesychius, 45.-Philpot argues against transubstantiation from the
property of human bodies, 47.-Whether the Church was before the Scriptures, 48.—
The convocation dissolved, 48.-The articles of the marriage between the queen and
king Philip, 48.-Pretences to draw the people into rebellion, 49.-The revolt headed
by the duke of Suffolk and Wyat, 50.-Sir John Cheek's death, 51.-Wyat encamps
at Rochester, 51.-Captain Brett and the Londoners desert to him, 52.—The duke of
Suffolk attempts to raise Warwickshire, but miscarries, 52.-The queen's speech at
Guildhall, 53.-Wyat marches to London, 53.-Loses time, 54.-And surrenders
himself, 55. The lady Jane and the lord Guilford executed, 56.-Her speech upon
the scaffold; her character, 56.-The duke of Suffolk beheaded, 57.-—Wyat executed,
58. Wyat clears the princess Elizabeth and the earl of Devonshire at his death, 58.—
Rebelling upon the score of religion an unwarrantable expedient, 58.-Goodman's
justification of Wyat's rebellion, 61.-Some of the tenets of a book intitled "A Short
Treatise of Politic Power," 61.-A proclamation for foreigners to quit the kingdom,
62.-Articles sent down by the queen to all the bishops, 63.-Two commissions issued
out for depriving seven bishops, 64.-The reformed bishops turned out by the queen's
commission, and not by any synodical authority, 67.-The inferior clergy ejected upon
the score of marriage, 68.-The secular clergy not obliged to part with their wives,
and why, 69.-A new parliament, 70.—A farther account of the articles of the queen's
marriage, 70.-Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer conveyed to Oxford to dispute, 71.—
The convocation meets, April 3, 72.-The three questions for the disputation, 72.—
April 16, Cranmer's opinion concerning the sacrifice in the mass, 73.-Latimer's
belief concerning the real presence, 75.-Cranmer opposes Harpsfield, 75.-St. Chry-
sostom's passages concerning the holy eucharist to be construed by his epistle to Casa-
rius, and why, 76.-The, bishops ill-used at the disputation, 77.—They are condemned
for heretics, 78.—A remark upon the censure, 78.-The archbishop's letter to the
privy council, 79.-A declaration touching matters of belief, set forth by several of
the reformed clergy in prison, 80.-Some irregularities of the reformed, 82.-The
arrival of king Philip, 83.-The marriage solemnized, 83.-Bonner's visitation, 84.-
The queen's direction to the privy council touching religion, 85.-Cardinal Pole's
arrival, 86. His speech to both houses of parliament, 86.-The absolution pronounced
by the cardinal, 90.-Gardiner's sermon upon this occasion, 91.-Embassy to Rome, 91.
-The pope dies, 92.-The queen endeavours to promote Pole to the popedom, 92.—
The queen believed to be with child, 92.-Public prayers upon this occasion, 92.—An
unchristian prayer with relation to the queen, 93.—An act to prevent such misbehaviour,
93.-The convocation's address, that the cardinal would not insist on the restitution of
Church lands, 94.-A repeal of the statutes against the see of Rome, 95.—An address
of the lower house of convocation for recovering the privileges of the Church, 97.-
The statutes against heresy revived, 99.-The cardinal's commission for absolving the
province of Canterbury, 100.-He recommends gentle methods with the reformed,
101.-Gardiner moves for extremities in some cases, 101.—The preachers in prison
address the king, queen, and parliament, 102.-Some provocations given the govern-
ment, 103.-Several burnt for heresy, 105.-Bishop Hooper burnt at Gloucester, 106.
-And bishop Farrar at Carmarthen, 107.-Bishop Coverdale sent to Denmark, 108.
The queen resolved to restore the abbey-lands in her possession, 108.-Pope Paul
IV. pretends to give Ireland the title of a kingdom, 109.-His bull allowed by the
queen, 109.-The pope demands full restitution of what has been alienated from the
Church, 109.-Flower wounds a priest at the altar, 110.-Several burnt for religion,
111.-A remark upon the persecution, 112.-Gardiner refuses to proceed in sanguinary
methods, 113.-King Philip suspected for these rigors, 113.-King Philip's confessor
preaches against the persecution, 113.-The court complains of Bonner's remissness,
114.-A proclamation against heretical books, 114.-Barrengdein's recognizance, 114.
-A petition against prosecuting the reformed, 115.-A defence of the proceedings
against heretics, 117.-Cranmer brought before the commissioners at Oxford, 120.—
Ridley and Latimer pronounced heretics, 121.-They are brought to the stake, 122.-
Something touching their character, 123.-Gardiner's death and character, 125.—A
story in Fox disproved, 125.-Gardiner's contest with Smith and Cheek about the
pronunciation of Greek, 126.-White, bishop of Winchester, 127.-First-fruits and
tenths restored by act of parliament to the Church, 128.-The convocation, 129.-
Cardinal Pole's plan for the reformation of both houses in convocation, 129.-Philpot
burnt in Smithfield, 135.-The final process against Cranmer, 135.-He appeals from
the pope to a general council, 136.-His belief concerning the holy eucharist, 137.—
His appeal is overruled, 137.-He is degraded, and put into the hands of the civil
magistrate, 137.-He signs a recantation of his doctrine, 138.-Dr. Cole's sermon at
Cranmer's execution, 140.-Cranmer's exhortation to the people, 141.-He recants
his recantation, 141.-He suffers with great fortitude, 142.-Something of his charac-
ter, 143.-Pole consecrated archbishop of Canterbury, 143.-A plot to rob the trea-
sury,
143.-An insurrection in Norfolk, 144.-An account of the misunderstanding
between the English refugees in Germany, 144.-An English Church opened at
Frankfort, 144.—The English at Zurich refuse to use any other form excepting the
English Common Prayer, 145.-Knox comes from Geneva, and is chosen minister at
Frankfort, 145.-Those at Strasburg offer something towards an accommodation, 146.
Knox declines making use of the Geneva form till farther consultation, 147.-A
compromise proposed by Leaver, but rejected, 147.-The Knoxians censure the Com-
mon Prayer in their letter to Calvin, 148.—Calvin's answer, 148.-A compromise of
the difference, 149.—Cox, his party admitted to vote in the congregation, and become
a majority, 150.—A conference, 150.-A charge of high treason against Knox, 151.—
He quits Frankfort and retires to Geneva, 151.-The English Common Prayer-book
received at Frankfort, 152.-Bullinger's censure, 152.-Dr. Cox forms the Church
towards the English constitution, 152.-He writes to Calvin, 152.-Calvin's answer,
152. A general account of the persecution, 153.-The queen founds several religious
houses, 156.-And the hospital in the Savoy, 157.-An attempt to settle some monks
at Glastonbury, 157.-An insurrection in the North, 158.-The queen declares war
against France, 159.—The pope takes away Pole's legatine character, and commands
him to Rome, 160.-The queen's letter to dissuade the pope from calling back the
cardinal, 160.—King Philip gains a battle against the French at St. Quintin's, 161.—
The Norfolk and Suffolk addresses for liberty of conscience, 162.-They declare
against the lawfulness of resistance, 162.—A farther account of the differences between
the English at Frankfort, 162.—The service used by the English refugees at Geneva,
165. The election of ministers and elders' consistory, 165.-A discretionary latitude
allowed for extempore prayer, 166.-Excommunication not to pass upon any person
without the consent of the congregation, 168.-Some articles of inquiry set forth by
cardinal Pole, 169.-Orders from the privy council, 170.-A peace between the king
of Spain and the pope, 171.-The queen-regent of Scotland breaks the peace with
England, 171.-Calais, &c., taken by the duke of Guise, 172.-A parliament and
convocation, 173.-A commission to inquire into heresy, sedition, &c., 174.—The
Lutherans had an ill opinion of the English Reformation, and why, 176.-The queen's
death, 177.—Part of her funeral sermon, 177.-Something farther of her character,
179. Two colleges founded in Oxford, 179.-Cardinal Pole's character and death,
180.
Queen Elizabeth proclaimed, 194.-She chooses her privy-council, and despatches ambas-
sadors to the principal courts in Christendom, 195.-King Philip courts her, 196.—
She is some time unresolved about the overture, 196.-But at last refuseth it, 197.—
She intends the restoring the Reformation, 198.-The dangers of the enterprise con-
sidered, 198.-The remedies suggested, 198.—A proclamation to forbid preaching,
200.-The queen's coronation, 201.-The parliament meets, 203.-The lord keeper's
speech concerning religion, 203.-The lower house of convocation's articles delivered
to the bishops, 206.-A disputation between the Papists and Protestants at Westmin-
ster, 207.-The questions, 208.-Dr. Cole argues for the bishops, &c., 208.—His rea-
sons for justifying the Church service in a language not understood by the people, 209.
-The Common Prayer in an unknown language contrary to the Scripture, 213.—
And to the practice of the primitive Church, 214.-The bishops refuse to stand to the
order agreed, 215.-Which occasions the breaking off the conference, 216.—The
paper drawn up by the reformed divines upon the second question of the conference,
216.-An act for the restitution of tenths, first-fruits, &c., 223.-An act for restoring
ecclesiastical jurisdiction to the crown, 224.-The comprehensive extent of this
statute, 224.-Part of the oath of supremacy, 225.-Penalties for maintaining any
spiritual jurisdiction, 225.-The assent of the convocation necessary for the deter-
mining heresy, 225.-Archbishop Heath's speech against the bill for the queen's
supremacy, 226.-The bishop of Chester's speech upon the same subject, 228.-An
act for granting the crown manors, &c., belonging to bishoprics in exchange for im-
propriations and tenths, 229.-Remarks upon the exchange, 231.-A bill for revising
the ecclesiastical laws by thirty-two persons sunk in the house of Lords, 233.-New
erected religious houses dissolved and granted to the crown, 234.-Dr. Fecknam's
speech against the bill for uniformity of Common Prayer, 234.-Scott, bishop of
Chester, his speech against the said bill, 238.-The English Common Prayer-book
compiled by the clergy, 248.-The differences between this book and the second set
forth in the reign of Edward VI., 250.—The parliament dissolved, 250.- Bishops, &c.
turned out for refusing the oath of supremacy, 250.-The number of the rejected
clergy, religious, &c., 252.-The bishops ordered to attend the queen, 252.—The
queen's answer to the archbishop of York, 253.—Jewel's letter to Bullinger, 253.-
The pope orders the queen's ambassador to continue at Rome, 255.-The queen of
Scots puts up her claim to the crown of England, 255.-Queen Elizabeth's injunc-
tions, 256.-The sense in which the queen was willing to receive the oath of supre-
macy, 256.-The injunctions are reviewed by secretary Cecil, 259.—A visitation, 259.
-Images removed and paintings defaced and burnt, 260.-Foreign princes solicit the
queen for the ejected bishops, 263.-Her answer, 263.-The Papists frequent the
English service for several years, 264.-The bishops elect address the queen against
scizing the temporalties of the sees, upon an exchange mentioned in a late act, 267.—
Austin-friars in London granted to the Dutch and Germans, 272.-Knox addresses
the Scotch nobility to proceed to a reformation, 273.-Some of his tenets and charac-
ter, 273.-His libel against Mary, queen of England, 274.-His "Blast against the
Government of Women," 276.-His scandalous censure of the English Common
Prayer, 276.-His distinction in favour of queen Elizabeth, 278.--Some noblemen
and barons in Scotland engage to reform religion, though in opposition to the govern-
ment, 281.-A tumult at Edinburgh, 281.-The congregation address the queen-
regent for a reformation, 282.-The regent allows them prayer in the vulgar tongue,
283.-A conference proposed by the bishops, but rejected, 283-Articles touching
religion presented to the regent, 284.-The congregation's protestation, 285.-Some
of the ministers summoned to appear at Stirling, 285.-Knox preaches against images,
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