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Author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
Title: The history of the reformation of the Church of England. The second part, of the progress made in it till the settlement of it in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's reign. / By Gilbert Burnet, D.D.
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Print source: The history of the reformation of the Church of England. The second part, of the progress made in it till the settlement of it in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's reign. / By Gilbert Burnet, D.D.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
London: Printed by T.H. for Richard Chiswell ..., M DC LXXXI. [1681]
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Reformation -- England -- Early works to 1800.
England -- Church history -- 16th century -- Early works to 1800.
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THE PREFACE.
THE CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME.
ERRATA.
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The Second Part OF THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE Church of England. BOOK I. Of the Life and Reign of King Edward the Sixth.
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BOOK II. THE LJFE AND REIGN OF Queen MARY.
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BOOK III. OF THE SETTLEMENT OF THE REFORMATION OF RELIGION, In the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign.
The Reformation in Scotland.
THE TABLE OF THE CONTENTS Of the Second Part of the History of the Re∣formation of the CHURCH of England.
BOOK I. Of the Life and Reign of King Edward the Sixth.
BOOK II. The Life and Reign of Queen Mary.
BOOK III. Of the Settlement of the Re∣formation of Religion in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths Reign.
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The Journal of King EDWARD'S Reign, written with his own Hand.
Here he begins anew again.
YEAR II.
YEAR III.
Anno 1549. Mart. 24.
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
December.
January.
February.
March.
February.
March.
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
The 26th of October.
November.
December.
January.
February.
March.
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
Some other Papers written with King Edward the Sixth's own Hand.
Number 2. A Collection of Passages of Scripture against Idolatry, in French, dedicated to the Protector.
A Discourse about the Reformation of many Abuses. Number 2. The Government of this Realm is divided into two parts, one Ecclesiastical, and the other Temporal.
Temporal Regiment.
Number 3. A Reformation of the Order of the Garter; Translated out of English into Latin by King Edward.
A Paper concerning a Free Mart in England.
The Causes why this Time is most Commodious to erect a Mart in.
How the Mart will be brought to pass.
The Discommodities and Letts to the Mart to be kept in England.
The Remedies and Answers thereunto.
To the second Point.
To the third Point.
To the fourth Point.
To the fifth Point.
To the sixth Point.
To the seventh Point.
To the eighth Point.
Number 5. The Method in which the Council represented Matters of State to the King. An Original. Written by Sir William Cecil Secretary of State.
Questions.
Answ. He shall.
Answer, He shall not.
Corrolarium of a mean way. Judicium.
Reasons for the Common Conjunction.
Reasons against this Conjunction.
Conclusion.
Number 6. A Method for the Proceedings in the Council, written with King Edward's Hand.
Certain Articles devised and delivered by the King's Majesty, for the quicker, better, and more orderly dispatch of Causes, by his Majesty's Privy-Council.
A COLLECTION OF RECORDS, &c.
Number 1. The Character of EDWARD the Sixth, as it is given by Cardanus, lib. 12. de Genituris, de Genitura Edwardi Sexti.
And afterwards.
Number 2. The Commission which the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury took out for his Arch-Bishoprick.
Number 3. The Councils Letter to the Justices of Peace. An Original.
Number 4. The Order for the Coronation of King Edward. Sunday, the 13th of Febr. at the Tower, &c.
I grant and promit.
I shall keep.
I shall do.
I grant and promit.
Number 5. The Commission for which the Lord Chancellor was deprived of his Office; with the Opinion of the Judges concerning it.
Number 6. The Duke of Somerset's Commission to be Protector.
Number 7. The King's Letter to the Arch-Bishop of York, concerning the Visitation then intended.
Number 8. The Form of bidding Prayer before the Reformation. The Bedes on the Sunday.
Number 9. Bishop Tonstall's Letter, proving the Subjection of Scotland to England. An Original.
Number 10. A Letter from the Scotish Nobility to the Pope, concern∣ing their being an Independent Kingdom. An Original. Literae directae ad Dominum Summum Pontificem per Communitatem Scotiae. 1320.
Number 11. The Oath given to the Scots, who submitted to the Protector.
Number 12. The Protestation of the Bishop of London made to the Visi∣tors, when he received the King's Majesties Injunctions and Homilies.
Number 13. Gardiner's Letter to Sir John Godsalve concerning the In∣junctions.
Number 14. The Conclusion of Gardiner's Letter to the Protector, against the lawfulness of the Injunctions.
Number 15. A Letter from the Duke of Somerset to the Lady Mary in the beginning of King Edward's Reign.
Number 16. Certain Petitions and Requests made by the Clergie of the Lower House of the Convocation, to the most Reverend Father in God the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his Grace, and the residue of the Prelats of the Higher House, for the furtherance of cer∣tain Articles following.
Number 17. A second Petition to the same purpose.
Number 18. A Paper offered to Q. Elizabeth, and afterwards to K. James, concerning the Inferior Clergies being brought to the House of Commons. Reasons to induce her Majesty, that Deans, Arch-Deacons, and some other of her grave and wise Clergie, may be admitted into the Lower House of Parliament.
Number 19. A Letter of Martin Bucers to Gropper.
Number 20. Questions and Answers concerning the Divorce of the Marquess of Northampton.
Number 21. Injunctions given by the King's Majesty's Visitors, to all and every the Clergie and Laity, now resident within the Deanry of Dun∣castre.
Number 22. A Proclamation against those that do innovate, alter, or leave down any Rite or Ceremony in the Church of their private Authority; and against them which Preach without License. Set forth the 6th day of February, in the Second Year of the King's Majesty's most gracious Reign.
Number 23. An Order of Council for the Removing of Images.
Number 24. The Copy of a Letter sent to all those Preachers which the King's Majesty hath licensed to Preach, from the Lord Protector's Grace, and other of the King's Majesty's most honourable Council; the 13th day of May, in the Second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King Edward the Sixth.
Number 25. Queries put concerning some Abuses of the Mass; with the Answers that were made by many Bishops and Di∣vines to them.
Quest. 1. Whether the Sacrament of the Altar was instituted to be received of one Man for another, or to be received of every Man for himself?
Answers.
Quest. 2. Whether the Receiving of the said Sacrament of one Man doth avail and profit any other?
Answers.
Quest. 3. What is the Oblation and Sacrifice of Christ in the Mass?
Answers.
Quest. 4. Wherein consisteth the Mass by Christ's Institution?
Answers.
Quest. 5. What time the accustomed Order began first in the Church, that the Priest alone should receive the Sacrament?
Answers.
Quest. 6. Whether it be convenient that the same Custom continue still within this Realm?
Answers.
Quest. 7. Whether it be convenient that Masses Satisfactory should continue, (that is to say) Priests hired to sing for Souls departed?
Answers.
Quest. 8. Whether the Gospel ought to be taught, at the time of the Mass, to the understanding of the People being present?
Answers.
Quest. 9. Whether in the Mass it were convenient to use such Speech as the People may understand?
Answers.
Quest. 10. When the Reservation of the Sacrament, and the hanging up of the same first began?
Answers.
Some Questions, with Answers made to them by the Bi∣shops of Worcester, Chichester, and Hereford. The Question. What or wherein John's Fasting, giving Alms, being Baptized, or Receiving the Sacrament of Thanks in England, doth pro∣fit and avail Thomas dwelling in Italy, and not knowing what John in England doth?
The Answer.
The Question. Whether the said Acts in John do profit them that be in Heaven, and wherein?
The Answer.
The Question. Whether it lieth in the said John, to defraud any Member of Christ's Body of the benefit of his Fasting, Alms-Deeds, Baptism, or Re∣ceiving of the Sacrament, and to apply the same benefit to one Person more than to another?
The Answer.
The Question. What thing is the Presentation of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Mass, which you call the Oblation and Sacrifice of Christ? and wherein standeth it, in Act, Gesture, or Words; and in what Act, Gesture, or Words?
The Answer.
The Question. Is there any Rite or Prayer not expressed in the Scripture, which Christ used or commanded at the first Institution of the Mass, which we be now bound to use; and what the same be?
The Answer.
The Question. Whether in the Primitive Church there were any Priests that lived by saying of Mass, Mattins, and Even-song, and praying for Souls only? And whether any such state of Priesthood be allowed in the Scripture, or be meet to be allowed now?
The Answer.
The Question. For what Cause it were not expedient nor convenient to have the whole Mass in English?
The Answer.
Number 26. A Collection of some of the Chief Indulgences then in the English Offices.
Folio 38.
Folio 42.
Folio 44.
Folio 47.
Folio 50.
Folio 54.
Folio 56.
Folio 57.
Folio 58.
Ibid.
Folio 61.
Folio 65.
Folio 66.
Folio 68.
Folio 71.
Folio 72.
Number 27. Injunctions for a Visitation of Chauntries. To the Parson, Vicar, Curat, Chaunter, Priests, Church-wardens, and two of the most honest Persons of the Parish of being no Founders, Patrons, Donors, Lessees, nor Farmers of the Promotions or Corporations hereafter recited, nor of any part thereof, and to four of them at the least.
Number 28. The Protector's Letter to Gardiner, concerning the Points he was to handle in his Sermon.
Number 29. Some of the Collects and Hymns to the Saints in the Hours ad usum Sarum, printed at Paris, Anno 1520. In which, immediate Adoration is offered to them, and those things are asked of them, which God only gives.
Number 30. Dr. Redmayn's Opinion concerning the Marriage of the Clergie. An Original.
Number 31. Articles of High Treason, and other Misdemeanours against the King's Majesty, and his Crown, objected to Sir Thomas Seymour Kt. Lord Seymour of Sudley, and High Admi∣miral of England.
The Lord Admiral's Answer to three of the former Articles.
Number 32. The Warrant for the Admiral's Execution. March 17.
Number 33. Articles to be followed and observed, according to the King's Ma∣jesty's Injunctions and Proceedings.
Number 34. A Paper written by Luther to Bucer, concerning a Reconcilia∣tion with the Zuinglians. An Original.
Number 35. The Sentence against Joan of Kent, with the Certificate made upon it.
Sermo factus Domino Regi contra Joannam Bocher, alias dictam, Jannam de Kent pro Brachio Seculari.
Number 36. A Letter from the Protector to Sir Philip Hobby, concerning the Rebellions at Home.
Number 37. A Letter of Bonner's after he was deprived. An Original. The first part of this Letter, is the recommending the Bearer, that they might find a good Marriage for him.
Number 38. Letters and Instructions touching Proceedings with the Emperor, to Sir William Paget, Knight of the Order, sent to the Emperor. 1549.
Number 39. An Account of a Conference the English Ambassadors had with the Emperor's Ministers, in a Letter to the Protector.
Number 40. A Letter from Sir William Paget, and Sir Philip Hobbey, concerning their Negotiation with the Emperor's Ministers. An Original.
Number 41. The Council's Letter to the King against the Protector. An Original.
Number 42. Articles offered by me the Lord Protector, to the King's Majesty, in the presence of his Highness Council, and others his Maje∣sty's Lords and Gentlemen, at Windsor, to be declared on my behalf, to the Lords, and the rest of his Highness Council re∣maining at London.
Number 43. Letters sent from the Lords at London, to the King's Majesty.
Number 44. Letters from the Lords at London, to the Arch-Bishop of Can∣terbury and Sir William Paget, &c.
Number 45. An Answer to the former Letter. An Original.
Number 46. Articles objected to the Duke of Somerset.
Number 47. A Letter written by the Council to the Bishops, to assure them, That the King intended to go forward in the Reformation. By the KING.
Number 48. Cardinal Woolsey's Letters to Rome, for procuring the Pope∣dom to himself, upon Pope Adrian's death.
Number 49. A Memorial given by the King's Majesty, with the Advice of his Highness Council, to the Lord Russel Lord Privy-Seal, the Lord Paget of Beaudesert, Sir William Petre Kt. and one of his Highness two Principal Secretaries, and Sir John Mason Kt. his Majesty's Secretary for the French Tongue; being sent at this present in Commission, to treat and conclude upon a Peace, with certain Commissioners sent from the French King at this time for the same purpose. An Original.
Number 50. Articles devised by the King's Majesty, with the Advice of his Highness Council, answering to certain Doubts moved in the Letters, bearing date the 27th of February last past, sent from his Majesty's Commissioners, being on the other side the Seas, for the Treaty of Peace. An Original.
Number 51. The King's Letters Patents to John a Lasco, and the German Congregation.
Number 52. Injunctions given in the Visitation of the Reverend Father in God, Nicholas Bishop of London, for an Uniformity in his Dio∣cess of London, in the 4th Year of our Soveraign Lord King Edward the Sixth, by the Grace of God, King of Eng∣land, &c. London, Anno Dom. 1550.
Number 53. Dr. Oglethorp's Submission and Profession of his Faith.
Number 54. A Letter from Dr. Smith to Arch-Bishop Cranmer. An Original.
Number 55.
I. Of Faith in the Holy Ghost.
II. The Word of God made very Man.
III. Of the going down of Christ into Hell.
IV. The Resurrection of Christ.
V. The Doctrine of the Holy Scripture is sufficient to Salvation.
VI. The Old Testament is not to be rejected.
VII. The three Creeds.
VIII. Original Sin.
IX. Of Free-will.
X. Of Grace.
XI. Of the Justification of Man.
XII. Works before Justification.
XIII. Works of Supererrogation.
XIV. None but Christ without Sin.
XV. Of the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
XVI. The Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.
XVII. Of Predestination and Election.
XVIII. Everlasting Salvation to be obtained only in the Name of Christ.
XIX. All Men are bound to keep the Precepts of the Moral Law.
XX. Of the Church.
XXI. Of the Authority of the Church.
XXI. Of the Authority of General Councils.
XXIII. Of Purgatory.
XXIV. No Man to minister in the Church except he be called.
XXV. All things to be done in the Congregation in such a Tongue as is understood by the People.
XXVI. Of the Sacraments.
XXVII. The Wickedness of the Ministers takes not away the Ef∣ficacy of Divine Institutions.
XXVIII. Of Baptism.
XXIX. Of the Lord's Supper.
XXIX. Of the Wicked which eat not the Body of Christ in the Lord's Supper.
XXX. Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross.
XXXI. A single Life is imposed on none by the Word of God.
XXXII. Excommunicated Persons are to be avoided.
XXXIII. Of the Tradition of the Church.
XXXIV. Of the Homilies.
XXXV. Of the Book of Common Prayer, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England.
XXXVI. Of the Civil Magistrates.
XXXVII. The Goods of Christians are not common.
XXXVIII. It is lawful for a Christian to take an Oath.
XXXIX. The Resurrection of the Dead is not past al∣ready.
XL. The Souls of Men deceased, do neither perish with their Bodies.
XLI. Of the Millenarians.
XLII. All Men not to be saved at last.
Number 56. Instructions given by the King's Highness, to his right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor, Francis Earl of Salop, and Lord President of his Grace's Council, resident in the North Parts; and to all others hereafter named and appointed by his Highness to be of his said Council, to be observed by the said Counsellors, and every of them, according as the same here∣after is declared.
Number 57. The Memorial of the Charge committed by the King's Majesty to Sir Richard Morison Kt. his Majesty's Ambassador with the Emperor, the 24th of September. An Original.
Number 58. A Letter written by B. Ridley, setting out the Sins of that Time.
Number 59. Bishop Ridley's Letter to the Protector, concerning the Visitation of the University of Cambridg.
Number 60. The Protector's Answer to the former Letter.
Number 61. A Letter of Cranmer's to King Henry the 8th, concerning a further Reformation, and against Sacrilege.
POSTSCRIPT.
The Draught of a Letter which the King sent to Cranmer, against some superstitious Practices.
A COLLECTION OF RECORDS, &c. BOOK II.
Number 1. The Proclamation of Lady Jane Grayes Title to the Crown.
Number 2. A Letter sent by Queen Katherine, to the Lady Mary her Daughter.
Number 3. A humble Submission made by Queen Mary to her Father. Anno 1536. An Original.
Number 4. Another of the same strain confirming the former. An Original.
Number 5. Another Letter written to her Father to the same purpose. An Original.
Number 6. A Letter written by her to Cromwell, containing a full Sub∣mission to the King's Pleasure, in all the Points of Reli∣gion. An Original.
Number 7. A Letter of Bonners, upon his being restored to his Bi∣shoprick. An Original.
Number 8. A Manifesto set out by Cranmer, declaring his readiness to maintain the Reformation in a publick Dispute. Purgatio Reverendissimi in Christo Patris ac Domini D. Thomae Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, adversus infames sed vanos rumo∣res a quibusdam sparsos, de missa restituta Cantuariae.
Number 9. The Conclusion of Cardinal Pool's Instructions to Mr. Gold∣well, sent by him to the Queen. An Original.
Number 10. A Copy of a Letter, with Articles sent from the Queens Majesty unto the Bishop of London; and by him and his Officers, at her gracious Commandment, to be put in speedy execution with effect in the whole Diocess, as well in places exempt, as not exempt whatsoever, according to the Tenour and Form of the same.
ARTICLES.
Number 11. A Commission to turn out some of the Reformed Bishops.
Number 12. Another Commission to turn out the rest of them.
Number 13. Bonner's Certificate, that Bishop Scory had put away his Wife.
Number 14. A Letter of the Queen's, to the Justices of the Peace in Norfolk.
Number 15. The Title of Bonner's whole Book. Articles to be enquired of in the General Visitation of Edmund Bi∣shop of London, exercised by him in the Year of our Lord 1554. in the City and Diocess of London; and set forth by the same, for his own discharge towards God, and the World, to the Honour of God, and his Catholick Church; and to the Commodity and Profit of all those, that either are good, (which he would were all) or delighteth in goodness, (which he wisheth to be many) without any particular grudg or displeasure to any one, good or bad, within this Realm; which Articles he desireth all Men, of their Charity, especially those that are of his Diocess, to take, with as good intent and mind as the said Bishop wisheth and desireth, which is to the best. And the said Bishop withal, desireth all People to understand, That whatsoever Opinion, good or bad, hath been re∣ceived of him, or whatsoever usage or custom hath been heretofore, his only intent and purpose, is to do his Duty charitably, and with that love, favour, and respect, both towards God and every Chri∣stian Person, which any Bishop should shew to his Flock in any wise.
Article 1.
Article 2.
Article 3.
Article 4.
Article 5.
Article 6.
Article 7.
Article 8.
Article 9.
Article 10.
Article 11.
Article 12.
Article 13.
Article 14.
Article 15.
Article 16.
Article 17.
Article 18.
Article 19.
Article 20.
Article 21.
Article 22.
Article 23.
Article 24.
Article 25.
Article 26.
Article 27.
Article 28.
Article 29.
Article 30.
Article 31.
Article 32.
Article 33.
Article 34.
Article 35.
Article 36.
Article 37.
Number 16. An Address made by the Lower House of Convocation, to the Upper House.
Number 17. A Bull, constituting Cardinal Beaton Arch-Bishop of St. An∣drews, Legate a Latere in the Kingdom of Scotland. An Original.
Number 18. A Letter of the Queen's, recommending the Promotion of Car∣dinal Pool to the Popedom; written to the Bishop of Win∣chester, the Earl of Arundel, and the Lord Paget, then at Calice. An Original.
Number 19. An Order prescribed by the King and Queens Majesties, unto the Justices of Peace of the County of Norfolk, for the good Government of their Majesties loving Subjects within the same Shire, March 26. 1555. An Original.
Number 20. A Letter written by the King and Queen, requiring the Bishop of London to go on in the prosecution of the Hereticks.
Number 21. Sir T. More's Letter to Cromwell, concerning the Nun of Kent.
Number 22. Directions of Queen Mary to her Council, touching the Refor∣mation of the Church, out of her own Original.
Number 23. Injunctions by Hugh Latimer Bishop of Worcester, to the Prior and Convent of St. Mary House in Worcester, 1537. Hugh, by the goodness of God, Bishop of Worcester, wisheth to his Brethren, the Prior and Convent aforesaid, Grace, Mercy, Peace, and true knowledg of God's Word; from God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Number 24. A Letter of Ann Boleyn's to Gardner.
Number 25.
The Office of Consecrating the Cramp-Rings. Certain Prayers to be used by the Queen's Highness, in the Conse∣cration of the Cramp-Ring.
The Rings lying in one Bason, or more, this Prayer to be said over them.
Benedictio Annulorum.
Benedictio.
Benedic anima mea Domino: & omnia quae intra me sunt nomini sancto ejus. Here followes the rest of that Psalm.
These Prayers being said, the Queens Highness rubbeth the Rings between her Hands, saying;
Then must Holy Water be cast on the Rings, saying;
Number 26. A Letter of Gardiners to King Henry the Eighth, concerning the Divorce. An Original.
Number 27. The Writ for the burning of Cranmer.
Number 28. A Commission to Bonner, and others, to search and raze Records.
Number 29. Cromwell's Commission, to be Lord-Vicegerent, in all Ecclesia∣stical Causes.
Number 30. A Letter written by the Monks of Glassenbury, for the new Founding of that Abbey. An Original.
Number 31. A Letter from Sir Edward Carne from Rome, shewing how the Pope dissembled with him concerning a General Peace. An Original.
Number 32. A Commission for a severer way of proceeding against Hereticks.
Number 33. A Letter writ by the Council, expressing their Jealousies of the Lady Elizabeth. An Original.
Number 34. A Letter from Sir Edward Carne, concerning the suspension of Cardinal Pool's Legatine Power. An Original.
Number 35. The Appeal of Henry Chichely, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, to a General Council from the Pope's Sentence.
Number 36. Instructions sent by the Privy Council, representing the State of the Nation to King Philip, after the loss of Calais.
Number 37. Sir Thomas Pope's Letter, concerning the Answer made by the Lady Elizabeth, to a proposition of Marriage, sent over by the Elected King of Sweden.
A COLLECTION OF RECORDS, &c. BOOK III.
Number 1. The Device for Alteration of Religion, in the first Year of Queen Elizabeth: offered to Secretary Cecill.
Question 1.
Answer.
Quest. 2.
Answ. 1.
Quest. 3.
Answ. 1.
Quest. 4.
Answer.
Quest. 5.
Answer.
Quest. 6.
Answer.
Quest. 7.
Answer.
Number 2. Dr. Sand's Letter to Dr. Parker, concerning some Proceedings in Parliament. An Original.
Number 3. The first Proposition, upon which the Papists and Protestants Disputed in Westminster-Abbey. With the Arguments which the Reformed Divines made upon it. It is against the Word of God, and the Custom of the Primitive Church, to use a Tongue unknown to the People in Common-Prayers, and Administration of the Sacraments.
Number 4. The Answer of Dr. Cole, to the first Proposition of the Protestants, at the Disputation before the Lords at West∣minster. Est contra Verbum Dei, & consuetudinem veteris Ecclesioe Linguâ Populo ignotâ uti in publicis precibus, & Administratione Sa∣cramentorum.
Second Section.
Third Section.
Number 5. The Declaration of the Proceedings of a Conference begun at Westminster, the last of March, 1559, concerning cer∣tain Articles of Religion; and the breaking up of the said Conference, by default and contempt of certain Bishops, Par∣ties of the said Conference.
Number 6. An Address made by some Bishops and Divines, to Queen Eliza∣beth, against the Use of Images.
Here follow the Reasons against them, of which I have given a full Ab∣stract in the History, and therefore do not set them down here, for they are very large. The Address concludes in these words.
Number 7. The Queen's Commissions to the Visitors that were sent to the Nor∣thern Parts.
Number 8. Ten Letters written to, and by Dr. Parker, concerning his Pro∣motion to the See of Canterbury. An Original.
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Dr. Parker's Answer to the former Letter. A Copy.
A Letter written to him by Secretary Cecil. An Original.
Another Letter of the Lord Keepers to him. An Original.
Dr. Parker's Answer. A Copy.
A long Letter of Dr. Parker's, excusing himself from the Offer of the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury. An Original.
A Letter written to him by the Lord Keeper concerning it. An Original.
An Order sent to him, requiring him to come up to London.
A second Order to the same effect. An Original.
Dr. Parker's Letter to the Queen, excusing himself. An Original.
Number 9. The Instrument of Dr. Parker's Consecration; with some Attestations of the Authenticalness of it.
Rituum atque Ceremoniarum Ordo, in Consecrando Reverendissimo in Christo Patre, Mattheo Parker, Cantuariensi Archiepisco∣po, in Sacello suo apud Manerium suum de Lambeth, die Dominico 17. viz. die Mensis Decembris, Anno Dom. 1559. habit.
Cambridg. Jan. 11. 1674.
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Number 10. An Order set down for the Translating of the Bible, by King James.
The Rules to be observed in Translation of the Bible.
Number 11. A Declaration of certain principal Articles of Religion, set out by the Order of both Arch-Bishops, Metropolitans, and the rest of the Bishops, for the Unity of Doctrine to be taught and holden of all Parsons, Vicars, and Curats, as well in testifica∣tion of their common Consent in the said Doctrine, to the stopping of the mouths of them that go about to slander the Mi∣nisters of the Church, for diversity of Judgment: as necessary for the instruction of their People, to be read by the said Parsons, Vicars, and Curats, at their Possession-taking, or first entry into their Cures. And also after that, yearly, at two several times; that is to say, the Sundays next following Easter∣day, and St. Michael the Arch-Angel, or on some other Sun∣day, within one month after those Feasts, immediately after the Gospel.
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Last of all.
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* Number 12. Sir Walter Mildmay's Opinion, concerning the keeping of the Queen of Scots (October 26. 1569.) at Windsor Castle. An Original.
The Question to be considered on, is, Whether it be less perilous to the Queen's Majesty, and the Realm, to retain the Queen of Scots in England, or to return her home into Scotland?
Dangers in retaining the Queen of Scots.
Cautions if she be returned.
Dangers in returning Her.
To that may be answered.
Cautions if she be retained.
Number 12. A Letter written by the Earl of Leicester, to the Earl of Sussex, concerning the Queen of Scots; taken from the first Draught of it, written with his own hand.
Number 13. The Bull of Pope Pius the Fifth, Deposing Queen Eliza∣beth; absolving her Subjects from the Oaths of Allegi∣ance, and Anathematising such as continued in their Obedience.
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AN APPENDIX.
The Conclusion.
Some Mistakes in the First Part of this History, communicated to me by Mr. Wil∣liam Fulman, Rector of Hampton Meysey; in Glocestershire.
Errata in the former Volume, that are not marked in the Table of them.
A Table of the Records and Papers that are in the Collection, with which the Places in the History to which they relate are mar∣ked; the first Number, with the Letter C. is the Page of the Collection; the second with the Letter H. is the Page of the Hi∣story.
The First Book.
BOOK II.
BOOK III.
ERRATA.
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