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APRONS.

THE

CHURCH HISTORY OF BRITAIN

FROM

THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST

UNTIL

THE YEAR MDCXLVIII.

ENDEAVOURED

BY THOMAS FULLER, D.D.,

PREBENDARY OF SARUM, &c. &c.

AUTHOR OF "THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND,"

"THE HOLY STATE," "THE

HISTORY OF THE HOLY WAR," "PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE,

"ABEL REDIVIVUS," &c. &c.

A NEW EDITION.

WITH THE AUTHOR'S CORRECTIONS.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG AND SON, 73, CHEAPSIDE;
R. GRIFFIN AND CO., GLASGOW;

TEGG AND CO., DUBLIN:

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LONDON-Printed by James Nichols, 46, Hoxton-square,

6 3-21-41 LS

BEQUEST OF
A. L. CROSS

3-12-41

CONTENTS.

SECTION I. CENTURY XVI.

A. D. 1501-1529. 17 HENRY VII. TO 21 HENRY VIII.

Poor professors still preserved by God's providence-Some burned, some

branded, for the profession of the truth-The cruel killing of Thomas

Chase-The pope and king Henry VII. share the money for pardons

betwixt them-Henry VIII. succeedeth his father-He marrieth the

relict of his brother Arthur-Abjured Lollards wear faggots-Sweeting

and Brewster burned-Richard Hunn murdered in Lollards' Tower-

Cardinal Bainbrigg, why poisoned at Rome-The founding of Corpus

Christi College, in Oxford-Hugh Oldham's bounty-The death of

dean Colet, founder of Paul's school. The Mercers made overseers

thereof, out of provident prescience-William Lilly first schoolmaster.

His grammar often printed, and privileged by authority; since amended

by many-King Henry writes against Luther: styled by the pope

"Defender of the Faith." His jester's reply-Wolsey's unlimited power

and pride. He was the first confounder of Abbeys; a precedent quickly

followed-Wolsey a royal harbinger. His vast design, why unknown.

An over-tart sarcasm; a second somewhat milder. Three names to one

college-The pride of the cardinal humbled by others-Persecution in

the cardinal's College. Christ Church a colony of Cambridgemen.

Wolsey's pride in his servants-Wolsey turns his waiting into revenge.

The scruple of the king's marriage. The king willingly embraceth the

motion-The pope a captive. The character of Campegius-A match-

less sight. Queen Catherine's speech. The sting in her speech-

Fisher's short plea-The pleas of the king's counsel. Secrets sub

sigillo thalami. A shrewd retortion-An end in vain expected-Love-

letters of king Henry kept in the Vatican-No haste to end the king's

cause at Rome-King and queen both offended with Wolsey-Wolsey

looks two ways in this design. Pages 5-23.

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A.D. 1533-1535. 25 TO 27 HENRY VIII.

The clergy bind themselves to the king-A fourfold sort of convocations.

Kings acted in church-matters before the Conquest-Of the second

sort of convocations-Of the third sort of convocations. The form of

ancient writs of convocations. Observations thereon-The last sort of

convocations-The author's submission. A vulgar error-The martyr-

dom of John Fryth-Bishop Fisher's letter for new clothes and a

counsellor His often examinations of four principal particulars.

Taketh offence at the preface of the statute-Archbishop Cranmer's

politic charity-Fisher's concealing Barton's forgeries, waved; yet how

indicted, why condemned-Papists unjustly charge us for schismatics

-Three essentials in Reformation-The gross errors in popery-The

impossibility of a free general council-The power of a national church

well improved-Objection to the contrary, and three answers-Second

objection of the Romanists; the answer. Third objection; the answer.

The moderation of reformers. The conclusion of the contest-The

pope's revenues out of England, greatest under king Henry III.—

Pope's profit by sale of trinkets, by his annates, by appeals, by king

Athelwulph's pension, by his dispensations, by indulgencies, by lega-

tine levies, by mortuaries, by pardons, by Peter-pence, to what they

amounted, by pilgrimages, by tenths-All cannot be truly counted-

Polydore Virgil, collector of the English Peter-pence, be-laurelleth the

choir of Wells: a malefactor to posterity for burning мss. Two-edged

verses-How papal power in England was cantoned. God first had

his share; Christ, his due; the Holy Spirit, his portion-The king
assumes his share. Pages 42-58.

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