causelessly complained of. One bishop continued. A list of persons . deprived--Matthew Parker designed archbishop: his due commenda. 51;tion. The queen's letter for his consecration ; the manner thereof; ...the legality of his consecration-The impudent lie of the Nag's Head. s'; Neale's testimony (the sole witness thereof) confuted. A silent wit- TGilpin refuseth the bishopric of Carlisle-Why Barlow and Scory were of monuments in churches-- The death and character of bishop Bale. The persecutions which in his life he suffered. Bale's passion endea- The sum of Mr. Jewel's answer-Westminster collegiate church re- bishop's visitation>Cranmer's children restored in blood. An act for translating the Bible: into Welsh-The thirty-nine articles compiled si: in convocation; why favourably drawn up in general terms. Most .19, confessors who composed the articles. English articles and Trent decrees, contemporaries-The thirty-nine articles confirmed by par- liament; but only imposed on clergymen-Query about the twentieth article, whether shuffled in, or no. The accuser's first mistake. The du- bious appearing of this clause. Archbishop Laud's opinion in the point --An article to confirm the homilies made in king Edward's reign, as also those in queen Elizabeth's reign. The use of homilies : their authentical necessity questioned-Rastall writes against bishop Jewel -The death of Dr. Smith-The original of puritans. The homonymy of the term--Mr. Fox a moderate nonconformist, and Dr. Laurence Humphrey–Anthony Gilby, a fierce nonconformist, and William Whittingham, and Christopher Goodman-The queen's entertain- SECTION II. A.D. 1567-1571. 8 TO 14 ELIZABETH. The suit betwixt bishops Horne and Bonner, Bonner's counsel. Their first plea. Second exception. Main matter debated by the judges ; divided by the parliament. A favourable proviso-Their suit super- seded. Malice pleased, nor full nor fasting—The ringleaders of the second set of nonconformists. Their judgments of the queen-The death of Dr. Wotton-Harding and Saunders bishop it in England- Queen of Scots comes into England. Her letter to Pius Quintus- The death of Thomas Young, archbishop of York—The rebellion of the earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland ; more superstitious than valiant; routed by the queen's forces-An Italian author reckon- ing without his host. Northumberland, with many more of the rebels, executed—The execution of Dr. Story—The original of the English ,colleges beyond the seas-Cunning conveyances to pass over the seas -The bounty of English catholics—The oath taken by English fugi- tives at their admission—The pope excommunicateth the queen—The different opinions of the English catholics concerning this excommu- nication—The death of bishop Barlow and Bourne-Popish expecta- tion defeated— The foundation of Jesus college in Oxford—The first beginning of recusancy-Papists their own persecutors. A parlia- ment cutting with three edges--Covetous clergymen bridled. Covet- outness creeps in at a small cranny—The second letter of Mary queen A.D. 1572-1580, 15 TO 23 ELIZABETH. The death of the bishops of Exeter and Salisbury. The praise of bishop Jewel-Subscription, why now more rigorously urged—The true notion of a conventicle—Thomas Cartwright presents to the parlia- ment a distasted admonition-Bandying of books betwixt two learned men, chief of their parties-Several reasons of Mr. Cartwright's not replying again—The first presbytery in England, set up at Wands- worth in Surrey—The chief nonconformists in London—The massacre in Paris—Two impostresses discovered—Anabaptists discovered. Eleven of them condemned. A divine's letter to the queen to forbear burning them-Another useful letter of the same author. The occa- sion thereof—The violence of rigid nonconformists—The death and praise of Matthew Parker. His memory causelessly aspersed. His exemplary wife-Privileges obtained by Sir Francis Inglefield for English catholics—The death of bishop Pilkington, and of Mr. Deer- ing—A strange mortality at Oxford, improved by papists to their advantage—Sir Francis Bacon's judgment of infectious smells---Many a priest executed—The vivacity of English protestant bishops-The death of bishop Bullingham. Bishop Cheyney, a great Lutheran, wrongfully accused to die a papist ; his vindication. Bishop Horne succeeded ; followed by bishop Bentham. The death of bishop Cox -Gresham College founded by Sir Thomas Gresham-The obscure original of the familists. Henry Nicholas, their first founder; his mock apostolic style—The familists worse in practice than in opinion ; their abjuration-Persons and Campian come into England. Their several characters. Campian caught by Walsingham's setters— Pre- tended cruelty in racking papists, excused in some degree-Persons's three wonderful escapes. Our observation on his fourth escape. Per- TO THE RIGHT HON. LIONEL CRANFIELD, EARL OF MIDDLESEX, BARON CRANFIELD OF CRANFIELD, &c. St. Paul gave a great charge to Timothy to “ bring the cloak which he left at Troas, but especially the parchments,” 2 Tim. iv. 13. Here we have the inventory of a preacher's estate, consisting of a few clothes and books,—what he wore and what he had written. But the apostle's care was not so much concerned in his clothes, (which might be bought new,) as in his writings, where the damage could not be repaired. I am sadly sensible (though far be it from me to compare scribbling with Scripture) what the loss of a library (especially of manuscripts) is to a minister, whose books have passed such hands, which made riddance of many, but havoc of more. Was it not cruelty to torture a library, by maiming and mangling the authors therein,-neither leaving nor taking them entire ? Would they had taken less, that so what they left might have been useful to me, or left less, that so what they took might have been useful to others! Whereas, now, mischievous ignorance did a prejudice to me, without a profit to itself, or any body else. But would to God all my fellow-brethren, which with me bemoan the loss of their books, with me might also rejoice for the recovery thereof, though not the same numerical volumes! Thanks be to your Honour, who have bestowed on me (the treasure of a lordtreasurer) what remained of your father's library ;-your father, who was the greatest honourer and |