THE CHURCH

UNDER

QUEEN ELIZABETH.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION ON

66 THE PRESENT POSITION OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH."

"That bright Occidental Star, Queen Elizabeth, of most
happy memory."-The Epistle Dedicatory of King
James's version of the Bible.

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Effect of the action taken at Rome.-Various policies adopted
by the clergy.-Reasons for nonconformity.-New crimes
defined.-Guiltless persons cruelly punished.-Losses of
the nobility.-Insecurity of the Catholic gentry.-Plight
of the poorer recusants, and their treatment.-Dr.
William Allen.-His College at Douay.-Subsequent
arrival of priests.-Death of Archbishop Parker.-His
policy and character.-Bishops Grindal and Cocks.-
The Queen's letter to Cocks.-Dutch Anabaptists burnt.
Archbishop Cranmer had burnt heretics.-Catholic
nobility and gentry.-Sufferings of the old priests.-
The prisons at York and Hull.-Activity of persecuting
bishops. Steadfastness of Sir John Southworth.-Action
taken at York.-Difference between the New and the
Old. Women persecuted. The poor decline to conform.
-Fines and confiscations.-Cottages rifled and emptied.
-Hospitality unexercised.—The Protomartyr Cuthbert
Mayne.-Seized in Cornwall.-Indicted for five offences.