the Establishment.-Lax opinions concerning ordina-
tion.-Wittingham, King, Alwood, and De Saravia.-
De Saravia the confessor of Hooker.-Influence of
Hooker's writings
pages 129-211
Correspondence concerning the proposed private assassina-
tion of Mary, Queen of Scots

pages 211-217

CHAPTER IV.

Excitement, confusion, and disorder rampant.-Insolence of
the preachers.-Matrimonial Inquisitions objected to.-
External religious rites disused. The churches empty.
Militant disputation at Breachfa.-Parishes destitute.-
Bishop Nicholas Robinson.-Churches like Jews' syna-
gogues. Representations of the Queen and Her Royal
Arms. Her Majesty criticized and prayed for.-Further
"reforms" desired.-Some persons Gallio-like and indif-
ferent. The gibbet and hangman in requisition.—
Forgers, fabricators, and skulks.-Nine priests and ten
laymen executed.-Hackett, Coppinger, and Arthington.
-Dislike of the she-Supremacy.-More hanging-posts
constructed.-Fresh enactments made.-Fresh acts of
persecution and cruelty.-Absentees from church severely
punished. The case of Philip, Earl of Arundel.--His
trial. His cruel treatment by the Queen.-Subsequently
poisoned. His death and burial.-His Countess ill-
treated.-Esquire Edward Sulyard.-Many gentlepeople
persecuted. The case of John Towneley of Towneley,
Esquire. The case of Esquire Thomas Pounde.-His
appearance at Court.-His retirement therefrom.-Com-
plete change in his life.-Is charged, imprisoned, and
tortured.-Is subsequently released.-Again imprisoned.
-He publishes Campion's "Challenge."-The places of

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his imprisonment.-His final trial in the Star Chamber.-

His life of devotion and self-denial.-The Old Church

and the New.-Pounde dies at his old house of Bel-

mont.-Horsley starved, and eaten by rats.-Many vil-

lages depopulated.--John Ingram suspended by his

wrists.-John Pearson, a priest, most infamously treated.

-Dickenson and Milner executed.-Seven maiden ladies

condemned.-Greenwood and Barrow executed.-The

Martin-Marprelate Tracts.-Henry Penry executed.-

The Royal Supremacy newly defined.-The Dean of

Durham's report.-Fidelity of the Catholics.-Adhe-

rents of the Old Religion.-Failure and unpopularity of

the New
pages 218-278

CHAPTER V.

Elizabeth's personal bloodthirstiness.-Seminary-hunting.-
Heartless cruelty of the Queen.-Fabrication of plots
and false rumours.--Spies, agents, and falsehood-
mongers.-Conjurors and spirit-seekers.-Loss of five
sacraments.-Vast increase of superstition.-Dr. Dee's
invocations and conjuring.-Dee's female servant com-
mits suicide. Popularity of the occult arts.-Lopez
the Queen's physician.-Ferreira and Louis.-Three Por-
tuguese hung.-Frightful exhibition at Tybourne.-Seve-
ral obscure prelates.-Dr. John Whitgift.-His boldness.
---Protest against further sacrilege.-Bishop Coldwell of
Salisbury.--Neglect of Confirmation.-The question of
episcopacy.-Whitgift's uncertain utterances.-Rebels
preaching obedience. The case of Robert Southwell.—
Tortured thirteen times.-Cruelly used in Bridewell.-
Seized and confined in the Tower.-His father petitions
the Queen on his behalf.-Indicted as a traitor.--

Burghley's brutality.-Southwell denies the charges made.
-Condemned, hung, and quartered.-His devotion,
meekness, and patience. His heroic bearing and death.
"The offences of our forefathers."-The case of Henry
Walpole:-Seized in the North.-Is tortured fourteen
times.-Ill-treated and imprisoned.-Accused of deny-
ing the Supremacy.-Condemned to death.-Benedic-
tines, Franciscans, and Jesuits.-The Queen's general
pardon. Sir John Harington and the State bishops.-
The "Bright Occidental Star."-Elizabeth's learning.—
Her unbounded vanity.-Her greed of admiration.-
Her remarkable indecision.-Rules and corrects the
bishops and clergy. Her personal characteristics.—
Peculiarity of her portraits.-The churches and minis-
ters avoided."Greasing and patting of pates" de-
spised. Orsini, Duke of Graciano.-She is prepared to
receive him. The Queen dances before him.-Shows
him her private chapel.-Weakness and paralysis super-
vene. Her increasing ailments. She is no longer "fro-
licksome."-Much perturbed at last.-Suspects every one
and is terrified. Her ministers await her death.-Abject
condition of the wretched woman.-Her confession to
Lord Nottingham.-She dies in a state of insensibility.
The World's judgment of her. Her unprincipled policy.
-How the changes under her were effected.—Scandals
passed over. The Establishment dominated by Parlia-
ment. The Royal Supremacy.-The Church of the
Living God.-What the "Homilies" maintained. The
Reformation either a dire necessity or a dreadful crime.
-History most artfully perverted.-Destruction of
Unity, Order, and Peace.-Weakening of Authority, both
civil and religious.-Present confusion.-Value of the
National Church.-Its position and importance.-Modern
clerical reformers.-The Church of England's past trials
and enemies.-Changes which are improvements.-Need

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of change.-Corporate Reunion the greatest need of all.

-Influence of Erastianism.-Importance of discretion,

zeal, and charity

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CHAPTER I.

THE action which had been taken at Rome produced one direct effect, viz. that the persecution of those who clung to the Old Religion became at once more merciless, bitter, and unrelenting. While some few endeavoured to escape the penalties imposed by occasionally going to the new services, the large majority resolutely and firmly declined to do so.

As regards the old clergy, "Queen Mary's priests," as they were still called, some notoriously conformed in the hope of another change, or possibly in order to have greater liberty and licence. Others, however, stood firm unto the very end, living and dying in the Faith of their forefathers.