CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

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.

Tried by Judge Manwood.-Condemned and ordered for

execution.-His cruel and sanguinary death.-Sixteen

other persons condemned.-Frequent and continual exe-

cutions. Numerous priests and laymen executed.-Lon-

don in Elizabeth's reign.-Bermondsey, Lambeth, and

Kennington.-Selfishness and self-seeking rampant.—

The Queen and Walsingham consult Dr. Dee.-Heads,

arms, and legs of those executed exposed.-London pri-

sons crowded.-Noblemen and gentlemen expatriated.-

Novelties and blasphemies.-Dr. Allen on priests and

ministers.-Puritanism develops.-Religion at Chester

and Litchfield.-Arrival of Parsons and Campion.-

Books printed at Stonor Park.-Eliot's betrayal of Cam-

pion.-Frightful tortures used.-He denies the charge

of treason.-Campion and the minister.-Campion's epi-

taph by Henry Walpole.-The Thimbleby family.-

Further imprisonments.-Bishop Cotton's large family.

-Bishop Godwin marries again.-Death of Bishop

Watson of Lincoln.-Wisbeach Castle.-Patience of the

persecuted

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CHAPTER II.

Abbot John Feckenham.-Bishop Cocks' ingenuity.-A
preacher for the recusants.-The Worthingtons of Wor-
thington.-Two youths scandalously ill-treated.-Flogged
and imprisoned.-Richard Topcliffe the torture-master.
-Death of several bishops.—Importance of the old no-
bility.-Persecution of Thomas and George Fisher.--
Stripped and flogged.-Defence by the boys.-Laxness
of discipline.-The Queen suffers from tooth-ache.-
Aylmer sacrifices himself.-Elizabeth's Progresses.-She
visits the east of England.-Outrageous treatment of

Rookwood.-Beggars abound.--Character of the parish
churches.-Beauty and power of the Old Faith.--Charity
of our Catholic ancestors.-Seventy-two priests banished.
-The "declining in religion.”—Remedies for the same.
-Sir Francis Walsingham's cure.-Father Sherwin's
constancy. Various tortures inflicted.--Father Brian
tortured.-Mysterious and supernatural tokens.-Mis-
belief and unbelief.-The Cross of St. Donat's.-Inquiry
concerning it.-Prophecy of the Great Rebellion.-Gaol-
plague at Oxford.-Case of Roland Jenks the bookseller.
-His trial and unjust condemnation.--Numbers die
suddenly. A judge's blooded hand.-Education in the
religious houses.-Low state of education.—Grammar
schools founded.-Placed under the bishops.-Good
position of the schoolmasters.--The case of William Car-
ter.-Hammond and Kett burnt at the stake.-Dr.
Allen's publications.-New Acts of Parliament passed.
-Whittingham, Dean of Durham.-Sandys and Hutton
disagree.-Foreign Protestant orders recognized.-The
case of Travers.-Richard Hooker at the Temple.-
Archbishop Whitgift's action.-State of morals in Lon-
don. The Bishops' Visitation Articles.—Frightful state
of the New Church.-Blasphemy and absurdity ram-
pant
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CHAPTER III.

Some account of Edmund Grindal.--He declines to put down
"prophesyings."-Case of Mrs. Anne Landers.-State of
the fabrics of the churches.--Churchyards neglected and
unenclosed.-Number of churches pulled down.-The
case of Mary, Queen of Scots.-Her relation to the Eng-
lish crown.-Jealousy of foreign interference.-Her

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treatment by Elizabeth.-"Babington's plot."--Spies,
counterfeiters, and forgers.-Seven gentlemen executed.
-Leicester proposes poison.-Trial at Fotheringay.—A
two-fold charge made.—Trickery and forgery adopted.—
The Queen found guilty.-Elizabeth's reluctance to act.
-Hesitates to commit murder.—But suggests assassina-
tion. The bishops and peers seek Mary's death.-Eliza-
beth's insincerity and hypocrisy.-Queen Mary learns
her fate. Her dying requests.-The King of France
intervenes.-Paulet declines to become an assassin.-
The Earl of Kent's insolence.-Queen Mary's last night
on earth.-Affection for her of her servants.-Her maids-
of-waiting denied her.-Preparations for her death.-Sir
Amias Paulet's last service.-Queen Mary's last public
words.-The Dean of Peterborough preaches.-Her dying
prayer. She is led to the block and murdered.
Her burial and subsequent removal.-Indignation of
Catholic Europe.-Davison sacrificed.-Lord Stourton
and Father Cornelius.—Vision of Father Cornelius.-
The case of Margaret Clitheroe.-Accusation and trial.-
Irreverent buffoons in court. Her firmness and fide-
lity.-Wigginton's protest.-She is condemned to be
pressed to death.-Implored to renounce the Faith.-
Day of her martyrdom.-Her inhuman treatment.-Her
fearful and final sufferings.—Mistress Ward and Mistress
Ann Line put to death.-Walsingham opposes King
Philip.-Preparations against the Spanish invasion.-
Enthusiasm of the people.-Patriotism of the Catholics.
-Cardinal Allen's "Admonition."-The Queen's deeds
set forth.-The Pope sanctions King Philip's scheme.-
Failure of the Armada.-Non-sacrament ministers.—
Popularity of the "Prophesyings."-Their consequences.
-Evening Communion a substantial meal.-Its profa-
nity. Contrast between Mass and the Supper.".
Richard Hooker and his works.-Forms a new party in