78. Cromwell would have turned to epis- teemed the best justice of peace in England.” 337. Polygamy talked of for Charles II. 338. Buckingham's atrocious proposal to At the time of his death "he was entering upon a great design of taking up all beggars and putting them to work." 51. Charles's opinion of his brother, that he had neither the understanding of Henri IV. nor his conscience-and of his Queen. This is much to his credit. 95. Not so what he said of Lauderdale and the complaints against him by the persecuted Scots" they had objected many damned things that he had done against them, but there was nothing objected that was against his service." 162. Atheism made a great progress in Scotland, which before was freer from it than any nation in Christendom. 1682. 171. Lord Conway so ignorant, that when one of the foreign ministers talked to him of the Circles of Germany, it amazed him: he could not imagine what Circles had to do with affairs of state. 328. Louis declared at the Revocation, that it was only intended to quiet matters by the Edict of Nantes, till more effectual ways should be taken for the conversion of heretics. 353. Whitford, who murdered Dorislaus. 363. Dryness of the foreign reformed clergy. 374. Penn. 383. Political tempter of the various denominations. 396. Letter from the Jesuits at Liege. Vol. 3. P. 84. INDEMNITY for breach of the Habeas Corpus. 107. Spain would have given up its Ne steal the Queen, and send her to the plan- therlands to William III. either as Stadt tations! holder or King of England; but he knew P. 4. BRAVE Conduct of the Tyrolese in 1703. 39. Scandalous misappropriation of the tenths and first fruits before Queen Anne. 41. Mortmain, why not needful to be forbidden in a Protestant country ? 52. 1704. Poor rates full half of the public taxes. 110. Deficiency of stores at the siege of Barcelona, "whether this flowed from treachery or carelessness, I will not determine, there is much of both in all our offices." 120. Bromley's travels. 125, "Men engaged in parties are not easily put out of countenance," 127. Sophia. 132. Villanous attempts at peace, 133. Prosperity during the war, and paper money, and consequent bullionists. 134. Law proceedings-" certainly among the greatest grievances of the nation." 147. Delay of Charles at Barcelona either for pride or for an amour. 187. Charles alienated from Gallway by freedom. his honest 189. Miserable Austrian pride. 206. English 217. Lies circulated by the French ministers-just as under Buonaparte. 250. Parties are never out of counte nance, but when one artifice fails they will lay out for another. 393. His objections to subscription. 397. Persecution, if lawful at all, ought to be extreme. 411-12. Ignorance of our gentry in his days. 415. There is no employment so bad as the having none at all. 418. "Something like monasteries" (for women)," without vows, would be a glorious design, and might be set on foot, as to be the honour of a Queen on the throne.”1 420. Chaplains beginning to be out of fashion. 422. Elections. 424. Inutility of oaths and abjurations. 425. The law the greatest grievance of the nation. 427. He would have parliament sit only once in two or three years. 428. Manners of Charles II. "never enough to be commended." 431. Chaplains abroad, their importance. 432. Royal Progresses. The advantage of such an institution is well known to those who have seen the working of troops used ill in Spain, it in Denmark. See suprà p. 2, for old Lati owing to bigotry. mer's wish.-J. W. W. a general use, if they had not contained the particular diseases of this kingdom, with the best remedies for the same, which it became me best as a king, having learned both the theoric and practice thereof, more plainly to express, than any simple schoolman, that only knows matters of kingdoms by contemplation." 149. "Beware ye wrest not the scripture to your own appetite, as over many do, making it like a bell, to sound as ye please to interpret." 152. -"two diseases, wherewith con. science useth oft to be infected,- Leprosy and Superstition; the former is the mother of Atheism, the other of Heresies. By a leprous conscience I mean a cauterized conscience, as Paul calleth it." 153. "I would not have you to pray with the Papists, to be preserved from sudden death, but that God would give you grace so to live, as ye may every hour your life be ready for death: so shall ye attain to the virtue of true fortitude, never being afraid for the horror of death, come when he list." 156. 66 as a Parliament is the honourablest and highest judgement in the land (as being the King's head court) if it be well used, which is by making of good laws in it; so is it the in-justest judgement seat that may be, being abused to men's particulars: irrevocable decreits against particular parties, being given therein under colour of general laws, and ofttimes the Estates not knowing themselves whom thereby they hurt. And therefore hold no Parliaments, but for necessity of new laws, which would be but seldom; for few laws and well put in execution, are best in a well-ruled commonweal." 157. False coin among the crimes which he thought unpardonable. 159. "As the whole subjects of our country (by the ancient and fundamental policy of our kingdom) are divided into three estates, so is every estate hereof generally subject to some special vices, which in a manner, by long habitude, are thought rather virtue than vice among them." 160. Puritans. 164." The craftsmen think we should be content with their work, how bad and dear soever it be; and if they in anything be controlled, up goeth the blue blanket. But for their part take example by England, how it hath flourished both in wealth and policy since the strangers craftsmen came in among them. Therefore, not only permit, but allure strangers to come here also: taking as strait order for repressing the maligning of ours at them, as was done in England at their first in-bringing there." ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY-ENGLISH. FATHER PERSONS. Three Conversions of England, DDITION to the Epistle Dedicatory. The joy of the Catholics upon James's accession, "no otherwise than it was in old time among the Christians upon the entrance of Constantine into the empire after Diocletian, or of Jovinian after Julian." He calls Elizabeth their old persecutor. How his mother had prayed “that he might be such as we most desire now, myself amongst others can be a true witness, and this from her own testimony." P. 268. That most affecting anecdote of Saunders and his child in prison, this wretch speaks of thus, "seeing a little bastard of his, brought to him in prison by the woman that bare it, &c." 630. A most marvellously impudent comparison of the difference between Protestants and Catholics in producing the grounds of their faith. Vol. 2. P. 176. WHAT he calls wilful pertinacity. 371. A most absurd lie of Cranmer's carrying a woman about with him in a chest! Vol. 3. 287. A sneer at Philpot for studying Hebrew. 391. He pities the Bishops who were forced to punish so many. 393. And justifies them. This hard-hearted Jesuit says of the married clergy, particularizing Hooper, Rogers, Saunders, and Taylor, that "they were drawn into heresy first and principally by the sensual bait of getting themselves women under the name of wives. They were not all of one opinion, but only of one appetite." The book is worthy of the cause. The Church History of England from the year 1500 to the year 1688, chiefly with regard to Catholicks, (by Dodd,) in eight parts. (3 vols. fol.) Brussels, 1737. P. xii. “WHEN the Legislature was at a stand, where to fix the terms of communion, particular persons could not be very expli cit in their belief. The generality of the people in those days, by their complaisance, and willingness to comply with every change, seem to have been of any religion that was capable of securing their property; so that both Protestants and Catholics, by what I can find, had an equal claim to most of P. 53. VILLANOUS falsehood concerning them." Frith and Tindal.—172. 37. "I will not say the princes in those 176. And that Henry procured the death days pretended to any more than a right of -which Cromwell endeavoured presentation, and a right of confirmation as of Tindal, to prevent 213. Character of Latimer. 223. 228. to temporals, or that they contended for any sort of jurisdiction that was merely spi 231. Inh 11man remark concerning the ritual. However they were unwilling to gunpowder part with the ceremony of the staff and the ring; and the Pope insisting that it spoke spiritual jurisdiction, those occasioned those hot disputes in which King Henry I. after the example of other princes was for some time engaged." 39. Stephen at his accession took an oath" that he would not seize and embezzle the profits of vacant benefices (as had often been done) but reserve them for the benefit of the Church, and especially of the next 1 incumbent." 40. In his reign it was declared at a synod that bishops ought not to be in possession of castles or places of strength,-" as being a practice contrary to the canons of the Church." sit 54. The statute of mortmain (7 Edw. I.) as it put a stop to the multiplying of monasteries, so it made way for the introducing of the mendicant orders. 58. The lands of the Templars were bestowed upon the Hospitallers, the statutes then made (17 Edw. II.) declaring that neither the King nor any other lord had title or right to those lands by the dissolution, the obligation which lay upon those lands being to defend Christianity, largely provide for the poor, and pray for the souls departed. 99. Concerning Paul III.'s Bull against Henry, all Catholic writers "agree that it was in the Pope's power to deprive him of all the spiritual privileges of the Church, and to absolve his subjects from their obedience to him, where he required a compliance in things contrary to faith, contrary to the unity of the Church, or where immorality or profaneness was commanded or encouraged." But that he could deprive him of the civil right he had to his dominions is far from being generally allowed.— As if it did not follow! This is like withholding all sustenance from a man, and pretending all the while that you have no authority to take away his life. But note how the true Catholic proceeds. — “ ”Tis true a great many ultramontani divines and canonists ascribe a kind of temporal power to the see of Rome, but they clog it with so many restrictions and reserves, and the cases when it is to take place are so very few and extraordinary, that they render it in a manner insignificant. However we may suppose that Pope Paul III. acted upon the principles of those divines, and might be induced to proceed against Henry VIII. by the examples of Gregory VII. Innocent IV. Boniface VIII. John XXII. and some few others, who followed, as my author says, their private opinion in that respect; who farther adds, that perhaps Paul III. might look upon England to be a feodatory kingdom to Rome, as it once was in the reign of King John, and part of Henry III.'s reign, and that the Peterpence, was still a kind of acknowledgment of that subjection. Now when such a subjection is really due, a feodatory Prince 65. Henry IV. courted the favour of Rome, to strengthen himself, and therefore admitted several foreigners to benefices upon the Pope's recommendation. It was his usurpation which made him take a course with regard to religion so opposite to his father. 73. Harpsfield's Hist. of the Divorce, MS. at New College, quoted, as affirming that Henry's agents were to enquire of the Pope "whether the evangelical law in some cases would not admit of two wives, as there were many instances of such an indulgence in the old law?" Again, "whether in case a dispensation was granted for the King and Queen both to make religious Vows, the King might not afterwards be favoured with a second dispensation from forty shillings; women with a decent gown, his religious vow, and permitted to marry, and liberty either to enter into some greater the Queen still remaining under the obli- monastery, or starve at discretion. gation of her religious vow." that refuseth to pay homage according to articles, may as well by the custom and laws of nations, be deprived of his dominions." 105. At the Dissolution (the first) men were furnished with a clergyman's coat and This indulgence opened a gap for all sorts of li |