Vol. 3.

P. 61. BENEDICT XIV. defends the story of Simon Stock, whom the Virgin promised that no one who died with a Carmelite scapulary on their shoulders should be damned.

43. Flacius maintained that original sin is the very substance of human nature!

155. The translator says it is certain that the Mennonites are, in their tables, equipages, and country seats, the most luxurious part of the Dutch nation.

158. Many of their Pastors are physi

1215.

108. Origin of the Corpo de Dios festival.

116. Forms of the Inquisition,-unde. 153. The Gallic Popes not so much regarded as those at Rome.

185. Lollards, origin of the name. Psalm singers.

198. Festival for the stigmata of Francis.
Ave Maria enjoined by John XXII.
199. Umbilicani.

206. Flagellants. 277.
Dancers.

293. Character of Monks and Friars at the time of the Reformation.

311. The Church's treasure of indulgences.

450. The real doctrines of Rome no where to be fairly got, no where authenticately stated.

451. Objections to the Council of Trent. 455. It was maintained that papal edicts and tradition were superior in authority to Scripture.

462. Benedictines despoiled of many possessions by the Jesuits.

465. The Jesuits maintain that the Pope is infallible.

Vol. 4.

P. 30. CAROLOSTADT was for abolishing all laws, and substituting those of Moses in their place.

1 The real author was Hugo de Sancta Clara, about the middle of the xiiith century. Athias, a Jew of Amsterdam, introduced the division into verses in his edition of the Hebrew Bible, 1661.-J. W. W.

310. Bossuet's Exposition sometimes approved by authority, sometimes condemned. 438. Lutheran clergy stript too much,— inde their decline.

458. Pietists-who, like the Methodists, admitted any persons to preach.

462. Like them also, they prohibited innocent recreations.

500. Ill effects of the Synod of Dort. 501. Geneva almost Arminian in his days. Vol. 5.

P. 52. SOCINIANS aim only at educated

converts. 62. The Princess Elizabeth Penn's friends.

63. Quaker deputies to Labbadie.

161. A good remark of Archbishop Wake, that "had the first reformers in France acted with regard to the dignities and frame of the church, as we in England shewed them an example, the whole Gallican church had come in to them, and been at this day as we are now."-I believe it.

MOSHEIM. De Beghardis et Beguinabus.
P. xi. MANY MSS. upon this subject at
Basle.

xii. There seems to be a German Church History by Conrad Fuesslin.

2, 3. Motto for my Monastic Sketches. 18. Raymund the author of the Summa. Mosheim had not seen this book.

26. I must endeavour to get Gulielmi de S. Amore Opera. Constantiæ, 1632, 4to. But it is a most rare book.

27. A sect who held any work but prayer unlawful. 48.

32. Persons of Holy Sara's opinion.

82. Ryckel's book well described.

66

89. Beguin est proprement ce bandeau de toile, dont on couvre le front des petits enfans."

134. Prodigious number of single women in consequence of the Crusades. This made so many take shelter among the Beguines.

136. Danger of women in those ages. Hale young women were actually kidnapped to raise a strong breed of labourers!

141. Beguinages used to be called vineyards.

143. They were persecuted by all the clergy, who thought every thing ill bestowed which was not bestowed upon themselves, and therefore envied them.

143. The Tertiaries, Dominican and Franciscan, hate them as rivals; and thus they had the enmity of both orders.

256. Here are the old wild Quaker opinions. 282.

266. De 9 rupibus spiritualibus.

290. Age of the Holy Spirit.

319. The Emperor Louis of Bavaria protects and favours the Beghardi and Observants. 320.

370. Beghards and Beguines said to have been seduced into heresy by reading the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue.

375. There were laws in Germany which forbade the people to read devotional books. They were to receive instruction wholly from the Priests.

382. The Inquisition not to be inhibited by any authorities, episcopal, regal, or imperial! 383.

432. Germany owes much to the Clerici communis vitæ.

444. Gherardists in the diocese of Utrecht,

474. Beghards in the woods.

534. The Bishop of Strasburgh, writing to John XXII., estimates the women of this religious description at more than 200,000.

579. Almost all the Beghards in Germany became Lutherans, and the Beguines also.

Preface.

WAS a sad omen to this kingdom to have the sun eclipsed that very hour that Parliament began.

To the Reader.

"Most men did think what Mr. Smith, a member of the Lower House, did not stick blasphemously to speak within those walls, and blushed not afterwards to publish in print, that nothing could free us from ༦ those dangers but the divinity of a parliament.' At last, to satisfy I cannot say, but to punish our importunity, God gave us a parliament, as he gave the Israelites a king, in his anger."

Goodwin. "The Red Dragon, not in the Revelation, but in Colman Street," that disgorges his malice, and casts out floods of slander after those that keep loyalty to their sovereign," in his book called AntiCavalierism.

Arrowsmith's "Wine Press" is noticed in this epistle. "Now what work this 'Wine Press' hath made, and with how sour a liquor it hath run; how they have squeezed them whom they slander with the nick-name of malignants and delinquents, shall, God willing, be made manifest in this ensuing relation."

P. 3. Men tortured with lighted matches between the fingers, and with candles also.

4. Sir John Lucas, near Colchester. They not only sack and deface the house, destroy his evidences, spoil garden and park, and kill his deer, and drive away his cattle, but "they break into St. Giles's church, open the vault where his ances

dead."

7. Captain Richard Lovelace (the poet) committed prisoner to the Gate-house, for delivering "the most honest and famous petition of the gentry of Kent, 1642.”1

16. Stephen Marshall, Parson, of Finchingfield in Essex, the great incendiary of this unhappy war. 21, The great patriarch of rebellion.

22. At Chelmsford, "two sorts of Anabaptists, the one they call the Old Men, or Aspersi, because they were but sprinkled, the other the New Men, or the Immersi, because they were overwhelmed in their re-baptization."

27. "Chelmsford was governed by a tinker, two coblers, two tailors, two pedlars; and that the world may see what a system of divinity these coblers and tailors are like in time to stitch together, and what principles they intend to rule by, I shall here set down certain preparatory prelusory propositions which they usually preach (for preach they do) to their infatuated disciples, and by them are received as the divine oracles of God: and you shall have them in their own terms, viz.

"1. That kings are the burthens and plagues of those people or nations over which they govern.

"2. That the relations of master and servant hath no ground or warrant in the New Testament, but rather the contrary, for there we read, ' In Christ Jesus there

"During this imprisonment he wrote his Song to Althea, which will live as long as the English language."-SOUTHEY's British Poets, &c.-J. W. W.

is neither bond nor free, and we are all one in Christ.'

"3. That the honours and titles of Dukes, Marquisses, Earls, Viscounts, Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen, are but ethnical and hea- | thenish distinctions among Christians.

“4. That one man should have £1000 a year, and another not one pound, perhaps not so much, but must live by the sweat of his brows, and must labour before he eat, hath no ground, neither in nature nor in scripture.

"5. That the common people, heretofore kept under blindness and ignorance, have a long time yielded themselves servants, nay slaves, to the nobility and gentry; but God hath now opened their eyes, and discovered unto them their Christian liberty, and that therefore it is now fit that the nobility and gentry should serve their servants, or at least work for their own maintenance; and if they will not work, they ought not to eat.

"6. That learning hath always been an enemy to the Gospel, and that it were a happy thing if there were no universities, and all books burnt except the Bible.

"7. That any man whom God hath (as they call it) gifted, may be chosen by the congregation for their pastor, and that imposition of hands by the Bishop and Presbytery are mere Popish innovations."

29. "Some fellows brought to trial for plundering the house of Master Cornelius, parson, of Peldon, Essex. The proofs were clear, and the facts admitted by the prisoners, but the jury acquitted them, openly declaring that the men at the bar were honest men, that they had an intent to do them favour, and would do it. The judge directed them to be arraigned for another felony, and a true bill was brought in; but when the sheriff went out to impannel a jury he could find none but Separatists, who attended there that day purposely to be of the jury, and professed openly that they stayed there to save the prisoners."

"There was in the castle, amongst many rich ones, one extraordinary chimney-piece, valued at £2000, this they utterly defaced, and beat down all the carved works thereof with their poleaxes. There were likewise rare pictures, the work of the most curious pencils that were known to these latter times of the world, and such that Apelles himself, (had he now been alive,) needed not to blush to own for his. These in a wild fury they break and tear in pieces, a loss that neither cost nor art can repair.

"Trees which were worth three, four, or five pounds a tree they sold for four-pence, six-pence, or twelve-pence a tree. Fruittrees they rooted up; and dug up the heads of twelve great ponds, some of five or six acres each, and destroyed all the fish.

"The castle was served with water brought two miles by a conduit of lead: they cut up the pipe and sold it at six-pence a yard, making that waste for a poor inconsiderable sum that £2000 will not make good. The mischief here was estimated at not less than £100,000.

"The children of this family were taken from their mother and sent to Dorchester to be bred up in the true religion.'"

58. Sudley Castle. "There is in the castle a goodly fair church: here they dig up the graves and disturb the ashes of the dead. They break down the ancient monuments of the Chandoses, and instead thereof leave a prodigious monument of their sacrilegious impiety. For each part of the church they find a peculiar way to profane it; the lower part of it they make their stable; the chancel their slaughterhouse. Unto the pulpit, which of all other places in probability might have escaped their impiety, they fasten pegs to hang the carcases of the slaughtered sheep. The communion table (according to their own language) they make their dresser, or chopping-board, to cut out their meat. Into the vault, wherein lay the bodies of the Chandoses, an ancient and honourable family, they cast the guts and garbage, mingling the loathsome entrails of beasts

59. "In the Church of St. Mary's, Warwick, in the east chapel, there was the monument of Earl Richard, being brass gilt, and in the opinion of judicious observant travellers, esteemed the rarest piece erected for any subject in the Christian world. Colonel Purefey destroyed it, with the fine windows in the quoir and chapel." 70. "Colonel Sandys writes (I blush to mention so degenerous a pamphlet), a book, and was not ashamed to call it his Travels in Kent, unworthy his predecessors, to stain the name of Sandys with such travels!"

84. "Mr. Jones, a clergyman at Northampton, imprisoned, and kept so short in his diet not suffering his wife or friends to relieve him, that most barbarously they starved him to death."

114. "A troop of factious citizens, under the command of Colonel Cromwell, came to Cambridge and seized Drs. Beale, Martin, and Sterne, heads of several colleges. They use them with all possible scorn and contempt, especially Cromwell. When one of the Doctors made it a request to him that he might stay a little to put up some linen, Cromwell denied him the favour, and whether in a jeer or simple malice, told him that it was not in his commission. In the villages, as they past, the people were called to abuse and revile them. When they came to London, being to bring their prisoners to the Tower, no other way would serve their turn but from Shoreditch through Bartholomew fair, when the concourse was as thick as the negociations of buyers and sellers, and the warning of the beadles of the faction (that use to give notice to their party) could make it. They lead these captives leisurely through the midst of the fair: as they pass along they are entertained with exclamations, reproaches, scorns, and curses. After almost a year's imprisonment they were put on board a ship at Wapping, and instantly put under hatches, where the decks were so low that they could not stand upright,

much as a bundle of straw to lie on. Into this Little Ease, in a small ship, they crowd no less than eighty prisoners of quality."

131. "Ephraim Udal was a man of eminent piety, exemplary conversation, profound learning, indefatigable industry; a painful preacher, not only twice on Sundays, but on Tuesday afternoons; a man of their own vote; but when he found himself mistaken in the ends and intentions of the heads of this rebellion, he did strongly and powerfully lend both his tongue and pen against them. Against sacrilege he published that learned tract called a Coal from the Altar; he declared himself for episcopacy and the established liturgy; and published another book, called Communion Comeliness, in which he proves a high conveniency, if not a necessity, for that most laudable custom of having rails about the Lord's Table. They ejected him, broke into his house, took out his wife, who was a cripple, and set her down in a chair in the street."

208. "Colonel Sandys being asked, on his death-bed, what he meant, being a gentleman of so fair an estate, to engage himself in this treason? he answered, that he was so far drawn in before he was aware, that he knew not how to come off without the danger of his head."

one of

224. In Chichester Cathedral " those miscreants picked out the eyes of King Edward the Sixth's picture, saying that all this mischief came from him when he established the Book of Common Prayer."

238. Westminster Abbey. “Sir Robert Harlow, breaking into Henry the Seventh's chapel, brake down the altar-stone which stood before that goodly monument of Henry VII. The stone was touch-stone, all of one piece, of a rarity not to be matched, that we know of, in any part of the world. There it stood for many years, not for use, but only for ornament, yet it did not escape the frenzy of this man's ignorant zeal, for he brake it into shivers."