No. 17, p. 49. Herb of Paraguay. No. 18, p. 11. Joseph Strong-a blind man of Carlisle. the missionaries sent among the Saxons were not Prædicatores, but Prædatores. 58-9. The clergy in these western coun 14. A whole town of beggars in Scot- tries succeeded to the authority of the land. 23. Perfection -" the peculiar doctrine committed to our trust." No. 19, p. 75. Louisa. No. 20, pp. 42. 113. No. 21, p. 188. The Dog and the Raven. 192. Fanaticism. 199. The Lion-monster- which is in Bewick. What an hypothesis, instead of the obvious solution that it was a new species! MOSHEIM. Vol. 1. P. 235. ORIGEN introduced long sermons, and was the first who explained the scriptures in his discourses. 297. Dust and earth from Palestine, and other sacred places, sold everywhere at enormous prices,' as the most powerful remedies against evil spirits. Aug. quoted, De Civit. Dei. 1. 22. c. 8. § 6. 322. In the fourth century, the people were permitted, nay even exhorted by the preacher, to crown his talents with clapping of hands, and loud acclamations of applause. Vol. 2. P. 7. N. THAT the Koran given by Mahommed is entirely distinct from the modern Koran is manifest from this, that in the latter Mahommed appeals to and extols the former and therefore they must be two different compositions. May it not be conjectured that the true Koran was an Arabic poem, which Mahommed recited to his followers, without giving it to them in writing, ordering them only to commit it to their memory? Druids. 64. Hence also excommunication. 75. Regular canons, circiter 750. 87. Scholastic theology earlier than commonly imagined. 119. Patrons who dreaded the discipline of the church promoted unworthy Priests who would wink at their conduct. 201. Frantic prodigality of the Greek Patriarch Theophylact. 215. In the tenth century the contests concerning predestination, and grace, and the eucharist, were reduced to silence. Mutual toleration was practised by the contending parties, who left it to each other's free choice to retain or change their former opinions. The truth is, the divines of this century wanted both the capacity and the inclination to attack or defend any doctrine, whose refutation or defence required the smallest portion of learning or logic. 224. The Rosary and Crown known in the tenth century-forsan, from the Moors? 282. Monks kept wives, whom they changed as often as they pleased. 283. Benefices openly sold in the eleventh century. 293-4. Investitures. 276. Hildebrand's scheme for an annual assembly of Bishops at Rome to decide between kings and kingdoms. 304. Urban II. goes beyond Hildebrand, and forbids the clergy to take the oath of allegiance to their respective sovereigns. 335. Hildebrand favours Berenger at first, and consults the Virgin about it. 397. The story of Alexander treading on Frederick's neck doubtful, and considered false by most modern authors. 405. The Speculum Stultorum of Nigel 48. A passage from Alcuin, showing that | Wireker, an Englishman of the twelfth cen Augustine does not mention the price; his words are only, " terram sanctam de Hierosolymis allatam."-J. W. W. tury, often printed. 420-2. Indulgences and merits. 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 physicians. 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. 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. 50. Beguines from Benignus, or from shelter among the Franciscans. Connection Bonus ignis! with the Observants. 82. Ryckel's book well described. 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. 144. All the Nuns hated, because they envied them. 145. They were not favoured even by their own relations, because they retained their property. 148. Order that none should be admitted under forty years of age. This was a German law, and it seems was necessary. 207. The Beghards, many of them took 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, under their Marthas and Sub Marthas. 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. HISTORICAL MEMOIRS. tors were buried, and with pistols, swords, Mercurius Rusticus. Angliæ Ruina, &c.1647. and halberds, transfer the coffins of the Preface. WAS a sad omen to this kingdom to have the sun eclipsed that very hour that Parliament began. To the Reader. 6 "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 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 1 66 During this imprisonment he wrote his English language."-SOUTHEY'S British Poets, Song to Althea, which will live as long as the &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 heathenish 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." "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 Painted windows destroyed everywhere. family, they cast the guts and garbage, 44. Warder Castle, Lord Arundel's. | mingling the loathsome entrails of beasts 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." |