THE INTRODUCTION.

SECTION 1.

ELIZABETH proclaimed. The present ill condition of the kingdom.

What presently to be done. Counsels taken. A fleet set out. A plot already against the queen. Conjurers. Dangers from France and Scotland. The queen makes warlike preparations. She removes from Hatfield. France intends a conquest of England.

SECTION 2.

The queen procures money diligently. She calls in her debts. She requires her myzes from Wales. She looks to her forts and castles.

Berwick: orders for that place; and for Newcastle; and the east and middle marches. Letters to the lord warden. The assured Scots. Peace with Scotland.

SECTION 3.

Provision for Portsmouth, and the Isle of Wight; and Dover; and the cinque ports; and for Wales; and Guernsey; and Ireland. The condition of the ordnance. Commissioners appointed for the care of the kingdom. Treaty with France. The queen inquires into the loss of Calais. Embassy from Sweden. Her respect to Spain.

Preparations for the coronation. A call of sergeants; and some to be ennobled. The queen comes to the Tower. Goes through London triumphantly. A Bible presented her there. Crowned. Queen Mary’s funerals celebrated. Letters to the sheriffs for elections.

Other miscellaneous matters.

THE HISTORY.

CHAPTER 1.

Prohibition to Carne, resident with the pope. Cardinal Pole’s burial. Letters in favour of his executor. The queen dismisseth prisoners for religion. Orders from the council for that purpose. A late commission against Lollards looked into. Preaching prohibited. Notwithstanding, papists preach; and protestants.

Slanderous words of papists. Pulling down images in churches.

The council’s letter to the city about it.

CHAPTER 2.

Cardinal Pole’s message to the lady Elizabeth before his death.

The carriage of the bishops to the queen. The posture of religion.

Secret counsels for restoring it. A parliament; and convocation; what was done there; and in the parliament. The act of supremacy; and uniformity. Private acts. Many bishoprics become void by the act of supremacy; and other ecclesiastical preferments.

CHAPTER 3.

Some bishops and the abbot of Westminster, their speeches in the house against the bill for the supremacy, and the English Common Prayer Book. The two religions compared by Harpsfield. Remarks upon some other bills. Dr. Story’s impudent speech in parliament.

Two private acts. Bill for marriage of priests. The English liturgy of king Edward established.

CHAPTER 4.

Divines review the Common Prayer Book. Secretary Cecil’s influence therein. Guest, a very learned man, his labours about it.

Posture of receiving. King Edward’s ornaments. An objection of Dr. Boxal against the communion office: wherein the present book varied from king Edward’s book. Dr. Haddon’s account of the English service. Foreign churches rejoice at it: but some English dislike it.

CHAPTER 5.

A disputation at Westminster in parliament time, between some papists and protestants, before a great assembly of the nobility.

The questions. The papists decline the dispute. The argument of the protestants. Jewel’s wish for a disputation. The popish disputants punished.

CHAPTER 6.

The queen’s marriage motioned. Exchange of bishops’ lands.

Bishop Cox’s letter to the queen. The bishops elect, their secret application to the queen about it. Considerations about bishops’ temporalities. Commissions for the exchanges.

CHAPTER 7.

The behaviour of the English professors and exiles; and of the popish clergy towards them. Consultation about admitting the pope’s nuncio.

CHAPTER 8.

The protestants’ declaration of their doctrine, in vindication of themselves against the slanders of papists. The Dutch strangers return to their church in London. Bishop Grindal their superintendent. Dutch anabaptists.

CHAPTER 9.

The reformation in Scotland. Knox’s book against women’s government: answered by an English divine. Christopher Goodman’s book of that argument. Some account of that book. His recantation thereof. Knox’s letter to John Fox concerning his book. The principles of these books entertained. The French king’s funerals solemnized at St. Paul’s.

CHAPTER 10.

The poor neglected condition of the protestants, being returned home: and the state of religion. Jewel’s and Cox’s letters thereof to Bullinger and Weidner

CHAPTER 11.

Preachers at St. Paul’s Cross. The beginning of the use of common prayer. The deprivation of the old bishops. Their practices. Their condition afterwards; and other popish churchmen. Their letter to the queen; and her answer. The emperor’s letter to the queen. A match propounded with the archduke of Austria. The vacant churches supplied. Articles to be declared; and a protestation to be subscribed by the clergy. Subscription for readers.

CHAPTER 12.

Bishoprics and dignities in the church void. Persons designed for preferments. Dr. Parker made archbishop of Canterbury.

Consecrations and ordinations. The vacant sees filled. A table thereof. The queen’s Injunctions. Holy table and bread. Altars.

Book of Articles of Inquiry. A royal visitation. The visitors. The effect of this visitation.

CHAPTER 13.

Ecclesiastical habits and other matters scrupled. Peter Martyr applied to for his judgment thereof. The roods and crucifixes in churches. A crucifix in the queen’s chapel. The bishop of Ely excuseth his ministering in the chapel by reason thereof.

Ceremonies established. Complying popish priests. Readers. Some hinderers of the reformation. A slackness in discipline. Preaching useful.

CHAPTER 14.

The progress of the reformation. Orders for cures vacant. The foreigners’ joy in behalf of England. A proclamation for preserving monuments, &c. in churches. Another for apparel.

CHAPTER 15.

A collection of various historical matters falling out within this year, 1559.

CHAPTER 16.

Lent sermons at St. Paul’s and at court. Bishop Jewel’s public challenge there. The church and kingdom happily restored. More bishops and inferior clergy ordained. Dr. May, dean of St. Paul’s, elect of York, dies. Succeeded in the deanery by Nowel. John Fox at Norwich, promoting religion there. His character.

CHAPTER 17.

Advice concerning ministers. Orders for the clergy; and regulation of the church. Interpretation of the Injunctions. Divers ecclesiastical ordinances to be prescribed ministers. A declaration of faith to be read by them. Resolutions for uniformity. All drawn up by the bishops.

CHAPTER 18.

The bishops address to the queen against images. Table of marriages. Latin prayers for the colleges. Latin office for funerals; and commendation of benefactors deceased. A new calendar of lessons. Order for churches and chancels decayed, or kept unclean: and for places where the Latin prayers were said.

CHAPTER 19.

A writing of an expulsed bishop. Pope Pius IV. his practices about England. His plot to sow divisions. Mason a convert, his report.

Bible of Geneva. Bishop Pilkington’s Exposition of Aggee. Dr. Wylson’s books of Logic and Rhetoric. Gerard Hoenrieh, a German, his offer of services to England. Melancthon dies.

Merited well of the English church. Nowel’s and Calfield’s sermons at St. Paul’s Cross. Horarium. A Spanish church in London.

CHAPTER 20.

Some Englishmen in the inquisition in Spain. Frampton’s narration of his usage there. Occurrences. Some secular matters.

Lent preachers.

CHAPTER 21.

Archbishop of York confirmed. Three other bishops consecrated.

The church filled with her bishops. Papists’ objections against them. Richard Cheney’s complaint. Fox’s Martyrology comes forth: vindicated. Peter Martyr invited over. Archdeacon Wright’s sermon at Oxford. Bullinger’s sermons upon the Revelations come forth translated: and Calvin of Relics. His judgment, approving some rights used in the English liturgy; and of episcopal government.

CHAPTER 22.

A reflection upon what was already done in the church. Papists write against it; take occasion at the fire of St. Paul’s. Answered by bishop Pilkington. Popish questions and cases dispersed.

Answered. Reformation of the coin of the nation. Sir Richard Shelly, lord prior of St. John’s, and turcopolier at Malta.

CHAPTER 23.

A journal of memorable matters falling out within this year, not hitherto noted. A Common Prayer Book with pictures of the saints laid before the queen at St. Paul’s; disliked by her. Paintings in churches.

CHAPTER 24.

The papistical clergy busy. Lists of the names of the popish recusants, late dignitaries in the church, or otherwise. And their confinements and bounds, prescribed by the ecclesiastical commissioners.

CHAPTER 25.

Cheny, bishop of Gloucester, consecrated. Some passages concerning him. Commissions for Bristol. The Great Bible printed; and bishop Jewel’s Apology. Peter Martyr dies. A nonresident proceeded against. Elizeus Hall, a notorious impostor.

CHAPTER 26.

The lord keeper’s and Mr. Speaker’s speeches. A second parliament. Matters transacted relating to religion. The penalty of high treason in the bill for the supremacy argued. Speeches of the lord Mountague, and Mr. Atkinson, a lawyer, against it. Another for it. Acts passed; viz. for the assurance of the queen’s royal power: against conjurations: for execution of the writ for taking a person excommunicated, &c. The queen’s answer about her marriage.

CHAPTER 27.

A convocation. The archbishop opens it. Matters done therein.

Papers of weighty matters drawn up to be laid before the synod.

CHAPTER 28.

The Articles of Religion. Difference between these and King Edward’s Articles. The authority of the church. The names of the subscribers of the upper and lower house: observations on some of them. Remarks on the XVIIth Article, of Predestination. On the Xth Article, of Free-will. The XIth, of Justification. The XXVIIIth, of the Lord’s Supper.

CHAPTER 29.

Rites and ceremonies debated in the synod.

CHAPTER 30.

Government of the church. Petitions of the lower house, for orders to be observed in the church. The condition of vicarsconsidered by the synod..

CHAPTER 31.

Papers prepared, for doctrine and discipline, to be offered by the synod to the queen, or to the parliament. A catechism composed by Alex. Nowel, allowed by the synod. Bills prepared by them for frequenting divine service; and for excommunication. The canon law. A petition for regulation thereof, moved by Ralph Lever. The ill state of the universities.

CHAPTER 32.

Inquiries into the churches and chapels of the reahn. The state of Norwich diocese. The queen’s studies. Osorius’s letter to her. A treatise of bishop Hooper; now printed. Miscellaneous matters.

The Poles and others, condemned of treason. Matters between the French and English. New Haven put into the queen’s hands by the protestants of France.

CHAPTER 33.

French protestants fly hither. Laws of Geneva printed in English.