BOOK I.

CHAPTER 1.

NEGOTIATION about queen Elizabeth’s marriage with the duke of Anjou: succeedeth not: notwithstanding-confident report of it in France. Occurrences in Scotland; sent from Randolph, the queen’s ambassador there. The ill condition of Ireland; lamented. The queen sends forces to the French king, in defence of Roan. Don Antonio, expulsed his kingdom of Portugal, solicits the queen for aid against Philip king of Spain. Mature consultations thereupon.

The prince of Conde’ comes into England, to solicit the queen in behalf of the protestants in France. He and the French ambassador with her in conference. The queen imparts the sum thereof to the lord treasurer: and the treasurer to the earl of Sussex. Instructions to the queen’s ambassadors in France about a secret league between the king and the queen

CHAPTER 2.

Episcopal visitations of the city of London and St. Edmund’s Bury in Suffolk. Disorders there by the preaching of Handson and Browne. The bishop of Norwich’s complaint of the latter to the lord treasurer. Some justices of the peace favour these preachers.

Philips a preacher, and Day, the bishop’s commissary, used hardly by them. Day’s letter to the bishop. Galton, a puritan preacher.

His doctrine. Articles drawn up against those justices. Their answers. Some account of Handson and Brown. Randal of the family of love: the bishop of Exon’s proceedings with him.

Crompton, a justice of peace, commits a minister going to read service. The bishop of Coventry and Litchfield takes the minister’s part.

CHAPTER 3.

Cox, bishop of Ely, dies: his will. And Barkley, bishop of Bath and Wells, dies: his character. Grants of the queen to Edward Stafford, esq. of concealed lands. The lord treasurer’s judgment of a lease of them. Disorders about religion in the inns of court. A letter from the starchamber to the ecclesiastical commissioners thereupon. Romanists busy. Campion writes to the privy-council concerning the Jesuits, and his mission. A private letter of a Jesuit concerning Campion and his disputations; and the resolution of the Jesuits. A copy of verses made by a papist, beginning, The cross appears, &c. The cruel burning of Atkins at Rome for religion.

CHAPTER 4.

The seminaries busy. Sir Francis Knolles’s letter concerning them.

Search for papists. Proclamation against harbouring Jesuits, and such as went hence to Paris, Rhemes, Doway, or Rome, for education: and for their revocation. Conferences with Jesuits. One of them reclaimed. Recusants in the diocese of the bishop of Coventry and Litchfield. Schismatics. A libertine; his doctrines.

Endeavours of some puritans. Their prayers.

CHAPTER 5.

University matters. Tenets of Baro, lady Margaret professor at Cambridge. Contest between him and Chaderton about them. A bachelor of arts makes an invective against the duke d’Anjou.

Called before the vice-chancellor. His letter to the university’s chancellor about him. One in Trinity college in trouble. Caius college. Number of students in Cambridge. Sheriffs of Oxon: their oath to preserve the privileges of that university: favour to schoolmasters. Mulcaster, a learned schoolmaster, takes notice of it thankfully. Winchester college, their address to the queen.

Lincoln’s Inn choose Chark, a puritan, for their preacher.

CHAPTER 6.

Edward, earl of Oxford: displeased with the lady his wife. Whence occasioned. Her humble letter to him. Matters between him and the lord Burghley, her father. His three daughters, endowed with lands by the lord Burghley. The earl’s debts. Motion made for espousing Anne Cecil and Philip Sydney in their childhoods.

Elizabeth, the lord treasurer’s other daughter, married to the Lord Wentworth’s son. Other motions of marriage for her. Lord Thomas Paget and his wife part. A note of Manwood, lord chief baron.

Nudigate, steward to the duchcss of Somerset, his death; and last will. The duchess, his executrix. A note concerning her. A woman steals: her horrible perjury. A woman deals in necromancy: drowns herself.

CHAPTER 7.

Books set forth this year. English Justice, by cardinal Allen. A Discovery of Campion, the Jesuit, by A. Monday. The English Roman Life in the pope’s college at Rome, by the same. An Answer Apologetical, by Dr. Haddon and John Fox, to Osorius, a Portuguese bishop, his Invective. The unfolding of sundry Untruths, &c. in answer to a book writ by a libertine. Castalio’s book of Free-Will, complained of. A View of Antichrist in our English Church unreformed; writ by certain puritans. Exposition of the Symbol of the Apostles, by J. Field. Two sermons of J.

Bradford, the martyr, published by T. Sampson. Examination of certain ordinary complaints. Positions for Education of Youth in Learning, by R. Mulcaster, a schoolmaster. A Discourse of Royal Monarchy, by Charles Merbury. The Pathway to Martial Discipline. Another, called, A compendious Treatise, de re militari; dedicated to Mr. Philip Sydney. A brief Conceipt of English Policy. Eirenarcha, of the offices of justices of peace, by W. Lambard. The Pentateuch in six Languages: an ancient copy thereof sent to the lord treasurer from Beza.

CHAPTER 8.

The French match like to succeed: and a league with France.

Treaty with Mary queen of Scots, frustrate. Parties in Scotland.

Ireland chargeable. Plots. Parry in Venice and Lyons: his intelligence thence: writes in favour of the good knight. A proclamation against harbouring Jesuits and priests: and going to the colleges at Rhemes, Rome, &c. and for such there to return. Sessions at London. Mass-mongers, libellers, &c. The queen assists the protestant churches. Duke of Bipont, prince palatine, comes into England. Wierus, his agent. Letters of the queen’s ambassador in France concerning Geneva and the duke of Savoy.

Beza to the lord treasurer in behalf of Geneva. The prince of Orange’s death foretold by the pope’s nuncio and the Spanish agent.

CHAPTER 9.

A contest with the bishop of Coventry and Litchfield about the chancellorship. The case referred to civilians and judges. A petition about it to the privy-council. This bishop’s troubles in his diocese. Vexed with lawsuits. The earl of Leicester his enemy: and why. The lord treasurer his friend. Desires a commission ecclesiastical. Names of recusants convict sent up. The ill state of his diocese by papists, and exempt jurisdictions. His letter to the lords. A wicked scandal, contrived against and cast upon the archbishop of York, discovered. Judgment in the starchamber upon the actors, sir Robert Stapleton, and others. The archbishop’s earnest letters to the lord treasurer about his case: his letters of thanks to the queen, and treasurer. They make open confession at York of their treachery; but with little show of repentance. The archbishop’s speeches to each of them.

CHAPTER 10.

The bishop of’ Peterburgh addresseth the queen for confirmation of their statutes for residence. Commission for concealments in the diocese of Lincoln, whereby the clergy are oppressed. The bishop’s complaint thereof to the lord treasurer. Ensnaring interrogatories put to the ministers and churchwardens. The said bishop’s letters in behalf of his clergy, and his own episcopal jurisdiction, encroached upon, and his courts. The commission stayed by a supersedeas, sent down. The bishop of Lincoln acting in an ecclesiastical commission upon one Mackworth, for having two wives. The trouble of Scory, bishop of Hereford, from sir Henry Sydney, president of Wales. His rigorous government. The state of the bishopric of St. David’s: greatly wronged by pretended concealments.

CHAPTER 11.

Puritans. An inscription about the queen’s arms in a church in Bury; abusive of the queen. Wright, domestic chaplain to the lord Rich: his troubles: informations concerning him: and his answers in the consistory. Romish priests. Examination of lord Vaux, and sir Thomas Tresham, who entertained Campion. Lord Vaux’s confession. Sir Richard Shelly, lord prior of St. John’s of Jerusalem, abroad: desires to come home: offers to make discoveries to the queen: a safe conduct granted him: his loyalty.

Some further accounts of him, and his family of the She!leys.

Bourn late in the inquisition. One Gower, a fugitive, comes to the English ambassador at Paris; desires conference with some learned about his religion. Is suddenly cast into the bishop of Paris’s prison. Seminary priests and mass-hearers brought to the sessions at London. A box of stamps for popish libels taken.

CHAPTER 12.

Anderson made lord chief justice of the common place: the manner of admitting him to the bench. Endeavour to get the place by bribery. Riots in Finsbury by some youths of inns of chancery: indicted. The recorder of London informs the lord treasurer thereof. The slaughter at Paris Garden on the sabbath. The lord mayor’s letter to court about it. A pretended conspiracy in Ireland: some in the court and London said to be concerned in it.

Mirfin, the discoverer and informer thereof; false; and proves a notorious forgery. The earl of Embden to the lord treasurer.

Mr.Wentworth, lord treasurer’s son-in-law, dies. The queen, and other lords, by letters, condole with him. The lord treasurer’s daughter, the relict of Mr. Wentworth, dies: the queen’s message by,the secretary’s letter to him to come to court.

CHAPTER 13.

Blank, lord mayor of London, presented to the queen. The recorder’s speech to her. Her answer. The increase of buildings in the city: the inconvenience thereof. Mr, Rich in the Fleet: his crime: sues for his liberty: his protestation: his letter from Leigh to the lord treasurer’s secretary. John Stubbes, (whose right hand had been cut off’,) his letters of good counsel. Fleetwood, recorder of London. Controversy in Christ’s college, Cambridge, about the fellowship of king Edward’s foundation. A dispensation for a fellowship in Peter-house, complained of. Books published this year. The Elementary. ( Eijrhnarci>a) a book appointed to be read in schools. The Bible: printed in quarto, with a Catechism about Predestination. Golden Epistles.

CHAPTER 14.

The queen’s declaration upon sending away the Spanish ambassador. Motion for peace between the queen and king of Spain. An Italian propounded for a mediator. The queen against it: and why. She protects those of the Netherlands: relieves Geneva. Complaints by Mary queen of Scots; with answers to them. The queen’s expostulatory letter to king James of Scotland.

The excess of retainers checked. The queen’s kind letter to the lord treasurer, under some discontent.

CHAPTER 15.

Apprehensions from papists. The archbishop of York’s letter, to the bishop of Chester; exciting to diligence. The bishop and the earl of Darby, acting in the ecclesiastical commission. The bishop of St. David’s visits his diocese: the corrupt state thereof. The bishop of Norwich weary of his diocese: and why. Desires a remove. Two of this bishop’s servants taken at mass. A divinity lecture settled at Litchfield. The dean’s account of it. The bishop of Lincoln removed to Winton. The bishop of Meath moves for schools in Ireland. Matthew made dean of Durham.

CHAPTER 16.

The queen grants a commission ecclesiastical. The letters patents.

Cawdry, a puritan, deprived. Withers of Danbury writes to the lord treasurer in behaff of the puritans. Their case recommended to the council, in a letter from the gentlemen of Suffolk: the lords’ instructions to the judges of assize thereupon. Proceedings against the dispersers of Browne’s books at Bury St. Edmund’s: and against papists. The judges’ account of the assizes held there. Popish books set forth: Theses Anglorum Rhemensium. Dr. Allen’s Defence of the English Catholics. Parrie’s letter from Lyons and Paris. One Touker, late in the inquisition at Rome, comes home: makes discoveries. The bishop of Rosse. Dr. Lewis in Rome. Dr. Oxenbridge at Wisbich; his submission and subscription to the supremacy.

CHAPTER 17.

A project for prevention of falling away in religion. The validity of popes’ bulls in England, for pluralities, &c. Controversy between the stationers of London and the university. One of King’s college expelled the university: and why. Books printed this year. Bishop Jewel’s sermons. De Justificatione, set forth by John Fox. Sermons of Faith, Hope, and Charity, by Bernard Ochine. Defence of the English translation of the Bible, by Dr. Fulk. The English Rhemists’ Testament. Cartwright sets upon the confutation of it.

The Practice of Prelates. Jesus Psalter. Defensative against the Poison of Prophecies, by the L. Howard. Execution of Justice, for Maintenance of public Peace. A Declaration of the favourable Dealing with certain Traitors. A Report of the Discovery of Newfoundland. L. Latymer comes from France. Suspected, and taken up. Dean Wotton’s legations. Lord Wentworth dies. Coiners.

CHAPTER 18.

Consultation about annoying Spain. Captain Hawkins’s advice therein; viz. to assist the ‘king of Portugal. The queen’s transactions with the agents of Holland. She is concerned for the murder of the prince of Orange. Her careful letter to the duke of Monpensier about that prince’s daughters. The lord treasurer to the king of Navarr. Prince palatine comes into England. A scandal of the earl of Shrewsbury. Popish plots. An association of the nobility and gentry. Mendoza, the Spanish ambassador, sent away.

Stafford, the queen’s ambassador at Paris. His intelligence concerning him, and English fugitives there. The faction of the Guises. A new parliament: usage of parliament. Supplication for learned and preaching ministers. Petitions for that end: and for regulation of divers things in the church. Answers of the archbishop and bishops thereunto.

CHAPTER 19.

A convocation. Articuli pro clero. The archbishop’s cares, Comforted by sir Christopher Hatton. James Diggs, ordinary servant to the archbishop. Dr. Drurie’s advices to him about Melius inquirendum. Dr. Howland made bishop of Peterburgh.

The bishop of Lincoln’s Admonition. A book called The Abstract, for bringing in another discipline: answered. The Counterpoison.

Dr. Copcot’s sermon at St.Paul’s Cross. A brotherly and friendly counsel to the ministers for peace and concord.

CHAPTER 20.

The bishop of Winchester goes down to his diocese: desires a commission for recusants in Hampshire. Subscription required by the archbishop, of the clergy of Lincoln diocese, now void.

Account thereof from the archdeacon. Their backwardness.

Contest about settling a master of the Temple. Hooker appointed.

Travers’s Supplication. Christopher Goodman; a note of him. The popish faction. Their great plot. The queen of Scots privy to it: her letter. Sir Francis Englefield’s letters to the pope and Spain.

CHAPTER 21.

Parry executed for treason. A cardinal’s letter to him. His speech at his execution, His account of his condition and quality, by himself given: false and hollow. Solicits to be master of St. Katharine’s near the Tower; or for a deanery, &c. Account of him for some years past. Lives abroad. His letters from Parts, Venice, and Lyons. His intelligence from abroad to the lord Burghley.

Comes home. He flies abroad again: and why. Prayers appointed (upon Parry’s treason) in the queen’s chapel, and in parliament: order of prayers for Winchester diocese. Parry’s bold letter to the queen from the Tower. A nephew of Parry’s executed.

CHAPTER 22.

Dangers from papists in Cheshire and Lancashire. Creitton, a Scotch Jesuit, from Rome; taken: and examined. Popish books; writ upon the execution of Jesuits. Books in answer thereto. Proved that they were traitors by the statute of king Edward III. Dr. Whitaker’s application to the lord treasurer for the mastership of St. John’s college, Cambridge: his letters. Lord Burghley to the provost and fellows of King’s college, in behalf of Mr. Cowel.

Winchester college in danger, by means of forged writings. Dr. Biison the warden’s good service. Remarks on several persons. As, Richard Rogers, suffragan of Dover. Manwood, lord chief baron.

Daniel Rogers. John Fox, his request for his prebend. Hurlestone of Cheshire. Sir Edward Stradling. John lord Russel. Sir Philip Sydney. Emanuel Demetrius.

CHAPTER 23.

Account of the quarter sessions at London. Books. A Defence of the English Catholics’ Execution of Justice in the Land. A Declaration of Parry’s Treasons. Bullinger’s Decads in English.

An Answer to the Abstract. A declaration of ecclesiastical Discipline. The ancient History of Wales, by David Powel, D.D.

Description of Lincoln, by W. Lambard. Guavara’s Epistles, translated out of Spanish. A Sermon of Wimbledon, preached anno 1388.

CHAPTER 24.

The queen moved to assist the Netherlands. Saravia’s letter from Leyden, for that purpose. The earl of Leicester goes over. Orders to the vice-admiral of the queen’s fleet with respect to the king of Spain’s seizing English ships: for reprisal. A parliament. They enter into an association for the queen’s safety. Laws made against seminaries and papists. The speaker’s speech to the queen.

A book of petitions from the papists. Shelly the presenter of it: his examination. The parliament consult concerning the Scots queen: her case propounded. The queen’s concern at the yielding up of Antwerp. Hereupon she takes the protection of the Netherlands.

Instructions to her ambassador.

CHAPTER 25.

The queen endeavours a league between the king of Scots and herself. Occurrences in Scotland. Instructions to her ambassadors sent to that king. The French ambassador’s intercession for the Scots queen. Her letter to the lord treasurer. A diligent search at the seaports for dangerous persons coming now into the realm.

Letters from the privy-council. Young gentlemen to be trained in the musters; and made officers. Colleges for popish seminaries abroad: Dr. Bilson concerning them. Alfield arraigned for bringing in Dr.Allen’s book: some contents of that book. John Prestal, a conjurer. Philip, earl of Arundel. Edmund Nevyl, alias lord Latymer. Prisoners in the Tower; their case and letters.

Robert Turner, professor of divinity in Ingolstad. His letters to cardinal Allen: and to Hilliard.

CHAPTER 26.

Usury practised in York. The archbishop brings it before the commission ecclesiastical: his letter to the lord treasurer about it.

The dean of York openly dissents. Articles against him in the starchamber by the archbishop. The dean’s submission to the archbishop. This archbishop preaches at Paul’s Cross, upon a day of thanksgiving for a deliverance of the queen from a conspiracy.

Scory, bishop of Hereford, dies. Ecclesiastical exercises in the diocese of Chester. The bishop prescribes rules for the clergy to be observed in those exercises. Bishop Scambler translated from Peterburgh to Norwich. His complaint of his predecessor. Curtess, bishop of Chichester, dies poor, and in the queen’s debt. Inventory of his goods. Complaint made by the bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, against Beacon; about collecting the queen’s subsidy.

His letter thereupon to the lord treasurer. Cox, bishop of Ely, vindicates his liberties in Holborn against the city of London. The revenues of the dean and chapter of Norwich in danger, upon pretence of concealment: the case: the suit with sir Thomas Shirley: referred.

CHAPTER 27.

A motion made by Travers to Hooker, now become master of the Temple; to stay for a call of the people. His answer. Cartwright returns home. Some university matters. One called before the vicechancellor of Cambridge, for a sermon ad clerum about keeping the sabbath. A new printing press at Oxford. A book of Ethics being the first book printed there. Contest about the antiquity of the universities. Lord Lumley gives books to Cambridge. The want of an university in Ireland. Slanders raised of the lord treasurer.

Some variance between the earl of Leicester and him. Letters between them. Philip earl of Arundel fined. His debts. Edward lord Beauchamp. Davys finds out the north-west passage. His letter to sir Francis Drake.

CHAPTER 28.

Books set forth. The Great English Bible. A Declaration of the Causes of the Queen’s giving Aid to the Low Countries summary Report of the Earl of Northumberland’s Treason. The true and lawful Right and Title of Don Anthonio to the Kingdom of Portugal. The State of the English Fugitives under the King of Spain. The true Difference between Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion: by Dr. Bilson. An Apology and true Declaration of the Institution of the two English Colleges at Rome and Rhemes. A Defence of English Catholics. Pilkington’s Exposition upon Nehemiah. Certain Prayers and other godly Exercises, for the seventeenth day of November. A godly and necessary Admonition concerning Neuters. Moral Questions in Latin: by Case of Oxford. Exploits by the English in the Netherlands: by H. Archer. Leicester’s Commonwealth.

BOOK II.

CHAPTER 1.

Matters about the queen of Scots. Resolution to bring her Anno 1586. to her trial. Her removal. Sir Amyas Paulet, her keeper, faithful. The queen’s letter to him. A commission preparing for her said trial. The judges consulted about it. Letters from Popham, attorney-general. Consultation after her trial and condemnation, of putting her to death; which the queen was against. Objections and answers for the queen’s satisfaction. Dr. Dale’s letter to the lord treasurer for that purpose. Considerations offered to the queen by parliament. Moved, to disable the Scots queen from inheriting. Answered. What precedents might be found. Joan of Naples. Petition of both houses to the queen; for the Scots queen’s execution; and her answer. The queen of Scots executed. The queen highly provoked at it. The lord treasurer forbid her presence. His letters to her. Davison, her secretary, suffers for it.

His character. Interrogatories put to him: his answers thereunto.

CHAPTER 2.

Revenge meditated for the Scots queen’s death. Not safe to call in the assistance of Spain, in taking this revenge. Advice of the event thereof from a statesman in England to one about that king’s court. His deliberation about it. Several writings and books on this occasion. A MS. of the order and manner of the Scots queen’s execution. The dean of Peterburgh’s speech to her at the scaffold: and prayer. Her resentments thereof. A book, De Maria Scotorum Regina, totuque ejus contra Regem Conjuratione. Another book, Maria Stuarta innocens a Caede Darliana: a tract. Sentences agains the queen of Scots. Caedes Darliana: a book dedicated to cardinal Allen at Rome.

CHAPTER 3.

A league made between the queen and the king of Scots. The grudge of some of the Scotch nobility at it. Dangers on all hands from abroad. Drake sent forth with a fleet. Intelligence from the Isle of Wight. The queen charged to sow sedition among princes.

Answered. The king of Navar’s danger. Consultation for him. The queen ready to assist him at Rochel. An English officer going to serve in Holland taken by the Spaniard: examined. His answers.

Upon some overtures between the queen and Spain, the advice of Ramelius, the Danish ambassador. Difference between the lord deputy of Ireland and council. The bishop of Meath’s letter thereupon.

CHAPTER 4.

Sir John Perrot contends with the bishop of St. David’s about the stewardship of that bishop’s courts. The case. The bishop of Meath forfeits double fruits. His case referred to Perrot, his enemy.

Comes into England about it. Oppressions of the clergy in Yorkshire, by pretence of concealments. Occasions the archbishop’s letter. Letters from the queen and council to the bishops, to obtain lances from the clergy for the Low Countries.

Accounts thereof from the bishops. Sums raised for that purpose in every diocese. The state of the church of Westminster. The state of Geneva. Their dangerous condition. Their letters to the lord treasurer, to solicit the queen for aid. Beza’s letters.

CHAPTER 5.

A popish conspiracy, to raise a rebellion, and murder the queen.

Parsons, the Jesuit, to cardinal Allen at Rome; now soon after his arrival here in a mission. Creicton, a Jesuit, his reasons for the catholics their taking up arms. Ballard, a priest, Savage and Babington; their confessions about the plot. The city rejoice. The queen’s kind letter to them. The justices of Suffolk to the council, concerning yearly payments, by popish gentlemen, recusants there.

Resolution taken against papists in prison. Topcliff’s discovery of the practices and resorts of seminary priests in and about London.

Cotton, a Jesuit, and Perpoint, gent. a recusant, taken up; their examinations.

CHAPTER 6.

Anthony Tyrrel, priest, his confession in letters to the queen and lord treasurer. His discoveries of Jesuits, and other Roman catholics. His recantation. His revolt: and his letter to the queen after it. A discourse proving the treason of the priests and others of that religion, executed. Divers tracts and speeches concerning papists; and cases concerning the dealings with them. Cardinal Allen’s concern with sir Edward Stanley in betraying Deventer in Holland to the Spaniard. He, with the pope, moves for an English seminary of soldiers. Their use. Writes a book for them.

CHAPTER 7.

Travers acquaints the lords of the council with his lectures at the Temple, and conference with Hooker, the master of the Temple, upon some points. A religious company complained of to the archbishop, for certain opinions. What they were. One Darrel pretends to cast out devils. White, an enthusiast anabaptist, calls himself John a Baptist: his examination. Discourses and speeches in parliament against receiving the disciplinarian model. A dearth.

Whitaker the public professor of divinity, and others, stand to succeed Howland, made bishop, in the mastership of St. John’s college, Cambridge. Puritans in Christ’s college. That college visited by the vicechancellor. They refuse his Injunctions.

CHAPTER 8.

The printing-press at Cambridge. The archbishop’s order to the university about books to be printed there. His letter to the heads about granting licences to university preachers. That university and town at difference. Their petition delivered to the lord Burghley, their chancellor. The duchess of Somerset, her last will: her jewels: her letter to secretary Cecil, concerning the lord Hertford, her son, in the Tower. Sir Philip Sidney’s last will. A letter of the young earl of Essex. The character of Davison, late secretary. Fleetwood, recorder of London, his diary. Books printed. Books of Petrus Bizarus, a learned Italian here.

CHAPTER 9.

Don Antonip, beat out of his kingdom of Portugal; his miserable condition represented to the lord treasurer. Sir Francis Drake takes a rich ship of Portugal: his success at Cales. Intelligence from Scotland by a priest there. Remembrance for Portland castle, sent to the lord treasurer from sir Walter Raleigh. Orders for the lieutenancy of Hampshire. Care taken about the justices of peace.

Bishop of Peterburgh, his letter concerning them in his diocese.

Letters also of the same concern from the bishops of Hereford, Norwich, Winchester, Bath and Wells, and York. A letter from Dr.Knibbius to Rogers, the queen’s ambassador, concerning the earl of Leicester’s departure from Holland. Two military discourses; by Rare Lane: seasonable at this juncture.

CHAPTER 10.

Southwel, a collegiate church, endeavoured to be gotten from the archbishopric of York. The archbishop’s application to stop it. Required by the queen to be present at the council of the north in York. Barnes, bishop of Durham, dies: some account of him.

Endeavours at court for the dean, Dr. Toby Matthew, to succeed him, The dean’s letter thereupon. The decay of that bishopric by reason of long leases. Troubles of that collegiate church by reason of suits. The present ill state of the bishopric of St. Asaph. That bishop’s commendams. The queen requires a lease of Dunnington, belonging to the bishopric of Ely, now void. The dean and chapter thereof, their letter to the lord treasurer hereupon. A large commission of concealments granted to Edward Stafford. The contents thereof. Lands of four vacant bishoprics sued for to the queen by the earl of Leicester, in exchange. P. 677.

CHAPTER 11.

A synod held by the disciplinarians: orders, consisting of sixteen articles, there concluded. One Durden, in Cambridge, calls himself Elias. His examination before the vice-chancellor. His pretended visions. Letter of intelligence from an English priest in France. Anthony Tyrrel, a priest, renounceth his religion: revokes what he had renounced: his protestations, in some letters. Weston, a Jesuit: he with some other priests pretend to cast out evil spirits.

A new commission of the peace for Lancashire. The effect of it for the discovery of priests. Fleetwood, parson of Wigan, his letter. A commission ecclesiastical. A note taken of the catholic gentlemen in each county, and of their livings..

CHAPTER 12.

A book entitled, Theatrum Crudelitatis Haereticorum in Anglia.

Another book, called, Execution of Justice in England. Cardinal Allen’s book in answer to it, called, A true, sincere, and modest Defence of Catholics, &c. Vindication of the Execution of Justice, in answer to Allen. Stubbe, the writer, his letter to the lord treasurer. Some university matters. Abuses in the colleges at Cambridge; which causeth a letter from their chancellor. Contests between the town and university. Edmunds, the mayor, discommoned. Matters of St. John’s college: some letters of Dr.Whitaker, the master.

CHAPTER 13.

Sheffield of Christ’s college accused for a sermon preached at St. Mary’s. An end of the vice-chancellor’s visitation of that college.

Some account of Downham, one of the fellows. Chadwic, of Emanuel college, called before the heads, for a sermon of his preached in St.Mary’s. An epistle of gratitude to the lord Burghley from the university of Oxford. Occasional remarks upon some persons of eminency in these times; viz. William Lambard. Lord treasurer Burghley. The earl of Oxford, his son-in-law, discontented. Letters between them. Angry words at court from the earl of Leicester to the lord treasurer. Their letters hereupon to each other. The death of the lord treasurer’s mother. On which occasion the queen’s message to him. Earl of Leicester’s debts.

CHAPTER 14.