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AN

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

Chiefly of England,

FROM THE FIRST PLANTING OF CHRISTIANITY, TO THE END OF

THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES THE SECOND;

WITH A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE

AFFAIRS OF RELIGION IN IRELAND.

COLLECTED FROM THE BEST ANCIENT HISTORIANS, COUNCILS, AND RECORDS,

BY

JEREMY COLLIER, M.A.

NEW EDITION,

WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, THE CONTROVERSIAL TRACTS CONNECTED

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LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

CONTENTS

BR742

07

1840

v, 7

Archbishop Whitgift presses subscription to the three articles, 1.-Brown deserts the

Church of England and begins a sect, J.-He forms separate congregations, 2.-He is

brought off his error, relapses, and recovers, 3.—A book of discipline drawn together,

with the resolution of the assemblies putting it in practice, 4.-Whitgift presses con-

formity, 6.-Petitions to the council against him, 7.-His letter to the council with

reference to the Kentish petition, 7.—His answer to the remonstrance of the Suffolk

ministers, 8.-Beale undertakes the Dissenters' cause; his misbehaviour towards the

archbishop, 9.—The lords of the council's letter to the archbishop in favour of the

Dissenters, 11.-His answer, 12.-Secretary Walsingham moves for indulgence to

subscription, 15.-The archbishop keeps close to the constitution, 15.-The lord Bur-

leigh's motion to the Dissenters, 15.-Sir Francis Walsingham's offer from the queen,

16.-Harpsfield's death and writings, 17.-Sanders dies this year; his character, 19.—

His treasonable letter to the Irish nobility, &c., 20.-The assembly's remonstrance,

22.—Melvil declines the jurisdiction of the council-board, 23.—Several acts of parlia-

ment made against the seditious preachers, 24.-Ministers to be deprived, for what

crimes, 25.-Buchanan's books censured in parliament, 25.-The Church endeavours

to hinder the passing these bills, but to no purpose, 26.-Pont, a minister, declares

publicly against the legality of these acts of parliament, 26.-The king's declaration,

26. The court libelled, 26.-The refugee-ministers' remonstrance against the govern-

ment, 27.—They receive an unacceptable answer, 27.-A elash between lord Hunsdon

and Walsingham, 28.-The Papists complain of hard usage, 29.-The queen displeased

with the rigours of the magistracy, 30.—The queen of Scots' overture to queen Eliza-

beth, 31. The accommodation dashed by the clamour of the Scotch ministers, &c.,

32.-A combination practised amongst the Dissenters, 33.-Their national synod at

London, 33.-The Book of Discipline moved to be read in the house of Commons,

but rejected, 33.-A conference at Lambeth between some of the bishops and the

Dissenters, 34.-The commons petition the lords in favour of the Dissenters, 35.—

The association enacted, 39.-An act enjoining Jesuits and popish priests to depart the

realm, 39.—Archbishop Whitgift's letter to the queen, 40.-The queen refuses to

suffer any alteration in the discipline of the Church, 41.-Hilton's recantation, 41.—

The convocation sits several weeks after the prorogation of the parliament, 41.-The

earl of Leicester's letter to archbishop Whitgift in behalf of Cartwright, 42.-The

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