houses of parliament, and soon after it became the law of the land, by receiving his majesty's royal

assent.

In conclusion, we have to state that hitherto the anticipations of the friends of catholic emancipation have not been realized, as his majesty's ministers have openly avowed. What the effects may be hereafter we shall not attempt to predict. But it is a fact founded upon historical evidence that degradation and crime have increased at every period in proportion as popery has prevailed. There have been more acts of incendiarism committed in England, during the three years since the catholic relief bill was passed than during the two hundred years preceding. Nor has the quantum of crime been diminished in Ireland since the Roman catholics came into power, as appears from official returns, as stated by lord Althorp, showing the increase of criminal causes since that period.―

In the last quarter of 1829, serious crimes in Ireland, 300,

INDEX.

ABBEY, Whitby, founded, i. 77-at Lindisfarne, i. 69-de-
stroyed, i. 181-at Croyland, popish method of raising
money, i. 262.

Abbot, archbishop, shoots a park-keeper, iii. 319.

Abbots, contentions between them and the bishops, ii. 4.
Act of Parliament, to regulate religious houses, ii, 216-
against papal usurpation, ii. 277-for burning heretics, ii,
288- queen Elizabeth's first, iii. 158—making it high trea-
son to call the queen a heretic, iii. 195-a severe one against
the puritans, iii. 247.

Act of the six articles passed, iii. 47.

to compel every person to attend the church service, iii.
251-to suspend the six article act, iii. 72-to prevent the
Bible being read by the poor, iii. 63-to prevent the bishops
sitting in the house of lords, iii. 376-of uniformity, passed,
iii. 413-the five-mile, iii. 424.

Aidan, bishop of Northumbria, i. 50.

Alban, the proto-martyr, canonization of, i. 12.

Alcuin, character of, i. 166.

Alfred the Great, i. 181; 183-his laws, i. 188-founded the
university of Oxford, i. 195-character of, i. 199.

Alphage, archbishop, murdered by the Danes, i. 270.
Altars, to be removed out of the churches, iii. 103.
Anabaptists, German, persecution of, iii. 7; 99.

Ancient Britons, state of, i. 2.

Anecdote of the lord chancellor and Constantine, ii. 385-
Richard I. and the archbishop of Rouen, ii. 119—of Sir
George Blage and Henry VIII., iii. 80-earl of Devon-
shire's daughter and Laud, iii. 335-of bishop Aidan and
king Osway, i. 69.

Anselm created archbishop, i. 305-visits Rome, i. 314—
offended with the pope, and retires, i. 317-quarrels with
the king, i. 331-death and character of, i. 350.
Architecture, remarks on, i. 340.

Arminians, doctrines of the, iii. 316.

Askew, Mrs., an account of, iii. 78.

Associations among the clergy prevented, iii. 207.

Augustine, saint, lands in the Isle of Thanet, i. 43—his advice
on founding the British churches, i. 46-conference with the
Welsh clergy, i. 50.

Auricular confession, bad effects of, i. 204.

BANCROFT, archbishop, convocation held by, iii. 280-his
violent measures against the puritans, iii. 285.

Bangor, monks slaughtered at, i. 52.

Baro's, (Dr.), defence of general redemption, iii. 257.
Barons, English, appeal to the council at Lyons, ii. 178.

Barton, Elizabeth, the nun, an account of, iii. 3.

Beaufort, cardinal, awful death of, ii. 331.

Becket, Thomas à, ii. 12; 16; 23; 26; 28; 30; 33; 36; 44;
50; 53-his murder and character, ii. 56—uncanonized by
Henry VIII., iii. 43.

Bede, the venerable, life and character of, i. 121.

Beggar's petition, extract from, iii. 29.

Begging friars, ii. 338.

Benedict, founder of Monkwearmouth abbey, i. 77—intro-
duces the art of making glass, i. 78.

Benefices, number of, held by an idiot, ii. 336.

Bible, translated by Cranmer, printed in France, and allowed
to be read, iii. 13—Bishops', published, iii. 193—new trans-
lation of, iii. 519-British and Foreign Society established,
iii. 519.

Bishops prevented sitting as judges in civil courts, i. 299—

castles of, seized by king Stephen, i. 384-seven tried at
Westminster, and acquitted, iii. 469.

Bohemians, bull published against the, ii. 323.

Boniface, remarkable for missionary zeal and labours, i. 132.
Bonner raised to the see of London, iii. 57-violent proceed-
ings of, iii. 132.

Books for the use of the church, ii. 211-none to be printed
without a licence, iii. 168.

Bull, the pope's, in favour of the monks, ii. 4—the clergy, ii.
230-strange style of, ii. 123; 220; 230-against queen
Elizabeth, iii. 192.

Burleigh's, lord, letter to archbishop Whitgift, iii. 231.

CALVINISTS and Arminians, controversy between, iii. 316.
Cambridge, university of, founded, i. 209.

Canons of king Edgar, i. 240.

Canterbury besieged by the Danes, i. 268.

Canute reproves his flatterers, i. 280-pilgrimage to Rome,

283.

Caractacus, an account of, i. 6.

Cardinals, origin of, i. 293.

Cartwright, of Cambridge, proceedings against, iii. 198.

Charles I., accession of, iii. 324-determines to govern with-
out a parliament, iii. 331-his strange conduct in Scotland,
iii. 370-propositions tendered to him at Oxford, iii. 379.
Charles II., restoration of, iii. 402—plot formed by the pope
to murder him, iii. 447-his death, iii. 452.

Charter of exemptions granted to the clergy, ii. 335.
Church service, chanting introduced into the, i. 80.
Clarendon, constitutions of, ii. 17.

Claudia, conjectures respecting her, i. 19.

Clergy, grievances of, presented to the pope, ii. 181-ex-
emptions granted to the, ii. 233-commanded to take up
arms in defence of the nation, ii. 257-habits worn by
objected to by the reformers, iii. 181-compelled to put
away their wives, i. 348; 372—plead exemption from the
civil law, ii. 361-two thousand ejected, iii. 415-marriages
of legalized, iii. 279.,

Cole, Dr., a trick played upon, at Chester, iii. 147.

Commission, high court of, iii. 229.

Common Prayer-Book, proposed emendation of the, iii. 479.
Contentions between Edward I. and the clergy, ii. 206.
Convocations at York, curious canons made at, ii. 339.
at St. Paul's, iii. 176.

Corporation for the sons of the clergy, founded, iii. 402.
Council held at Arles, A.D. 314, i. 15—at Hartford, i. 97—on
the banks of the Nid, i. 114-at Calcuth, i. 153—at Nice, i.
154-at Ceale-hythe, i. 162-at Gratanlea, i. 214-at
Habham, i. 274-at Oxford, i. 277-at Westminster, i.
370; 381; 389; 394-at Winchester, i. 287-at West-
minster, ii. 73-at Lateran, ii. 81; 155-at Lyons, ii. 178;
195—at Lambeth, ii. 192; 199—at London, i. 330; ii. 233—
at Oxford, ii. 295-at Basil, ii. 325.

Courts, ecclesiastical, formation of, i. 300.

abuses in, complained of, iii. 258.
Coverdale, bishop of Exeter, hard case of, iii. 178.

Cranmer elected archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 396-conspiracy
against him, iii. 58; 681-sent to the Tower, iii. 116—re-
moved to Oxford, iii. 118-recantations artfully drawn from
him, iii. 137—his cruel martyrdom, iii. 143.

Croyland-abbey church, singular method of raising money to
build, i. 337.

DANCING, a legendary tale of, i. 271.

Danes, cruelties of the, i. 175; 179; 266; 270.

David, king of Scotland, taken prisoner before Alnwick castle,
ii. 70.

Dead, the, first buried in church-yards, i. 137.

Deist, bishop Peacock the first in England, ii. 337.

Disputation between the papists and protestants, iii. 160.
Disputes between Henry II. and the monks, about the right
of electing a primate, ii. 89; 105; 124-between the abbots
and bishops, ii. 4-between the civil and ecclesiastical
courts, ii. 229.

Doctrine of general redemption contested, iii. 253.

Doctrines to be preached, prescribed by Henry VIII., iii. 53.
Dort, synod of, the five points of doctrine condemned by the,
iii. 317.