HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND FROM THE ABOLITION OF THE ROMAN JURISDICTION. BY RICHARD WATSON DIXON, M.A., = VICAR OF HAYTON; HONORARY CANON OF CARLISLE. VOL. II. HENRY VIII.—A.D. 1538-1547: LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, NEW YORK: 416 BROOME STREET. 1881. [All rights reserved.] CONTENTS Meeting of the Protestants at Brunswick First German Mission to England for the sake of religion Consultation of the German orators with a Commission of English Its indirect effect on English formularies He destroys about twenty houses, among them Abingdon, Evesham, He nearly exterminates the Gilbertines. Legh, Layton, and Petre together at St. Alban's Their difficulties and success there The Confession of Bittlesden, or the Profoundly considering Confes- Hard service which this Confession, and that of St. Andrew's, have Career of Richard Ingworth, Bishop Suffragan of Dover He aims to be the hammer of the friars He is very active, and does much But is too scrupulous for Crumwel 2333 His great ability for the sort of work The Blood of Hales Consternation among the religious Especially among the friars of the North, who surrender them- selves in large numbers Great destruction of relics and images . Sketch of the history of relics Pilgrimages, and the abuse of them Stories of feigned relics that were destroyed The Angel of Caversham The Rood of Boxley He urges Crumwel to save something out of the wreck of religion 43 : 1b. Friar Forest, the Observant. Ib. His quarrel with a Kentish justice about the Bishops' Book, or Insti- tution of a Christian Man Ib. Destruction of all shrines throughout England History of the English Bible in this year Grafton and Coverdale sent to Paris to prepare a new edition of their version . The Landgrave of Hesse urges the King to put down Anabaptists Martyrdom of Lambert, who appealed from the Archbishop to the Principle of inquiry in ecclesiastical processes Lambert was given into Cranmer's hands by Barnes and Taylor, two Gospellers of the earlier sort . Lambert appeals to the Supreme Head The Supreme Head tries him in Whitehall: scandalous scene of his trial. |