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I. Criticism of the clergy -- 1. Chancellor Melton's exhortation -- 2. Simon fish on clerical vices -- 3. Opening scenes of the reformation parliament -- 4. Sir Francis Bigod on impropriations and preachers -- II. Late Lollardy and early Protestantism -- 1. Lollardy on the eve of the reformation -- 2. Thomas Bilney's conversion -- 3. Robert Barnes and the early Cambridge reformers -- 4. William Tyndale on the vernacular Bible -- 5. Justification by faith alone -- 6. Essex Lollards buy Tyndale's Bible -- 7. A protestant merchant outwits a bishop -- 8. English traders in Lutheran Germany -- 9. The Adventures of Thomas Garret at Oxford -- 10. Chiltern Lollards hear about Germany -- 11. John Frith on transubstantiation -- III. The Henrician reformation, 1531-6 -- Introduction to section III -- 1. Act for the pardon of the clergy, 1531 (22 Hen. VIII, c. 15) -- 2. The supplication of the commons against the ordinaries, 1532 -- 3. The submission of the clergy, 1532 -- 4. Act in conditional restraints of Annates and concerning the consecration of bishops, 1532 (23 Hen VIII, c. 20) -- 5. Act in restraint of appeals, 1533 (24 Hen. VIII, c. 12) -- 6. Act in absolute restraint of Annates and concerning the election of bishops, 1534 (25 Hen. VIII, c. 20) -- 7. Act forbidding Papal dispensations and payment of Peter's pence, 1534 (25 Hen. VIII, c 21) -- 8. Act of supremacy, 1534 (26 Hen. VIII, c. 1) -- 9. Act annexing first fruits and tenths to the crown, 1534 (26 Hen. VIII, c. 3) -- 10. Bishop Stephen Gardiner on 'true obedience', 1535 -- 11. Thomas More discharges his conscience -- IV. Matters of doctrine and discipline, 1536-8 -- 1. Proclamation restricting the number of holy-days, 1536 -- 2. The ten articles, 1536 -- 3. The first royal injunctions of Henry VIII, 1536 -- 4. The second royal injunctions of Henry VIII, 1538 -- 5. Extracts from the bishop's book (instruction of a Christian man), 1537 -- V. Dissolution of the monasteries -- 1. Extract from the Valor Ecclesiasticus (1535) relating to the Benedictine monastery of Peterborough -- 2. (a), (b) and (c) letters to Thomas Cromwell from the monastic visitors, 1535 -- (a) Dr. Richard Layton to Cromwell, 24 August 1535 -- (b) John Tregonwell to Cromwell, 27 September 1535 -- (c) Dr Richard Layton to Cromwell, 22 December 1535 -- 3. Act for the dissolution of the lesser monasteries, 1536 (27 Hen. VIII, c. 28) -- 4. (a) and (b) Robert Aske on the dissolution of the monasteries -- 5. Abbot Pyle's surrender of Furness abbey, Lancashire, 1537 -- 6. Act for the dissolution of the greater monasteries, 1539 (31 Hen. VIII, c. 13) -- VI. The last years of Henry VIII, 1539-47 -- 1. The act of six articles, 1539 (31 Hen. VIII, c. 14) -- 2. Cranmer's preface to the great Bible, 1540 -- 3. Extracts from the king's book (a necessary doctrine and erudition for any Christian man), 1543 -- 4. Henry VIII's speech to parliament, December 1545 -- 5. The examination of Anne Askew, 1546 -- VII. The protestant problem -- 1. Act against revilers, and for receiving in both kinds, 1547 (1 Edw. VI, c. 1) -- 2. Religious disputes in southern England -- 3. Act dissolving the chantries, 1547 (1 Edw. VI, c. 14) -- 4. (a) and (b) the chantry surveys -- the chantry of our lady in the parish church of Topcliffe, Yorkshire -- (a) Henrician certificate, 1546 -- (b) Edwardian certificate, 1548 -- 5. The first Edwardian act of uniformity, 1549 (2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 1) -- 6. Act to take away all positive laws against marriage of priests, 1549 (2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 21) -- 7. The second Edwardian act of uniformity, 1552 (5 & 6 Edw. VI, c. 1) -- 8. Robert Parkyn's narrative of the reformation -- VIII. The Marian reaction -- 1. Mary's first statute of repeal, 1553 (1 Mary, stat. 2, c. 2) -- 2. The Marian injunctions, 1554 -- 3. The heresy acts revived, 1554 (1 & 2 Philip & Mary, c. 6) -- 4. Mary's second statute of repeal, 1554 (1 & 2 Philip & Mary, c. 8) -- 5. Knox and Cox at Frankfurt -- 6. (a), (b) and (c) the protestant congregation in London -- (a) A general account by John Foxe -- (b) The information of James Mearing -- (c) The information of Roger Sergeant given to the bishop of London and his officers -- 7. Protestants in Colchester. |
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