AN

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

Chiefly of England,

FROM THE FIRST PLANTING OF CHRISTIANITY, TO THE END OF

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

LONDON

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CONTENTS

OF

THE FIFTH VOLUME.

PART II.-BOOK III.

A dissolution of the greater monasteries, 1.-The charge of immoralities too generally

laid, and carried too far, 1.-Cromwell applied to, to save the abbeys, but without

success, 6.-A list of the commissioners for visiting abbeys, 7.-The methods made

use of to suppress religious houses, 7.-The monks of Charterhouse hardly used, 8.—

The abbot of St. Alban's incompliant, 9.-The lord chancellor Audley treats with

the abbot of Athelny, 9.-Large pensions offered for resignation, 10.-Convent seals

taken away from some of the abbeys, 10.-Reports of war and public danger made

the dissolution of the abbeys less regretted, 15.—An act for regulating precedency, 16.

An act for settling the abbey-lands upon the crown, 16.-Sir Edward Coke's remark

of the disappointment of the kingdom in what was promised by the court, 16.-The

nobility have large promises made them of abbey-lands, 17.-Cromwell's advice, 18.

-The religious houses pulled down, 18.-Remarks upon the dissolution of the
abbeys, 18.-The abbeys granted to the crown, with their privilege of being discharged
from the payment of tithes, 23.-The pope's granting appropriations, a great misfor-

⚫ tune to the Church, 23.-Exempted abbeys returned to the jurisdiction of the ordi-

nary, but not without a clause of exception, 24.-The abbots of Reading, Colchester,

and Glassenbury, executed for incompliance, 25.-The suppression of the abbeys

censured, 25.-Pretended precedents for dissolution, 26.-Mitred bishops, 27.-The

old valuation of their abbeys, 27.-The lord Herbert's reflection upon their dissolu-

tion, 28. The abbeys serviceable to the public upon several accounts, 28.-Histories

mostly written by the monks, 29.-The founders of abbeys suffered by the dissolu-

tion, 29.-The scandalous destruction of abbey libraries, 30.-Bale's declaration upon

Leland's Journal, 31.-The king's coronation oath, 32.-Pensions allowed the religious,

33.-A committee of religion assigned to no effect, 35.-The Six Articles argued in

parliament, 36.-The act of the Six Articles, with the penalties, 37.-The king sends

the duke of Norfolk, &c. to Lambeth, to countenance the archbishop, 39.-A clash

between Cromwell and the duke of Norfolk, 40.-Cranmer ill supported by his ad-

herents, 43.-Some accommodating articles, assented to by Luther, Melancthon, and

some German princes of their communion. They allow the papacy under certain

qualifications, 44.-The Six Articles complained of, 48.-The religious allowed to

purchase, but not to inherit, 48.-An act enabling the king to erect new bishoprics,

48.-A list of the sees the king intended to erect, 49.-How the scheme happened to

fail, 49.-A declaration of the faith, &c, of the English nation, 50.-Several persons

attainted in parliament without being heard, 50.-An unproved censure upon our