CHAP. LIV.

Charles the First-Preliminary Occurrences connected with the

History of the English Catholics during his Reign - page 284

1625.

CHAP. LV.

Ecclesiastical Occurrences among the English Catholics during the

reign of Charles the First-Bishops-Chapters-Exemptions

of Regulars

291

1.-Nature and extent of the powers of Bishops in

partibus infidelium, with ordinary jurisdiction over

catholics in other places

292

2. The right of Dr. Bishop and Dr. Smith to appoint

a Chapter -

294

299

3. The claims of the regular Clergy to Exemption

from their episcopal Jurisdiction

4.-Contest on Exemptions between Dr. Smith and

the regular Clergy

301

CHAP. LVI.

Missions of Father Leander a Sancto Martino, and Signor

Gregorio Panzani, from the See. of Rome into England 310

Attempts to establish an official intercourse between the See of

Rome and the English Government

362

The Puritans

CHAP. LVIII.

1.-The origin of the Puritans

- page 369

371

2. The principal points in difference between the

Church of England and the Puritans

3.-Division of the English Puritans into Presbyterians,

Independents and Baptists

4.-The Act of Uniformity

-

372

376

378

379

6. The Conference at Hampton Court

382

CHAP. LIX.

5.-The Court of High Commission

The Persecution of the English Catholics during the reign of

Condition of the English Catholics from the meeting of the Long

Parliament till the end of the reign of Charles the First 397

CHAP. LXII.

Loyalty of the English Catholics during the Civil War, and the

Usurpation :-New profession by them of Allegiance and civil

Principle condemned by Innocent the Tenth

1647.

1.-Loyalty of the English Catholics -

409

ib.

CHAP. LXIII.

Internal Occurrences among the English Catholics during the

reign of Charles the First -

page 419

1.-Proceedings of the Chapter on the death of bishop

APPENDIX.

NOTE I. referred to in page 93.

The Account of the Gunpowder Conspiracy transmitted by the

British Government to its foreign Ministers

NOTE II. referred to in page 176.

page 433

On the Anonymous Letter respecting the Gunpowder Plot,

delivered to Lord Monteagle

NOTE III. referred to in page 319.

441

Statement of the objections to the Oath prescribed to the Roman-

Catholics by James the First, and of the Answers to them 447

HISTORICAL MEMOIRS

OF THE

ENGLISH CATHOLICS,

&c.

SINCE THE

REFORMATION.

CHAP. XXXV.

THE ARMADA.

CONDUCT OF THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS.

1588.

WE are now arrived at an event, which every

Englishman surveys with exultation:-it was a trying circumstance to the English catholics; but even in the opinion of their adversaries, their conduct in it did them honour.

For a considerable time, Philip the second had been employed in making preparations for some enterprize, both by sea and land, of no common magnitude: towards the close of the year 1587, it became public, that the object of it was the invasion of England: troops from every part of Europe subject to the power or control of the