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Quare quis tandem me reprehendat, si quantum cæteris ad festos dies ludorum celebrandos, quantum ad alias voluptates, et ad ipsam requiem animi et corporis conceditur temporis: quantum alii tempestivis conviviis, quantum aleæ, quantum pilæ, tantum mihi egomet, ad hæc studia recolenda, sumpsero.

Cic. PRO, ARCHIA.

Le changement d'étude est toujours un delassement pour moi.

D'AGUESSEAU.

4.—The Reply of Father Persons

page 29

5.Penal Acts of the thirty-fifth year of Queen Eliza-

beth against the Catholics -

42

CHAP. XXXVII.

Assertion that the Priests were executed, not for their Religion,

but for their Commission of Acts of High Treason 44

CHAP. XXXVIII.

Continuation of the Practices of the Spanish Party -

1601.

. 47

CHAP. XXXIX.

Protestation of Allegiance, presented to the Queen by Thirteen

secular Priests

56

1602.

CHAP. XL.

Death of Queen Elizabeth

1603.

65

CHAP. XLI.

James the First-His Accession to the Throne

1603.

CHA P. XLII.

The Conspiracy of Sir Walter Raleigh

1603.

79

CH A P. XLIII.

The Disposition of James the First towards the Catholics at his

Accession to the Throne: his immediate Proclamation, and Laws

against them—their disappointment and feelings

83

CHA P. XLIV.

The Gunpowder Conspiracy

1606.

page 92

CHAP. XLV.

Trial of Father Garnett, of the Society of Jesus, and others, for

the Gunpowder Conspiracy -

102

CHAP. XLVI.

Gunpowder Conspiracy continued : Miscellaneous Occurrences

and Reflections

159

1.-Writers to be consulted on the subject 160

2.-Other Jesuits accused of being concerned in the

Conspiracy

161

3.–Observations on the conduct of Father Garnett 164

4.-On Cecil's privity to the Conspiracy

172

5.- Inquiry whether it can justly be charged on the

general body of the Catholics

177

CHAP. XLVII.

The Oath of Allegiance framed by James the First 184

1.-His motives in framing this Oath

185

2.–The Oath

192

3.- The Briefs of Paul the Fifth against the Oath 194.

-

CHAP. XLVIII.

The Controversy respecting the lawfulness of the Oath

200

CHAP. XLIX.

The Examination of Mr. Blackwell, the Archpriest, before his

Majesty's Ecclesiastical Commissioners

page 204

212

CHAP. L.

Ulterior Occurrences respecting the Protestation of Allegiance 211

1.–The Petition of eight Priests confined in Newgate,

to Paul the Fifth, for an Explanation of his

Briefs

2.-Opinion of several Doctors of the Sorbonne in

favour of the Oath-Sentiments of Bossuet re-

specting it

213

3.--Final division of Opinion on the Oath 218

4.—Complete rejection, (now adopted by the universal

Catholic Church), of the Pope's deposing power,

in the Declaration of the Gallican Church, in
1682

220

CHA P. LI.

Decline of the Party of the English Fugitives in Spain

1612.

223

CHAP. LII.

General view of the Laws pussed against the Catholics in the

reigns of Elizabeth and James-Death of James

230

1625.

CHA P. LIII.

The Institution of an Archpriest-Death of Father Persons-

English Benedictine Monks—Friars-College at Lisbon 248

1.–The Institution of an Archpriest

249

2.-Appointment of a Vicar-Apostolic

268

3.--The Death of Father Persons

272

4.-English Benedictine Monks-Friars-College at

Lisbon

282