Davngerous Positions (Dr. R. Bancroft),
249, 331
Defence of Job Throkmorton, The, 251,
331
Defence of that which hath bin written,
A (J. Penry), 154, 233, 313
Defence of the Answere (Whitgift), 49
Defence of the Ecclesiasticall Discipline,
A, 144, 311, 323
Defence of the Godlie Ministers, A, 81,
82 n., 311, 313
Defence of the Godlie Ministers, A
(Dudley Fenner), 144
Defence of the Government Established,
A (Dean Bridges), 139-143, 311,
322; replies to, 143
Demonstration of Discipline, The (John
Udall), 213, 313; found in Penry's
study, 315
Descriptions of Britaine (W. Harrison),
63
Dexter, Dr. Henry Martyn, 1, 286
Dialogue wherein is laide open, A, 242-
244, 320, 332
Dialogue wherin is plainly laide open,
A, 320, 332
Dic ecclesiae, 137
Diotrephes, a dialogue by John Udall,
152, 213, 311, 312
Divine right of Episcopacy, 173
Dunmow (Essex), its supplication on
behalf of deprived ministers, 96
East Molesey, the secret press at, 233;
Penry's Defence printed at, 313;
Demonstration of Discipline printed
at, 313; ecclesiastical courts, 39, 59
Ecclesiasticae Disciplinae Explicatio
(W. Travers), 51, 135
Elizabeth, Queen, and the English Bible,
3; her ecclesiastical policy, 6; her
want of spiritual religion, 6; her
love of ecclesiastical display, 6; her
skill in diplomatic intrigue, 7; the
early difficulties of her reign, 7; her
diplomatic courtships, 7; her use of
the jealousies of France and Spain,
7; her religious compromise, 8; her
determination to have uniformity,
11; the "idol" crucifix, 11; her pre-
tended sympathy with Romanism,
11; cruel punishment of Stubbe and
Page, 30; excommunicated by the
Pope, 26; her suitors, 28; her anger
at the massacre of St. Bartholomew,
46; her liking for works in Latin, 51;
her determination of the polity of the
Church, 56; commands Archbishop
Grindal to suppress the prophesy-
ings, 62; her imperious treatment of
Archbishop Grindal, 65; complains
of unworthy men ordained to the
ministry, 110; complains to James
that Penry and Waldegrave are
harboured in Scotland, 211; cele-
brates defeat of the Armada at St.
Paul's, 314; orders strict search for
the secret press, 314; opening of her
seventh Parliament, 316; proclama-
tion of schismatical books, 316;
orders strict examination of Mar-
prelate printers, 319
Episcopal literary freelances, 219-221;
rearrangements in 1570, 31
EPISTLE, THE (first Marprelate Tract),
149; the printing of, 155, 314, 323;
its circulation at Court, 159
EPITOME, THE (second Marprelate
Tract), 149; printed at Fawsley,
161; despatched to London vid
Northampton, 164, 314, 323; ob-
tained by visitor at Fawsley, 316
Essex, Earl of, presents Elizabeth with
THE EPISTLE, 159
Excommunicatio Capiendo, De (the
Writ), 71
Excommunication of Elizabeth, 26
Exhortation to the Bishops to deal
Brotherly, An, 43
Exhortation to the Bishops and their
Clergie, 43
Exhortation to the Governours of Wales,
An (John Penry), 153, 233, 312
Exiles, the, their return on the death
of Mary, 3; their developed reform-
ing views, 3, 5
Family of Love, the, 173
Fawsley House, the secret press at, 156;
THE EPITOME obtained at, 316
Felton, John, exposes in London the
Bull of Excommunication against
Elizabeth, 26
Fenner, Dudley, on the oppression of
the Bishops' pursuivants, 81; The
Counterpoyson, 93; harshly treated
before Whitgift, 121
Ferrar, Bishop, and the Romish vest-
ments, 9
Field, John, not the writer of the
tracts, 282
Field (John) and Wilson (Thomas), 33,
36, 40, 48
First Parte of Pasquills Apologie, 320,
329
Fleet, the (prison), 132
Fowle,
25 n.
Foxe, John, and the Romish vest-
ments, 10, 13; his preaching toler-
ated for a time, 33
Frégeville, John, A Reformed Politicke,
315
Freke, Bishop of Rochester, 61
Friendly Admonition, A (L. Wright),
236, 320, 329
Fulk, Wm., Master of Pembroke,
reputed author of The Learned
Discourse, 139; denied ecclesiastical
promotion, 126
Full and plaine declaration of Ecclesi-
astical Discipline (Travers and
Cartwright), 51, 135
Fuller, Bishop, on Whitgift's High
Commission, 76 n.
(W. Smith, M.D.), 129 n.
Gaping Gulph, The (Thomas Stubbe),
Gatehouse, the (prison at Westminster),
131
Gesner, Conrad (of Zurich), 4
Gifford, Stephen, confidential servant
at Fawsley, 179, 180; takes secret
press to Coventry, 315; goes to
Coventry for a tract, 316; sent
abroad, 317
Gilby, Anthony, 18
Godley, Eleanor, marries John Penry,
313
Godley, Henry, of Northampton, a
'thirdborowe,' 155; sends secret
tracts to Banbury, 212; his house
raided, 179; house again raided by
pursuivants, 315
Godley Treatise, A (R. Some), 153,
233, 313; Penry's reply to, 315
Godly Treatise, A (against Barrowe
and Greenwood) (R. Some), 312,
317; annotated by Barrowe, 315
Good, John, of Kingston-on-Thames,
Goodman, Gabriel, Dean, 24
Government's brief against the Martin-
ists, the, 204
Grace and peace with al maner
spiritual feling (Vestiarian), 19
Greenwood, John, of Corpus Christi,
Cambridge, 53; his irregular im-
prisonment, 81
Grey, Lord, his speech in Parliament
against the Bishops, 313
Grindal, Bishop, and
vestments, 10, 14; examines the
Separatists, 24; dissatisfies the
authorities as
Archbishop
persecutor, 31;
institution,
Canterbury, his
his
Articles, 59; attempts to reform the
ecclesiastical courts, 59; his policy
with the prophesyings, 60; seques-
tered by Elizabeth, 63; his death, 65;
accused by Sandys of alienating
church property, 66
Guzman, Spanish ambassador, 11
Hacket's mad rebellion, 252
Hadley (the martyr) and the Romish
vestments, 9
Haeretico comburendo, De, the Act, 112
Hales, John, White Friars Coventry,
receives the secret press, 180, 316;
his obligation
to Sir
Knightley, 180; his trial, 206, 320;
Richard
imprisoned, 319
Handwriting of the Marprelate MSS.,
291
Harborowe, An (John Aylmer), 246
Harington, Sir John (Briefe Viewe), 5
Hart, Lord Mayor, prohibits stage
plays, 319
Haseley, Warwickshire, Home of Job
Throkmorton, 184
Hatton, Sir Christopher, a creature of
Archbishop Whitgift, 116
Hawkins, Robert, 25
HAY ANY WORKE (fourth Marprelate
Tract), 149; printed at Coventry,
181, 316, 325
Hertford, Lord, warns Sir Richard
Knightley, 182
High Commission, the, of Archbishop
Whitgift (1583), 74; a destroyer of
of the public liberties, 75; con-
demned by Hume and Lingard, 76;
its unpopularity, 76; its illegality,
76; never found
guilty, 77; under Whitgift, Bancroft,
a prisoner not
and Laud, 90; at work, 164;
attacked by Marprelate, 262
Hodgkins, John, second Marprelate
printer, 185; tortured in the Tower,
197, 333; his defence, 198; how
he received the MS.
MARTINIANAE, 297; becomes Mar-
of THESES
prelate's printer, 317; sent to the
Tower, 319; removed from the
Tower to the Marshalsea, 319;
taken from the Marshalsea to the
Tower, 320; his examination, 333
Hodgkins, Simms, and Thomlyn meet
in London, 318; reach Adderbury,
318; leave Wolston for Warrington
and Manchester, 189; arrested at
Imprisonment in the reign of Elizabeth,
128-130
Injunction against THE EPISTLE, 151
Injunctions against printing, 1559,
1566, 1586, 22, 23
Jackson, Lawrence, keeper of Fawsley
House, 159, 314
Jeffs of Upton, conveys the secret press
from Molesey to Fawsley, 158, 314
Jessop, Dr. Augustus, The Economy
of the Fleete, edited by, 128
Jewel, Bishop, relates
a story of
Bonner, 4; against the vestments,
10, 18; probable author of a Vesti-
arian tract, 20; denounces pluralism,
104; most distinguished of the early
Elizabethan Bishops, 126
Junius, Letters of, the authorship of,
303
JUST CENSURE AND REPROOFE (see Mar-
tin Senior) (sixth Marprelate Tract),
150; possible theories of authorship,
298; printed at Wolston, 318, 326
Katherine de Medici, 7, 11, 28
Kett, Francis, burnt by order of Bishop
Scambler, 313
Kingston-on-Thames, the tracts sold at,
156; Marprelate inquiry at, 161, 314
Kitchin, Bishop, his ecclesiastical con-
versions, 5
Knightley, Sir Richard, of Fawsley,
receives the secret press, 156, 313;
disavows knowledge of the working
of the secret press, 161; sees Walde-
grave at Northampton, 314; sees
Penry about the press, 314; seen
by Waldegrave about removing
secret press, 315; his threats against
the pursuivants, 178; his
speaks over wine about the tracts,
182, 317; his imprisonment and
and trial, 205-208, 319, 320
Knightley, Valentine, regrets his
father's accommodation of the secret
press, 178
Knollys, Sir Francis, his sympathy
with the reformers, 12; his action
in favour of the prophesyings, 61
Kydwell, Nicholas of Kingston-on-
Thames, 156, 161
Lambeth conference on uniformity, 15
Lamb of God, A Theologicall Discourse
of the (R. Harvey), 240, 330
Language and style of the tracts as
evidence of authorship, 292
Latimer, Bishop Hugh, and the Romish
vestments, 9
Laud, Archbishop, and the High Com-
mission, 91
Lawson, Margaret, Mrs., of Paul's
Gate, 156
Laymen oppose Whitgift (Archbishop),
94
Learned Discourse of Ecclesiastical
Government, The, 135-139
Lee, Sidney, Dr., on Whitgift's oppres-
sive policy, 271
Legal help afforded to prisoners, 194
Leicester, Earl of, his sympathy with
the reformers, 12; and church
plunder, 103 n.; his death, 313
Leighton, Alexander, brutally perse-
cuted by Laud, 91
Libel against the Sovereign, Acts pro-
hibiting, 30 n.
Liberty, religious, arrested by false
Biblical and political ideas, 268-271
Little Ease, a prison torture, 130, 263
Lives of the Ministers of Coventry (Dr.
H. Sampson), 214
Lollard's Tower, the (prison at Lam-
beth Palace), 133
London prisons in 1588, 131
London, Report of the Royal Com-
mission on the City of, 131
Lord's Supper, the, and ecclesiastical
liberty, 55
Macaulay, Lord, on the authorship of
The Letters of Junius, 303
Manchester, Hodgkins, Simms, and
Thomlyn arrested at, 190
Mar-Martine, 224, 317, 326
Marprelate Tracts, the seven, 148-151;
their character, 148; their popu-
larity, 151; story of their produc-
tion, 151; prices asked for, 156;
persons suspected of writing, 177,
277-289; their authorship, 273;
divided into 'primary' and 'second-
ary,' 274; clues in the text to
their authorship, 276; a great pro-
test against oppression, 265; rela-
tive literary merits of the two classes
of, 301; inquiry at Kingston, 314;
inquiry at Richmond, 315
Marprelate, Martin, charged with trea-
son, 220, 255; shown on the stage,
221-223; the charge of heresy
against, 256; the charge of blas-
phemy against, 257; the charge of
scurrility against, 258; his patriot-
ism, 262; justifies his wit and
satire, 263; his purpose in writing
the tracts, 305
Marprelate journeys to Warrington and
Manchester, 318
Marprelate printing-house, the first,
Marre Mar-Martin, 231, 319, 328
Marshalsea, the (prison), 134
MARTIN JUNIOR (see THESES MARTIN-
IANAE), how the 'copy' was obtained,
186; printed at Wolston, 187
MARTIN SENIOR (see THE JUST CEN-
SURE AND REPROOFE), printed at
Wolston, 188; taken to London by
Newman, 188
Martin, Sir Roger, Lord Mayor, 24,
317
Martins Months Mind, 229, 319, 328
Martyn said to his man, 223
Maskell, Rev. William, 2
Meadows, James, takes Throkmorton's
MS. to Middleburgh, 193, 195 n.
Merbury, Francis, not the writer of
the tracts, 281
Meyrick, Bishop, robs the Church,
Mildmay, Sir Walter, 61
MINERALLS, THE (third Marprelate
tract), 149, 181, 316, 324
Ministry, an unlearned, 108, 109,
110
MORE WORK FOR THE COOPER, print-
ing of, begun at Manchester, 190
Morrice, James, attorney, on Whit-
gift's High Commission, 77, 87;
engaged by Burleigh to defend Caw-
drey, 79; his persecution and
death, 89 n.
Mullins, Archdeacon, demands sub-
scription of London ministers, 14
Muse, to, significance of the use of the
word, 294, n.
Music in the Church, Puritan view of,
137
Myrror for Martinists, 320, 330
Nash, Thomas, leaves Cambridge, 318;
The First parte of Pasquils
Apologie, 239
Newgate (prison), 132
Newman, Humfrey, (alias Brownbread)
chief distributor of the tracts, 163,
181; his disguise and later livery,
163; offered a form of submission,
201; distributes HAY ANY WORKE,
316; invites Sharpe to print, '318;
carries contraband tracts from North-
ampton to Banbury, 212
New Testament, the, its influence in
English, 2; its moral dynamic, 3
Nonconformists, their number in Lon-
don (1567), 25
Nonconformity, its origin under the
Advertisments, 15; openly practised,
North, Lord, demands the alienation of
Church property for the Queen, 65
Norton, Thomas, warns Whitgift by
the example of Aylmer, 115
Oath, ex officio, the, its oppressive-
ness, 75, 80
Oppression, civil and religious, resisted
only by the reformers, 271
Oppugn, to, significance of the use of
the word, 295 n.
Ordination, granted indiscriminately,
37
Overton, William, Bishop (Lichfield),
accused of reckless and corrupt
ordinations, 110
Oxford Assizes affected by prison
disease, 129
administration of his income, 50;
corrupt sources of income, 51; his
death and the consequent ecclesias-
tical changes, 57
Parkhurst, Bishop, on the unpopularity
of the Roman Bishops, 4; on the
Romish vestments, 10; supports the
prophesyings, 61
Parliament, Elizabeth's seventh, opened,
316; and Church Reform, 34
Pasquils Apologie, the First Parte of
(T. Nash), 239
Penry, John, his
conversion from
Romanism, 238; The Exhortation,
233; A Defence of that which hath
been written, 233; his reply to R.
Some, 315; marries Eleanor Godley,
155, 313; negotiates with Sir Richard
Knightley, 313; his alleged disguise
at Fawsley, 162; Th' Appellation,
210; reports Waldegrave at Rochelle,
317; reports Hodgkins' acceptance
as printer, 317; his alias at Wolston,
187; guarantees the printers' wages,
187; meets Waldegrave at Haseley,
316; suspected of being Marprelate,
284; hiding in the Midlands, 319;
calls on Udall at Newcastle, 319; his
escape to Scotland, 208, 211; Throk-
morton's intercepted correspondence
with, 208; banishment from Scot-
land decreed, 321; with R. Walde-
grave printing a tract at Molesey,
313
Penry, Deliverance, daughter of John
Peary, 209
Penry, John, and Job Throkmorton,
directors of the secret press, 289;
familiar with the MS. of the secondary
tracts, 290; their handwriting and
the Marprelate MSS., 291; and the
authorship of the tracts, 289-308;
their language and style compared
with that of the tracts, 292
Penry, Throkmorton, and Waldegrave
meet finally at Haseley, 209
Perne, Andrew, Master of Peterhouse,
47, 57, 243; screens Whitgift from
Cardinal Pole, 113; his ecclesiastical
changes, 113; is defended by Whit-
gift, 114, 115 n.; his death at
Lambeth Palace, 317
Persecution, its influence on the English
mind, 4; Bishop Bonner's suggestion
and privacy, 4; apologists for, 266;
the common people and Romanist,
267
Petition directed to her Majesty, A,
13, 244, 311, 330
Petitions against the deprivation of
ministers, 96
Philip II., King of Spain, 7
Piers, John, elected Archbishop of
York, 316
Pius V. excommunicates Elizabeth, 26
Plaine Percevall the Peace-Maker, 231
Pleasaunte Dialogue, A (A. Gilby), 19
Plumbers' Hall meeting, 14, 23
Pluralism and non-residency, 99;
restricted by the Canons of 1571,
100; denounced by Bishop Jewel,
104; defended by Whitgift, 105;
defended by Archbishop Bancroft,
106; defended by Bishop Cooper,
106; denounced by laymen, 107
defended by Bishops and House of
Lords, 107; opposed by the House
of Commons, 107
Pole, Reginald, Cardinal, visits Cam-
bridge, 112
Prayer Book, the, of 1549, and the
"ornaments," 9; of 1552, the basis
of Elizabethan creed, 13
Presbyterians, History of (P. Heylin),
94 n.
Press, the secret, the episcopal search
for, 160; at East Molesey, 154; at
Fawsley House, 157; removed from
Fawsley, 178; removed from Norton
to Coventry, 316
Press censorship, 21, 48
Printers leave London for Wolston,
186
Prisoners, petition in favour of Noncon-
formist, 129; never legally indicted
and condemned, 130
Prisons of England and Wales, The
State of (John Howard), 129 n.
Prison diseases, 129
Privy Councillors' protest against Ayl-
mer's deprivations, 97
Proclamation against secret printing
and anti-episcopal tracts, 177
Prophesyings, the, 60-63
Protestantism more than a creed, 112
Protestant Reformers, three types of,
55
PROTESTATYON, THE (seventh Marprelate
Tract), 191-194, 319, 327; the
question of its authorship, 303; its
author unmarried, 306
Queen's Bench (prison), 134
Reformatio Legum, 13, 245
Reformation without tarying for anie
(R. Browne), 54
Reformation, expectation of further, 13
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