CONTENTS. PART IV.-ELIZABETH. ARTICLE IV. Plots, 1. Catholics excluded from the schools and universities, 3. Compelled to seek an asylum abroad, ibid. Not disloyal, 5. Northern Rebellion, 6. Progress of the Insurgents, 7. They are dispersed, 9. Their Punishment, ibid. Character of the Rebellion, 10. Bull "Regnans in Excelsis," 12. Mission of Dr. Nicholas Morton, ibid. The Bull is modified, 13. Elizabeth seeks its revocation, 14. Penal enactments against catholics, 15. Pre- tended conspiracy at Rheims, 16. Conspiracy of Throckmorton, 19. Trea- son and Execution of Parry, 20. New Enactments against the catholics, ibid. They petition the Queen in vain, 21. Babington's conspiracy, ibid. Association against Mary of Scotland, 24. The Spanish Armada, ibid. Catholics imprisoned, 26. Their Loyalty, ibid. It is rewarded with re- newed Persecution, ibid. Their Sufferings, ibid. The Pope assists the Spaniards, 28. Cardinal Allen's " Admonition," 29. The "Spanish Party," ibid. Its designs, 30. Persons's "Conference on the Succession," 31. ARTICLE V. Factions among Catholics.-Controversy respecting occasional conformity, 36. Disturbance in the English College at Rome, 37. Its political origin, 38. It is suppressed, 39. Father Holt and the Exiles, ibid. Breve concerning the academical degree of Doctor, 40. Dispute among the Prisoners at Wisbeach, ibid. Applications for Bishops, 43. Project of a Religious Con- gregation among the Clergy, 45. Institution of an Archpriest, 47. It is opposed, 48. The Clergy send Deputies to Rome, ibid. The Deputies are imprisoned, 50. The Archpriest is confirmed, 51. The Clergy submit, 53. But are again driven to Appeal, ibid. The Appellants assisted by the Go- Character of Elizabeth, 57. Her personal appearance, 58. Her abilities, ibid. ing the Reformation, 61. Her Plundering of the Church, ibid. Her Re- ligious Opinions, 63. Her suitors, 65. Her Encouragement of Foreign Rebels, 67. Her Persecution of the Catholics, 68. Her concluding years, ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. Persecution, 75. General Sketch of the Sufferings of the Catholics, 76. Im- prisonments, 77. Spies, 78. Searches, 79. Penal Enactments, 82. Power attributed by the law to the Queen, 83. Earl of Huntingdon, Lord Presi- dent of the North, 85. His Enmity to Catholics, ibid. His Religion, 86. Tyranny of his officers, 87. Their Character and Employments, 88. A General Search, 90. Cruelties of the Pursuivants, 91. Protection of Spies and Informers, 92. Topcliffe disappointed, 94. Luke Hutton, 95. His Exactions and Proceedings, ibid. Other Pursuivants, 98. Powers of the Lord President, 99. Commissions and Presentments, 100. The Presi- dent Summons the Catholics to appear at Durham and Newcastle, 102. A Search in Northumberland, 103. Catholic Gentlemen imprisoned, 105. Protestants bound to produce their catholic wives before the Commission, 106. A Search in York Castle, 109. Prisoners removed from York to Hull, 114. Other Searches, ibid. Cruelties Practised on the Catholic Clergy, 117. Search at Mr. Trollope's, 119. The President's Somners, 120. Catholic Wives produced and committed, 121. Their Treatment in Prison, 122. Fruitless attempts to obtain their release, 124. Conditions of their enlargement, 125. Oaths administered to Catholics, 126. Mode of Ex- amination, 127. Apprehension of Boast, 130. Of Ingram, 132. Their Arraignment, 134. Arraignment of Swallowell, 139. They are all con- demned, 141. And executed, 144. Rishton's Diary of the cruelties prac- tised in the Tower, 148. Foxe's List of Catholics imprisoned, in 1579, for their Religion, 159. Lists of Clergy executed for Religion, during this reign, 161. Lists of Lay persons executed for the same cause, 166. List of APPENDIX. No. I.-Proclamation of the Northern Insurgents, Nov. 1569 No. II. Sentence of Deposition against Elizabeth, known as the bull "Regnans in Excelsis," Feb. 25, 1569-70 No. III. Questions proposed to the twelve priests, &c., with their No. IV. Stat. 13 Eliz. c. 2., against bringing in, and putting in No. V.-Proclamation for the recal of all students from foreign No. VI. Stat. 23 Eliz. c. 1., for retaining the Queen's subjects in Page. i. ii. - iv. xviii. No. VII.-Proclamation against Priests and Jesuits, April 1, 1582 No. IX. Stat. 27 Eliz. c. 2., against Jesuits, Seminary Priests, - xxi. xxiv. xxvi. xxviii. xxxiii. No. XII. Declaration of the Sentence and deposition of Elizabeth, being the abstract of cardinal Allen's " Admonition to the no- bility and people of England and Ireland," 1588 No. XIII.-Two Memorials, from Englefield and the duke of Feria, to the king of Spain (Sep. 8, 1596, Jan. 3, 1597), a letter from Persons to Holt (March 15, 1597), Persons's narrative, against Paget, Morgan, and others (June 30, 1597), and an address to the Spanish minister, Pegna, on the subject of in- No. XIV.-Breve of Clement VIII. to the nuncio in Flanders, concerning the succession to the English crown, with Persons's instructions to the nuncio, on the same subject, July 12, and No. XV.-Dr. Barrett to Persons (April 10, 1596), Agazzari to xliv. xlviii. No. XVI.-Persons to Holt (May 5, 1597), on the disturbance in - lxxiii. lxxviii. No. XVII.-Correspondence on the subject of Father Holt, from No. XVIII. Decree of Clement VIII. restraining missioners from No XIX.-Common letter from eighteen priests, in Wisbeach, to 1595 - No. XX.-Two letters, one from Dudley and Mush, the other from Page. cii. civ. cxiv. No. XXI.-Persons's reasons for the appointment of two bishops cxvi. cxix. No. XXIII.-Protestation of Mush, concerning the archpriest's cxxiv. No. XXIV.-Cardinal Cajetan to Blackwell, enquiring concerning No. XXV.-Colleton to Blackwell, Aug. 11, 1598 CXXV. No. XXVI. The cardinals Cajetan and Borghesi to Persons, con- ibid. No. XXVII.-Breve of Clement VIII. confirming the appointment cxxviii. No. XXVIII.-Letter from T. G.- to Garnet, announcing the No. XXIX.--Sentence of the Paris divines, on the conduct of the No. XXX. Correspondence between Blackwell and the Appel- 1601 No. XXXI.-Bluet to Mush, July 1, 1601 No. XXXII.-Letter from to Blackwell, Sep. 16, 1601 No. XXXVI.-Protestation of Allegiance, offered by thirteen mis- clxxxviii. 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