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Saint-German, Christopher, lawyer, 53, and _note_;
attitude to Church, 53, 115;
cited on mortuaries, 53, 140;
on lands in mortmain and benefices, 54-55;
on sanctuary and benefit, 55;
on churchyards, 60;
on clerical duties, _ibid._;
on need for State interference, _ibid._;
on Purgatory, 61;
on State regulation of religious life, 61;
and of matrimony, 62;
on miracles, _ibid._;
on other debateable questions, 63;
on tithes, _ibid._, 142;
on power of clergy, 65;
on king’s headship, _ibid._;
on clerical immunity, 69;
on holidays, 71;
his _Salem and Bizance_, 71, 115, 118;
on position of clergy as individuals, 72;
controversy with More, 115 _et seq._;
attacks on clergy, 119 _et seq._;
alleged mercenary spirit among clergy, 123;
on election of abbots, 129;
on constitutions of religious orders, _ibid._;
on causes of dislike of clergy by laity, 138;
on indulgences, 435, 440

Saints, reverence of images of, 289 _et seq._;
amount of honour due to, 304, 306, 308;
devotion to, 423, and _note_, 431 _et seq._

_Salem and Bizance_, Saint-German’s _Dyalogue of_, 71, 115, 118,
_note_, 122, 144

Sanctuary, difficulty of the subject, 55;
a danger to the State, _ibid._;
case of John Savage, 56 _et seq._;
Papal Bull granted to Henry VII., 56, _note_;
the subject examined by Star Chamber, 58

Savage, John, his plea of sanctuary, 56

Scaliger, cited, 166

Scholars, poor, bequests to, 396

Screens, excellence of pre-Reformation work, 12

Scripture, Holy, key of position of English reformers, 231;
translations of, 234, 236 _et seq._;
study of advocated by Church, 244, 248, 275, _note_

See of Rome, supremacy of, 79 _et seq._

Selby, chantries at, 411

Selling, Prior William, birth and education, 24;
real name, 24, and _note_;
studies at foreign universities, 25;
takes his degree in theology, 25;
industrious book collector, 25;
good work at Christchurch, 26;
returns to Rome, 26, and _note_;
establishes Greek at Christchurch, 27;
as prior, 27, and _note_;
member of an embassy to the Pope, 31, and _note_, 56, _note_;
continued interest in literary revival, 31;
Greek translation, 31;
fate of his library, 32;
influence, 33

_Sermo Exhortatorius_, 149

Sermons, Church, more important than the Mass, 283, 284-285

Sharpe, Dr., 359

Shrines, pilgrimages to, 416 _et seq._

Simony, clergy charged with, 146

Slander and libel, jurisdiction pertaining to, 65

Smith, Mr. Toulmin, on guilds, 364, 366, 381

Smythe or Smith, Dr. Richard, 216, 272, 273, and _note_

Social conditions before Reformation, 351 _et seq._;
case of the poor, 353

_Soul’s Garden_, the, 214, _note_

Sovereignty of the Pope, 97-100, 103-104, 107

Spiritual power, temporal derived from, 70

Spongia, the, of Erasmus, 187 _et seq._

Standish, Dr. Henry, on immunity of clergy, 67;
charged before convocation, 67;
on lesser orders, 68

Standish, John, archdeacon, 234, 248, 249, _note_, 270, 271

St. Giorgio, Venice, abbot of, 105

St. John of Jerusalem, priory of, 56

St. John the Baptist, head of, 430

St. Paul’s Cross, preaching at, 67, 91;
testaments burnt at, 245, 256, and _note_

St. Peter, Catholic succession from, 90, _note_;
vicarship, 99-100

Star chamber, 58

State, jurisdiction of, 51;
right of interference in temporalities, 53, 60-64, 72;
legislates concerning mortuaries, 53, 140;
limits to State interference, 54;
power claimed for, 55, 60-64;
punishment by for spiritual offences, 65;
protecting power of, 75;
destruction of guilds by, 380-381

Stokesley, William, 34

Stubbs, Bishop, 354, 356

Students, distress of at university, 46

Sturmius, John, 105, 106, 107, _note_

Suffolk, chantries in, 407

Sunday, legal status of, 71

Superstition, in devotion, 293, 297, 302;
condemned, 314

_Supplication of Beggars_, the, 213, 221

Surtees Society, publications, 319

Tailors, Guild of, 371

Taverns, frequented by clergy, 151

Teaching, religious. _See_ Religious teaching

Temporalities, right of State interference in, 53 _et seq._;
difference between and spiritual jurisdiction, 72;
clearly defined in Spain, 76

Temporal power, derived from spiritual, 70;
of the Pope, 97-100, 103-104, 107

Theologians, Erasmus’s satire on, 201

Tithes, the lay and ecclesiastical cases, 63-64;
Saint-German quoted on, 142

Torkington, Sir Richard, rector of Mulbarton, 418

_Towneley Mysteries_, the, 319

Tradition and English Reformers, 231

Translations, of Holy Scripture, 236 _et seq._

Trentals, 123, 124, 138, _note_

Trevelyan, George Macaulay, cited, 240, _note_

Trinity, feast of at Compostella, 217

Trojans, opponents of Greek study, 35

Tunstall, Bishop, 29, _note_, 34, and _note_, 109, 169, 175, _note_,
185, 198-199, 213, 214, _note_, 255, 256

Tyll. _See_ Selling

Tyndale, More’s confutation of, 87-88, 118, 119, 136;
charges clergy with immorality, 145;
use of word congregation for church, 173, _note_;
attribution of _Enconium Moriæ_ to More, 202, _note_;
books prohibited, 213;
English Testament, 220;
and other books, 220-223;
advocates liberty, 228;
influence, 231;
English Testament condemned, 236, 243, 251, 255 _et seq._, 276;
demand for his works, 250;
birth and early life, 252;
joins Luther, 252;
Luther’s share in his Testament, 252 _et seq._;
his revised Testament, 260;
More’s examination of his Testament, 260-270;
on indulgences, 437

Unity of pre-Reformation belief, 324

Universities, effect of Reformation on, 9, 41 _et seq._;
monastic students at, 42 _et seq._;
poverty of students at after Reformation, 46

Urban III., Pope, sanctuary grant of, 56

Urbanus Regius, cited, 18, 19, _note_

Urswick, Christopher, 32, _note_

Valla, Laurence, 96

Veneration of relics, 415, 429 _et seq._;
of saints, 431-432

Venetian, a, cited on attitude of ecclesiastics to learning, 37;
on religious condition of the English, 324;
on beauty of English churches, 332

Venice, Aldine press at, 160

Venn, J., historian of Gonville College, quoted, 43-45

Vicarages, appropriations of cancelled, 55

Vives, Ludovico, scholar, 36, _note_, 37, 41, _note_

Von Hutten, Ulrich, tract on Constantine’s donation to the Pope, 96;
attacks on Erasmus, 186 _et seq._

Warham, Archbishop, 36, and _note_, 69, 112, 160, 161, 162, 168, 215,
258

Waylande, John, printer, 232

Welsh, vernacular devotional books for, 311, _note_

Wesselius, 214

Westacre, Augustinian priory of, 43

Westminster, the abbot of, 58-59;
pardon purchased for, 124;
doles at, 132

Wey, William, itineraries of, 416

Whitford, Richard, 83, 232-233, 283, 305, 312

Wills, ecclesiastical administration of, 65;
pre-Reformation, 387 _et seq._;
bequests for pilgrimages, 416

Winchcombe, abbot of, 67

Winchester, wall paintings of Lady Chapel at, 11;
fair at, 379

Wolffgang, printer, 309

Wolsey, Cardinal, attitude to revival of learning, 36;
hears the Savage sanctuary case, 58;
upholds rights of Crown, 68;
opposes temporal punishments of clergy, _ibid._;
present at burning of books, 256, _note_

Worcester, Tiptoft, Earl of, 23, and _note_

Worcester, William, antiquary, 26, 27

Work, definite, lack of among clergy, 137, _note_

_Worke entytled of the olde God and the new_, 102, and _note_

Wycliffe, share in Reformation, 209 _et seq._;
books prohibited, 214;
origin of Wycliffite Scriptures, 237, 247

Wyer, Robert, printer, 285

Yorkshire, chantries in, 411

Zwingle, books of prohibited, 213-214

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CHAP.

I. The Dawn of Difficulties.
II. Cardinal Wolsey and the Monasteries.
III. The Holy Maid of Kent.
IV. The Friars Observant and the Carthusians.
V. The Visitation of Monasteries in 1535-36.
VI. The Parliament of 1536 and the suppression of the Lesser
Monasteries.
VII. The “Comperta Monastica” and other charges against the Monks.
VIII. Thomas Cromwell, the King’s Vicar-General.
IX. The chief accusers of the Monks--Layton, Legh, Ap Rice, and
London.
X. The Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries.
XI. The Rising in Lincolnshire.
XII. The Pilgrimage of Grace.
XIII. The Second Northern Rising.
XIV. Dissolution by Attainder.
XV. The Suppression of Convents.
XVI. Fall of the Friars.
XVII. Progress of the General Suppression.
XVIII. The Three Benedictine Abbots.
XIX. The Monastic Spoils.
XX. The Spending of the Spoils.
XXI. The Ejected Monks and their Pensions.
XXII. Some Results of the Suppression.

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