THE CONTENTS.

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CHAP. I.

NEGOTIATION about queen Elizabeth's marriage with the Anno 1581.

duke of Anjou succeedeth not: notwithstanding confident

report of it in France. Occurrences in Scotland; sent from

Randolph, the queen's ambassador there. The ill condition

of Ireland; lamented. The queen sends forces to the French

king, in defence of Roan. Don Antonio, expulsed his king-

dom of Portugal, solicits the queen for aid against Philip king

of Spain. Mature consultations thereupon. The prince of

Condé comes into England, to solicit the queen in behalf of

the protestants in France. He and the French ambassador

with her in conference. The queen imparts the sum thereof

to the lord treasurer: and the treasurer to the earl of Sussex.

Instructions to the queen's ambassadors in France about a

secret league between the king and the queen,

CHAP. II.

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Episcopal visitations of the city of London and St. Edmund's

Bury in Suffolk. Disorders there by the preaching of Hand-

son and Browne. The bishop of Norwich's complaint of the

latter to the lord treasurer. Some justices of the peace favour

these preachers. Philips a preacher, and Day, the bishop's

commissary, used hardly by them. Day's letter to the bishop.

Gaiton, a puritan preacher. His doctrine. Articles drawn up

against those justices. Their answers. Some account of

Handson and Brown. Randal of the family of love: the bi-

shop of Exon's proceedings with him. Crompton, a justice of

peace, commits a minister going to read service. The bishop

of Coventry and Litchfield takes the minister's part. P. 20.

CHAP. III.

Cox, bishop of Ely, dies: his will. And Barkley, bishop of Bath

and Wells, dies his character. Grants of the queen to Ed-

ward Stafford, esq. of concealed lands. The lord treasurer's

judgment of a lease of them. Disorders about religion in

the inns of court. A letter from the star-chamber to the

ecclesiastical commissioners thereupon. Romanists busy.

Campion writes to the privy-council concerning the Jesuits,

and his mission. A private letter of a Jesuit concerning Cam-

pion and his disputations; and the resolution of the Jesuits.

A copy of verses made by a papist, beginning, The cross ap-

pears, &c. The cruel burning of Atkins at Rome for religion.

P. 37.

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CHAP. IV.

The seminaries busy. Sir Francis Knolles's letter concerning

them. Search for papists. Proclamation against barbouring

Jesuits, and such as went hence to Paris, Rhemes, Doway, or

Rome, for education and for their revocation. Conferences

with Jesuits. One of them reclaimed. Recusants in the dio-

cese of the bishop of Coventry and Litchfield. Schismatics.

A libertine; his doctrines. Endeavours of some puritans.

Their prayers.
P. 56.

CHAP. V.

University matters. Tenets of Baro, lady Margaret professor at

Cambridge. Contest between him and Chaderton about them.

A bachelor of arts makes an invective against the duke

d'Anjou. Called before the vice-chancellor. His letter to the

university's chancellor about him. One in Trinity college in

trouble. Caius college. Number of students in Cambridge.

Sheriffs of Oxon: their oath to preserve the privileges of that

university favour to schoolmasters. Mulcaster, a learned

schoolmaster, takes notice of it thankfully. Winchester col-

lege, their address to the queen. Lincoln's Inn choose Chark,

a puritan, for their preacher.
P. 68.

CHAP. VI.

Edward, earl of Oxford: displeased with the lady his wife.

Whence occasioned. Her humble letter to him. Matters be-

tween him and the lord Burghley, her father.
His three

daughters, endowed with lands by the lord Burghley. The

earl's debts. Motion made for espousing Anne Cecil and

Philip Sydney in their childhoods. Elizabeth, the lord trea-

surer's other daughter, married to the Lord Wentworth's son.

Other motions of marriage for her. Lord Thomas Paget and

his wife part. A note of Manwood, lord chief baron. Nudi-

gate, steward to the duchess of Somerset, his death; and last

will. The duchess, his executrix. A note concerning her.

A woman steals: her horrible perjury. A woman deals in

necromancy: drowns herself.
P. 81.

CHAP. VII.

Books set forth this year. English Justice, by cardinal Allen. A

Discovery of Campion, the Jesuit, by A. Monday. The Eng-

lish Roman Life in the pope's college at Rome, by the same. An

Answer Apologetical, by Dr. Haddon and John Fox, to Osorius,

a Portuguese bishop, his Invective. The unfolding of sundry

Untruths, &c. in answer to a book writ by a libertine. Cas-

talio's book of Free-Will, complained of. A View of Antichrist

in our English Church unreformed; writ by certain puritans.

Exposition of the Symbol of the Apostles, by J. Field. Two

sermons of J. Bradford, the martyr, published by T. Sampson.

Examination of certain ordinary complaints. Positions for

Education of Youth in Learning, by R. Mulcaster, a school-

master. A Discourse of Royal Monarchy, by Charles Mer-

bury. The Pathway to Martial Discipline. Another, called,

A compendious Treatise, de re militari; dedicated to Mr. Phi-

lip Sydney. A brief Conceipt of English Policy. Eirenarcha,

of the offices of justices of peace, by W. Lambard. The Pen-

tateuch in six Languages: an ancient copy thereof sent to the

lord treasurer from Beza.

P. 93.

CHAP. VIII.

The French match like to succeed and a league with France. Anno 1582.

Treaty with Mary queen of Scots, frustrate. Parties in Scot-

land. Ireland chargeable. Plots. Parry in Venice and Lyons:

his intelligence thence writes in favour of the good knight.

A proclamation against harbouring Jesuits and priests and

going to the colleges at Rhemes, Rome, &c. and for such there

to return. Sessions at London. Mass-mongers, libellers, &c.

The queen assists the protestant churches. Duke of Bipont,

prince palatine, comes into England. Wierus, his agent.

Letters of the queen's ambassador in France concerning Ge-

neva and the duke of Savoy. Beza to the lord treasurer in

behalf of Geneva. The prince of Orange's death foretold by

the pope's nuncio and the Spanish agent.
P. 111.

CHAP. IX.

A contest with the bishop of Coventry and Litchfield about the

chancellorship. The case referred to civilians and judges. A

petition about it to the privy-council. This bishop's troubles

in his diocese. Vexed with lawsuits. The earl of Leicester

his enemy: and why. The lord treasurer his friend. Desires

a commission ecclesiastical. Names of recusants convict sent

up. The ill state of his diocese by papists, and exempt juris-

dictions. His letter to the lords. A wicked scandal, contrived

against and cast upon the archbishop of York, discovered.

Judgment in the star-chamber upon the actors, sir Robert

Stapleton, and others. The archbishop's earnest letters to

the lord treasurer about his case: his letters of thanks to

the queen, and treasurer. They make open confession at

York of their treachery; but with little show of repentance.

The archbishop's speeches to each of them.
P. 131.

CHAP. X.

The bishop of Peterburgh addresseth the queen for confirmation

of their statutes for residence. Commission for concealments

in the diocese of Lincoln, whereby the clergy are oppressed.

The bishop's complaint thereof to the lord treasurer. En-

snaring interrogatories put to the ministers and church-

wardens. The said bishop's letters in behalf of his clergy,

and his own episcopal jurisdiction, encroached upon, and his

courts. The commission stayed by a supersedeas, sent down.

The bishop of Lincoln acting in an ecclesiastical commission

upon one Mackworth, for having two wives. The trouble of

Scory, bishop of Hereford, from sir Henry Sydney, president

of Wales. His rigorous government. The state of the bi-

shopric of St. David's: greatly wronged by pretended con-

cealments.
P. 158.

CHAP. XI.

Puritans. An inscription about the queen's arms in a church in

Bury; abusive of the queen. Wright, domestic chaplain to

the lord Rich his troubles: informations concerning him:

and his answers in the consistory. Romish priests. Ex-

amination of lord Vaux, and sir Thomas Tresham, who en-

tertained Campion. Lord Vaux's confession. Sir Richard

Shelly, lord prior of St. John's of Jerusalem, abroad: de-

sires to come home offers to make discoveries to the queen :

a safe conduct granted him his loyalty. Some further ac-

-counts of him, and his family of the Shelleys. Bourn late in

the inquisition. One Gower, a fugitive, comes to the English

ambassador at Paris; desires conference with some learned

about his religion. Is suddenly cast into the bishop of Paris's

prison. Seminary priests and mass-hearers brought to the

sessions at London. A box of stamps for popish libels taken.

P. 175.

CHAP. XII.

Anderson made lord chief justice of the common place: the

manner of admitting him to the bench. Endeavour to get the

place by bribery. Riots in Finsbury by some youths of inns

of chancery: indicted. The recorder of London informs the

lord treasurer thereof. The slaughter at Paris Garden on the

sabbath. The lord mayor's letter to court about it. A pre-

tended conspiracy in Ireland: some in the court and London

said to be concerned in it. Mirfin, the discoverer and informer

thereof, false; and proves a notorious forgery. The earl of

Embden to the lord treasurer. Mr. Wentworth, lord trea-

surer's son-in-law, dies. The queen, and other lords, by let-

ters, condole with him. The lord treasurer's daughter, the

relict of Mr. Wentworth, dies: the queen's message by the

secretary's letter to him to come to court.

CHAP. XIII.

P. 198.

Blank, lord mayor of London, presented to the queen. The

recorder's speech to her. Her answer. The increase of build-

ings in the city: the inconvenience thereof. Mr. Rich in

the Fleet: his crime: sues for his liberty: his protestation: his

letter from Leigh to the lord treasurer's secretary. John

Stubbes, (whose right hand had been cut off,) his letters of

good counsel. Fleetwood, recorder of London. Controversy

in Christ's college, Cambridge, about the fellowship of king