ABBOTS, display in elections of, 129

Abraham, religious play, 320
Adrian VI., Pope, 157
Aggeus, Augustine, 310

Aldine press, at Venice, 160

Aldus, printer, 160, 166
Alexander VI., Pope, 102
Alms, 132

Alton, foundation for obits at, 403-

404

Benefices, 55, 106, 108, note, 353
Benefit of clergy, 55

Bequests, medieval, 389 et seq.
Bere, Abbot, of Glastonbury, 39, 40,

note

Berthelet, publisher, 72, note, 73, 98,
note, 102, note, 107, note, 110, 137,
note, 298

Bible, the Bishops', 247

Bible, Erasmus's translation, 168 et

seq.

Bible, English, hostility to, 236; evi-
dence of Catholic acceptance, 237,
242, 247; supposed early Catholic
version, 237, 242, 247; persecu-
tions for possession examined, 240,
and note, 241; translations autho-
rised, 242-243, 247-249; not pro-
hibited, 247, 275-276; absence of
popular demand for, 250-251;
Tyndale's version and Luther's
share in it, 252 et seq.; useless
without interpretation, 275

Bishops, and ordination, 148; and
spiritual jurisdiction, 154; obstacles
to Reformation, 444

Blackfriars, meetings at, 67, 68
Bombasius, Paul, 33, note, 34
Bond, William, 83, 305
Boniface VIII., Pope, 99

Books, heretical, prohibited, 213-
216; More on heretical, 218 et
seq.; earliest printed largely re-
ligious, 315

Bourbon, Duke of, 230

Boyer, Sebastian, Court physician,
160

Brentano, Mr., cited, 362-363

Brethren of St. John's, 374; and
Hospital, 375

Bretton, William, 310, and note
Brewer, Mr., cited, 147, 211-212, 250,
279

Brotherhoods, Parish, 347
Brunfels, Otto, 194

Brygott, Richard, prior of Westacre,

44

Bucer, 214

Burials, 54

Burnet, historian, cited, 4

Bury St. Edmunds, chantries at, 409
Butley, Priory of, 43

CALENDAR of papers, domestic and
foreign, of reign of Henry VIII., 4
Cambray, Bishop of, 159
Cambridge, portions of Prior Selling's
library at, 32; monastic students
at, 43; petition of scholars to the
king, 47

Campeggio, Cardinal, 179, 180, 181
Canterbury, Archbishop of, on clerical
immunity, 69

Canterbury, entertainment of Em-
peror Manuel at Christchurch,
22; Selling and Hadley, monks of
Christchurch, 24 et seq.; Canter-
bury College at Oxford, 27, 28,
note; St. Augustine's and the lit-
erary movement, 40

Caraffa, Cardinal, afterwards Paul
IV., 105, 107, 438

Carmelites, origin, 117; responsibility
for Lutheranism, 197
Caxton, 275, note

Chalcocondylas, Demetrius, 29
Chantries, 123, 124, 399, 401
Chapels of ease, 413

Chaplains, evil effects of their posi-
tion, 138-139
Charnock, Prior, 39
Chaucer, cited, 415
Children, and idols, 292; religious

instruction of, 312, 313-314
Christchurch, see Canterbury
Christianity and the classical revival,
203-206

Chrysoloras, Manuel, Greek scholar,
23, and note

Chrysostom, St., cited, 122
Church, position of, prior to Reforma-
tion, I, 147, 211; need of reform
in, 5 et seq.; attitude to learning,
15. 21, 35-38, 41; hostility to
"New Learning" explained, 15 et
seq., 19; limits of jurisdiction, 51;
and disputations entailed, ibid.;
State right to regulate temporalities
of, 53 et seq.; king as supreme
*head, 65, 111; rights, 65; what
constitutes, 70; riches coveted, 75;
Pope as head, 83 et seq.; Papal

Commission appointed to save,
105; evils in, and how caused,
105-106; abuses pointed out by
Commission, 107, note, 108, note;
limitations of king's Headship,
III-112; controversy on riches of,
123; Erasmus's attitude to, 167 et
seq., 199-200; Erasmus regarded
as an enemy to, 175-176; Lutheran
tenets concerning, 194; need of
reform obscured by Reformation,
198; attack on, 216; attitude to
vernacular Bibles, 236 et seq., 245-
248; but hostility to denied, 242-
243, 246-247, 251; religious teach-
ing prior to Reformation, 278 et
seq.; charges against on points of
worship, 293, 302-305; bequests
to, 390 et seq.; suggested disposal
of wealth of, 444; abuses in, 415
Church of Christ, sermon on, 91
Church-building, activity of, 326;
contributions of people towards
bequests for, 327, and note, 390;
decoration, 328, 332

Church House, 341

Churchyards, trees and grass in, 60
Cicero, and the classical revival, 203-
206

Ciceroniana of Erasmus, 203

Clark, Dr. John, English ambassador,
94

Classical revival, Erasmus on, 203;
absurdities of, 203-204

Claymond, John, Greek scholar, 40,
note, 41, note

Clement, John, 37, note
Clement, Pope, 109, note
Clergy, alleged encouragement of
ignorance, 2, 278; mortuary dues,
53, 140-144; "benefit," 55; rights
and duties, 61, 65-70; ordinations,
63, 148-153; exemptions, 63; im-
munity, 66 et seq.; not the Church,
70; position as individuals, 72;
attack on their temporalities, 103;
laity's grievance against, 114 et
seq.; and its causes, 119, 138;
defended by More, 120-121; alleged
mercenary spirit, 123; and idle
laxity of living, 127; prayers, 131;
alms, 132-133; fasting and morti-
fication, 134; charges of corrup-
tion, 136; lack of definite work,
137, note; in households of laity,
138; tithe exactions, 142; faults,
143-145; alleged immorality, 145–

146; charge of simony, 146; Mr.
Brewer cited on, 147; ignorance
of, 151; hostility to vernacular
scriptures examined, 236 et seq.,
243, 246; and reasons for not en-
couraging, 242, 244; extent and
character of their religious teach-
ing, 280 et seq.; books used by for
teaching, 309 et seq.; chantry
clergy, 400, 405-409, 413; pil-
grimages and relics maintained by,
415; and motives for, 422, 425
"Clericus," 74

Cloth, clerical, State's right to legis-
late on, 60

Cochlæus, John, 253, 254, note
Colet, Dean, 7, 19, 29, and note, 33,
note, 149, 160, 164, 168
Commerce, progress not due to Re-
formation, 8

Commissioners, royal, 380, 384
Compostella, pilgrimages to, 416, 417
Concordat, between Leo X. and

Francis I., 76
Concubines, alleged licences for, 145
Confession, 225, 282, 287

Congregation, denoting church, 173,
note, 262-266

Conscience, examinations of, 286
Constantine, donation to Pope, 95
Constantine, George, 222

Constantinople, effect of fall of, 23
Constitution, Provincial, 237-239,
242, 280

Contarini, Cardinal, 107, 109, note
Convocation, grant of headship of
Church to the king, 111; enact-
ment regarding ordination, 148-
149; powers of legislation trans-
ferred to Crown, 153; draws up
list of heretical books, 215
Corpus Christi, feast of, 373; proces-
sion of guilds, 374; at Corunna,
217

Council of Trent, 5, 109, note, 440
Courts, ecclesiastical, subject to Pope,
80-81

Coverdale, Myles, 102, 258
Cranmer and English Bible, 236, 247;
on hearing mass, 326
Creeping to the Cross, 302
Criticism in the Church, 155, 171
Croke, Richard, 36, note, 102, note
Cromwell, Thomas, 112, 153

Cross, honour to on Good Friday,

302
Crowley, quoted, 382

note

Determinations of the Universities,
102, note

Deventer, school, 157

De Worde, Wynkyn, 83, 149, 275,
note, 280, and note, 298, 312
Digon, John, Canterbury monk, 41,
and note

Dislike of clergy, alleged, 114; rea-
sons for, 127, 138
Dispensations, 106

Dives et Pauper, 284, 298, 353, 354
Division between spirituality and
temporality, Saint-German's work
on, 115 et seq., 122, 127, 140
Divorce question, the, and its share
in Reformation, 208, and note
Doctors of divinity, Erasmus's satire
on, 201

Döllinger, Dr., cited, 21

Dominicans, the, and Erasmus, 187;
responsibility for Lutheranism, 197
Dorpius, Marten, 169–170
Dues of clergy, 53

Dunstan's, St., Canterbury, 346 ; par-
ish accounts, 347

Dyalogue of Saint-German, 53 et seq.,
115, 140; of More, 262, 269, 289

ECCLESIASTICAL authority, alleged
discontent of laity under, I, 114,
208 et seq., 416; limits of, 51
Ecclesiastical discipline, inquiry into,
438

Ecclesiastics, attitude to revival of
learning, 36-38, 41; resistance to

encroachment, 51, 53; Erasmus's
satire on, 201 et seq.; attitude to
English Bible, 236 et seq.; alleged
encouragement of ignorance, 2, 278
Edgworth, Roger, preacher, 16, 46,

212, 244, 272, 273, note, 292, 359
Education, fostered by monasteries,
45
Enconium Moria, of Erasmus, 161-
162, 201 et seq.

Erasmus, attitude to Reformation. 7,
20; made responsible for "New
Learning," 16, note; but attitude to
defined, 19, 20; his chief support
in England, 38; position and views,
155; considered a Reformer, 156,
178, 180-181; birth and education,
156-157; joins order of St. Augus-
tine, 157; ordained, ibid.; unfitness
for religious life, 157; hostility to
religious orders, 158, 180, 187, 200;
denounces enticing of youths into
cloister, ibid.; leaves the religious
life, 159; takes pupils, ibid.; at
Oxford, 159-160; in London, 160;
visits Italy, ibid.; his Adagia,
ibid.; visits Venice, ibid.; returns
to London, 161; his Enconium
Moria, 161-162, 201 et seq., 431;
at Cambridge, 161-162; testimony
to Archbishop Warham's kind-
ness, 162-163; praise of English
ecclesiastics, 163, note; amounts re-
ceived from English friends, 164;
again leaves England, 165; settles
at Basle, ibid.; superintends Fro-
ben's press, 166; death, 167; atti-
tude to Church, 167 et seq.,_199-
200; translation of New Testa-
ment, 168 et seq.; attacks on, 173
et seq.; regarded as an enemy to
the Church, 175-176; opposition
to his revival of Greek, 177-178;
defends himself to the Pope, 179,
181-182; disclaims connection with
Luther, 180-182, 185, 195-198;
opposition to national churches,
182, note; attitude to Luther, 185,
195, 196-198; attacks Luther,
186; replies to von Hutten's at-
tacks, 187 et seq.; attitude to the
Pope, 189-190, and note, 193, 194–
195, 197; attacks Lutheran mo-
tives, 191-192; letter to Bishop
Marlianus on attitude to Luther,
197; general attitude to religious
movement of his age, 200 et seq.;

and to the classical revival, 203;
on pilgrimages and relics, 415, 418,
431; on devotion to saints, 431 et
seq.

Eton College Chapel, wall paintings
of, II

Evensong, said before noon, 134
Exemptions of clergy, 63, 76

FAIRS, 378 et seq.; at Winchester,
379

Faith, The Olde, of Great Brittayne
and the New Learning of England,
17, and note
Fasting, 134

Ferguson, Mr., quoted on architec-
tural art, 329

Fineux, Chief-Justice, tries John
Savage, 57 et seq.; opinion on
spiritual courts, 69

Fisher, Bishop, love of learning, 36,
note; object in studying Greek, 38;
views on Papal supremacy, 90, and
note; books against Luther, 90,
note, 192; execution, 91; sermon
on, 92; on moral character of re-
ligious, 137, note; invitation to
Erasmus, 161; on Erasmus's New
Testament, 169, 175, note; sup-
ports study of Greek, 177
Fisher, Rev. J., 311, note
Fleming, Robert, 23
Foxe, cited, 240, note, 251
Francis I., 76

Francis, Order of St., 117
Free, John, 40, and note
Frith, 215, 222, 223, 227
Froben, printer, 165, 182
Froude, on Erasmus's New Testa-
ment, 172
Funerals, 54

GAIRDNER, James, cited on jurisdic-
tion of Pope, 81, note; on the
divorce question, 208, note; on
Reformation influences, 210, 211,

note

Gardiner, Bishop, 438
Gardynare, Germen, 227
Garlekhithe, St. James, 366

German reformers, books prohibited,
214-215

Gibbon, cited, 22

Glasse of Truth, 101-102, note
Glastonbury monastery, 39
Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, 23
God, love of, 299; worship of, 304