fuses the bishoprick of Hereford, iv. 269. His behaviour in the Savoy conference, 301. 303. He and others imprisoned, 386. Apprehended again, 426. farther sufferings, 444. He is severely prosecuted, 478. Again in prison, 494. His trial, and scurrilous treatment from Jefferies, v. 5. Long's characteristical epitaph, and observations on, 6, ns.
Beale, Mr. writes against the proceed- ings of the bishops, i. 342. His speech in parliament against them, 424.
Beale, Dr. some account of him, iii. 100.
Bedford, earl of, his character, ii. 315. Beckington, sufferings of the church- wardens there, ii. 237.
Belenian, Mr. burnt, i. 32.
Benefices, how the vacant ones were filled up, iii. 35. Parliament nominates to them, 79.
Benison, Mr. his sufferings, i. 350. The council's letter in his favour, ibid. The bishop's answer to it, 351.
Bennet, William, his death, &c. v. 266. Bernard, Rev. Mr. his sufferings, ii.
Berry-street lectures, an account of, p. xxiii of the memoirs of Neal, prefixed to vol. i.
Best, Paul, proceedings against him, iii. 266.
Beza, his character of Cartwright, i. 212. 241. His letter to the lord-treasurer for a farther reformation and lenity, 228.
Bible translated into English, i. 18. Burnt by the bishops, ib. Reviewed and corrected by Cranmer, 19. Introduced for the benefit of the public into churches, 24. Its reading afterward forbidden, 33. Again burnt by the Papists, 101. An- other translation of it at Geneva. 135. Another, called the Bishops' Bible, 204. Account of English translations, ii. 79, &c. Bishops' Bible, 81.
Bid ales, ii. 215.
Bidding of prayers, rise of, i. 39.
Biddle, Mr. John, a great oppugner of the doctrine of the Trinity, an account of, iv. 122, 123, and ns.
Bilney, Mr. burnt, i. 16.
Bilson, bishop, his opinion of Christ's sufferings, i. 457. Account of him, ibid. Birchet's madness and execution, i. 247, 248.
Birkenhead, Mr. some account of him, iii. 390.
Bishops to be chosen by congé d'elire, i. 12. burn Tyndal's Testament, 13. To be appointed by letters patent during pleasure, 40. The opinions of the re- formers about the orders of tishops, priests, &c. 30, n. 52. 68. Bishops' pro- ceedings about the habits, 156. The
difference between those and the primi- tive ones according to Mr. Deering, 252. Their answer to the Puritans' proposals for farther reformation, 361. Their own proposals, 363. Bishops' Bible, 204. Bancroft's new doctrine about them, 417. Debates in parliament about their power, 424, &c. Their cruelty set forth by the Brownists, in their petition to the council, 431, &c. n. Their early application to king James I. ii. 4. Endeavour to pre- possess him against the Puritans, 8, 9. Entreat against alterations in the church, and reasons for it, 13. Are for making the king absolute, 25. 67. Speech in parliament against them, and their courts, 75. Dr. Leighton writes against them, 188. Their articles of visitation illegal, 245. Their uninterrupted succession maintained, 261. Their power attacked by Bagshaw, 293. They press the et ca- tera oath in the canons, 306. They become odious, 308. Lord Digby's speech against them, 318. Others, 361, &c. Bill for depriving them of their votes in parliament, 383, &c. Whether they are one of the three estates, 386. Thirteen of them impeached, 410. They fall into neglect, ibid. Issue of the im- peachment, 446. Petitions for and against them, 447, 448. They are in- sulted, 452. Their protestation, ib. Are impeached, 454. Apology for them, 455. Not brought to trial, but deprived of their votes in parliament, 461. The act for that purpose, 462. Remarks upon it, 463. Ordinance for abolishing bishops, &c. and for the sale of their lands, iii. 306, 307. They send to the king at Breda with instructions, iv. 232. old surviving ones at the restoration, 243. Translations of, ibid. New ones created, 244. Their views, 248. Abstract of their reply to the proposals of the Presbyterians for a comprehension, 255. Their behaviour, 270. They are restored to their seats in parliament, p. 290. Their farther behaviour, 347. 379. Several of them refuse to publish James's declara- tion, v. 55. Their address, and the king's answer, 55, 56. Seven of them sent to the Tower, 57. But acquitted, ib. They court the dissenters, 58, 59. Remarks, 60. Their advice to James, 63. Some refuse the oaths to William and Mary,74.
Bishops and presbyters, of the dis- tinctions between them, ii. 350. Of the sole right of ordination by the former, 351. Of their right of jurisdiction, 353. Bishopricks, new ones erected, i. 17. Blacklock, Mr. Samuel, becomes a Baptist, v. 106.
Blackwood, Dr. his slavish position, ii. 67.
Blackwood, Mr. some account of, v.
Blake, bishop, his opinion of the tend- ency of the doctrines of the church of England, i. 31, n.
Blake, admiral, his actions in the Mediterranean, iv. 120. Destroys the Spanish galleons, 159. Death, character, and anecdotes, of him, 159, 160, ns. His body dug up, 318.
Blasphemy and heresy, ordinance against, iii. 419. iv. 27.
Bloody statute. See Six Articles. Blount, Mr. Richard, goes to Holland to be baptized, v. 116.
Bohemia, queen of, king James's daughter, the delight of the Puritans, ii. 86. State of the Protestant religion in Bohemia, 106, &c. She is reduced with her family to great necessity, 109. The long-parliament zealous in her interest, for which she thanks them, p. 409. Neg- lected by her brother king Charles I. and by archbishop Laud and his party, 234, 235: vide Palatine.
Bolton, Rev. Robert, his death and character, ii. 198, 199, and ns.
Bolton, Dr. Samuel, his death and character, iv. 117.
Bonner, bishop of London, submits to king Edward's injunctions, i. 40, and to the new service-book, 47. But being at last suspected, is deprived, 51. Is re- stored by queen Mary, 73. His unheard- of cruelties to the Protestants, 84, 85. 87. Deprived again, and imprisoned by queen Elizabeth, 121.
Books first published, the revival of learning, i. 15. The Bishops' Book, a re- markable one set forth, 23. Another, 29. burnt and forbid, 33. None to be printed without licence, 129. Prohibited and castrated by Laud, iii. 181. Popish ones licensed, and their importation connived at by him, 182. Books for and against king Charles's death, 460.
Book of sports published, ii. 104. Substance of it, 105. Remarks, 106. Enforced anew, 213. 215. Burnt by the hangman, iii. 37. Encouraged by Laud,
Booksellers, their complaints, ii. 149. Booth, sir George, his insurrection, iv. 198.
Booth, Mr. Ab. his animadversions on Baxter's calumnies, v. 150.
Boston, Joan, of Salcombe; her hard usage, iv. 427.
Bothwell, earl of, his infamous mar- riage with the queen of Scots, and miserable end, i. 190.
Boucher, Joan, narrative of, v. 100. Bound, Dr. his treatise on the Sabbath, i. 451. Suppressed, but it prevails, 452.
Bourne, Dr. occasions a tumult by preaching against the reformation, i. 72.
Bowing at the name of Jesus, opinion of the Puritans of it, i. 195. En- forced, ii. 221. Bowing towards the altar, 223. iii. 173, 174. At the name of Jesus, 174. Antiquity of bowing to the altar, 175.
Bowles, Mr. Edward, his death and character, iv. 344.
Bradbourne's Defence of the Sabbath- day, ii. 216. Answers to this work by White, and Dr. Pocklington's Sunday no Sabbath, ib.
Bradford, Mr. John, suffers martyr- dom, i. 85. His charitable temper, 89. He was against the habits, 158.
Bradshaw, Rev. Mr. publishes his English Puritanism, ii. 55. His death and character, 103, 104.
Bradshaw, sergeant, his declaration to Cromwell, about his dissolving the par- liament, iv. 61. His death, 201.
Bramhall, bishop, his account of the Papists in the parliament army, iii. 314, 466.
Brandt's, Gerard, remarks on the exe- cution of two Dutch Anabaptists, i. 274, n. On persecution, ii. 85, n.
Brayne, Mr. suspended, i. 336. Brent, sir Nat. account of him, iii. 386.
Bridges, Dr. writes against the Puri- tans, and is answered by Fenner, i. 389.
Brief Discovery of False Churches, a work by Mr. H. Barrowe, printed in 1590. Reprinted in 1707, i. 433.
Brightman's, Rev. Mr. death and cha- racter, ii. 66. Anecdote of him, ib. n. Brindholme and Buttolph, two Papists, hanged, i. 28.
Brook, lord, his death and character, iii. 17. His favourable opinion of the Baptists, v. 124.
Brook, lord, his Treatise of Episco- pacy, v. 125. Milton's eulogium on his character and principles, 126.
Broughton, Mr. Hugh, explains Christ's descent into hell, i. 457.
Browne, Robert, deprived, i. 227. History of him, 301, 303.
Browne, Samuel, esq. a manager in Laud's trial, iii. 202.
Brownists, their rise, i. 301. With them commences the third period of Puritanism, ib. n. Their principles, 303.
Reasons of their separation from the church, 304. Severities against them, 305. Two of their ministers executed for nonconformity, 313. Their numbers in- crease, 427. Their church-settlement, and administration of the sacraments, 428. Their examination, and petition to the council, 428, 429, n. Their sufferings, 430. The petition of those who were in the London prisons to the lord-treasurer, 431. 433, n. Several of them fly to Hol- land, and there plant churches, 451. Their history carried on, ii. 40. Their opinion of the church of England, 44. 55.
Brownrigge, Dr. some account of, iii. 101. His death, iv, 222, and ns.
Brute, Walter, some account of, v. 95.
Bucer, Martin, comes to England, and is made divinity professor at Cambridge, i. 42. His opinion about the habits, 57. 168. His sentiments about ecclesiastical discipline, 67. His bones dug up and burnt by the Papists, 89.
Buckingham, duke of, a bad minister, ii. 134. Stabbed by Felton, 163.
Buckingham, duke of, his speech for a toleration, iv. 432.
Bulkley, Rev. Mr. removes to New- England, ii. 239.
Boleyn, Anne, her marriage with Henry VIII. i. 12. A friend to the re- formation, 15. Is beheaded, 19.
Bullinger, his opinion of the habits and ceremonies, i. 163.
Burgess, Rev. Dr. his speech against cathedrals, ii. 392. His death, &c. iv. 369, and n.
Burleigh, lord-treasurer, his excellent letter to archbishop Whitgift, about his twenty-four articles, i. 339, 340.
Burnet, bishop, his opinion of the civil magistrate's power to reform religion con- sidered, i. 35. On the antiquity of litur- gies, ii. 348, n. Quoted, iii. 57, n. &c. &c. His character of Laud, 208. Of Charles I. 458. Of the authors of the king's death, 466. Of the parties in Charles II.'s time, iv. 349, 350.
Burroughs, Mr. J. p. xxvi of life of Neal, prefixed to vol. i. n.
Burroughs, Mr. Jerem. retires to Hol- land, ii. 288. His declaration in the name of the Independents, iii. 260. His death and character, 317, 318. Burrough, Edward, his death, &c. v.
Burton, Mr. his sufferings, ii. 228. 253. Burry, Mr. Edward, his sufferings, iv. 474.
Bushnell, Mr. ejected, iv. 103. His narrative, and the commissioners' an- swer, ib.
Butler, major, his report of Cromwell's last prayer, iv. 181.
Button, Mr. some account of him, iii. 397.
Byfield, Mr. burnt, i. 16.
Byfield, Rev. his death and character, ii. 118, 119.
Cabal, their character, iv. 401. Their projects to make the king absolute, 405. Are attacked by parliament, 428.
Calais lost from the English, i. 103.
Calamy, Mr. a passage in his sermon about Christmas, iii. 141. Sent to New- gate, iv. 355. His death, character, &c. 373, 374, n.
Calvin's judgment of the English liturgy, i. 96. Of the English ceremo- nies, 97.
Calvinism discountenanced at court, ii. 117, 118.
Cambridge (see University) address, iv. 470. Privileges invaded, v. 27. Cameronians in Scotland, iv. 500. Campion the Jesuit, &c. executed, i..
Canne, Mr. ii. 42. 341. Of the editions of his Bible, ib. n.
Canons, act for revising them, i. 14. Never done, ib. Another act for it, 51. Which also comes to nothing, ib. New. ones, 363. Abstract of those of 1603, ii. 30, &c. Conclusion and ratification of them, 34. Bishops obliged to relax their rigour for a time, 38. Book of canons for Scotland, 241. Remarks, 242. Canons of 1640, 299, &c. Unacceptable to the clergy, 305. Execution of them sus- pended, 307. Speeches in parliament against them, 319. Resolutions of par- liament thereupon, ib. Remarks, 320. Objections of the commons against them, 324. They are justified by Laud, 326.
Canterbury cathedral, its decorations, ii. 194. Furniture of its altar consecrated, 224.
Capel, Mr. Richard, his death and character, iv. 149.
Careless, Mr. an eminent martyr, his disputes in prison, and confession of faith, i. 90.
Carew, Mr. his sufferings, i. 345, 346. Caroline, princess of Wales, her inter- view with Mr. Neal; see his memoirs, i. xix.
Carter, Rev. J. his death and cha- racter, ii. 236.
Carter, Mr. William, his death, iv. 190.
Cartwright, Mr. his sentiments of the ecclesiastical supremacy, i. 115. He op- poses the hierarchy of the church, 212. His positions, ib. He writes to the secre- tary, 214. He is expelled the university,
and retires beyond sea, 214. Being re- turned, he draws up the Puritans' second admonition to the parliament, 232. His famous dispute with Whitgift, and his standard of discipline and church-go- vernment, 237. His hard usage, 239. His second reply to Whitgift, 241. A proclamation against him, 250. He as- sists in framing a discipline for Guernsey and Jersey, 271. Is chosen preacher to the English factory at Antwerp, 289. Returns to England, and settles at War- wick, 371. Forbid by the archbishop to answer the Rhemist Testament, 376. Ex- amination of him and his brethren before the high-commissioners, 415. Articles exhibited against him, which he refuses to answer on oath, 416. He is released, and restored to his hospital at Warwick, but his brethren continue in suspension, 419. He defends himself and his brethren from being concerned with Hacket, 423. His death and character, ii. 20. His Confutation of the Rhemist Testament, and other works, 21.
Caryl, Mr. Joseph, his death, &c. iv. 415. His exposition on Job, ib. n.
Case, Mr. Thomas, his death, &c. iv. 477, 478, n.
Cases of Conscience, by Perkins, mentioned, iv. 486, n.
Castaires, Mr. tortured, iv. 482.
Castlemain, earl of, his censure of the church's persecuting the dissenters, iv.
Catechisms, Assembly's larger and shorter, approved and allowed by the parliament, iii. 322. Catechising recom- mended, iv. 132.
Cathedral worship disliked by the Puritans, i. 192. Request against them, 384. Decorations of them, ii. 194. Hacket's defence of them, 391. Burgess's speech against them, 392. Memorandum for reforming them, 398. Their state at the beginning of the civil war, 504. Or- dinance for seizing their revenues, iii. 266. Vacancies filled, iv. 242.
Cavaliers. Refer to Royalists. Cawdery, Mr. his sufferings, i. 894. His farther sufferings, and appeal to the court of exchequer, 420.
Cawton, Mr. Thomas, Charles's letter to him, iv. 213. His death, 223, 224, n. Censures of the church, Puritans' opi- nion concerning them, ii. 57.
Ceremonies of the church, debates in convocation about them, i. 149. A con- siderable number of the clergy that were for amending them, 152. Several of them scrupled by the Puritans, 169. Objected against by the Puritans, ii. 15. 48. De- fended by bishop Moreton, &c. 53. See Rites.
Chadderton, Rev. Dr. his death and character, ii. 309.
Chambers, Dr. Humphrey, his death, iv. 343.
Chancellors, patents, and censures, canons about them, ii. 304.
Chandler, Dr. p. xxiv of the life of Neal, prefixed to vol. i. n.
Charles I. when prince of Wales, his oath to observe the articles of the Spanish match, ii. 121. His journey to Madrid, and letter to the pope, 122. His accession and character, 131, &c. His marriage, and character of his queen, 133. Cha- racter of his ministers, 134, &c. His speech to his first parliament, 139. His answer to the commons' petition, 140. He favours the Papists, 142. Contributes to the loss of Rochelle, ib. Dissolves the parliament, 144. Raises money by ar- bitrary methods, 145. 150. His corona- tion, 145. His second parliament, 146. Dissolved, 147. His proclamation for putting an end to the disputes of the Calvinists and Arminians, 148. Enters into a war with France, 154. His third parliament, and speech to them, 155. Passes the petition of right, ib. Prorogues the parliament, and answers their remon- strance, 156, 157. His declaration before the thirty-nine articles, 163. His arbitrary proceedings, 169. 177. Speech at dis- solving his third parliament, 171. Rea- sons for dissolving them, 172. His pro- clamations against prescribing a time for calling parliaments, 173. His instructions about lectures, 178. His progress into Scotland, 206. His usage of the Scots parliament, 207. Revives the book of sports, 215. Forbids the Puritans to transport themselves, 260. His reasons for compiling the Scots liturgy, 270. He threatens the Scots, 278. Resolves on a war with the Scots, 284. Marches against them, but agrees to a pacification, 289. His instructions to his high-commissioner, 290. Refuses to confirm the Scots acts of parliament, 291. Calls an English parliament, but dissolves them in anger, p. 294, 295. Continues to raise money by the prerogative, 296. Marches a se- cond time against the Scots, but is unsuc- cessful, 307. Opens the long-parliament, 317. His speech in favour of the hierarchy, 361. Favours the Papists, 372. His an- swer to the remonstrance of the commons against them, 373. Remarks on it, ib. His design of bringing the army to Lon- don, 376. His ministers terrified, 379. Passes the act for continuing the parlia- ment, 380. His conduct at passing the bills for the abolition of the high-com- mission and star-chamber, 406. Resolves on a progress to Scotland, 411. His con-
cessions there, 415. He repents of them, ib. His imprudent conduct, 437. His letter in favour of the hierarchy, 438. Fills up the vacant bishopricks, ib. The grand remonstrance of the commons pre- sented to him, 440. His answer to their petition, 443. And to the remonstrance, 444. Goes to the house to seize five of the members, 457. Leaves Whitehall, 459. Passes the act to take away the votes of the bishops, 462. Resolutions of his cabinet council at Windsor, 465. Refuses the Scots mediation, 474. His high language to his parliament, 476. Denied entrance into Hull, and his pro- ceedings in the north, ib. Orders the courts of justice to follow him, 477. His answer to the parliament's memorial, 479. And to their proposals, 482. His prepara- tion for war, 486. His proposals for bor- rowing money, &c. 487. Applies to the Papists, 492. His letter to the council of Scotland, 497. Sets up the standard at Nottingham, 502. Of his clergy, 513. Of his army, 514. His proclamation for the better government of it, 515. His evil counsellors, 517.
Charles I. king, pursues his march to London after the battle of Edge-hill, iii. 1. Takes Reading and Brentford, 2. Re- treats again, 3. Motives of his march, ib. Remarks, 4. His letter to duke Hamil- ton, ib. Encouraging prospect of his af- fairs, 6. His truce with the Irish rebels, 7. Parliament's propositions to him at the treaty of Oxford, 9. His own pro- posals, 13. His answer to the parliament commissioners, 14. Which breaks off the treaty, 16. His proclamations against the city of London, &c. 19. Success of his affairs, 20, 21. Makes reprisals on the parliamentarians in relation to the clergy, 34. Dissolves their monthly fast, and appoints another, 38. Prohibits the assembly of divines, 48. Forbids the taking of the covenant, 67. Brings over forces from Ireland, 69. Ill consequences of it to his affairs, 70. His protestations, 71. His reply to the assembly's letter to foreign Protestants, 76. Remarks upon it, 78. He holds a parliament at Oxford, which comes to nothing, 86-88. His letter to the queen, 88. Character of his army, 91. Bad state of his affairs, 93. He forbids the use of the directory, 132. Some arbitrary clauses in his speeches and proclamations, 148. His conduct in the treaty of Uxbridge, 209, &c. More letters of his to the queen, 210. 213. 223, 224. 272. His instructions to the commissioners on the head of religion, 214. His concessions, 219. Remarks upon them, 220. His letter to the duke of Ormond, 224. Queen's ascendant over
him, ib. His warrant to the earl of Gla- morgan about the Irish Papists, 225. Progress of his forces, and his defeat in the battle of Naseby, 230. He foments the divisions between the Presbyterians and Independents, 265. His melancholy condition at Oxford, 271. He escapes to the Scots army, and surrenders himself to them, 272. Commissions the marquis of Ormond to conclude a peace with the Irish Papists, 274. The Scots behaviour towards him, 282. Conference between him and Mr. Henderson, about episco- pacy, &c. 283. His first paper upon it, 284. His second, 285. His third, 289. His last papers, 291. Remarks upon his principles, 292. Parliament's propositions to him at Newcastle, 296. Great inter- cession made with him to comply, and the lord-chancellor of Scotland's speech to him, 298. He refuses, 299. His an- swer, 300. His conference with the Scots commissioners, ib. Scots kirk will not trust him, 301. Their solemn warning declaration about him, 302. Proceedings of the Scots parliament in relation to him, ib. They deliver him up to the English parliament, 304. Whose commissioners receive him, and convey him to Holmby- house, ib. and n. His pressing letter for a personal treaty, ib. Remarks, 305. In what manner he lived at Holmby, ib. His separate views, 331. His farther answer to the propositions of Newcastle, 335. He is seized and carried to the army, ib. His motions with them, 344. Cromwell and Ireton confer with him, 345. His mistaken conduct, ib. Which proves his ruin, 346. Reasons of the army's desert- ing him, 347. He escapes from Hamp- ton-court, ib. And is confined in the Isle of Wight, ib. Motive of his escape, 350. His private treaty with the Scots, ib. His concessions from the Isle of Wight, 352. Remarks, 353. He disapproves of the ordinance for abolishing Christmas, &c. 356. His clergy petition to be re- stored to their livings, 357. Treaty of Newport between him and the parlia- ment, 422. A prayer drawn up by his direction on that occasion, 423. His re- ply to the parliament's proposals, 424. His concessions on the article of religion, 425. Conference between him and the parliament divines about episcopacy, ib. His first paper, 426. His second, 427 His last, 431. His final concessions, 434. Arguments and motives to gain his con- sent, 435. States of Scotland press him to consent, 437. His speech to the com- missioners, 438. His letter to the prince, 443. He is seized by the army a second time, 445. His trial resolved on, 448. Voice of the nation against it, &c. ib.
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