The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.

Title

The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.

Author

Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.

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London :: Printed for Iohn Williams ...,

1655.

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University of Cambridge -- History.

Great Britain -- Church history.

Waltham Abbey (England) -- History.

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Contents

• blazons
• frontispiece
• title page
• TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS, ESME STUART, DVKE OF RICHMOND.
• TO THE READER.
• THE CHURCH-HISTORY OF BRITAIN▪
  • I. CENTURIE.
  • THE SECOND CENTURY.
  • THE THIRD CENTURY.
  • THE FOURTH CENTURY.
  • THE FIFTH CENTURY.
  • THE SIXTH CENTURY.
• title page
• To the right Honourable HENRY LORD MARQUES OF DORCHESTER, EARLE OF KINGSTON, Viscount Newark, Lord Peirrepont, &c.
• THE CHURCH-HISTORY OF BRITAIN, VI. CENTURIE.
  • THE SEVENTH CENTURY.
  • THE EIGHTH CENTURY.
  • THE NINTH CENTURY.
  • THE TENTH CENTURY.
  • THE ELEVENTH CENTURY.
    • 1. Scripture generally read.
    • The Originall preferred.
      • version
      • version
    • No Prayers for the Dead, in the modern notion of Papists.
    • Purgatory, though nevvly hatched, not yet fledged.
    • Communion under both kinds.
  • SEVERALL COPIES OF BATTEL-ABBEY ROLL.
• title page
• To the Right Honourable, WILLIAM, Lord Beauchampe, &c.
• THE CHVRCH-HISTORY OF BRITAINE.
  • CENT. XI.
  • CENT. XII.
    • section - 1
    • SECT. II.
      • Canterburies Title.
      • Yorks Title.
  • CENT. XIII.
    • section - 1
    • section - 2
    • SECT. III.
  • century - 14
    • CENT. XIV.
    • SECT.
• title page
• To the Right Honourable, JAMES HAY, EARL of CARLILE, VISCOUNT DONCASTER, BARON of SAVLEY and WALTHAM.
• THE CHVRCH-HISTORY OF BRITAINE.
  • BOOK IV.
    • century - 14
      • section - 1
        • THOMAS WALDENSIS accuseth WICLIFFE to have maintained these dangerous heretical OPINIONS.
    • century - 15
      • SECT. II.
      • CENT. XV.
      • SECT. III.
• title page
• To the Right Honourable, LIONEL CRANFIELD, EARL of MIDDLESEX, BARON CRANFIELD OF CRANFIELD, &c.
• THE CHVRCH-HISTORY OF BRITAINE.
  • BOOK V.
    • section - 1
    • SECT. II.
    • SECT. III.
    • SECTION III.
    • SECTION IV.
• title page
• To the Right Honourable, WILLIAM COMPTON, Sonne and Heire to the Right Honourable, JAMES, Baron COMPTON of COMPTON, AND Earle of NORTHAMPTON.
• The History of Abbeys in ENGLAND.
  • section - 1
    • Primitive MONKS, with their Piety and Painfulnesse.
    • Voluntary MONKS, embracing that Life, not for Necessity, but Conveniency.
    • Of Superstition, which was the fundamentall fault in all Abbeys.
    • Of the severall Orders of Monks and Nuns in England.
  • SECTION II.
    • Abbeys engrossed trade, impoverished Parish. Priests, encouraged Offenders.
    • Of the prime Officers and Officines of Abbeys.
    • Some generall Conformities observed in all Covents.
    • Of such Abbots who attained to be Parliamentary Barons.
    • Of the Civill benefits, and Temporall conveniences, accruing to the State by the continuance of Abbies.
    • Presages of the approaching ruine of Abbeys.
    • Of the Essaies and Offers to overthrow Abbeys before they took effect.
    • Of the suppression of alien Priories.
  • SECTION III.
    • Of Cardinal Wolsey's ominous suppressing of forty lesser Monasteries, therewith to build two Colledges.
    • Of the first Priory which was solemnly suppressed by King Henry the eighth.
    • Of the suppression of the Order of Observant Friers, and a preparatory for the dissolution of all the rest.
    • Millia dena unus Templorum destruit annus.
    • The lesser Monasteries bestowed on the King.
    • The Preamble is this:
    • The Northern Rebellion occasioned by this dissolution.
    • The return of the Visitors of Abbeys.
    • The second sort of insinuating Emissaries.
    • Soliciting and tempting Emissaries complained of by the Papists.
    • Some Covents on examination appearing very virtuous.
    • The generallity of Monasteries notoriously vitious.
    • A Lettore certefying the incontynensye of the Nuns of Syon, with the Friores, and astore the acte done, the Friores reconsile them to God. Endoised, To the Right Honourable, Master Thomas Cromwell, chief Secretary to the Kings Highnesse.
    • subsection
    • Abbots willingly unwillingly resigned their Monasteries to the King.
    • The surrender of the Warden and Fryers of S. Francis in Stanford.
    • The Seale of Armes of the Mitred Abbeys in England.
    • The Lord Darcy his Extraction justly vindicated.
    • The antient English Nobility great Losers by the Dissolution of Abbeys.
    • The Premisses proved by instance in the Family of the Berkeleys.
    • Ingratitude to their Founders, a grand fault in many Abbeys.
  • SECTION V.
    • Of Miracles in generall, to which Monasteries did much pretend.
    • Of false Miracles, many broods whereof were hatched in Monasteries.
    • That many precious Books were embezeled at the dissolution of Abbeys, to the irreparable losse of learning.
    • Many good bargains, or rather, cheap penny-worths, bought of Abbey-lands.
    • Of the actions of policie, pietie, charitie, and justice, done by King Henry the eighth, out of the revenues of dissolved Abbeys.
    • Of the many and large Pensions constantly paid by King Henry, to Monks and Nuns, during their lives.
  • SECTION VI.
    • Of the Erection, Officers, Vse, Continuance, and Abolishing of the Court of Augmentation.
    • The Lands of Chanteries, free Chappels, and Colledges dissolved.
    • Queen Mary on her own cost restoreth some Convents.
    • Queen Elizabeth demolisheth the new-erected Convents.
  • SECTION VII.
    • Of English Nunneries beyond the Seas.
    • Bruxells Nunnerie.
    • Cambray Nunnerie.
    • Gravelin Nunnerie.
    • jesuitesses.
    • The forraign Covents of English Monks and Fryers.
    • Doway Covent in Artois.
    • S. Mallowes Covent in Bretaigne.
    • Paris Covent.
    • Doway.
    • To whom the Sites of Mitred Abbeys were granted, and by whom they are possessed at this day.
• THE Church-History OF BRITAIN.
• To the Right Honourable, LEICESTER DEVEREUX, VISCOUNT HEREFORD, Lord FERRARS of Chartley, &c.
• THE Church-History OF BRITAIN.
  • Observations on the Kings Injunctions.
  • part
  • part
    • SECTION II.
• title page
• dedication
• THE CHVRCH-HISTORY OF BRITAINE.
  • century - 16
    • CENT. XVI.
    • SECTION. II.
    • SECTION. III.
• title page
• To the Honourable GEORGE BERKLEY Sole Son to the Right Honorable GEORGE, Baron of BERKLEY.
• THE CHVRCH-HISTORY OF BRITAINE.
  • SECTION. I.
    • CENT. XVI.
  • SECTION. IIII.
  • SECTION. III.
  • SECTION IIII.
  • SECTION V.
  • SECTION VI.
  • SECTION VII.
  • SECTION VIII.
• title page
• TO THE HONOURABLE, ROBERT, Lord BRUCE, SOLE SON TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS EARLE of ELGIN.
• THE CHURCH-HISTORY OF BRITAINE.
  • century - 17
    • CENT: XVII.
    • SECTION II.
    • SECTION III.
    • SECTION IV.
    • SECTION V.
    • SECTION VI.
    • SECTION VII.
• title page
• dedication
• THE CHURCH-HISTORY OF BRITAIN.
  • century - 17
    • XVII. CENTURIE.
    • SECTION IX.
    • SECTION X.
    • SECTION XI.
• title page
• To the Honourable BANISTER MAINARD Esq Sonne and Heire to the Right Honourable WILLIAM Lord MAINARD, Baron of Estaynes in England, and Wicklow in Ireland.
• THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF Cambridge, Since the CONQVEST.
  • section - 1
    • ❧ Preface.
    • part
  • section - 2
    • SECTION II.
  • SECTION III.
  • SECTION IV.
  • SECTION V.
  • SECTION VI.
  • SECTION VII.
  • SECT. VII.
  • SECT. VIII.
    • A Prayer.
• title page
• To the Right Honourable, JAMES HAY, EARL of CARLILE, VISCOUNT Doncaster, BARON of Sauley and Waltham.
• THE HISTORY OF Waltham-Abby.
  • The Re-foundation of WALTHAM-ABBY by HENRY the Second.
  • The Extraction, Charter, Death and Issue of Sir Anthony Dennie, on whom King Henry the Eighth bestowed WALTHAM-ABBY.
    • Vpon the Death of Sir Anthony Denny.
  • The condition of Waltham Church from the Dissolution of the Abby, untill the Death of King HENRY the Eighth.
    • Anno 1542. the 34th of HENRY the 8th.
    • Anno 1543. the 35th of HENRY the 8th.
    • Anno 1544. the 36. of HENRY the 8th.
    • Anno 1546. the 38. of HENRY the 8th.
  • The state of Waltham Church during the Reign of King EDWARD the Sixth.
    • Anno 1549. the 3d. of EDWARD the Sixth.
    • Anno 1551 the 5th of EDWARD the 6th.
  • Church-alterations in the Reign of Queen MARY.
    • Anno 1554. Mariae primo.
    • Anno 1556. Mariae tertio.
  • The condition of the Church from the beginning of Queen ELIZABETH, to this day.
    • Anno 1558. Elizabethae primo.
    • Anno 1562. Elizabethae quinto.
    • Anno 1563. Eliz. 6.
• AN INDEX OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PERSONS and Passages in this BOOK.
• ERRATA.
• to the reader