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The Eve of the Reformation / Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII

Chapter 16: INDEX
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The study surveys religious life and thought in England immediately before the break with Rome, tracing intellectual currents, institutional structures, and popular devotion. It examines the revival of learning and monastic engagement with universities, competing ecclesiastical jurisdictions and relations with the papacy, clergy-laity dynamics, and the influence of humanist writers and early Lutheran ideas. The impact of the printed English Bible, preaching and education, parish and guild practices, and end-of-life rituals such as wills, chantries, obits, pilgrimages and relic devotion are described, showing how theological debates, institutional change, and lay religious customs interacted in the decades leading to ecclesiastical rupture.


INDEX

  • 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
  • Amberbach, printer, 166
  • Amyas Chantry, 401-402
  • Angels, devotion to, 308
  • Anti-clerical spirit, 114, 119
  • Antoninus, St., Archbishop of Florence, 96
  • “Apology” of Sir Thomas More, 71, 73, 115, 122, 144
  • Archæology, pagan and Christian, 206
  • Architecture, pre-Reformation activity in, 9-10, 328 et seq.;
  • decline of the art, 329
  • Aretino, 23
  • Art, great activity of, prior to Reformation, 10-12
  • Arundel, Archbishop, 236
  • Ashley, Mr. W. J., cited, 379
  • Augmentation, Court of, 384
  • Badsworth, chantry foundation at, 401
  • Baigent, Mr. F. T., 372, note
  • Baker, mediæval fresco painter, 11
  • Baptism, 225
  • Barbarus, Hermolaus, 29
  • Barnes, Friar, 88, 118, 119, 136, 223
  • Basle, printing-press at, 165
  • Baynard’s Castle, meeting at, 68
  • Beccles, foundation at, 408
  • Becket, Thomas, 441
  • Bede-roll, 335, 341
  • Benedict XII., 103
  • Benedictine Order, average of graduates at Oxford, 42
  • Benefices, 55, 106, 108, note, 353
  • Benefit of clergy, 55
  • Bequests, mediæval, 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;
  • evidence of Catholic acceptance, 237, 242, 247;
  • supposed early Catholic version, 237, 242, 247;
  • persecutions for possession examined, 240, and note, 241;
  • translations authorised, 242-243, 247-249;
  • not prohibited, 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 religious, 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 Emperor Manuel at Christchurch, 22;
  • Selling and Hadley, monks of Christchurch, 24 et seq.;
  • Canterbury College at Oxford, 27, 28, note;
  • St. Augustine’s and the literary 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 position, 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 Reformation, 1, 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, 111-112;
  • 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 teaching 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;
  • immunity, 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 mortification, 134;
  • charges of corruption, 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 encouraging, 242, 244;
  • extent and character of their religious teaching, 280 et seq.;
  • books used by for teaching, 309 et seq.;
  • chantry clergy, 400, 405-409, 413;
  • pilgrimages and relics maintained by, 415;
  • and motives for, 422, 425
  • “Clericus,” 74
  • Cloth, clerical, State’s right to legislate 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 Reformation, 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;
  • enactment regarding ordination, 148-149;
  • powers of legislation transferred to Crown, 153;
  • draws up list of heretical books, 215
  • Corpus Christi, feast of, 373;
  • procession 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
  • Crucifix, reverence of image of, 126, 289-290, 300, 307;
  • not an idol, 293
  • Curates and mortuaries, 140-141;
  • and tithes, 142
  • Cuthbert, Bishop, 219
  • Dalton, John, of Hull, will of, 391
  • Dead, prayers for, 387, 399
  • De Athegua, George, Bishop, 178, and note
  • De Burgo, John, 309
  • Dee, Dr., supplication to Queen Mary, 48
  • Defence of Peace, 103, and note, 104, note
  • Degree, advantage of to religious, 44
  • De Melton, William, Chancellor of York, 149
  • De Ribbe, M. Charles, on wills, 389, 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;
  • reasons 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;
  • parish accounts, 347
  • Dyalogue of Saint-German, 53 et seq., 115, 140;
  • of More, 262, 269, 289
  • Ecclesiastical authority, alleged discontent of laity under, 1, 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 Moriæ, 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. Augustine, 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 Moriæ, 161-162, 201 et seq., 431;
  • at Cambridge, 161-162;
  • testimony to Archbishop Warham’s kindness, 162-163;
  • praise of English ecclesiastics, 163, note;
  • amounts received from English friends, 164;
  • again leaves England, 165;
  • settles at Basle, ibid.;
  • superintends Froben’s press, 166;
  • death, 167;
  • attitude to Church, 167 et seq., 199-200;
  • translation of New Testament, 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 attacks, 187 et seq.;
  • attitude to the Pope, 189-190, and note, 193, 194-195, 197;
  • attacks Lutheran motives, 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, 11
  • 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 architectural 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 religious, 137, note;
  • invitation to Erasmus, 161;
  • on Erasmus’s New Testament, 169, 175, note;
  • supports 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 Testament, 172
  • Funerals, 54
  • Gairdner, James, cited on jurisdiction 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
  • Goldstone, Reginald, monk, companion of Selling, 26
  • Goldstone, Thomas, Prior of Christchurch, 24
  • Gonville Hall, Cambridge, 43, 44
  • Good Friday observances, 302-303
  • Government, true principle of, 106
  • Grace at meals, 314
  • Graduates at Oxford, register of, 41-42
  • Greek emperors, journeys to courts of Western Europe, 22
  • Greek, influence in revival of learning, 14, 21 et seq.;
  • first schools of the revival, 23;
  • effect of fall of Constantinople, 23-24;
  • decline in study of after Reformation, 47;
  • Erasmus and the Greek Testament, 168 et seq.;
  • outcry against studies in, 177
  • Green, historian, cited, 16, note
  • Gregory VII., Pope, 101
  • Grocyn, William, 29, and note, 160
  • Grudge of laity against ecclesiastics, 114
  • Guardian angel, prayer to, 309
  • Guarini, pupil of Chrysoloras, 23
  • Guilds, 351;
  • founded upon principle of Christian brotherhood, 352 et seq.;
  • trade, and religious, 361;
  • benefit societies, 363;
  • their work, 365, 385;
  • constitution, 366 et seq.;
  • “Pinners’” Guild, 368;
  • accounts, 369-370;
  • fees, 371;
  • Guild of Tailors, 371;
  • members, 371;
  • expenditure, 372, and note;
  • their part in Corpus Christi processions, 373-374;
  • brethren of St. John’s, 374;
  • feasts, 376, and note;
  • Candlemas Guild of Bury St. Edmunds, 377;
  • bequests, 377-378;
  • connection with fairs, 378;
  • final destruction, 380
  • Hadley, William, companion of Prior Selling, 24;
  • studies at foreign universities, 25;
  • returns to Christchurch, 26
  • Hair shirts, 131, 134
  • Headship of the Church, the king’s, 56
  • Hegius, Alexander, 157
  • Henley on Thames, chantries at, 405
  • Henry IV., 136
  • Henry VII. obtains Bull from Innocent VIII., 56;
  • purchases pardon for Westminster and Savoy, 124
  • Henry VIII., calendar of papers of reign, 4;
  • exerts his influence on behalf of learning, 36, 177;
  • determined to maintain rights of Crown, 69;
  • book against Luther, 90, 94;
  • defends Church, 94, 226;
  • reputed book, 102, note;
  • petition of Commons, &c., against spirituality, 153;
  • quarrel with Rome on divorce question, 208, and note;
  • forbids Lutheran books, 214, 259;
  • authorises English Bibles, 273;
  • destroys the guilds, 380;
  • the reformers and, 440
  • Heresy, spread by books, 213, 218
  • Hobhouse, Bishop, cited, 346, 357
  • Holidays, determined by ecclesiastical law, 71
  • Holy Land, pilgrimages to, 416
  • Hortulus Animæ, the, 214, and note
  • Huchin, William, see Tyndale
  • Hunn, Richard, 240
  • Hunting, by priests, 138, 139, 151
  • Hutton, Rev. W. H., cited, 208, note
  • Hytton, Sir Thomas, 224, 225
  • Idolatry, charges of, 293, 303, 305
  • Idols, distinguished from images, 265, 289 et seq., 305-306
  • Ignorance, alleged prevalence of, 2, 278
  • Images, confused with idols, 265, 292;
  • veneration of, 289 et seq., 423 et seq.
  • Immunity of clergy, 63, 66 et seq.
  • Indulgences, 108, note, 435 et seq.
  • Innocent VIII. grants Bull to Henry VII., 56, note
  • Janssen, historian, cited, 6, 7, 279, 354
  • Jerome, St., corrections in Testament, 170;
  • cited on Papal supremacy, 197
  • Jessop, Dr., cited, 43;
  • on popular gifts to churches, 336;
  • on poverty, 360
  • Jesus, bowing at name of, 283
  • Joye, George, or Clarke, 221, 224, 253, 257-258, 438
  • Judges, English prelates as, 81
  • Julius II., Pope, 96, 102, 109, 204
  • Jurisdiction, limits of ecclesiastical and lay, 51, 65 et seq., 176;
  • leading factor in Reformation, 52;
  • Papal, 78 et seq.;
  • Roman curia as court of appeal, 80
  • Katherine, Queen, 178
  • Kent, Holy Maid of, 441
  • King’s power, 75;
  • his headship of Church, 65, 111
  • Knowledge, result of increase of, 2
  • Laity, Reformation opposed to convictions of, 1;
  • alleged disaffection to Church, ibid.;
  • and reasons advanced, ibid.;
  • attitude to Church’s jurisdiction, 51;
  • absence of enthusiasm among in doctrinal disputes, 52;
  • grudge against ecclesiastics, 114 et seq.;
  • charge clergy with mercenary spirit, 123;
  • dislike of clergy, and reasons for, 127;
  • “mortuaries” a great offence to, 140
  • Langton, Thomas, Bishop of Winchester, 33, and note
  • Languages, battle of, 176-179
  • Laocöon, the, statue of, 206, note
  • Latimer, William, Bishop, 34, 38, 47;
  • lawsuits, 348 et seq.
  • “Latria,” 294-304, 306-307
  • Lawyers, ecclesiastical, 95
  • Learning, revival not due to Reformation, 7-8, 15;
  • adverse effects of Reformation on, 9, 198-199;
  • “New Learning” applied only to religious teaching, 15 et seq.;
  • Church’s attitude to learning, 15, 19, 38;
  • Erasmus on Reformation’s effect on, 20;
  • general aspect of revival, 21;
  • Greek influence in, 14, 21 et seq.;
  • subsequent progress, 35;
  • occasional pulpit denunciations, ibid.;
  • slight nature of opposition, 36;
  • laymen associated with revival, 37;
  • fostered by monasteries, 39;
  • condition of things at universities, 41-44;
  • education assisted by religious houses, 45;
  • decay of after Reformation, 45-48;
  • revival of, associated with Lutheranism, 178;
  • but without cause, 180-181;
  • Erasmus’s attitude to revival of letters, 203-207
  • Lee, Edward, afterwards Archbishop of York, 173-174, and note, 252
  • Leeds, chantries at, 411-412
  • Leland, cited, 24, note, 25
  • Leo X., Pope, 28, and note, 76, 94, 96, 173, 179, 181, 185, 439
  • Leo XIII., Pope, cited, 355, note
  • Leonicenus, 34
  • Leonicus, 34, and note
  • Leverton, parish of, 339;
  • Church accounts, 343 et seq.
  • Lewes, Cluniac House at, 43
  • Liberty advocated by Luther, 227
  • Libraries, destruction of, 48;
  • Dr. Dee’s supplication to Queen Mary, 48;
  • national library suggested, 49
  • Life, daily rules of, 286-287, 313
  • Lilly, George, 29, note
  • Linacre, pupil of Selling, sketch of early life, 27;
  • accompanies Selling to Italy, 28; becomes pupil of Politian, 28;
  • at Rome, 29;
  • returns to Oxford, 30;
  • appointed Court physician, ibid.;
  • receives priest’s orders, ibid.;
  • friend of Erasmus, 160, 164
  • Liveries for chaplains, 138
  • Lollards, the, 209 et seq., 214, 240
  • London, Mors’s Lamentation against, 440
  • Longland, Bishop, 93, 146, 147, note
  • Louvain, University of, 160, 174, note, 176, 178, 179, 180
  • Love of God, 299
  • Luce, M. Siméon, cited, 351
  • Lupset, Thomas, sketch of, 36, note;
  • on study of Bible, 248
  • Luther, Martin, aims of, 7;
  • cited on pre-Reformation progress, 8;
  • “New Learning” inculcated by, 16, and note;
  • books against, 84-85, 90, 94;
  • sermon against, 93;
  • Henry VIII. opposes, 94;
  • method of, 108-109, note; More and Lutherans, 120;
  • considered disciple of Erasmus, 156, 178, 180;
  • revival of letters not connected with his movement, 180-181;
  • Erasmus’s repudiation of, 180-182, 195-198;
  • efforts to win over Erasmus, 183-184;
  • attacked by Erasmus, 186, 191-192;
  • supported by von Hutten, 186 et seq.;
  • tenets of Lutheranism, 194;
  • methods of attacking condemned, 196;
  • who responsible for his movement, 197;
  • effects of Lutheranism, 198;
  • and spread of, 212-213;
  • books prohibited, 213-215; disciples, 216;
  • his book, 222;
  • “New Learning” and, 225;
  • advocacy of liberty, 227;
  • evils of Lutheranism, 228-230;
  • and of Lutheran literature, 244;
  • Tyndale’s connection with, 252;
  • share in Tyndale’s Testament, 252-255;
  • direction of his remonstrances, 279
  • Lutheranism, tenets of, 194;
  • responsibility for, 197;
  • effects of, 198;
  • evils of, 228-230;
  • expectations of English Lutherans, 440, 445
  • Lyndwood, cited, 247, 353
  • Mace, George, canon of Westacre, 44
  • Maitland, Professor, quoted on pre-Reformation position of the Pope, 80
  • Manuel, Greek Emperor, arrival at Canterbury, 22
  • Mary Magdalene, religious play, 320
  • Marlianus, Bishop, 197
  • Marshall, William, 103
  • Marsilius of Padua, 103, 104, note
  • Mary, Queen, attempt to restore learning under, 48
  • Mass, the, 225, 271, 283, 285
  • Matrimony, State regulation of, 62;
  • Hytton’s view of, 225
  • Matthew, Simon, preacher, 91
  • Medici, Lorenzo de, 28
  • Mentz, Cardinal Archbishop of, 181, 184
  • Metal-working, inventions in, 428
  • “Miles,” mouthpiece of Saint-German, 74
  • Miracles, 62, 427
  • Monasteries, scholarship in, 39, and note;
  • members of at universities, 42 et seq.
  • Monks, hostile to Erasmus, 176, 180;
  • Erasmus quoted on, 202;
  • pilgrimages and relics maintained by, 415
  • Morality, of clergy, 145-146
  • More, Sir Thomas, attitude to Reformation, 7;
  • and to learning, 19, 35-37;
  • connection with Christchurch, 28;
  • at Oxford, 29, and note;
  • on immunity of clergy, 70;
  • his “Apology,” 71, 73, 115, 122, 144;
  • on spiritual authority, 73;
  • on Papal supremacy, 85 et seq., 88;
  • on nature of the Church, 86 et seq.;
  • against Friar Barnes, 88;
  • book against Luther, 90;
  • death, 91;
  • sermon on, 92;
  • controversy on clergy and laity, 115 et seq.;
  • on quarrels between religious, 116-117;
  • defends clergy, 120;
  • and replies to allegation of their mercenary spirit, 124;
  • and of their idle laxity of life, 127;
  • on abuses in religious life, 130;
  • on prayers and alms of clergy, 131-135;
  • defends clergy from charges of corruption, 136;
  • on faults of clergy, 143-145;
  • and on their morality, 145-146;
  • visited by Erasmus, 160-161;
  • share in Erasmus’s Enconium Moriæ, 161-162, 201;
  • defends Erasmus’s translation of New Testament, 169-170, 173, note;
  • defends Greek studies, 177;
  • urges Erasmus against Luther, 186;
  • opinion of Erasmus’s Enconium Moriæ, 202, note;
  • on spread of heresy, 213, 218;
  • on “New Learning” and Lutheranism, 225;
  • on Luther’s advocacy of liberty, 227;
  • on evils of Lutheranism, 228-230;
  • on English Bible, 237 et seq.;
  • on case of Richard Hunn, 241;
  • on Church’s acceptance of vernacular Bibles, 242-243, 247-249;
  • and on false translations, 243;
  • and reasons for condemnation of Tyndale’s version, 243, 260-270;
  • on reverence of images, 289-291, 293-298;
  • on prayer, 307;
  • on pilgrimages, 419 et seq., 425 et seq.;
  • on relics, 429;
  • on indulgences, 437
  • Morebath, village of, well-supported church, 337
  • Mors, Roderigo, his “Lamentation,” 440
  • Mortality among pilgrims, 418
  • Mortmain, lands in, 54
  • Mortuaries, 53, 140
  • Morysine, Richard, 105, 107, note
  • Mountjoy, Lord, 159, 161, 164
  • Music, pre-Reformation progress in, 12-13;
  • Richard Pace quoted on, 35
  • Mystery plays, 316 et seq.
  • National churches, opposed by Erasmus, 182, note
  • National feeling and the Papacy, 82 et seq.
  • National library, suggested, 49
  • Nevill, Archbishop, 281
  • “New Learning” defined, 15 et seq.;
  • its purely religious application, 16 et seq.;
  • result of, 50;
  • founded on Luther’s teaching, 225
  • New Testament, Erasmus’s translation, 168 et seq.;
  • English versions destroyed, 236;
  • Tyndale version, and Luther’s share in it, 252 et seq.
  • Nicholas V., Pope, 96
  • Nicholas of Cusa, reforms in Germany, 6;
  • opinion on Constantine’s gift to Pope, 96
  • “Noah and his Sons,” religious play, 320
  • Nobility, attitude to clergy, 136
  • Norwich, Visitations of Diocese of, 43;
  • Benedictine Cathedral Priory of, ibid.
  • Nottinghamshire, chantries in, 401-402, 406
  • Obits, 399 et seq.
  • Œcolampadius, 184, 214
  • “Open Bible,” 236, 246, 273, 275
  • Orders, religious, their graduates at Oxford, 42;
  • suggested alterations in constitutions, 129;
  • hostility of Erasmus, 158
  • Ordinations, proposed prohibition regarding, 63;
  • abuses in, 107, 148;
  • action by Convocation, 148-149;
  • William de Melton on, 149-153, note;
  • reformers on, 225, 232
  • Oxford, Register of Graduates at, 41-42;
  • refounding of Durham College at, 48;
  • heresy at, 227;
  • Constitution or Synod of, 238, 247, 280
  • Pace, Richard, befriended by Bishop Langton, 33;
  • his De Fructu, 33, note;
  • at foreign universities, 34;
  • the Pope’s library, ibid.;
  • remarks on music, 35;
  • indebtedness to Abbot Bere, 40;
  • supports Greek studies, 177
  • Pagula, Walter, 309
  • Papal Commissions, 105, 439
  • Papal jurisdiction, meaning of renunciation, 78;
  • general acceptance, 79;
  • books against, 101
  • Papal prerogatives, in England, 52, 107-108;
  • in France, 77
  • Papal supremacy, 83 et seq.;
  • rejection of, 90;
  • English belief in, 93-95;
  • rejection defended by Bishop Tunstall, 109;
  • Erasmus on, 190, and note, 194-195
  • Pardons, 124, 435 et seq.
  • Parish churches, sanctuary privileges, 57;
  • religious teaching in, 280 et seq.
  • Parish life, 323 et seq.;
  • devotion of people, 325;
  • care of the churches, 328;
  • raising of money, 340;
  • brotherhoods, 347
  • Parliament, legislation on mortuaries, 53, 141;
  • and on immunity of clergy, 66;
  • need for settlement of religious divisions, 60;
  • suggested legislation, 55, 62, 71;
  • right of legislation, 141;
  • transfers powers of Convocation to Crown, 153;
  • petition of Commons against spirituality, ibid.;
  • authorises destruction of guilds, 380
  • Paul III., Pope, 105, 439
  • Paul IV., Pope, 438
  • Payment for “Pardons,” 435 et seq.
  • Peckham, or Pecham, Archbishop, 280, 286
  • Penance, 282
  • Pensions, 108, note
  • Pensioners, university, 43
  • Pepwell, publisher, 310, note
  • Petition of House of Commons against spirituality, 153
  • Pilgrimage of Perfection, quoted, 83
  • Pilgrimages, State supervision urged, 62;
  • objections to, 184, 293, 415;
  • importance, 416;
  • foreign, 416;
  • to England, 418
  • Pincern, Bartolomeo, 96
  • Pinners, Guild of, 368-369
  • Plays, mystery, 316 et seq., 342
  • Pocket, the people’s, a clue to religious changes, 52
  • Pole, Cardinal, 48, 107
  • Politian, Angelo, 25, 28
  • Pomeranus, 214
  • Poor, right to benefices, 55;
  • injury to by confiscations, 382, 402 et seq.;
  • bequests to, 397-398
  • Pope, Sir Thomas, 48
  • Pope, the, and Sanctuary, 55 et seq.;
  • pre-Reformation loyalty to, 79;
  • powers in England before Reformation, 80 et seq.;
  • spiritual and temporal power in conflict, 82;
  • position as head of Church, 83 et seq.;
  • rejection of his supremacy, 90;
  • imprisoned, 94;
  • English acceptance of his supremacy, 93-95;
  • Constantine’s gift to, 95;
  • wars of, 97;
  • temporal power of, 97-100, 103-104;
  • authority as Peter’s successor, 90, 99-100, 103;
  • works against character of, 101-104;
  • commission appointed by, 105;
  • how deceived, ibid.;
  • recommendations of commission, 107;
  • sermon against, 109;
  • object of attacks on, 110;
  • Erasmus’s attitude to, 189-190, 193-195, 197;
  • Erasmus’s satire on, 202, and note;
  • refuses to grant Henry’s divorce, 208, and note
  • Powell, Edward, theologian, quoted on papal supremacy, 85
  • Power, spiritual and temporal, 70, 72-73, 82;
  • dialogue on, 73 et seq., 98;
  • the king’s, 75
  • Praier and Complaynte of the Ploweman, 17, and note, 223
  • Prayers, for Pope, 110;
  • of clergy and religious, 131;
  • Sir Thos. More on, 307;
  • daily, 313;
  • for the dead, 399
  • Preaching at St Paul’s Cross, 67, 69;
  • style of against Pope condemned, 92;
  • in parish churches, 281, 283;
  • more important than mass, 284-285
  • “Prick song,” or part music, 12, 13
  • “Primer,” the, 216, 223-224, 286
  • Printing, responsible for spread of heresy, 213;
  • religious works predominate in earliest, 315-316
  • Psalter, the, 223-224
  • Purgatory, 61, 225, 231, 387, 399, 405, 437
  • Pynson, printer, 298
  • Reformation, impossibility of writing history of, 3;
  • revival of letters not due to, 7-8, 15;
  • adverse effect on learning, 9, 20, 41 et seq.;
  • English attitude to Pope prior to, 78-79;
  • share of divorce question in, 208, and note;
  • similar in England to Luther’s principles, 231;
  • meaning, 82, 279;
  • share of Wycliffe and Lollards in, 209 et seq.;
  • effect upon church art, 331;
  • and poverty, 358
  • Relics, honour of, 415 et seq., 429 et seq.
  • Religious, at universities, 42 et seq.;
  • State interference, 61;
  • abuses among, 108, note;
  • reputed quarrels between, 116-117;
  • evils in constitutions, 129;
  • testimony to moral character, 137, note;
  • Mr. Brewer cited on, 147;
  • Erasmus on, 202
  • Religious teaching, alleged neglect of, 278;
  • Reformation not directly connected with, 279;
  • extent and character, 280 et seq.;
  • nature and effect, 288 et seq.;
  • books used by clergy in, 309 et seq.;
  • religious plays, 316 et seq.
  • Renaissance, definition of, 14;
  • in England, ibid.;
  • earlier than generally supposed, 15
  • Restitution, argued, 125;
  • a case involving, 140
  • Reuchlin, 180-181, 184, 186, 187
  • Reverence of images, 289 et seq.
  • Ridley, Lancelot, commentaries on Scriptures, 104, 111, and note, 273-274;
  • on devotion to saints, 422-423;
  • on pilgrimages and images, 424
  • Roberts, John, his Mustre of scismatyke bysshops of Rome, 101, and note
  • Rogers, Mr. Thorold, cited, 356 et seq., 360-361, 364, 403
  • Rome, classical revival in, 203-206;
  • sack of, 230;
  • pilgrimages to, 416
  • Roper, John, 102, note
  • Roper, Mary and Margaret, 37, note, 41, note
  • Roy, Friar, 215, 222
  • Rule of life, daily, 286-287
  • Rules of religious orders, suggested examination, 129
  • Sacrament of the Altar, Dr. Richard Smythe on, 216-217, 273, note;
  • Hytton on, 226
  • Sacraments, English reformers on, 225, 231;
  • attack on, 271
  • Sadolet, Cardinal, 107, 108, note, 439
  • 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