hold my bishopricke of you onely, besechying you of restitucion of the temporalties of the same, promisyng as before, that I shalbe faithefull, true, and obedient subiect to your saied highnes heires and successors durying my life, and the seruices and other thynges dewe to yoore highnes for the restitucion of the Temporalties of the same Bishoprike I shall truly dooe and obediently perfourme, so God helpe me and all sainctes." "The openyng of these othes, was one of the occasions why the Pope within two yere folowyng, lost all his iurisdiccion in Englande, as you shall here afterward. The xiiii daie ye parliament was proroged til the iiii daie of February next ensuyng. After whiche prorogacion, Sir Thomas More, Chauncellor of Englàde, after long sutes made to the kyng to be discharged of that office, the xvi daie of Maie he deliuered to the kyng, at Westminster, the greate seale of Englande, and was with the kynges fauor discharged, whiche seale the kyng kept til Whitsontide followyng, and on the Mondaie in Whitson weke, he dubbed Thomas Awdeley, Speker of the parliament, knight, and made hym lorde keeper of the great seale, and so was he called."-Hall's Chronicles, Ed. 1809, pp. 788, 789; Ed. of 1550, p. 205; xxiv. year of Henry VIII.

INDEX.

A'BECKET, "his troubles, or rather treasons," 93.

The patron Saint of Dr. Wiseman, xviii.

Abbots and Priors, 29; had seats in Parliament, time of H. VIII., 46.
Albert, His Royal Highness the Prince, 169.

Ancient Common Law opposed to Papal interference, 66.

Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 89.

Antiquity of Laws against Popery in England, 81.

Appeals to Rome attempted in time of William Rufus, 89.
same in time of King Stephen, 93.

Appendix A, 119.

complained of, and forbidden, 31, 32, 94, 95.
mischiefs of, 43, 49.

not allowed in ancient times, 83.

See Table of Contents.

Archbishops did not purchase their Palls from Rome, 83.
Thomas à Becket, xviii, 93.

Barons, the declaration of, as to Statute of Merton, Pref. ix, 20.
prohibited by Thomas à Becket, in name of the Pope, to pro-
ceed against him, 96.

excommunicated by the Pope in respect of Magna Charta, 103.
Beaumont, Lord, his Letter to the Earl of Zetland, 161.

Bishop of Rome, his first encroachment in England, 83.
Bishops titular in Ireland, nothing new, 72.

yet liable to prosecution, 72.

British Bishops disregarded St. Augustine, 84.

Bull of Pius V., on effects of, 57.

Bulls of Excommunication, treason at Common Law, to bring them in,
20.

Pope not to be obeyed when against the law of the land, 21.
Bulls from Rome illegal, 25, 28.

none to be put in execution, 80.

or decrees, none to be brought from the Pope, to be executed in
England upon pain of imprisonment, and confiscation of goods. See

Constitutions of Clarendon, 95.

Bulls, or Letters Apostolical of Pius IX., 119.

Canonical election, rise of, 99.

Canterbury, St. Thomas, Archbishop of, as special favour, at all general
councils, should sit at the Pope's foot, 92.

Cardinal sent by the Pope into England time of Ed. II., 109; how the
King and his Nobility acted thereon, 109.

Cardinals, absentees, livings given to, in old time, 22.

Caudrey's Case, 1.

Civil cases distinguished from ecclesiastical, 114.

Clarendon, Constitutions of, 94.

Clerks, or clergy, claim exemption from secular power, 93.

Cities, new, created by the Pope, e.g., Beverley, Hexham, Northampton,
&c., 123, 124.

Collector, the Pope's, has no jurisdiction within this realm, 37.

Common Law, by ancient, treason to bring in Bull of Excommunica-
tion, Ed. I., 20.

Commons, House of, again complain to the King of England of Popery,

39.

Confession of Robert Lalor, 71.

Confessor, Edward the, rules the Holy Church, 17.

Church, the English, does not require foreign interference, 47.

Coke, Sir Edward, his concluding remarks, 66.

Common Law, many ancient Acts declaratory of, 51.

Contents, xi.

Contest, nature of the, xi, not provoked by England, xiii.

Corporation, spiritual, the King only may grant leave to found, 43.
Coronation Oath Act, 158.

Dispute between King John and the Pope, 99.

Distinction attempted between ecclesiastical and spiritual cases, 113.
Durham, the Bishop of, Lord John Russell's Letter to, 133.

Ecclesiastical distinguished from spiritual, 113.

Ecclesiastical jurisdiction exercised by King Kenulph, 16.

Ed. III., 24.

The King and not the Pope, supreme, in time of

Edward the Confessor, 17; Will. I., 17; Hen. III., 19.

Emperors and Kings above the Pope, 89.

England in danger from foreign, Papal interference, before statutes of

Præmunire, 76.

England, by ancient laws, an independent empire, 14.

proofs demonstrative of this out of the laws of England, 16.
laws of, cannot be altered by the Pope, 38.

England given by the Pope to the King of France, 102.

English Church, the, does not require foreign interference, 47.
Excommunication, Bulls of, of no force in England, 26, 38, 43, 44, 45.
Exemption from the secular power, claimed by the clergy, 93.

Florentines, all purchasing claim of, excommunicated. Resolved by all
the Judges of England, that the Pope's excommunication ought not
to be obeyed, or put in execution within the realm of England, 45.
France, the King of, intercedes for the exiled Archbishop, 97.

Pope, 102.

the kingdom of England given him by the

Friars, the corruptors of religion in England, 106.

Governments overthrown by Popery, 150.

Gradual growth of Romish usurpations, 98.

Henry I., Papal usurpation of patronage, and donations of bishopricks, 90.
II. does penance, and kisses the knee of the Pope's Legate, 98.
IV., Resolution against the Pope's collection, 37.

Heresies, statutes against, how some of them were passed, Introduction,
xlv.

High Treason to bring in Bulls of Excommunication, 20.

Indictment in Lalor's Case, 73.

Introductory chapter, xiii.

Ireland and England granted by King John to the Pope, 103.

Italians, promoted in England by the Pope, 105.

Jesuits punished for their treason, not for religion, 64.

John, King, 99.

Kenulph, King, A.D. 755, with consent of his Parliament, grants

exemption from Episcopal control, 16.

King, see Sovereign.

Lalor's Case, 69.

Lalor's Trial, 73.

excites very great interest, 74.

his confession read in Court, 113.

conviction, 118.

Langton, a man unknown to the King, made Archbishop of Canterbury

by the Pope, 101.

Laws of England cannot be altered by the Pope, 38.

Laws and liberties of England, the birthright of Englishmen, 66.

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