Charles the First-Preliminary Occurrences connected with the History of the English Catholics during his Reign - page 284 Ecclesiastical Occurrences among the English Catholics during the 1.-Nature and extent of the powers of Bishops in 3. The claims of the regular Clergy to Exemption from their episcopal Jurisdiction Condition of the English Catholics from the meeting of the Long Parliament till the end of the reign of Charles the First 397 Loyalty of the English Catholics during the Civil War, and the ib. HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS, &c. SINCE THE REFORMATION. CHAP. XXXV. THE ARMADA. CONDUCT OF THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS. 1588. WE are now arrived at an event, which every Englishman surveys with exultation:-it was a trying circumstance to the English catholics; but even in the opinion of their adversaries, their conduct in it did them honour. For a considerable time, Philip the second had been employed in making preparations for some enterprize, both by sea and land, of no common magnitude: towards the close of the year 1587, it became public, that the object of it was the invasion of England: troops from every part of Europe subject to the power or control of the |