A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY

ANTECEDENT TO THAT PERIOD,
AND IN THE HISTORIES OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH,
AND THE DISSENTING AND EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONS;

AND SOME

HISTORICAL MINUTES RESPECTING THE TEMPORAL POWER
OF THE POPES; THE SEPARATISTS FROM THE CHURCH
OF ROME BEFORE THE REFORMATION; THE SOCIETY

OF JESUS; AND TIIE GUELPHIC FAMILY.

BY CHARLES BUTLER, Esg.

OF LINCOLN'S-INN.

ΦΩΝ ΑΝΤΑ ΕΠΙΕΙΚΕΣ Ι. .

IN FOUR VOLUMES:

VOL. II.

THIRD EDITION,

CORRECTED, REVISED, AND CONSIDERABLY AUGMENTED.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

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V. 2

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CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME THE SECOND.

CHAP. XXXV.

The Armada. Conduct of the English Catholics

page 1

1588.

1.- Bull of Sixtus Quintus

2.-Cardinal Allen's Admonition to the Nobility and

People of England

5

3.-Conduct of the English Catholics during the threat-

ened Invasion

8

2

CHAP. XXXVI.

14

The Politics of some of the English Catholic Fugitives, in the

Spanish Dominions --Publications of their School - The Queen's

Proclamation—The Reply of Father Persons—The Penal

Act against the Catholics of the thirty-fifth year of her

Majesty

1594.

1.–The Spanish Party among the English Catholic

Fugitives -

15

2.-Circumstances attending the Spanish Party; two

Publications of their School

3.-Proclamation in the thirty-fifth year of Queen

Elizabeth

25

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