Category: History - British
Where changes are about to take place of great and enduring moment, a kind of prologue, on a small scale, sometimes anticipates the true opening of the drama; like the first drops which give notice of the coming storm, or as if the shadows of the reality were projected forward...
Where changes are about to take place of great and enduring moment, a kind of prologue, on a small scale, sometimes anticipates the true opening of the drama; like the first dro...
12. CHAPTER IX.While the disturbance in Ireland was at its height, affairs in England had been scarcely less critical. The surface indeed remained unbroken. The summer of 1534 passed away, and...
10. did. And here we entered in communication upon two points: one was thathis Holiness, having committed in times past, and in most ample form, the cause into the realm, promising not to revoke the said commission, and over that, to confirm the proces...
11. CHAPTER VIII."The Pander[277] sheweth, in the first chapter of his book, called _Salus Populi_, that the holy woman, Brigitta, used to inquire of her good angel many questions of secrets div...
14. CHAPTER XIThe first act of the great drama appeared to have closed. No further changes were for the present in contemplation. The church was reëstablished under its altered constitution;...
13. CHAPTER X.Many high interests in England had been injured by the papal jurisdiction; but none had suffered more vitally than those of the monastic establishments. These establishments had...
9. CHAPTER VII.I have now to resume the thread of the political history where it was dropped at the sentence of divorce pronounced by Cranmer, and the coronation of the new queen. The effect w...
3. CHAPTER VII.4. CHAPTER VIII.2. CHAPTER VI.5. CHAPTER IX.6. CHAPTER X.7. CHAPTER XI.1. VOLUME II.