Part II.--To the Close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I--

I. "How soon--alas! did Man, created pure" 33

II. "From false assumption rose, and fondly hail'd" 36

III. Cistertian Monastery 37

IV. "Deplorable his lot who tills the ground" 38

V. Monks and Schoolmen 39

VI. Other Benefits 40

VII. Continued 40

VIII. Crusaders 41

IX. "As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest" 42

X. "Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root" 43

XI. Transubstantiation 44

XII. The Vaudois 44

XIII. "Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain springs" 45

XIV. Waldenses 46

XV. Archbishop Chichely to Henry V. 47

XVI. Wars of York and Lancaster 48

XVII. Wicliffe 49

XVIII. Corruptions of the Higher Clergy 49

XIX. Abuse of Monastic Power 50

XX. Monastic Voluptuousness 51

XXI. Dissolution of the Monasteries 52

XXII. The Same Subject 52

XXIII. Continued 53

XXIV. Saints 54

XXV. The Virgin 54

XXVI. Apology 55

XXVII. Imaginative Regrets 56

XXVIII. Reflections 57

XXIX. Translation of the Bible 58

XXX. The Point at Issue 58

XXXI. Edward VI 59

XXXII. Edward signing the Warrant for the Execution of Joan of Kent 60

XXXIII. Revival of Popery 61

XXXIV. Latimer and Ridley 61

XXXV. Cranmer 62

XXXVI. General View of the Troubles of the Reformation 64

XXXVII. English Reformers in Exile 64

XXXVIII. Elizabeth 65

XXXIX. Eminent Reformers 66

XL. The Same 67

XLI. Distractions 68

XLII. Gunpowder Plot 69

XLIII. Illustration. The Jung-frau and the Fall of the Rhine near Schaffhausen 70

XLIV. Troubles of Charles the First 71

XLV. Laud 71

XLVI. Afflictions of England 72