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Title: History of the English People
Volume 4 (of 8)

Author: John Richard Green

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HISTORY

OF

THE ENGLISH PEOPLE

BY

JOHN RICHARD GREEN, M.A.
HONORARY FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD

VOLUME IV

THE REFORMATION, 1540-1593

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD.
NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO.
1896

_First Edition, Demy 8vo, November 1877,_
_Reprinted December 1877, 1881, 1885, 1890_
_Eversley Edition 1896_

CONTENTS

BOOK VI

THE REFORMATION. 1540-1603

CHAPTER I
PAGE
THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTION. 1540-1553 7

CHAPTER II

THE CATHOLIC REACTION. 1553-1558 72

CHAPTER III

THE ENGLAND OF ELIZABETH. 1558-1561 146

CHAPTER IV

ENGLAND AND MARY STUART. 1561-1567 195

CHAPTER V

ENGLAND AND THE PAPACY. 1567-1582. 247

CHAPTER VI

ENGLAND AND SPAIN. 1582-1593 323

BOOK VI

THE REFORMATION

1540-1603

AUTHORITIES FOR BOOK VI

1540-1603

For the close of Henry the Eighth's reign as for the reigns of Edward
and Mary we possess copious materials. Strype covers this period in his
"Memorials" and in his lives of Cranmer, Cheke, and Smith; Hayward's
"Life of Edward the Sixth" may be supplemented by the young king's own
Journal; "Machyn's Diary" gives us the aspect of affairs as they
presented themselves to a common Englishman; while Holinshed is near
enough to serve as a contemporary authority. The troubled period of the
Protectorate is illustrated by Mr. Tytler in the correspondence which he
has published in his "England under Edward the Sixth and Mary," while
much light is thrown on its close by Mr. Nicholls in the "Chronicle of
Queen Jane," published by the Camden Society. In spite of countless