. The Lutheran Reform. The Burgundian State. Origins of the
Reformation. Persecution. The Anabaptists.
2. The Calvinist Revolt. National feeling against Spain. Financial
difficulties of Philip II. Egmont and William of Orange. The new
bishoprics. The Compromise. The "Beggars." Alva's reign of terror.
Requesens. Siege of Leyden. The Revolt of the North. Division of the
Netherlands. Farnese. The Dutch Republic.
CHAPTER VI. ENGLAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
1. Henry VIII and the National Church. Character of Henry VIII.
Foreign policy. Wolsey. Early Lutheranism. Tyndale's New
Testament. Tracts. Anticlerical feeling. Divorce of Catharine of
Aragon. The Submission of the Clergy. The Reformation Parliament
1520-30. Act in Restraint of Appeals. Act of Succession. Act of
Supremacy. Cranmer. Execution of More. Thomas Cromwell. Dissolution
of the monasteries. Union of England and Wales. Alliance with the
Schmalkaldic League. Articles of Faith. The Pilgrimage of Grace.
Catholic reaction. War. Bankruptcy.
2. The Reformation under Edward VI. Somerset Regent. Repeal of the
treason and heresy laws. Rapid growth of Protestant opinion. The Book
of Common Prayer. Social disorders. Conspiracy of Northumberland and
Suffolk.
3. The Catholic reaction under Mary. Proclamation of Queen Jane.
Accession and policy of Mary. Repeal of Reforming Acts. Revival of
Treason Laws. The Protestant Martyrs.
4. The Elizabethan Settlement 1558-88. Policy of Elizabeth.
Respective numbers of Catholics and Protestants. Conversion of the
masses. _The Thirty-nine Articles_. The Church of England. Underhand
war with Spain. Rebellion of the Northern Earls. Execution of Mary
Stuart. The Armada. The Puritans.
5. Ireland.
CHAPTER VII. SCOTLAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Backward condition of Scotland. Relations with England. Cardinal
Beaton. John Knox. Battle of Pinkie. Knox in Scotland. The Common
Band. Iconoclasm. Treaty of Edinburgh. The Religious Revolution.
Confession of Faith. Queen Mary's crimes and deposition. Results of
the Reformation.
CHAPTER VIII. THE COUNTER-REFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . 371
1. Italy. The pagan Renaissance; the Christian Renaissance. Sporadic
Lutheranism.
2. The Papacy 1521-90. The Sack of Rome. Reforms.
3. The Council of Trent. First Period (1545-7). Second Period
(1551-2). Third Period
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