Excerpt from The Church History of Britain From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year MDCXLVIII, Vol. 2 of 3: With the Last Corrections of the Author, With a Pref, and Notes by James Nichols T HE beginning of the first-fruits' oflice - Commissioners employed to rate all ecclesiastical preferments - Instructions given to the Commissioners some years spent in the work; vicarages, why so high rated - Queen Mary remits tenths and first fruits Queen Elizabeth resumeth them the state, profit, and policy Of this office - John Lambert condemned, and why. Cranmer's unexcusable cowardly dissimulation - Dutchmen broach' strange opinions - Queen Anne of Cleves, why divorced. The reparations the king made her - Reformation goes backwards. King Henry justly blamed compared with King Jehu. The six bloody articles. The Lord Cromwell's design miscarrieth - Bonner first beginneth to Bonner 1t Cromwell falls into the king's displeasure, and people's hatred. Why Cromwell was deservedly envied. Cromwell's admirable parts - Articles charged upon the Lord Cromwell. An injurious act to many poor people charged on the Lord Cromwell. The worst passionate speech objected against him - His speech on the scaffold. His prayer, whereby his speech may be interpreted - Heaven is just in earth's injustice. Yet the Lord Cromwell by a great person acquitted herein. His exemplary gratitude His care for his children. An eminent instance of his humilitwen of different judgment meeting at their death - A statute made for the recovery of tithes - Acts of this year's convocation - Words in the Testament which Gardiner desired might be preserved entire in the translation - The papists' plot therein - Cranmer stickleth for the universities' approbation - The six articles somewhat mitigated. The acts of the last parliament in this king's reign - The original of stews. The regulation of the stews. The impossi bility to legitimate what in itself is unlawful - Arguments pro and can about stews - Prelates' loss by pomp - The character of Anne Ashcough. Her plea for leaving her husband. She is first racked, and then burned. Her prose and poetry - The king marrieth Catherine Parr. The con spiracy of her enemies against her, by God's providence, defeated Parsons's wild intelligence Testamentum Regz's Hmmi VII]. Names of the executors - When this will was made - Legacies scarcely paid Monument made for the king by the cardinal - Why his nieces more at liberty than his daughters - Ten thousand pounds the portion of a princess - Much of arbitrariness in his will - The Scottish line quite left out Legatees witnesses in the king's will. Little of his will performed - His disease and the manner of his death. His hope expressed by speechless gesture - Lying Slanders - His vices and virtues - Why King Henry's monument never perfected - Cardinal Pole's project - The bones of King Henry abused. Pages 105 - 151. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.