CONTENTS.



Penal laws of 15    6    2     3........................... 186
Lord Monwtague's noble speech .................. 187
Hallant on Camden and Strype ................ .   189
Northern insurrections ...........................  189
A terrible and bloody code ....................... 190
Hallain on Lingard ...........................   190
Elizabeth's Inquisition ...........................  192
TIer "Pursuivants" ...........................   193
Fines for recusancy ...........................   193
The prisons filled ...........................   194
And the magistrates complaining .............. 194
Nobility and gentry ruined ....................... 194
Bloody executions................................... 194
Number of victims ...........................    194
Bull of Pope Pius V................................. 196



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Did not cause, but greatly aggravated, the
  persecution.......................................... 196
Hallam's testimony .................................. 197
lie confirms all our important statements... 198
The rack seldom       idle ................................ 198
Loyalty of Catholics ................................. 198
Cecil defends the use of the rack ............... 198
The hunted priests ................................... 201
The church spoilers .................................    203
Nothing can soften Elizabeth .................... 204
Bishop Short on her rapacity, sacrilege, and
  tyranny............................................... 204
Fate of the church spoilers ....................... 205
Three other Protestant witnesses .............. 206
The verdict of history rendered ................ 207



                 CHAPTER IV.

MARY AND ELIZABETH COMPARED, pp. 208-222.



Relative length of their reigns .................. 208
Their respect for their mothers .................. 209
Their religious feelings and conscience ...... 210
Plautus ill the church on Sunday ...  .. 210
Their respective relations to the Church..... 211
Their comparative moral character ............ 211
Their disinterestedness and selfishness ....... 211
T'he one merciful, the other cruel .............. 212
The one liberal in government, the other a
  tyrant.................................................. 212
Hlallam on Lingard's authorities ............... 212
Testimony of Bliss Strickland and of Mac-
  aulay ....................................   213
Their restoring and crushing English
  liberty.................................................. 214
Their foreign policy ................................. 215



That of Mary single and honest ................. 215
That of Elizabeth tortuous and insincere .... 215
11er motto " Divide and conquer ................. 216
The success of Elizabeth the chief element
  of her popularity .................................. 216
11er ministers compared with those of Mary,
  and particularly Gardiner ...................... 216
Their respective persecutions compared .   217
Ilallam answered ..................................... 219
Macaulay's statement ............................... 219
Their deaths............................................ 221
Success of Elizabeth no evidence of divine
approval.............................................. 221
Awful death of Elizabeth, the real found-
  ress of modern Anglicanism .................. 222



                     CHAPTER V.

REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND-JOHN KNox, pp. 223-276.



Distinctive characteristic of the Scottish
  Reformation, compared with that of Eng-
  land ....................................      224
It works its way from low to high ............. 224
Condition of the Catholic Church in Scot-
  land in the sixteenth century ................. 224
Abuse of patronage ................................. 225
McCrie's statement reviewed .................... 225
Exaggeration .................................... .... 227
The real secret of the degeneracy .............. 227
John Knox ....................................   228
his motto...................................... 28.......... 228
Compared with Calvin .............................. 228
His life sketched ....................................  229
The fearful struggle ................................. 230
Ancient Catholic glories scattered ............. 230
What we propose to prove ...............  ......... 231
The Scottish Reformation the work of vio-
  lence ....................................     231
Assassination of Cardinal Beatoun .............2 31
Previous negotiations with Henry VIII.  232
The Scottish proto-martyr Wishart con-
  cerned .....................................  232 l
Knox approves the deed ............................ 233
his horrible " vein of humor" ................... 233
The Scottish nobles seek plunder .............. 233
The " Lords of the Congregation ................ 234
Two Solemn Leagues and Covenants .......... 234
Knox's ideas of religious liberty and tolera-
  tion ....................................     235
Conciliation thrown away ........................ 235
Burniag and destructive zeal .................... 235



Reformation at Perth ............................... 236
At St. Andrew's .................................... 237
And elsewhere.........................................237
Horrible destruction and desolation ........... 237
McCrie defends it all, as removing the monu-
  ments of idolatry ................................. 238
The queen regent offers religious liberty .... 239
11er offer spurned .................................... 239
Knox's idea of religious liberty ................. 240
Two armies in the field ............................ 240
Elizabeth of England meddling ................. 240
The queen regent deposed ........................ 241
Treaty of peace........................................ 242
How the Kirk was established by law ....... 242
Mary of Scots arrives ................................  24.5
Her first reception and treatment .............. 245
She is imprisoned at Lochleven ................. 245
John Knox her relentless Pleney ............... 246
He clamors for her blood........... ............... 246
Glance at her subsequent history and death.. 246
Miss Strickland and Mackintosh .........    ...... 246
How she was treated in Scotland ............... 247
She is hated by Knox ............................... 247
Her marriage with Darnley ...................... 247
Sermon of Knox ....................................  247
Who approves of the assassination of Rizzio.. 247
He flies from Edinburgh ........................... 247
Mary innocent..........                  248
A cluster of wicked men ........................  249
Murray the worst ..........       .............. 249
Mackintosh reviewed          .......................... 249
" The end justifies the means .................... 252