Rise And Growth of the Anglican Schism

Nicolas Sander Rev. Fr. Dr.

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First published around 1573, and known as the "earliest; most trustworthy account" of the Reformation in England. Contains a variety documentation that defies description, like the revelation that proposes Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second "wife," was actually his illegitimate daughter. Later finished by Fr. Rishton, the whole ghastly story of the Protestant revolt in England-with all its unsavory characters-is told through 1587 and the murder of Mary Queen of Scots (rightful heir to the throne) under Elizabeth I. 528 pgs;

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• Methods
• Droit et juridique
• Christian theology
• Catholic Church
• List of country legal systems
• History of religions
• Christianity

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• Publié par: TAN Books
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 1988
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781505104585
• Langue: English

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The Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism
Nicolas Sander, D.D .
Originally published in Latin in 1585 (Cologne) as De Origine ac Progressu Schismatis Anglicani ("Concerning the Origin and Progress of the Anglican Schism"). Issued in over 30 editions in various countries—in Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Polish.
This edition, the first edition in English, was first published in 1877 by Burns and Oates, London.
Republished in 1988 by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc. by arrangement with Burns & Oates Ltd., Tunbridge Wells, England.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 88-50849
ISBN: 0-89555-347-3
TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina www.TANBooks.com
1988
CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION
EDWARD RISHTON TO THE READER
PREFACE

BOOK I.
CHAPTER I.
STATE OF EUROPE—MARRIAGE OF ARTHUR AND CATHERINE—THE DISPENSATION—THE BETROTHAL OF HENRY AND CATHERINE
CHAPTER II.
PIETY OF CATHERINE—DISSOLUTENESS OF HENRY—THE PRINCESS MARY SOUGHT IN MARRIAGE—BETROTHED TO THE DAUPHIN
CHAPTER III.
WOLSEY—LONGLAND—THE DIVORCE
CHAPTER IV.
THE DIVORCE RESOLVED UPON—THE BISHOP OF TARBES—THE CARDINAL SENT AS AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE— ANNE BOLEYN
CHAPTER V.
SIR THOMAS BOLEYN—SIR FRANCIS BRYAN—EDUCATION OF ANNE BOLEYN
CHAPTER VI.
SIR THOMAS BOLEYN WARNS THE KING—CONFESSION OF SIR THOMAS WYATT—INFATUATION OF THE KING—SIR THOMAS MORE—MARY BOLEYN—DISTRESS OF THE CARDINAL
CHAPTER VII.
THE KING SENDS ENVOYS TO ROME—ANSWER OF THE POPE—DECISION OF THE CARDINALS—LEGATES APPOINTED
CHAPTER VIII.
THE QUEEN PETITIONS THE POPE— CARDINAL CAMPEGGIO ARRIVES IN ENGLAND—HYPOCRISY OF HENRY—FIRMNESS OF THE QUEEN—ANNE BOLEYN AT COURT—INSOLENCE OF THE KING'S AMBASSADORS
CHAPTER IX.
PERPLEXITIES OF THE KING—SITTING OF THE COURT IN BLACKFRIARS—THE KING AND QUEEN PRESENT—THE QUEEN APPEALS TO THE POPE
CHAPTER X.
OBJECTIONS OF HENRY'S LAWYERS—ANSWER OF THE QUEEN'S LAWYERS
CHAPTER XI.
THE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER PLEADS FOR THE QUEEN—DR. RIDLEY—THE DUKE OF SUFFOLK—CARDINAL CAMPEGGIO ADJOURNS— THE POPE RECALLS THE POWERS OF THE LEGATES—FALL OF WOLSEY
CHAPTER XII.
FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES—BRIBERY—REGINALD POLE—WRITERS ON THE DIVORCE—LETTER OF THE PEERS TO THE POPE
CHAPTER XIII.
DEATH OF CARDINAL WOLSEY—OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY—CRANMER'S DISHONESTY—THE ROYAL SUPREMACY—THE MARRIAGE BEFORE THE DIVORCE
CHAPTER XIV.
VALIDITY OF THE FIRST MARRIAGE—IMPEDIMENTS OF MATRIMONY—SHAMELESSNESS OF HENRY—SENTENCE OF THE POPE
CHAPTER XV.
APOSTASY OF HENRY—THE DIVORCE PRONOUNCED BY CRANMER—CORONATION OF ANNE BOLEYN—SIR THOMAS MORE—THE OBSERVANT FRIARS—THE ROYAL SUPREMACY
CHAPTER XVI.
MARTYRS—THE CARTHUSIANS—THE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER—SIR THOMAS MORE
CHAPTER XVII.
VISITATION OF THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES—SUPPRESSION OF THE SMALLER MONASTERIES—DEATH OF QUEEN CATHERINE—EXECUTION OF ANNE BOLEYN—FATHER FOREST—LAMBERT—MARTYRS—ST. THOMAS BECKETT—ANNE OF CLEVES—CROMWELL
CHAPTER XVIII.
CROMWELL'S FALL—MARTYRS—THE KING WEARY OF THE SCHISM— CATHERINE HOWARD— CATHERINE PARR—MARTYRS—THE COINAGE DEBASED—SUPPRESSION OF THE CHANTRIES
CHAPTER XIX.
MISERY OF THE KING—COWARDICE OF THE BISHOPS—DEATH OF THE KING

BOOK II.
CHAPTER I.
THE ROYAL SUPREMACY—UNCHRISTIAN—EDWARD VI.—THE PROTECTOR— BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER— SIR RALPH SADLER
CHAPTER II.
DESTRUCTION OF THE ALTARS—CRANMER'S CHANGES—LATIMER—EXECUTION OF LORD SEYMOUR—THE RISINGS IN THE WEST AND IN NORFOLK
CHAPTER III.
QUARRELS OF THE EARL OF WARWICK AND THE DUKE OF SOMERSET— JOAN BOCHER— MARRIAGE OF PRIESTS—BUCER AND MARTYR— DISPUTATIONS IN OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE
CHAPTER IV.
DOCTORS AND CONFESSORS—FECKENHAM—JOLIFFE—CRISPIN AND MOREMAN—DR. WATSON—ANTONIO BUONVISI—HARPSFIELD—CARDINAL POLE—GARDINER
CHAPTER V.
DEBASING OF THE COIN—PONET—HOOPER

BOOK III.
CHAPTER I.
LADY JANE GREY—ACCESSION OF MARY—CONDEMNATION OF CRANMER—ARRIVAL OF CARDINAL POLE—PETITION OF PARLIAMENT—ABSOLUTION AND RECONCILIATION OF THE KINGDOM
CHAPTER II.
SERMON OF GARDINER— DEATH OF MARY— ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH
BOOK IV.
SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER I.
HYPOCRISY OF ELIZABETH—CECIL—OATH OF SUPREMACY—HEADSHIP OF THE CHURCH—DELUSION OF THE CATHOLICS
CHAPTER II.
THE ROYAL SUPREMACY—LEGISLATION OF ELIZABETH
CHAPTER III.
THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS—COWARDICE OF THE PEERS—THE ACT OF UNIFORMITY—THE CATHOLICS DRIVEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY
CHAPTER IV.
THE LAWYERS—THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN—CATHOLICS FREQUENT THE HERETICAL ASSEMBLIES—LACK OF MINISTERS IN THE NEW RELIGION
CHAPTER V.
THE CREATION OF THE PROTESTANT BISHOPS—THE OLD TITLES RETAINED—MARRIAGE OF THE NEW CLERGY—PARLIAMENTARY SANCTION OF THE PROTESTANT ORDINATIONS—MARRIAGE OF THE CLERGY
CHAPTER VI.
DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCIES OF THE NEW CLERGY—HONOUR PAID TO THE QUEEN—CECIL'S FAST—THE QUEEN CORRECTS THE PREACHERS—VIOLATION OF TREATIES—ENCOURAGEMENT OF FOREIGN REBELS—THE NUNCIO OF THE POPE NOT ALLOWED TO LAND IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER VII.
THE EMPEROR INTERCEDES ON BEHALF OF THE CATHOLICS—MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS—THE EARLS OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND
CHAPTER VIII.
THE SEMINARIES—BULL OF ST. PIUS V.
CHAPTER IX.
FURY OF THE QUEEN AND PARLIAMENT—PENAL LEGISLATION—ROWLAND JENKS—RISE OF THE PURITANS—THE SOCIETY OF JESUS—CONVERSIONS—MARTYRS
CHAPTER X.
FATHER HEYWOOD—MARTYRS—THE PEERS ASSAILED—SEVERITY OF THE PERSECUTION
CHAPTER XI.
BANISHMENT OF THE PRIESTS—MORE PENAL LEGISLATION
CHAPTER XII.
CECIL'S BOOK—CARDINAL ALLEN—MARTYRS—DUTY AND ZEAL OF THE PRIESTS—FAITHFULNESS OF THE LAITY—CONCLUSION

ANNALS OF THE SCHISM
INTRODUCTION.
By David Lewis
T HE earliest and the most trustworthy account which we possess of the great changes in Church and State that were wrought in the reign of Henry VIII. was written by the celebrated Dr. Nicolas Sander, and published in the year of our Lord 1585, at Cologne, with the following title:—
"Doctissimi viri Nicolai Sanderi, de origine ac progressu Schismatis Anglicani liber. Continens historiam maxime ecclesiasticam, annorum circiter sexaginta, lectu dignissimam: nimirum, ab anno 21 regni Henrici 8 quo primum cogitare cœpit de repudianda legitima uxore serenissima Catherina, usque ad hunc vigesimum septimum Elizabethæ, quæ ultima est ejusdem Henrici soboles. Editus et auctus per Edouardum Rishtonum. Præcipua capita totius operis post præfationem authoris continentur. Coloniæ Agrippinæ, Anno Domini, 1585."
His work was sent to the printers after the death of the author, as may be gathered from the title-page, by the Rev. Edward Rishton, missionary priest, who added to it the Fourth Book.
Dr. Sander himself had made some progress in his account of the reign of Elizabeth, but as he had not perfectly arranged it for the press, Mr. Rishton thought it best to supply its place, as he has done, with the clear and accurate sketch, which is here called the continuation of the history.
Edward Rishton, the first editor of Dr. Sander's account of the rise of the Anglican Schism, was "descended," according to Tanner, "from an ancient and honourable family in the county of Lancaster— familia antiqua et generosa in agro Lancastriensi oriundus "—and entered Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1568, when Elizabeth was queen of England.
Having finished his course, he took his degree of B.A. in 1572, and in the following year entered the new seminary at Douai, then newly founded by William, afterwards Cardinal, Allen; for among those who, according to the register of the seminary, began to study theology on the feast of St. Remi, October 1, 1573, was Edward Rishton of the diocese of Chester. 1
The seminary was an offence to queen Elizabeth and her ministers, who stirred up the heretics at Douai 2 to molest the English students whom Cardinal Allen had brought together. The molestations which the seminarists had to endure were so serious that it was resolved to remove into a more peaceful city. John Wright, B.D., and Edward Rishton were therefore sent to Rheims, November 10, 1576, to prepare the way for the migration thither of their brethren in Douai, if a place could be found for them, and if the University of Rheims were disposed to receive them with goodwill. 3
On Easter Eve in the following year, April 7, 1577, Mr. Rishton was ordained priest at Cambrai, 4 and on the second Sunday after Easter, April 21, said Mass for the first time. He sang on that day the high Mass at the high altar of the parish church, according to the rite there in use; but the priests who were trained at Douai, vexatione dante intellectum , abandoned the local rites to which their forefathers had been accustomed in England, and said Mass according to the Roman rite, in obedience to the decrees of St. Pius V. 1 He left Douai August 2 of this year, and went to Rome 2 to perfect his theological learning. On the 18th of April 1580 he left Rome, 3 and on the last day of May was in the seminary, then in Rheims, together with the future martyr, Edmund Campian, of the Society of Jesus, and the celebrated Father Persons. Six other priests also were there on that day, two of whom, Ralph Sherwin and Luke Kirby, who had left Rome with him, not long after obtained the crown of the martyrs in England. 4
Mr. Rishton left Rheims on the 5th day of June, and made his way to England; but "the feet swift to shed blood" overtook him, and he was seized, imprisoned, tried, and condemned to death. 5 That sentence, however, was not executed, but he was kept a prisoner in the Tower, out of which he was taken January 21, 1585, and placed on board a vessel, and cast ashore on the coast of Normandy, by orders of Elizabeth. He reached Rheims on the 3d of March, and then went to Paris, where he met his friend, who prevailed upon him to publish this work of Dr. Sander. But during his imprisonment in the Tower of London he kept a diary, in which he recorded from time to time the merciless tortures to which the Catholics within its walls were subjected by the ministers of Elizabeth. The diary was published after his death, at the end of the edition of D