HISTORICAL MEMOIRS

RESPECTING THE ENGLISH, IRISH, AND SCOTTISH CATHOLICS

FROM THE REFORMATION TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

By

CHARLES BUTLER

I. General Remark, on the state of Learning and Religion, during the middle ages

II. Preliminaries of the Reformation

III. Henry the Eighth:  Commencement of the Reformation

IV. He receives from, the Pope, the title of Defender of the Faith

V. His Divorce from Queen Katharine 

VI. Introduction to the history of the King's assumption of the title of Supreme Head of the Church of England

VII. Henry the Eighth assumes the title of Supreme Head of the Church of England

VIII. Criminal Prosecutions

XI. Monastic Institutions

X. The Dissolution of Monasteries

XI. Pope Paul the Third excommunicates Henry the Eighth

XII. Ecclesiastical Regulations in his reign. The death of Henry the Eighth

XIII. Edward the Sixth

XIV. Principal Ecclesiastical Occurrences in the reign of Queen Mary, 1553

XV. Queen Elizabeth

XVI. Queen Elizabeth declared head of the Church of England:

XVII. Principal Ecclesiastical Arrangements in the reign of Queen Elizabeth

XVIII. Persecution of the Catholics

XIX. Reasons assigned to justify the sanguinary Laws, enacted in the reign of Queen Elizabeth against Catholics and the rigorous execution of them

XX. Alleged Plots of the Catholics against Queen Elizabeth

XXI. Protestation of Allegiance presented to the Queen by Thirteen Priests.

XXII. Two Briefs of Clement the eighth.

XXIII. James the first, his Dispositions towards the English Catholics at the time of his Accession to the throne.

XXIV. The Gunpowder Conspiracy

XXV. The Oath of Allegiance framed by James the first:

XXVI. The Controversy respecting the lawfulness of the Oath

XXVII. The examination of Mr. Blackwell, the Archpriest, before his Majesty's Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

XXVIII. Ulterior Occurrences respecting the Protestation of Allegiance

XXIX. The Puritans