IV. 13 March. Lamentable Petition to the Queen from the Puritans IV. 18 March. HENRY BARROW'S Account of his Examination before the Privy Council IV. [May or June]. Names of sundry Puritans imprisoned by the Bishops V. 30 June. The clerical Censors appointed by Archbishop WHitgift Quotations from PENRY'S Treatise. Containing the Equity of An Humble Supplication &c. Oxford: suppressed by the High Commis- II. 7 Mar. Quotations from his Appellation to the High Court of Parliament &c. [Rochelle], describing the suppression of the Treatise and his subsequent I. 14 Nov. Depositions of N. KYDWELL. of Kingston on Thames W. STANGHTON of Kingston on Thames J. GOOD of Kingston on Thames... I. 29 Nov. Examination of Rev. W. ROGERS, Minister of Richmond The Queen's Proclamation against the Epistle and the Epitome... Archbishop WHITGIFT's report to Lord BURGHLEY of the seizure of the II. WILLIAM CAMDEN'S Notice of the Controversy... III. Doctor GABRIEL HARVEY. Suspected of being MARTIN. Attack on Tom IV. Doctor H. SAMPSON. Notes as to J. HALES and J. THROCKMORTON V. Lord BACON's Advertisements touching the Controversies of the Church of GENERAL PREFACE. be IN the threshold of much heated Controversy, it is needful to say a few words as to our standpoint thereto. This Series is not calculated to the meridian of either the Assent or Dissent of British islanders to the principle of a State Church; but appeals in ecclesiastical matters to the cultivated common sense of all men who can read English. It is confessed that in no colony or new commonwealth now-adays should the foundation of a State Church of any kind be attempted. Apparently also we are in the last century of such institutions in this island: so that when the Centenary of the abolition of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Ireland arrives, there may no State Presbytery in Scotland or State Episcopacy in England in existence. Yet while such organizations are politically doomed; they never were more useful, they never came nearer to their ideal. If they pass away, it will be because they are a fundamental violation of the equality of Protestant citizenship in this realm. All assumptions and theories for them have expired. They confessedly subsist by the will of the majority of the voters: so that one or two political waves of Liberalism may accomplish their removal. Whenever it may come; may it be done considerately, and with a full regard for the individual interests of the State clergy: and especially may it result in the ministry of all GOD's teachers being strengthened as the First of the Professions; so that mere moneymakers may not have sway in all things. |