131; his sailor education some excuse for his ignorance, 132; his honesty and tenacity, 133, 143; his character compared with that of Charles II., 134; his wrong- headedness, 135; his determina- tion to obtain the repeal of the Test Act, 140; his declaration of liberty of conscience, 141; his pro- motion of Papists to ecclesiastical posts, 142; his relations with Penn, 143; he silences the clergy as to controversial topics, 148; his folly, 149, 159; he orders his Declaration to be read in churches, 162; he receives the petition of the seven bishops, 175; his irrita- tion against the bishops' petition, 179; he examines the seven bishops in person, 182; his down- fall promoted by his proceedings at Magdalen College, 191; he solicits the aid of the seven bishops, 200; his conference with them, 201; his tardy concession to their requests, 205; his expul- sion determined on by the people, 206; his inability to resist the in- vasion of William, 208; his inde- cision on William's approach, 212; his reception in France, 213; clerical hopes of his return, 217; Archbishop Sharp prays for him after the Revolution, 256 Jane, Dr., appointed prolocutor of Convocation, 233
Jebb, Rev. J., opposes the election of Dr. Hampden, 338 Jeffreys, Lord Chief Justice, intro- duced into office by Charles II., 133; James's confidence in him, 136; he is made Lord Chancellor, ibid.; his brutal behaviour at Baxter's trial, 137; he silences the counsel for the defence, 138, 139; he advises the revival of the Court of High Commission, 150; and presides over it, ibid., the seven bishops interrogated by him, 181; his condemnation of the judges of the bishops, 199
Jenner, Justice, on the commission for appointing Dr. Parker head of Magdalen College, 186 Jerusalem, see of, alternate present- ation of Anglican and Prussian divines to the, 288
Jesuits, the, support the advice of Jeffreys, 150; are forbidden to enter England, 159; the people determine on their expulsion, 206; accused of fraud in the matter of the birth of the Pre- tender, 208
Jews, their admission into the House of Commons, 358 John Bull, the newspaper, opposes the liberation of the slaves, 315 Johnson, Dr., influence
Church of his writings, 301 Jones, Inigo, defects in his work at
St. Paul's Cathedral, III Jowett, Prof. J. B., effect of Ger- man studies traceable in the works of, 366; one of the authors of "Essays and Reviews," 368 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the last resort in eccle-
siastical cases, 323; Mr. Shore appeals to the, 333 Juxon, Dr., Archbishop of Canter- bury, his duties fulfilled during his illness by Sheldon, 22, 23; his character, 26; he is unable to take part in the Savoy Confer- ence, 39; his death, 60
Kay, Dr., made secretary of the Education Committee of the Privy Council, 392
Keble, Rev. John, one of the writers of the Oxford tracts, 319 Kelly, the Rev. Mr., arrested for complicity in plots for the return of the Pretender, 292 Ken, Dr., Bishop of Bath and Wells, dispenses with special confession from Charles II. when
dying, 124; holds the doctrine of passive obedience, 169; signs the petition against the reading of James's declaration, 172; his ap- pointment as bishop honourable to Charles, 115, 173; Dryden's "Good Parson a picture of, 174; his letter of rebuke to Teni- son in reference to the death of Queen Mary quoted, 248-252 Kendal, the Duchess of, accepts a bribe from Bolingbroke, 294 "Kidderminster Bishop," a, Jeffreys sneers at, 139
King, the Rev. Bryan, his introduc- tion of ritualistic practices, 358; leaves St. George's in the East, 359
King, Sir Peter, his part in Sache- verell's trial, 274; his defence of Whiston, 282
King, the, his rights in matters
ecclesiastical, 22, 323; divine right of, held by Sancroft, 206 King's Bench, James's intention to remodel the Court of, 155; deci- sion of the Court of, as to at- tendance at Church on Sunday, 246; prison of, destroyed by the Gordon rioters, 305
King's College, London, Mr. Mau- rice dismissed by, 382 Kingdom, Prussia becomes a, 286 Kingsley, the Rev. Charles, high estimate of, 383
Kneeling at the reception of the Lord's Supper objected to by the Presbyterians, 20; made optional,
Knight-Bruce, Sir James, on the committee for the trial of the Gorham case, 343
Lake, Dr., Bishop of Chichester, signs the petition against reading James's declaration, 173 Lambeth, Sancroft retires to, on William's arrival, 214; Mary
sends messengers to, 219; San- croft is forced to quit, 221 Lamplugh, Dr., allowed by William to retain the Archbishopric of York, 214; circumstances of his appointment to York, 255; his death, 255 Lancaster, his educational system in connection with the Society of Friends, 390
Lansdown, Marquis of, opposes Bishop Blomfield's Bill, 347 Laud, Archbishop, the Church made odious by his tyranny, 15 Lay preachers, a body of, formed by Wesley, 299
Lay writers, their influence on the Church, 301
Lee, Dr., his appointment as first Bishop of Manchester objected to, 340
Leeds, Mr. Ward's teaching at, protested against, 330
Leigh, the Hon. Pemberton, on the Committee for trying the Gorham case, 343
Liberalism and Conservatism in re- ligion, struggle between, 95
ecclesiastical, an unpopular form of belief, 227
religious, Tractarianism, an effort to withstand it, 360 Liberation by James of Quakers and Roman Catholics, 141, 147
Liberty of conscience, James's de- claration in favour of, published, 141, 160; republished, 162 Library, free, founded by Tenison, 254 Littlemore, Newman tries to revive the monastic system at, 326 Liturgy, the Anglican, its restored use, 20; efforts to induce the Presbyterians to conform to it, 21; a new, proposed by Baxter at the Savoy Conference, 42; alterations proposed in it by San- croft, 199; projected review of, prevented by the revolution from being carried out, 255
effect of the Oxford tracts in,
Bishop of. See Blomfield, Dr. Long Parliament, Court of High Commission established by the, 150
Lonsdale, Mr., a fellow-worker with
Dr. Howley, 317 Lord's Supper, objection of the Presbyterians to kneeling at the reception of the, 20; the recep- tion of, a test of fitness for office, 262 Lords and Commons, disagreement between, as to the Occasional Conformity Bill, 262
Louis XIV., his influence at the English Court, 34; Charles II. desirous of emulating, 77; cham- pion of the Romish nations, 123; Protestant struggle against the pretensions of, 156; expulsion of the Huguenots by, 213
Low Church party, its identification with the Evangelical, 301, 381 Loyalty to James hard to combine with faithfulness to Protestantism, 131; steadfast, of Sancroft, 158 Lushington, the Rt. Hon. Dr., on the committee for the trial of the Gorham case, 343 Lutheran divine to be appointed alternately with an Anglican to the see of Jerusalem, 288
Macaulay quoted as to Sancroft's Fur predestinatus, 108; he cen- sures Sancroft for refusing to act on the High Commission, 152; his account of the seven bishops alluded to, 184; quoted as to what was meant by convocation, 231; disapproves of the Ecclesi- astical Titles Bill, 354
Macmullen, Mr., refuses to write on the exercises proposed by Dr. Hampden, 335
Magdalen College, Oxford, a Roman Catholic appointed as head of, 185; commissioners sent to, 186; the bishops request the restoration of the president of, 203; Sacheve- rell educated at, 270 Manchester, Dr. Lee's appointment as Bishop of, objected to, 340 Manchester, Duke of, his appre- hensions as to the working of the Act of Uniformity, 52; his reli- gious liberalism, 55
Mandamus asked for to compel the
hearing of the objections to Dr. Hampden's election, 338
Manifesto by the bishops as to Tractarianism, 355
Mansfield, Lord, his advocacy of civil and religious liberty, 302; he attempts to obtain a mitigation of penalties against Roman Catho- lics, 303; obnoxious to the Gordon rioters, 304; his library burnt by the rioters, 305 Marlborough, the Duke of, supports the Bill against occasional con- formity, 263; he afterwards op- poses it, 265; his victories on the continent, 267; he tries to prevent the prosecution of Sacheverell, 274; his failing power with the Queen, 279; his struggles to re- gain ascendency, 280 Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, her description of the character of Mary, 253; her ascendency over Queen Anne, 267; her in-
solence to the queen, 269; loses the affection of the queen, 273 Marsh, Dr., Bishop of Peterborough, his alarm at the progress of Evangelicism, 314
'Martyr, the Royal," 21 Mary, Queen of William III., writes
to Sancroft, 157; her authority as queen limited, 215-218; her rebuff from Sancroft, 219; ecclesiastical affairs confided to her by William, 224, 244, 257; is persuaded by Bishop Burnet to share her throne with William, 226; her illness and death, 247; Ken's censure on her, 249-252; political effect of her death, 253, 257 Masham, see Hill
Mass, the, openly celebrated in England, 159; celebrated in the universities, 184
Massey, John, a Papist, appointed Dean of Christchurch, Oxford, 142, 184
Maurice, Rev. F. D., dismissed
from King's College, London, 382; high public estimation of him, 383
Medieval architecture a lure to mediæval doctrine, 376 Melbourne, Lord, Dr. Hampden appointed Regius Prof. of Divinity at Oxford by, 334
Melvill, Henry, as to the continuity
of the Church, 8; advance of Cal- vinism under, 313; quoted, as to the Bible, 362
Methodism, its quickening effect on the Church, 298-300 Mew, Dr., installs Hough as Head of Magdalen College, 185 Mill, Dr., a fellow worker with Dr. Howley, 317
Ministers, Presbyterian, their mis- sion to Charles II. at Breda, 14, 30
Minto, Lord, his interview with the
vocation, 318; his action in the appointment of Dr. Lee to the see of Manchester, 340
Monastic system, Newman's attempt to revive the, 326
Monitorial system of education in- troduced, 390
Monks and friars, public re-appear- ance of, 132, 160 Monmouth, Duke of, proposed nomination of, as successor to the throne, 21; Trelawney's efforts to quell the rebellion of, 176; Tenison's attendance at the execu- of, 255
Monument, libellous inscription on the, 94
Morley, Dr., Bishop of Winchester, endeavours with Sancroft to effect the conversion of the Duke of York, 116
"Morley, Mrs.," Anne's assumed name in her intercourse with the Duchess of Marlborough, 268 Mortmain, Statute of, altered, 267
Natal, Dr. Colenso, the Bishop of, publishes his work on the Penta- teuch, 369
National schools, foundation of, 390 Newgate, Calamy imprisoned in,
53; Lord George Gordon dies in, 306 Newman, John Henry, his apologia pro vita sua referred to, 74; one of the writers of the Oxford tracts, 319; he leaves the English Church for that of Rome, ibid., 326; quotation as to the articles from his Tract xc., 320; he attempts to revive the monastic system, 326; his tract on Scripture difficulties referred to, 365
Nonconformists, Protestant, at- tempts to deprive them of political power, 54; James's disposition to crush them, 136; motives for the harsh treatment of, 140; they are
left by James in prison, 141; they refuse to accept the Declaration, 178; are ready to stand by the Church in the contest with the king, 192; Sancroft's desire to conciliate them, 196, 222; relief afforded to them by the Tolera- tion Bill, 229-231; excluded from the government of the country by the Test and Corpora- tion Act, 262; their chapels pulled down by Sacheverell's partisans, 278; more ready than Churchmen to extend liberty to Roman Catholics, 306; their ad- mission to Parliament after the passing of the Reform Bill, 316 Nonconformity, its prevalence within the Church, 4; unequal measure of toleration claimed for Romish and Protestant, 135; the Schisms Bill an attempted check on, 284; Sir R. Walpole's inefficient sup- port of, 291
Nonjurors, their disinterested con- sistency, 216; founded by San- croft, 221; William's vain attempt to shield them, 230; expelled for keeping their oath by men who had broken it, 237; their friends disorganized, 238; Tillotson in- tercedes for them, 242; a recent return to the doctrines of the, 316-318
Non-natural sense, condemnation of the principle of signing the Articles in a, 325 "No Popery" cry, by whom, ac- cording to Cobbett, raised, 310 Non-resistance, the doctrine of, held by Sancroft, 167-170; preached by Sharp after the revolution, 256 Nye, an independent minister, his endeavours after religious liberty, 31-33
Oates, Titus, the agent of the foreign Roman Catholics denounced by,
91; his supposed discoveries as to the Popish plot, 93; is well paid for his revelations, 96, 100; Jeffrey alludes to him, on Baxter's trial, 137
Oath, popular belief in the Romish disregard of an, 96, 101, 102; taken to the new government by the clergy generally, 231 Oaths of allegiance and supremacy, necessary alterations in, 236 Obedience, passive, to the royal will, a doctrine of the English Church, 122; the doctrine of shaken, 155; taught by Sancroft's party in the Church, 167, 169; Sancroft still maintains the doctrine of, 206, 215; Sharp preaches it after the revolution, 256
Objectors to the appointment of bishops called to come forward, and then denied a hearing, 338, 340 "Occasional conformity," a mode of evading the Test and Corpora- tion Acts, 262; a Bill brought in to prevent it, 262; Tenison's speech on, 264; Bill rejected in 1704, 265; the Act, which passed in 1711, repealed, 290 Offertory, the, considered as a means of support for the clergy, 388 Officers, Roman Catholic, admitted into the army, 142
Huguenot, in William's army,
213 Opposition, determined, to the pay- ment of Church-rates, 395 Orange, Prince of, see William III. Ornaments rubric maintained at the Savoy Conference, 45; its authority urged by the Ritualists, 377 Owen driven out of the Church by the Act of Uniformity, 51 Oxford, election of Roman Catholics to high offices in, 142, 184, 185, 191; commission sent to, 186- 191; Sacheverell's welcome at, 279; fears excited by the progress of religious liberalism in, 318;
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