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Saint Dunstan

55

58

1.-Early Years of Saint Dunstan

2.-The Conduct of Saint Dunstan towards King

Edwin

3.-The Conduct of Saint Dunstan towards King

59

Edgar

62

4.-Saint Dunstan's Regulations for the Celibacy of

the Clergy

63

5.-Saint Dunstan's Substitution of the Benedictine

Monks to the Secular Canons

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68

6.-The Miracles of Saint Dunstan

LETTER VIII.

Immunities of the Church-Saint Thomas à Becket -

-

LETTER VII.

1. Charges against the Monks of withholding Knowledge, and of

a Disposition to immoderate Severity

72

-2.-Investitures-Saint Anselm

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LETTER IX.

1. Cession by King John of the Sovereignty of England to Pope

Innocent III.

2.-Temporal Power of the Pope

91

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1.-Devotion to the Virgin Mary-the Saints-respect

to the Cross, and to the Relics of the Saints 100

2.-Purgatory, and Prayers for the Dead .

3. Auricular Confession-Indulgences

4.-Saint Augustine and Pelagius

5.-Transubstantiation

6.-1. The Authority of the Pope

2. Universal Doctrine of the Roman-catholics

respecting the Supremacy of the Pope

3. Transalpine and Cisalpine Doctrines on the

temporal and spiritual Power of the Pope 121

4. Remarks on Doctor Southey's Crimination of

the Roman-catholic Church, in consequence

of the alleged intemperate Expressions of

some of her Writers on the Pope's Autho-

rity
125

5. Defence by a Roman-catholic Divine of the

Roman-catholic Church, against Charges

brought against her by the present Bishop

of Winchester

134

-The Mendicant and other religious Orders of the

Roman-catholic Church -

1.-Has England gained by the Reformation in tem-

poral Happiness?

- 168

2.-Has England gained by the Reformation in

3.-Was the Reformation attended by a general Im-

provement in Morals?

- 172

Henry VIII.-continued.

Edward VI.

4.-Was the Revival of Letters owing to the Reforma-

tion, or materially forwarded by it? - page 178

5.-Was the Dissolution of Monasteries justified by the

Conduct of the religious Orders?
184

6. Was the Church of Rome negligent in remedying

Ecclesiastical Abuses

- 187

7.-Is doctor Southey's Abuse of former and pre-

sent Catholic Historical Writers merited by

1.-Persecution of the Protestants in the Reign of

Queen Mary -

ib.

2.-Archbishop Cranmer and Bishop Latimer

3. Character of Queen Mary's Reign

1. The Establishment of the Protestant Religion in

the Reign of Queen Elizabeth-Observation

on some Statements respecting it in

Book of the Church"

"The

ib.

2. Summary of the Laws passed in the Reign of

Queen Elizabeth against Roman-catholics - 230

3.-Executions of the Roman-catholics under the

sanguinary Code of Queen Elizabeth

237

4.-Justification of the Persecutions, on the ground

of the traitorous Principles of the Foreign Semi-

narists, and the general Disloyalty of the Roman-

catholics
- 255

5.- Justification of the Persecutions, on the ground of

the persecuting Principles and Practices of their

Church-
- 258

Queen Elizabeth-continued.

6.-Justification of the Persecutions, from the alleged

Plots against Queen Elizabeth -

7.-The Spanish Armada

- page 263

- 265

2.-The Oath of Allegiance required by James I. from

the English Roman-catholics

1.-Artifices then used to inflame the Public Mind

against the Roman-catholics—their Loyalty and

Sufferings

-

ib.

2.-Solemn Judgment of Archbishops and Bishops of

Ireland against the Toleration of the Roman-

1.- Doctor Southey's Defence of Charles II.'s Viola-

tion of his Promise, at Breda, to the Roman-

catholics and Protestant Dissenters

2.-Doctor Southey's various Criminations

Roman-catholics in his present Chapter

3.-The Corporation and Test Acts -

4.-The Act of the 30th of Charles II. which excludes

Roman-catholics from sitting and voting in Par-

6.-James the Second-Bill of Rights-Acts of Set-

-

- 336

tlement

7.-Conclusion-Doctor Southey's repeated Charge

of Superstition and Idolatry against the Roman-

catholics

- 338

APPENDIX.

NOTE I.-Opinions of Foreign Universities on the

temporal Power of the Pope

page 343

NOTE II.-The Oath taken by the English Roman-

catholics, under the Provisions of the Act passed

for their Relief, in the Year 1791 -
- 345

By the same Author,

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