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HISTORY
OF

THE ENGLISH PEOPLE
BY
JOHN RICHARD GREEN, M.A. HONORARY FELLOW OF JESUS
COLLEGE, OXFORD

VOLUME IV
THE REFORMATION, 1540-1593
London MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. NEW YORK:
MACMILLAN & CO. 1896
First Edition, Demy 8vo, November 1877, Reprinted December 1877,
1881, 1885, 1890 Eversley Edition 1896

CONTENTS
BOOK VI
THE REFORMATION. 1540-1603
* CHAPTER I PAGE THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTION.
1540-1553 7
* CHAPTER II
THE CATHOLIC REACTION. 1553-1558 72
* CHAPTER III
THE ENGLAND OF ELIZABETH. 1558-1561 146
* CHAPTER IV

ENGLAND AND MARY STUART. 1561-1567 195
* CHAPTER V
ENGLAND AND THE PAPACY. 1567-1582. 247
* CHAPTER VI
ENGLAND AND SPAIN. 1582-1593 323

BOOK VI
THE REFORMATION
1540-1603

AUTHORITIES FOR BOOK VI
1540-1603
For the close of Henry the Eighth's reign as for the reigns of Edward
and Mary we possess copious materials. Strype covers this period in his
"Memorials" and in his lives of Cranmer, Cheke, and Smith; Hayward's
"Life of Edward the Sixth" may be supplemented by the young king's
own Journal; "Machyn's Diary" gives us the aspect of affairs as they
presented themselves to a common Englishman; while Holinshed is
near enough to serve as a contemporary authority. The troubled period
of the Protectorate is illustrated by Mr. Tytler in the correspondence
which he has published in his "England under Edward the Sixth and
Mary," while much light is thrown on its close by Mr. Nicholls in the
"Chronicle of Queen Jane," published by the Camden Society. In spite
of countless errors, of Puritan prejudices, and some deliberate
suppressions of the truth, its mass of facts and wonderful charm of style
will always give importance to the "Acts and Monuments" or "Book of
Martyrs" of John Foxe, as a record of the Marian persecution. Among
outer observers, the Venetian Soranzo throws some light on the

Protectorate; and the despatches of Giovanni Michiel, published by Mr.
Friedmann, give us a new insight into the events of Mary's reign.
For the succeeding reign we have a valuable contemporary account in
Camden's "Life of Elizabeth." The "Annals" of Sir John Hayward refer
to the first four years of the Queen's rule. Its political and diplomatic
side is only now being fully unveiled in the Calendar of State Papers
for this period, which are being issued by the Master of the Rolls, and
fresh light has yet to be looked for from the Cecil Papers and the
documents at Simancas, some of which are embodied in the history of
this reign by Mr. Froude. Among the published materials for this time
we have the Burleigh Papers, the Sidney Papers, the Sadler State
Papers, much correspondence in the Hardwicke State Papers, the letters
published by Mr. Wright in his "Elizabeth and her Times," the
collections of Murdin, the Egerton Papers, the "Letters of Elizabeth and
James the Sixth" published by Mr. Bruce. Harrington's "Nugæ
Antiquæ" contain some details of value. Among foreign materials as
yet published the "Papiers d'Etat" of Cardinal Granvelle and the series
of French despatches published by M. Teulet are among the more
important. Mr. Motley in his "Rise of the Dutch Republic" and "History
of the United Netherlands" has used the State Papers of the countries
concerned in this struggle to pour a flood of new light on the diplomacy
and outer policy of Burleigh and his mistress. His wide and
independent research among the same class of documents gives almost
an original value to Ranke's treatment of this period in his English
History. The earlier religious changes in Scotland have been painted
with wonderful energy, and on the whole with truthfulness, by Knox
himself in his "History of the Reformation." Among the contemporary
materials for the history of Mary Stuart we have the well-known works
of Buchanan and Leslie, Labanoff's "Lettres et Mémoires de Marie
Stuart," the correspondence appended to Mignet's biography,
Stevenson's "Illustrations of the Life of Queen Mary," Melville's
Memoirs, and the collections of Keith and Anderson.
For the religious history of Elizabeth's reign Strype, as usual, gives us
copious details in his "Annals," his lives of Parker, Grindal, and
Whitgift. Some light