A SHORT HISTORY OF FREETHOUGHT ANCIENT AND MODERN BY JOHN M. ROBERTSON THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND EXPANDED IN TWO VOLUMES Vol. II (ISSUED FOR THE RATIONALIST PRESS ASSOCIATION, LIMITED) London: WATTS & CO., JOHNSON'S COURT, FLEET STREET, E.C. 1915 CONTENTS VOLUME II PAGE Chap. XIII--The Rise of Modern Freethought (continued) § 4. England. Persecution and executions under Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth. Charges of atheism. Lilly's polemic. Reginald Scot on witchcraft. The Family of Love. Hamond, Lewes, Kett. Apologetic literature. Influence of Machiavelli. Nashe's polemic. Marlowe, Raleigh, Harriott, Kyd. Protests of Pilkington and Hooker. Polemic of Bishop Morton. Shakespeare. The drama generally. Executions under James. Bacon. Suckling 1 § 5. Popular Thought in Europe. Callidius. Flade. Wier. Coornhert. Grotius. Gorlæus. Zwicker. Koerbagh. Beverland. Socinianism. The case of Spain. Cervantes 32 § 6. Scientific Thought. Copernicus. Giordano Bruno. Vanini. Galileo. The Aristotelian strife. Vives. Ramus. Descartes. Gassendi 41 Chap. XIV--British Freethought in the Seventeenth Century