Produced by Paul Murray, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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.