Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 41484-h.htm or 41484-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41484/41484-h/41484-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41484/41484-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/historyofreforma05merluoft Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. The carat character (^) in 1^{ma.} indicates that the letters following, enclosed in curly brackets, are superscripted. Collins's Select Library. HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. The Reformation in England. by J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNE, D.D., President of the Theological School of Geneva, and Vice-President of the Societe Evangelique. Translated by H. White, B.A. Trinity College Cambridge, M.A. and Ph. Dr. Heidelberg. The Translation Carefully Revised by Dr. Merle d'Aubigne. Printed by Arrangement with Messrs. Oliver and Boyd, from the Author's Own English Edition. VOL. V. Glasgow: William Collins, Publisher & Queen's Printer. 1862. PREFACE TO VOLUME FIFTH. In the four previous volumes the author has described the origin and essential development of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century on the Continent; he has now to relate the history of the Reformation in England. The notes will direct the reader to the principal sources whence the author has derived his information. Most of them are well known; others, however, had not been previously explored, among which are the later volumes of the State Papers published by order of Government, by a Commission of which the illustrious Sir Robert Peel was the first president. Three successive Home Secretaries, Sir James Graham, Sir George Grey, and the Honourable Mr. S. H. Walpole, have presented the author with copies of the several volumes of this great and important collection: in some instances they were communicated to him as soon as printed, which was the case in particular with the seventh volume, of which he has made much use. He takes this opportunity of expressing his sincere gratitude to these noble friends of literature.