Monasteries.--Their Usurpation of the Rights of the Clergy.--Impropriations.--Evils of the System 60 CHAPTER V. Early Reformers.--Waldenses.--Wickliffe.--Lollards 75 CHAPTER VI. Luther.--Erasmus.--Sir T. More.--New Translation of the Bible.--Demand for it 96 CHAPTER VII. Cranmer.--The Divorce.--The Supremacy 111 CHAPTER VIII. Dissolution of the Abbeys.--Church Property.--Immediate Consequences of the Dissolution 135 CHAPTER IX. Cromwell.--Gardiner.--Bonner.--The Act of the Six Articles.--Sermons of those Days.--Proposed Disposal of Ecclesiastical Property.--Articles of 1536.--The Bible in Churches.--Bishops’ Book,--King’s Book 165 CHAPTER X. Edward VI.--Advance of the Reformation.--Erasmus’s Paraphrase.--Homilies.--Cranmer’s Catechism.--Office of Communion.--Book of Common-Prayer.--Time of Service, and Length.--Primer.--Articles of 1553.--Moderation of the English Reformers 196 CHAPTER XI. Hooper.--Puritans.--Expectations of the Roman Catholic.--Edward’s Death.--Lady Jane Grey 235 CHAPTER XII. Mary.--Suppression of the Reformation.--Persecution of the Reformers.--Fox’s Acts and Monuments 252 CHAPTER XIII. Elizabeth.--Her Accession.--Her Caution.--Reformation again triumphant.--Return of the Exiles.--Jewel.--Injunctions of Elizabeth compared with those of Edward.--Progress of the Puritans.--The Reformation not completed.--Conclusion 276 A SKETCH OF THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND. CHAPTER I. BRITISH AND ANGLO-SAXON CHURCHES.--INTERCOURSE WITH ROME.--EARLY CORRUPTIONS.