PAGE INTRODUCTION v 1547. BALLAD SUNG AT EDWARD VI.’S CORONATION _Strype_, “_Memorials_” 1 1547-1551. EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD VI. _Cotton MS._ 2 1548. COMMISSION FOR CONTINUANCE OF SCHOOLS _Leach_, “_English Schools_” 7 1550. REPORT OF THE SCHOOLS COMMISSIONERS FOR STRATFORD-ON-AVON _Leach_, “_English Schools_” 9 1550. COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE SCHOOLS CONTINUANCE WARRANT _Leach_, “_English Schools_” 11 1550. LADY JANE GREY _Ascham_, “_Scholemaster_” 12 1554. PROCLAMATION THAT COURTESY BE USED TO KING PHILIP _Strype_, “_Memorials_” 13 1555-1556. SPEECH OF MARY UPON RESTORING CHURCH LANDS _Somers’_ “_Tracts_” 15 1557. PROCLAMATION BY THOMAS STAFFORDE _Strype_, “_Memorials_” 16 1555. BEHAVIOUR OF RIDLEY AND LATIMER AT THEIR DEATH _Foxe_, “_Acts and Monuments_” 19 1558. INTERROGATORIES TO CHURCHWARDENS _B. M._ (_Huth Quarto_) 26 1572. PRESBYTERIAN DEMANDS “_Admonition to the Parliament_” 32 1572. THE ANGLICAN POSITION _Whitgift_, “_Answere to Admonition_” 35 1572. THE ELIZABETHAN POOR LAW _Statutes of the Realm_ 37 1571-1572. THE CONDITION OF IRELAND _Carew MSS._ 40 1569. THE RISING IN THE NORTH: (_a_) PROCLAMATION BY THE EARLS _State Papers_ 49 (_b_) ANOTHER BY THE SAME _Dodd_, “_Church History_” 50 (_c_) PROCLAMATION BY THE EARL OF SUSSEX _State Papers_ 51 (_d_) BORDER BALLAD _Percy’s Folio MS._ 52 (_e_) LONDON BALLAD BY ELDERTON _B. M._ (_Huth Broadside_) 58 1569-1570. BULL DEPOSING ELIZABETH _Camden_, “_Annales_” 60 1571. ACT AGAINST THE EXECUTION OF BULLS _Statutes of the Realm_ 63 1584. ACT AGAINST JESUITS _Statutes of the Realm_ 67 1586. DEATH OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS _Camden_, “_Annales_” 69 1587. THE CATHOLIC’S DILEMMA _Stonyhurst MS._ 75 1588. THE ARMADA: (_a_) LETTER FROM DRAKE TO WALSINGHAM _Barrow_, “_Life of Drake_” 76 (_b_) LETTER FROM HOWARD TO WALSINGHAM _Barrow_, “_Life of Drake_” 77 1588. THE NAVY OF 1588 Hatfield_” _Murdin_, “_State Papers at 79 1591. THE LAST FIGHT OF THE “REVENGE” _Hakluyt_, “_Voyages_” 84