XXVI. Alfred 24 XXVII. His Descendants 25 XXVIII. Influence Abused 26 XXIX. Danish Conquests 27 XXX. Canute 27 XXXI. The Norman Conquest 28 XXXII. "Coldly we spake. The Saxons, overpowered" 29 XXXIII. The Council of Clermont 30 XXXIV. Crusades 31 XXXV. Richard I 31 XXXVI. An Interdict 32 XXXVII. Papal Abuses 33 XXXVIII. Scene in Venice 34 XXXIX. Papal Dominion 34 Part II.--To the Close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I-- I. "How soon--alas! did Man, created pure" 33 II. "From false assumption rose, and fondly hail'd" 36 III. Cistertian Monastery 37 IV. "Deplorable his lot who tills the ground" 38 V. Monks and Schoolmen 39 VI. Other Benefits 40 VII. Continued 40 VIII. Crusaders 41 IX. "As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest" 42 X. "Where long and deeply hath been fixed the root" 43 XI. Transubstantiation 44 XII. The Vaudois 44 XIII. "Praised be the Rivers, from their mountain springs" 45 XIV. Waldenses 46 XV. Archbishop Chichely to Henry V. 47 XVI. Wars of York and Lancaster 48 XVII. Wicliffe 49 XVIII. Corruptions of the Higher Clergy 49 XIX. Abuse of Monastic Power 50 XX. Monastic Voluptuousness 51 XXI. Dissolution of the Monasteries 52 XXII. The Same Subject 52 XXIII. Continued 53 XXIV. Saints 54 XXV. The Virgin 54