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INDEX.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I.

FIRST EFFORTS OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT TO INTRODUCE PROTES-
TANTISM INTO IRELAND,

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1. Mission of the Protestant Archbishop, Dr. Browne, to the
Irish Catholics.-2. Royal Supremacy sanctioned by Parlia-
ment, 1536-7.-3. Other Acts of Parliament in favour of the
Reformation.-4. Zeal of the Protestant Archbishop in the
same Cause: Destruction of Crosses, Images, Relics, Church
Ornaments, and the Crozier of St. Patrick.-5. Suppression of
Monasteries.-6. Sufferings of Religious Orders.-7. Other
efforts of Government to promote the Reformation.-8. Cha-
racter of the Reformers in Ireland.-9. Reformation fails in
Ireland under Henry VIII.

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CHAPTER II.

APPOINTMENT OF HUGH CURWIN TO THE SEE OF DUBLIN HIS ACTS
AND APOSTACY,

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1. Early Life of Dr. Curwin.-2. Chief Events of His Episcopate.
-3. His Apostacy.-4. The Irish remain devoted to the Ca-
tholic Faith.

CHAPTER III.

VACANCY OF THE SEE OF DUBLIN AFTER THE APOSTACY OF CURWIN,
AND HOW THE DIOCESE WAS ADMINISTERED UNTIL THE END OF THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY,

1. Father David Wolf, S.J.-2. Rev. J. Newman, Rev. T. White.
-3. Donaldus Dublinensis.-4. A Sketch of Irish Character
and Customs at this period.

CHAPTER IV.

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PERSECUTION OF THE IRISH CATHOLICS DURING THE REIGN OF ELIZA-
BETH,

1. General View of this Persecution.-2. Sufferings of the Irish
Church.-3. Devastation of the Country.-4. Famine which
ensued.-5. Examples to Illustrate the Persecution of Eliza-
beth.-6. Constancy of the Irish Catholics.-7. Condition of
the Protestant Church in the time of Elizabeth.

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APPENDIX.

SHOWING HOW THE EPISCOPAL SUCCESSION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
OF IRELAND WAS PRESERVED DURING ELIZABETH'S REIGN,

1. Statement of Dr. Todd and other Protestant writers, that
in the Sixteenth Century the Irish Church merged into the
Reformation.-2. Dr. Mant attempts to prove statistically that
the Irish Hierarchy adopted the Tenets of the Reformation.-
3. Dr. Mant, in his enumeration of the Irish Sees, omits three.
-4. Armagh not vacant, as supposed by Dr Mant.-5. Seven
Sees, supposed by Dr. Mant to be vacant, not so.-6. Two
Catholics deprived, but unjustly; one Apostate removed.-7.
Eleven Sees vacated by death, two by resignation; how they
retained the Catholic succession.-8. Two Sees vacated by
Resignation.-9. Dr. Mant's opinions regarding four other sees
examined.-10. Conclusion.

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