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Ecclesiastical biography : or, Lives of eminent men, connected with the history of religion in England : from the commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution

Print Book, English, 1839
J.G. & F. Rivington, London, 1839
collective biographies
4 volumes ; 23 cm
6624470
vols 3-4. Vol. 1. Introduction, from Dr. John Inett and Dr. Richard Bentley; The british Church; and the Anglican; King Henry II; and Archbishop Becket; National churches. Papal usurpations on the rights of the civil government; King john, the barons, and Pope Innocent the Third; Papal usurpations in Church and State, Origin and progress of. General recapitulation; Doctrinal corruptions of popery: John Wickliffe: William Thorpe: Lord Cobham: Supplementary extracts: Dean Colet, by Erasmus: Cardinal Wolsey, by Cavendish.- Vol. 2. Thomas Bilney: Sir Thomas More: William Tindall: Cromwell, Earl of Essex: John Rogers: Bishop Hooper: Doctor Rowland Taylor: Bishop Latimer.- Vol. 3. Bishop Ridley: Archbishop Cranmer: Thomas Mountain: Bishop Jewel: Bernard Gilpin: Richard Hooker: Archbishop Whitgift: Doctor John Donne.- Vol. 4. George Gerbert: Sir Henry Wotton: Nicholas Ferrar: Bishop Hall: Dr. Henry Hammond: Bishop Sanderson: Richard Baxter: Sir Matthew Hale: Earl of Rochester: Archbishop Tillotson
Includes some Roman Catholics
Includes index