Barker, Christopher, 428
Barlings Abbey, 378, 434
Barlow, William, Bishop of St Davids, Bath and Wells, 188, 368, 471–2, 622
Barnes, Robert, 68–9, 139–40, 455, 476, 622
diplomacy, 136, 140–41, 285, 290–91, 313, 449, 494, 507, 516
fall and death, 427, 516–17, 525, 532–3
preaching, 395, 516, 532
writings, 140
Barton, Elizabeth, 230, 233–7, 239, 243, 245, 247–52, 256, 260, 268, 357, 458, 472–3, 487
Barton, William, Abbot of Osney, 62
Basel, 136, 227, 368, 506
Basing, 543
Basingstoke, 464, 500
Bassett family, 17
Batcock, Thomas, 256
Bath and Wells, Bishops: see Barlow; Clerk; Knight
diocese, 305
Baumbach, Ludwig von, 515
Bavaria, Dukes: see Albrecht V; Philipp
Bayham Abbey, 61
Baynton, Edward, 135, 303
Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond, 12, 276, 279
Beaulieu Abbey, 320
Beauvale Charterhouse, 280, 284
Becket, St Thomas, 173, 419, 464–6, 476, 487
Beckwith, Leonard, 388
Becon, Thomas, 289, 467
Beconsaw, Adam, 296
Beddgelert Priory, 199–200, 225, 274, 471
Beddington, 338
Bedell, Thomas, 220–1, 252, 273, 275, 282, 409–10, 421
Bedford, Earls of: see Russell
Bellasis, Anthony, 534
Bellond, Edmund, Prior of London Austin Friars, 41, 62
Bellow, John, 383–4, 386
Benedictine Order, 488–90, 509; see also individual houses
Benet, Thomas, of Exeter, 161
Benet, William, 238
Bennett, Thomas, of Salisbury, 57–8
Benolt, John, 208
Benolt, Thomas, 172, 208
Benson alias Boston, William, Abbot of Burton then Westminster, 261, 489, 491, 513
Bergavenny, Lord: see Neville
Bergen op Zoom, 104, 138
Berkeley Castle, 148–9, 300
Berkeley, Thomas, 5th Baron Berkeley, 147; see also Savage
Berkshire, 471
Berners, Lord: see Bourchier
Berthelet, Thomas, 392–3, 412–13, 458
Beukelsz, Jan (‘Jan of Leyden’), 287–8
Berwick on Tweed, 523, 543
Beverley, 82, 265
Bible, 282, 295, 297, 306, 365, 412, 452, 465, 488, 502, 513
Coverdale’s, Plate 36; 69, 71, 362–3, 416
Ecclesiasticus, 7, 129, 231, 343, 469, 552
Ephesians, 394
Erasmus New Testament, 34, 152
Great Bible (‘Cranmer’s Bible’), Plate 38; 493, 508, 535–6
in English, 362–3, 416, 487, 492–3
King James Bible, 416
Lollard Bible, 67
‘Matthew’ Bible, Plate 37; 416, 436, 492
Psalms, 364
II Thessalonians, 461
Tyndale’s Bible, 35, 69, 71, 152, 363, 416
Vulgate, 152, 297, 362
see also New Testament; Old Testament; traditions in doctrine
Biddenham, 35, 70
bigamy, 141
Bigges, John, 57
Bigod, Francis, 375–6, 388, 390, 400–402, 423, 516
Bilbao, 50–51, 131
Billingford, James, 293–6
Bilney, Thomas, 161
Bilsington Priory, 60–61, 308–9, 320, 330
Bindon Abbey, 271
Bisham Priory and Abbey, 200, 471–2, 474; see also Barlow; Cordrey
Bishoprics, Act for (1539), 502
bishops, 95–6, 108, 115, 160, 213, 273, 295, 305, 319, 346, 357, 363, 371, 412–14, 476–7, 498, 503, 506, 515, 526
new dioceses, 466, 491, 502
Bishops’ Book, 413–55, 436, 460–61; see also King’s Book
Bishop’s Waltham, 305–6, 648
Bletchingley, 535
Blount, Elizabeth, 258
Blount (Courtenay), Gertrude, Marchioness of Exeter, 229, 234, 236, 238, 332, 479, 640
Blount, William, 4th Baron Mountjoy, 132, 236, 240–41, 276, 479
Blythe, Geoffrey, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 198, 253
Blythman, William, 322, 380, 388–9
Bodmin Priory, 20
Body, William, 331, 405, 548–9
Boineburg, Georg von, 447, 452
Boleyn, Anne: see Anne Boleyn
Boleyn, George, Viscount Rochford, 100, 104, 116, 146–7, 152, 333–4, 338–40, 347–8, 497; see also Parker
Boleyn, Mary, 167, 192, 361
Boleyn, Thomas, Earl of Wiltshire, 77, 100, 114, 132–3, 153–4, 167, 178, 229, 335, 347, 352–3, 428, 436, 485
Bologna, 106–7
Bonham, Thomas, 101
Bonner, Edmund, Bishop of Hereford, London, 28, 238, 507–8, 517, 523–4, 533, 676
Bonville (Grey, Stafford), Cecily, Marchioness of Dorset and Countess of Wiltshire, 47, 49
Book of Common Prayer, 69, 189, 229, 549, 551
Borde, Andrew, 281, 305
Boston, 31–5, 66, 71, 139, 152, 376, 464
Boston, William: see Benson
Botolf, Gregory, 522
Boughton Malherbe, 369
Boulogne, 206, 208
Bourchier, Henry, 15th Earl of Essex, 515, 519–20
Bourchier, John I, 2nd Baron Berners, 45, 224, 226
Bourchier, John II, 11th Baron Fitzwarren, 1st Earl of Bath, 353
Bourchier, John III, Abbot of Leicester, 466
Bowes, Robert, 392–4
Boxley Abbey, 453, 460
Brabazon, William, 48, 122, 255–9, 329–30, 405, 480–81, 521, 616, 657
Brackenbury, Anthony, 389
Bradgate, 48
Bradshaw, Brendan, 545n
Brandon, Charles, 4th Duke of Suffolk, 43, 56, 75, 83, 133, 229, 335, 359, 436, 456, 460, 504–5, 517, 520, 538–9
and Cromwell, 178–9, 520, 523
and Lincolnshire, 384–7, 430–31, 434
see also Mary Tudor; Willoughby
Brantham, 456
Brereton, William, 339
Breyar, William, 378–80
Bridgewater, Earl of: see Daubeney
Bridlington Priory, 415, 434–5
Bristol, 43, 50, 59, 264, 274, 300, 467, 500, 596
Bromehill Priory, 202–3, 209
Bromham Hall, 303
Bromholm Priory, 415, 453
Brooke, Thomas, 500
Browne, Anthony, Viscount Montague, 100, 105, 176, 221–2, 342, 350, 478, 499, 507, 514
Browne, George, Prior of London Austin Friars and Archbishop of Dublin, 218, 220, 264–5, 302, 330–31, 455, 480–81, 500, 521–2, 545–6
Bruerne Abbey, 80, 196
Bruges, 368
Brussels, 25–6, 77, 126, 384, 494, 526
Bruton Abbey, 194, 302
Bryan, Francis, 83, 336, 348, 478
Bucer, Martin, 71, 136, 142, 206, 364–5, 368, 446
Buckingham, Duke of: see Stafford
Buckinghamshire, 348
Budgegood, Anthony, 48
Bugenhagen, Johann, 71
Buggery, Act for the Punishment of, 241, 245, 530
Bulkeley, Richard, 200
Bulleine, William, 442
Bullinger, Heinrich, 71, 142, 366–70, 461, 542
Bulmer, John, 401
Bungay Priory, 308
Buonvisi, Antonio, 41–2, 57, 280, 359
Burchard, Franz, 447, 452, 495, 508
Burden, William, Prior of Thetford, 511
Burghley, Lord: see Cecil
Burton-on-Trent Abbey and College, 216, 464, 491, 512, 637: see also Benson
Burton, John, Prior of St Frideswide Oxford, Abbot of Osney, 62
Bury St Edmunds Abbey, 419–20, 432, 691
Butler, John I, of Warwickshire, 366, 368
Butler, John II, commissary of Calais, 450
Butler, Piers, 8th Earl of Ormond and Earl of Ossory, 153–5, 255, 330, 404, 406, 521
Butley Priory, 80, 95, 237, 611
Butts, William, 117, 276
Buxton, 464
by-elections, parliamentary, 92, 214–15
Calais, 12, 25, 45, 209, 326–7, 369, 404–5, 407, 452–3, 473–4, 499–500, 507, 513–14, 522, 534, 540, 544, 546
and Cromwell, 27, 32, 335, 450–51, 590
Deputies: see Bourchier, John I; Plantagenet, Arthur
royal summit in (1532), 184–5, 191–2, 206–9, 214, 217, 222, 234, 303, 326
Calvin, John, 72, 288–9, 366
Calwich Priory, 198–200, 274
Cambridge, 276, 417, 462
Austin Friars, 68–9
Carmelites 462
Cambridge University, 37, 69–71, 113, 136, 160, 275–6, 295–6, 306–7, 314, 367, 374, 411, 463, 488–90
Buckingham (Magdalene) College, 489, 506
Chancellors: see Fisher
Christ’s College, 196, 203–4, 316, 380, 629
Corpus Christi College, 489
Jesus College, 67, 76, 136–7; see also Capon
King’s College, 9, 55, 417; see also Foxe
King’s Hall, 37
Pembroke Hall, 71, 126, 204
Queens’ College, 443, 462
St John’s College, 112, 276, 380
St Nicholas Hostel, 389
Trinity Hall, 178; see also Gardiner
Cambridgeshire, 468
Campeggio, Cardinal Lorenzo, Bishop of Salisbury, 58, 79, 84, 108, 134, 137, 278, 359–61
Campeggio, Marc’Antonio, 359–60, 598
Canford, 259
Canner, Thomas, 65, 76
canon law, 151, 242–3, 296, 306–7, 318–19, 487; see also Henry VIII: annulments of marriages
Canterbury, 236, 247, 419, 514
Archbishops, 354, 503; see also Cranmer; Parker; Pole; Warham
archdiocese (Province), 150, 263
Christ Church Cathedral (Priory), 233–4, 375, 464–5, 490, 511, 691
diocese, 263, 500
Faculty Office, 270–71, 463
St Augustine’s Abbey, 237, 465
St Gregory’s Priory, 354–7
St Sepulchre’s Priory, 233–4
see also Becket; Convocation; Court of Arches
Capito, Wolfgang, 370
Capon, John: see Salcot, John
Capon, William, 76–7, 101, 112, 122, 137, 236, 510
Carbot, Henry, 126, 617
Carew, Nicholas, Plate 43; 184, 245, 312–13, 316, 334–6, 338, 342, 350, 474, 479–80, 533
Carlisle, 50, 401
Bishops of, 384; see also Aldrich; Kite
Cathedral, 421
Carmelites, 417, 459: see also individual houses
Carnaby, Reynold, 381, 388
Carr, Ralph, 373
Carthusian Order, Plate 41; 250, 280–85, 294, 533; see also individual charterhouses
Casali, Gregorio, 42, 277–9, 633
Castillon: see Perreau
Castle Acre Priory, 431–3, 435, 438, 453
Castle Hedingham, 424
Catesby Nunnery, 345–6
cathedrals, 12, 94, 295, 421, 502, 510–12; see also individual cathedrals; music
Catholic Church: see Western Church
Catholicism, Roman, 542; see also papalism
Caunton, Nicholas, 105
Cavalcanti, Giovanni, 40–44
Cavallari, Antonio, 57
Cave, Francis, and family, 296, 466, 540
Cavendish, George, Plate 12; 4, 57, 89–92, 98, 113, 119, 126, 128
Cavendish, William, 549
Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley, 543, 551, 698
celibacy, clerical, 206, 241, 447–8, 499, 516; see also marriage, clerical; sodomy
censorship, 234
Chaalis Abbey, 195
Chaffyn, Thomas, 93
Chamber, Geoffrey, 32, 34
Chancery, Court of, 30, 88, 165, 168, 170, 215, 221, 224, 270–71, 273, 324–5, 403
Channel Islands, 12, 269, 422–3, 547
chantries, 55, 88, 193, 284, 467, 546; see also collegiate foundations
Chapuys, Eustace, 107, 115, 121, 138, 149–50, 159, 166, 226, 229, 246, 251–2, 256–8, 262, 283, 287, 297–8, 304, 306, 311, 335–6, 339, 345, 384–6, 401–2, 444, 448–9, 472
and Cromwell, 22, 27, 37, 113, 126–7, 131, 145, 169, 180, 230, 234, 239, 292–3, 310, 314–16, 319, 333–4, 340, 342, 349–53, 358, 473, 587–8
Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 550
Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 550
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 121, 135, 138, 149, 157, 205, 235, 260, 279, 291, 365, 401, 412, 446, 448, 477, 491, 493–4, 515, 542
and annulment of Aragon marriage, 78, 226
and Ireland, 256–7
and Princess Mary, 444
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 461
Chauncy, Maurice, 410
Cheke, John, 443, 489
Cheking, John, 71
Chelsea, 42n, 142, 420, 449, 464, 475
Chertsey Abbey, 142–3, 200, 305–6, 471–2, 655; see also Cordrey
Cheshire, 547
Chester, 212n, 257
Bishops of, 212n: see Cotes; Lee
Cheyney (Bulmer), Margaret, 401
Cheyney, Thomas, 496–7, 525
Chichester
Bishops of: see Day; Sampson; Sherburne
Cathedral, 60, 473, 482–3
diocese, 483
Church: see bishops; Church of England; Orthodox Churches; papacy; Rome; traditions; Western Church
Church of England, 262–3, 265–6, 347, 363–71, 420–21, 487–8, 542–3, 547; see also Anglicanism; courts, ecclesiastical; evangelicalism; Protestantism; Reformation; Supremacy, Royal; Valor Ecclesiasticus
Cinque Ports, 334, 496
Cirencester Abbey, 300
Cistercian Order, 195–6; see also individual houses
civil law, 296, 307
Civil Wars, British, 239
Claybrook, William, 84–5
Clement VII, Pope, 238, 277–8
and annulment of Aragon marriage, 78, 84, 121–2, 227, 235
Clerk, John I, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 412, 420, 517
Clerk, John II, of Oxford, 65, 67
Cleves: see Jülich-Cleves-Berg
Clifford, Henry, 1st Earl of Cumberland, 390, 399
Clifton, Gervase, 394; see also Tyndale alias Clifton
Clifton, William, 365
cloth industry and trade, 11, 24
Cluniac Order, 431; see also individual houses
Clydesdale, John: see Hidden
Cockerell, James, Prior of Guisborough, 388
Cockes, John, 152
Cockes, William, 65
coinage and currency, 6, 133, 170, 537
Colchester, 475
Abbey, 490, 509
Bishop of, 479
Colet, John, Dean of St Paul’s, 117
Cologne, 363
Collectanea Satis Copiosa, 143–4, 191, 226
collegiate foundations, 55, 197, 295–6, 481, 488–92, 502, 511–12, 546; see also chantries
Collier, John Payne, 660, 674
Collins, Lancelot, 28–9, 252, 390
Cologne, 142
commerce: see trade
commissions, royal: see justices of the peace; Vice-Gerency; Visitations
Commissions of the Peace: see justices of the peace; libri pacis
common land: see enclosures
common law and courts, 146, 160–61, 268, 324–5; see also equity; Chancery; Common Pleas; Exchequer; King’s Bench; oyer and terminer; Star Chamber
Common Pleas, Court of, 30, 433
Commons, House of, 95–7, 146, 215, 318, 353, 519, 542, 547–8
elections to, (1523), 49–50; (1529) 90–93, 102, 174; (1536), 608; (1539), 432, 486, 496–8, 506
representation in, 326–8, 547, 661
Speaker, 498; see also Audley, Thomas; Hare; More, Thomas; Wingfield, Humphrey
see also by-elections; Parliament; Supplication against the Ordinaries
comperta, 321
Compton, William, 63, 80
confession, sacramental, 347, 458–60, 499, 501, 507; see also penance
confirmation, 413
Constable, Marmaduke, 240
Constable, Robert, 390
Constantinople, 415
Contarini, Cardinal Gasparo, 72
Convocations, 13, 145, 149, 242, 266, 410, 499
of Canterbury, 361; (1529–36), 145–7, 156, 161, 165–6, 177, 209, 218, 240, 247–8, 476; (1536), 347–50, 361–2, 378; (1539), 499–500; (1540), 528–9
of York, 361; (1529–36), 150, 158, 220, 228–9, 389; (1539), 499; (1540), 529
Cook, Hugh, Abbot of Reading, 509–10
Cope, Anthony, 294
Cordrey, John, Abbot of Chertsey, Bisham, 471–2
Cornwall, 375, 549, 628
Cornwall, Richard, 52
coronations, 205, 279; see also Anne Boleyn; Edward VI
Corpus Christi, 346
Corwen, Richard, 429
Cotes, George, Bishop of Chester, 299
Cotton, George, 259, 386
Cotton, Richard, 386
Coughton, 408
Council, Royal, 117–18, 134, 202–3, 237, 246, 258, 322, 377, 392, 398, 546, 548; see also Privy Council
Council in the Marches of Wales, 171, 252–5, 377, 398, 404, 478, 544; see also Blythe; Lee, Roland; Smyth; Veysey
Council in the North, 258, 398, 451, 463
Council of the West, 478
Councils: see also General Councils; Great Councils; Privy Council
Court, Royal, 63, 85, 93, 100–101, 106, 125, 132, 152–3, 176, 180, 193, 210, 255, 258, 292, 300, 306, 310–16, 318, 327, 331–42, 346, 348, 351, 358, 369, 382, 393, 399, 405–7, 429, 443–6, 451, 507, 513, 533, 540–42; see also Chapel Royal; ‘Exeter Conspiracy’; palaces; Privy Chamber; Privy Coffers
Court of Arches, 374
Court at Street (Kent), 233, 235
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