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CONTENTS.
xiii
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Preparations for the Trial | 377 |
The Special Commission | 377 |
True Bills found by the Grand Juries | 379 |
The Indictment | 380 |
Opposing Improbabilities | 382 |
The Court opens for the Trial of the Four Commoners | 386 |
Norris, Western, Smeton, and Brereton found guilty | 386 |
List of the Peers summoned to try the Queen | 388 |
Account of the Proceedings in the Baga de Secretis | 388 |
Weight of the Peers' Verdict as an Evidence | 388 |
The Facts in favour of the Queen | 391 |
The Facts against her | 391 |
Mysterious Acknowledgment made by her to Cramner | 395 |
She is pronounced Divorced | 396 |
The Execution | 399 |
New Danger to the Succession | 400 |
Lord Thomas Howard and Lady Margaret Douglas | 401 |
The King's Third Marriage | 402 |
Meeting of Parliament | 404 |
Speech of the Lord Chancellor | 405 |
The Speech digested into a Statute | 407 |
Second Act of Succession | 408 |
The Parliament endorse all the Proceedings in the late Trials | 409 |
Opinion of Parliament upon the King's Third Marriage | 410 |
Power is granted to the King to bequeath the Crown by Will | 412 |
CHAPTER XII. | |
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC ASPECTS OF THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND. | |
Attitude of the Catholic Powers | 416 |
Animosity against England in Spain | 417 |