OR,

LIVES OF EMINENT MEN,

CONNECTED WITH THE

HISTORY OF RELIGION IN ENGLAND;

FROM THE

COMMENCEMENT OF THE REFORMATION TO THE REVOLUTION;

SELECTED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH

NOTES,

BY

CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, D.D.

MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

AND RECTOR OF BUXTED, WITH UCKFIELD, SUSSEX.

THIRD EDITION,

WITH A LARGE INTRODUCTION, SOME NEW LIVES, AND MANY ADDITIONAL NOTES.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. G. & F. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,

AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

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I. THOMAS BILNEY

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II. SIR THOMAS MORE; now first published, from a Manuscript in
the Lambeth Library, the Author unknown.

III. WILLIAM TINDALL

IV. CROMWELL, EARL OF ESSEX

V. JOHN ROGers.

VI. BISHOP HOOPER

VII. DOCTOR ROWLAND TAYLOR

VIII BISHOP LATIMER

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--These, constrained to wield the sword
Of disputation, shrunk not, though assailed
With hostile din, and combating in sight
Of angry umpires, partial and unjust;
And did, thereafter, bathe their hands in fire,
So to declare the conscience satisfied:

Nor for their bodies would accept release,

But blessing God and praising him bequeathed,

With their last breath from out the smouldering flame,
The faith which they by diligence had earned,
And through illuminating grace received,
For their dear countrymen and all mankind.
O high example, constancy divine!

W. WORDSWORTH.

VOL. II.

THOMAS BILNEY.