ESSAYS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND By the late SAMUEL ROFFEY MAITLAND With an Introduction by ARTHUR WOLLASTON HUTTON, M.A. JOHN LANE LONDON AND NEW YORK 1899 LIBRADYA UNIVERSITY OF AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER [1849] THE first nineteen of these Essays were published in as many consecutive numbers of the "British Magazine," beginning with that of January, 1846. The Twentieth Essay, and some other additions, making together nearly, if not quite, a third part of the volume, have not been before printed. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION ESSAY I. PURITAN VERACITY, No. I. II. PURITAN VERACITY, No. II. III. PURITAN STYLE, No. I. John Bale, Bishop of Ossory . IV. PURITAN STYLE, No. II. Bishop Ponet-Bartholomew Traheron V. PURITAN POLITICS, No. I. John Knox-Bishop Ponet-Wyat's Rebellion VI. PURITAN POLITICS, No. II. The Duty of Subjects to their Rulers generally VII. PURITAN POLITICS, No. III. Respecting Queen Mary in particular VIII. PURITAN POLITICS, No. IV. The Spaniards IX. PURITAN POLITICS, No. V. The Change of Religion. |