Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion
And Other Various Occurrences in the Church of England, during Queen Elizabeth’s Happy Reign

Strype's monumental work Annals of the Reformation is the most important eighteenth-century Protestant religious history of the Elizabethan period.

John Strype (Author)

9781108018012, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 2010

748 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.85 kg

The ecclesiastical historian John Strype (1643–1737) published the second volume of his monumental Elizabethan religious history Annals of the Reformation in 1725. For over two and a half centuries it remained one of the most important Protestant histories of the period and has been reprinted in numerous editions. Volume 2 Part 2 covers the years 1575 to 1580 focusing on European diplomacy; friendship with the Netherlands; difficulties with Mary Queen of Scots; the Queen's suitors; relations with the English episcopate; events at the University of Cambridge; and the printing of vernacular books. An appendix contains a rich selection of primary sources - state papers, official proclamations, royal records, and letters - for the period. Strype's thorough use of sources and the enormous scope and detail of his history has ensured its place as an outstanding work of eighteenth-century scholarship. It should be read by every student of Elizabethan religious history.

Book II: 1. The plunder and massacre at Antwerp by the Spaniard
2. The bishop of Exon sends up some that refused going to church
3. The bishop of Worcester made vice-president of the marches of Wales
4. Rockrey, B. D. of Queen's college, Cambridge, inconformable to the apparel prescribed by statute
5. Manchester college, its revenues in danger
6. Matters of the Low Countries
7. The queen's ambassador at the council at Frankford, and why
8. Maimed professors in these days
9. The queen's progress
10. Books translated and set forth in the English tongue
11. Monsieur Goudy, French ambassador, comes to the court with intent to go to the Scottish queen
12. Abbot Feckenham at the bishop of Ely's
13. Sectaries
14. The queen's progress
15. The queen's match with the French king's brother
16. Sandys, archbishop of York, troubled for dilapidations by the bishop of London
17. Cox, bishop of Ely, defends the see against a lease for Hatton Garden
18. Parry false
19. Books published this year, 1579
20. The French king's brother departs
21. A reformation endeavoured of certain abuses in the church
22. Divers popish emissaries taken up
23. Gualter of Zurick acquaints the archbishop of Canterbury what was doing in the synod at Frankford, for union
24. University matters
25. Books published this year, 1580
Appendix.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]