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CONTENTS.
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| Page | |
| 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 |
