Historical Memoirs of the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics

AND SOME

DIVINITY SCEOO

HISTORICAL MEMOIRS

OF THE
ENGLISH, IRISH, AND SCOTTISH

CATHOLICS,
SINCE THE REFORMATION;

WITH
A SUCCINCT COUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY

ANTECEDENT TO THAT PERIOD,
AND IN THE HISTORIES OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH,
AND THE DISSENTING AND EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONS;
HISTORICAL MINUTES RESPECTING THE TEMPORAL POWER
OF THE POPES; THE SEPARATISTS FROM THE CHURCH
OF ROME BEFORE THE REFORMATION; THE SOCIETY
OF JESUS; AND THE GUELPHIC FAMILY.
BY CHARLES BUTLER, Esq.

OF LINCOLN'S-INN.
ΦΩΝ ΑΝΤΑ ΕΠΙΕΙΚΕΣΙ. .
IN FOUR VOLUMES;

VOL. IV.

THIRD EDITION,
CORRECTED, REVISED, AND CONSIDERABLY AUGMENTED.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

1822.
LIBRARY

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