Portugal agent, letter from the parliament to the, iv. 338.
Power, civil, not to ufe force in religious matters, iii. 320, 331.
Prafutagus, king of the Icenians, leaving Cæfar coheir with his
daughters, causes the Britons to revolt, iv. 50.
Prayer, for the true church against her prelatical enemies, i. 57-
Forms of prayer, not to be impofed on minifters, 166. The
Lord's Prayer no warrant for liturgics, 167. iii. 37. Extem-
pore prayer commended, 38.
Preacher, his lips fhould give knowledge, not ceremonies, i. 127.
Prelates, their character fince their coming to the fee of Canter-
bury, i. 50. Caution against their defigns, 52, 55. By their
leaden doctrine, bring an unactive blindness of mind on the peo-
ple, 103. Counsel given them, 107. Their negligence in
Ireland, notorious in queen Elizabeth's days, 112. Have dif-
figured true Chriftian religion with fuperftitious veftures, 127.
Have proclaimed mankind unpurified and contagious, 139. Rea-
fon of their favouring Magna Charta in the time of popery, 145.
Brand all with the name of fchifmatics, who find fault with their
temporal dignities, and cruelty, 147, 148. The greatest under-
miners and betrayers of the monarch, 149. What fidelity kings
may expect from them, 150. Glorious actions of the peers and
commons oppofed by them, ibid. Motives for abolishing the
prelatical order, ibid. More favoury knowledge in one layman,
than in a dozen prelates, 172. Their wealth, how acquired,
180. Their cruelty, 242. More bafe and covetous than Simon
Magus, 270. Account of their conduct, ibid.
Prelaty, or Prelacy, weakens the regal power, i. 34, 37. Its fall
cannot affect the authority of princes, 37. Not the only church-
government agreeable to monarchy, 46. Objections against
reformation from prelaty, anfwered, 49. No more venerable
than papacy, 50.
Hath no foundation in the law or Gospel,
89, 92, 98. Prevents not fchifm, but rather promotes it, Ico.
Wedded with faction, never to be divorced, 102. Drew its ori-
ginal from fchifm, 103. A fubject of difcord and offence, 107.
No free and fplendid wit can flourish under it, 122. Oppofes
the reason and end of the Gospel, firft, in her outward form, 124.
Secondly, in her ceremonious doctrine, 126. Thirdly, in her
jurifdiction, 128. More antichriftian than Antichrift himfelf,
143. The mifchief it does in the ttate, 144. A carnal doc-
trine, ibid. Has the fatal gift, to turn every thing it touches,
into the drofs of flavery, 146. A grand impofture, 154.
Prelatical Epifcopacy, whether to be deduced from the apoftolical
times, i. 60, &c.-Jurifdiction, oppufes the end of the Gof-
pel, 128.
Prefbyterian, the only true church-government, i. 132. Aims at
a compulfive power, ii. 376.
Prefbyterians, raillied for their conduct towards king Charles, ii.
274, &c. Properly the men who firft depofed, and then killed
him, 294, &c. Advice to their minifters, 303. Their claim
of tithes animadverted on, iii. 367.
Prefs, the liberty of it pleaded for, while the bishops were to be
run down, i. 315. Method for regulating it, 330. See Li-
cenfing.
Priefts, their policy the way to deprive us of our protestant friends,
i. 38. Imparity among them annulled, 96.
Printing, unlicenced, fpeech for the liberty of, i. 286. If to be
licensed, all recreations to be regulated also, 304.
the free liberty thereof, 313, &c.
Reasons for
Prifcus Licinius, lieutenant in this ifle under Hadrian, iv. 63.
Probus, fubdues the ufurper Bonofus, who falls in the battle, iv.
69. Prevents new rifings in Britain, ibid.
Profeffors, of true religion, brought to grofs idolatry by heinous
tranfgreffions, iv. 270.
Prolufiones Oratoriæ, Lat. vi. 176.
Pretagorus, his books commanded to be burnt by the judges of Areo-
pagus, i. 291.
Proteftants, exhorted to be thankful for reformation, i. 181. Some
of them live and die in implicit faith, 316. Affert it lawful to
depofe tyrants, iii. 128. Not obliged to believe as the state
believes, 321. More criminal than papifts, if they force tender
confciences, 330. Reproved for depending too much on the
clergy, 391. Cannot perfecute thofe who diffent from them,
without renouncing their own principles, iv. 263. Difputes
among them should be charitably inquired into, ibid. Ought to
allow a toleration, ibid. Polonian and French protestants tole-
rated among papifts, ibid. Things indifferent not to be impofed
by them, ibid.
Puckering, Jane, an heirefs, carried into Flanders, iv. 330. Re-
claimed of the archduke, ibid.
Punishment, of two forts, in this world and the other, i. 132. Se-
vere ones in the reigns of king James and king Charles, com-
plained of, ii. 459.
Purgatory, why rejected by prelaty, i. 143.
Puritans, hated by king Charles I. ii. 448. Who termed fo, by the
favourers of epifcopacy, iii, 296.
RAMUS, Peter, Life of, in Latin, vi. 354.
Randolf, Thomas, fent ambaffador from queen Elizabeth to Mufco-
vy, iv. 305. Account of his audience of the emperor, 306.
Readwulf, cut off with most of his army by the Danes at Alvetheli,
iv. 166.
Reafon of Church-government urged against Prélaty, i. 78.
Reason, the gift of God in one man as well as in a thousand, i. 168.
Trufted to man to direct his choice, 299.
Rebellion, in Ireland, fhould haften a reformation, i. 111, 113.
Recreations, fometimes proper to relieve labour and intenfe thought,
ii. 128.
Rederchius, reckoned among the ancient British kings, iv. 22.
Redion, another British king, ibid.
Redwald, king of the Eaft-angles, wars against Ethelfrid, and flays
him, iv. 127. Erected an altar to Chrift, and another to his
idols in the fame temple, ibid.
Reformation (Of) in England, and the Causes that have prevented it,
Reformation, the want of this the cause of rebellion, i. 111. The
ready way to quell the barbarous Irish rebels, 113.
Reformations, of the good kings of Judah, vehement and speedy,
i. 49.
Reformed Churches abroad, ventured out of popery into what is
called precife puritanifm, i. 50. Abolished epifcopacy, not-
withstanding the teftimonies brought to fupport it, 74.
Regin, fon of Gorbonian, a good king, iv. 22.
Religion, not wounded by difgrace thrown on the Prelates, i. 236.
The corrupters of it enemies to civil liberty, 249. Not pro-
moted by force, iii. 332, &c. What is true religion, iv. 259.
Remonftrance, by a dutiful Son of the Church, remarks on that au-
thor's conduct, i. 213, &c.
Remonftrant's Defence against Smecthymnuus, animadverfions on,
Rhee, unfortunate expedition against that island, ii. 458.
Richard II, commons requested to have judgment declared against
him, ii. 289. How the parliament treated him, and his evil coun-
fellors, 437.
Richard the protector, letters of ftate written in his name, v. 1.
Ridley, bishop, at his degradement, difliked and condemned ceremo-
nies, i. 50.
Richard, protector, letters from him to feveral princes and states,
V. I, &c.
Rivallo, fucceeds his father Cunedagius, iv. 17.
Rivetus, his opinion concerning difpenfation, refuted, ii. 14.
Roald, a Danish leader, flain near the Severn, iv. 186.
Rochellers, English shipping fent against them, ii. 458.
Rollo, the Dane or Norman, having fought unfuccessfully here,
turns his forces into France, and conquers Normandy, iv. 181.
Romans, their flaves allowed to speak their minds freely once a
year, i. 157. At what time they came firft to Britain, iv. 25.
Land there under the conduct of Julius Cæfar, 28. Their fharp
conflict with the Britons near the Stowre in Kent, 33, 34. The
cruel maffacre of the Britons upon them, 51, 52. They leave
the ifland, 76. They come and aid the Britons against the Scots
and Picts, ibid. They help them to build a new wall, 89. In-
ftruct them in war, and take their laft farewell, ibid.
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Romanus, named among the four fons of Histion, sprung of Japhet,
and from him the Romans fabled to be derived, iv. 4.
Rome, chriftian, not fo careful to prevent tyranny in her church, as
pagan Rome was in the ftate, i. 131, 132.
Reffomakka, a beaft fo called, ftrange way of bringing forth her
young, iv. 275-
Rowen, the daughter of Hengift, fent for over by her father, iv.
98. She prefents king Vortigern with a bowl of wine by her
father's command, ibid. She is upon the king's demand given
him in marriage, ibid.
Rudaucus, king of Cambria, fubdued in fight, and flain by Dunwallo
Molmutius, iv. 17.
Rudbuddibras, fucceeds his father Leil, and founds Canterbury,
with several other places, iv. 13.
Runno, the fon of Peredure, not immediate fucceffor, iv. 22.
Ruffia, ceremony and magnificence of the emperor's coronation,
iv. 291. Firft difcovery of it by the North-eaft, 299. The
English embaffies and entertainments at that court, 303. One
of queen Elizabeth's kinfwomen demanded by the emperor for
a wife, 309. Oliver's letter to the emperor of, iv. 430.
Ruffians, account of their civil government, iv. 277. Their reve-
nues, 278. Military forces and difcipline, 279. Their reli-
gion and marriages, 280. Their burials and manners, 281.
Their habit, and way of travelling, ibid.
SABRA, thrown into the river, (thence called Sabrina) with her
mother Eftrildis, by Guendolen, iv. 12.
Salluft, the chief of the Latin hiftorians, i. xxxiv.
Salmacis, caution against bathing in that ftream, iii. 110.
Salmafius, remarks on his defence of the king, iii. 103, &c. His
opinion of epifcopacy, 112. Was once a counsellor at law, 122.
His complaint that executioners in vizards cut off the king's
head, 125. His definition of a king, 130. Differs from him-
felf in ecclefiaftics and politics, 187. Taxed with receiving a
hundred Jacobufes as a bribe, 215, 269. An advocate for ty-
ranny, 244. Lord of St. Lou, the meaning of that word, 258,
note. His Anglicisms remarked, 269. See Defence of the
People of England.
Samoedia, Siberia, and other countries, fubject to the Muscovites,
defcribed, iv. 282. Manners of the inhabitants, 283.
Samothes, the firft king that history or fable mentions to have peo-
pled this ifland, iv. 3.
Sampfon, kings compared to him, i. 149. Counted it no act of
impiety to kill the enflavers of his country, ii. 191.
Samuel, depofed for the mifgovernment of his fons, ii. 282. His
scheme of fovereignty explained, iii. 138.
Samulius, recorded among the ancient British kings, iv. 22.
Sardanapalus, deprived of his crown by Arbaces, affifted by the
priests, iii. 222.
Saron, the fecond king named among the fucceffors of Samothes,
Satires, toothless, the impropriety of the epithet, i. 244.
Saul, a good king or a tyrant, according as it fuits Salmafius,iii. 192.
Savoy, duke of. See Immanuel.
Saxons, Parliaments in their time had the fupreme power, iii. 273.
Harafs the fouth coaft of Britain, flay Nectaridius, and Bulcoban-
des, iv. 74. Their character, 95. Their original, ibid. Invited into
Britain by Vortigern, aid the Britons against the Scots and Picts,
96. They arrive, led by Hengift and Horfa, 97. They beat
the Scots and Picts near Stamford, ibid. Fresh forces fent them
over, and their bounds enlarged, 98. They wafte the land
without refiftance, 99. Beaten by Guortimer in four battles,
and driven into Thanet, 100. Affaffinate three hundred Bri-
tons treacherously, and feize Vortigern, 101. Moft of them
return into their own country, 102. The reft defeated by Am-
brofius Aurelianus, and the Britons, ibid.
Saxons and Picts. See Pics.
Schifm, the apoftles way to prevent it, i. 105. Mitres the badges
of fchifm, 106. May happen in a true church as well as in a
falfe one, iv. 261.
Schifmatics, thofe only fuch, according to the prelates, who diflike
their abominations and cruelties in the church, i. 104.
Scava, a Roman foldier, his extraordinary bravery in Britain, iv.
29. Is advanced on that account, 30.
Scots writers, their opinion of kings, ii. 291. Nation, by whom
first mentioned, iv. 68, 69.
Scots, reafons for their ill-treatment of Queen Mary, ii. 292. King
Charles a native king to them. 428.
Scots, Picts, and Attacots, harafs the fouth coaft of Britain, iv. 74.
Overcome by Maximus, 76. Scots poffeffed Ireland first, and
named it Scotia, 77. Scots and Picts beaten by the Romans,
sent to the aid of the Britons, 88. They make spoil and havock
with little or no oppofition, 90.
Scriptures, only, able to fatisfy us of the divine constitution of epif-
copacy, i. 60. The only balance to weigh the fathers in, 75.
To be relied on against all antiquity, ibid. To be admired for
their clearness, 80. The juft and adequate measure of truth,
178. Several texts relating to marriage and divorce explained,
ii. 119, &c. Reading the fcriptures diligently, a means to pre-
vent the growth of popery, iv. 267.
Sea overwhelms several towns in England, with many thousands of
inhabitants, iv. 218, 219.
Sebbi, having reigned 30 years, takes the habit of a monk, iv. 140.
Sebert, the fon of Sleda, reigns over the Eaft-Saxons by permiffion
of Ethelbert, iv. 123.
Sects and fchifms, among us, fhould haften a reformation from
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