This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841. Excerpt: ... GENERAL INDEX TO COLLIER'S ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. Abeacibs filled by the king and archbishops, ii. 345. Abbess, form for installing or consecrating an, composed bv Theodorus, archbishop of Canterbury, ix. l25. Abbeys, preamble of the statute for the dissolution of the lesser, iv. 322; behaviour of the greater abbeys owned to be unexceptionable, iv. 323; clause for saving the interest of the founders, iv. 323; and for maintaining hospitality, iv. 323; revenues and riches of the dissolved abbeys, iv. 324; slender provision made for the religious and those who belonged to them, iv. 324; some of the lesser re-founded, iv. 376; list of the commissioners for visiting them, v. 7; valuation of twenty-seven of the mitred abbeys, extracted from Speed, ix. l59; large pensions offered for resignation of, v. l0; convent-seals taken away from some of them, v. l0; reports of war and public dangers made their dissolution less regretted, v. l5; remarks upon the dissolution of the, v. l8--22; abbeys granted to the crown, with their privilege of being discharged from the payment of tithes, v. 23; exempted abbeys returned to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, but not without a clause of exception, v. 24; suppression of the abbeys censured, v. 25; pretended precedents for their dissolution, v. 26; old valuation of some of them, v. 27; lord Herbert's reflections upon their dissolution, v. 28; abb«ys serviceable to the public upon several accounts, v. 28; founders of abbeys suffered by the dissolution, v. 29; scandalous destruction of their libraries, v. 30. Abbey-lands, Act for settling them upon the crown, v. l6; the nobility have large promises made them of the, v. l7; some of them may be held in sockage, v. l34; act passed to confirm the grants of, vii. l65. Abeot, bis...
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