Ecclesiastical History Society. Established for the publication and republication of Church Histories, &c., 1847. OR, THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE Church of England. BY PETER HEYLYN, D.D. WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY JOHN BARNARD, D.D. EDITED BY JAMES CRAIGIE ROBERTSON, M.A., OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, VICAR OF BEKESBOURNE, IN THE DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY. PREFACE. HE ECCLESIA RESTAURATA of Heylyn was, notwith THE standing the previous labours of Fox and Fuller, the earliest attempt at a regular History of our Reformation; and, although it has been followed by many works on the same subject, and has unquestionably been excelled by some of them in one respect or other, it still retains a value, and continues to be read and quoted. It is hoped, therefore, that a republication may not be unacceptable to the members of the Ecclesiastical History Society. The first edition was published in 1661-the year before the author's death. A second followed in 1670 -improved by the addition of an Index, but in other respects a mere reprint of the former, with a somewhat increased number of errors. The third edition, however, which appeared in 1674, differs considerably from those which had preceded it. Some concluding sentences and a note are added at the end of the History, the whole addition bearing tokens of the author's hand, and the note evidently written while the first edition was in the press, or immediately after the completion of the printing. The third edition, too, while it has many errors of its own, frequently corrects those of the first and second; and in some places, where words had been before misprinted, it has new readings, which are themselves also erroneous1. This 1 Thus in Eliz. ii. 3-4, the name Yale is printed Dale in Edd. 1, 2, and Vale in 3; and Neale is in 1, 2, printed Keale, and in 3, Weale. last class of variations must be accounted for by supposing, either that the third edition, as well as the first, was printed from manuscript, or that the third was printed from a copy of the first, in which the concluding sentences and note had been added, and corrections, sometimes indistinctly written, had been inserted. If the third edition was taken from a manuscript, an earlier printed copy must have been used as a guide for the arrangement of the pages, which is alike in all the impressions. The book used in preparing the present reprint is of the second edition; and the others have been collated with it wherever there appeared to be any doubt as to the reading. The corrections derived from the third edition are mentioned in the notes; but it has not in general been thought necessary to record the errors which are peculiar to the second or the third. A prominent defect of the Work has hitherto been the almost entire want of references to authorities; and the chief part of my task has consisted in supplying these. By following the hints which are occasionally given, I have for the most part succeeded in discovering the sources from which it is evident that Heylyn must have drawn his information: and it may be here observed, that a reference in this book very commonly implies an amount of obligation far exceeding that which is usual in modern literature; for it is our author's practice to appropriate whole sentences, and even paragraphs, with very little, if any, alteration. Among the works from which he has borrowed in this way, may be particularly mentioned, Hayward's Life of Edward the Sixth, Stow's Annals |