William V. father of Eleanor, his singular life goes to Palestine; her intercourse with Saladin divorced from Louis, marries Henry II. Queen Eleanor's judgments in her's Their conduct, and the spirit of their poetry Richard I. and Henry II. favor them The specimens of the progressive English language in our Period of the disuse of the Norman language in England Reign of Edward III. the era of the complete predo- ib. ib. - ib. 1382. Style of the populace in the insurrection of Wat 1388. Specimen from the Sermons preached at St. Paul's Cross, by Maister Thomas Wymbilton 1397. The duke of Gloucester's written Confession Specimens from Chaucer's Testament of Love 1399. Speech of the parliamentary deputies to Richard II. 454 1404. Petition of the earl of Northumberland 1420. Henry the Fifth's Will 1490. Caxton's preface The above specimens shew the style of all classes ib. THE established in England. I. HE introduction of Christianity into England, CHAP. was followed by the establishment of that peculiar system of doctrines, ritual, and polity, which, from its origin in this island, and main support, may be called Papal Christianity. It was continued and augmented with renewed zeal by the Norman ecclesiastics, and pursued by the successive rise of new opinions, assailing its various parts. The innovations were for a long time repressed as fast as they were produced; yet each made some impression; and at last, from the accumulated agency of many attacks and many causes, which neither the skill nor the power of the old establishment could resist, that great religious revolution was accomplished in Great Britain, which distinguished the sixteenth century. As these causes began to operate with perceivable |