THE WORKS

OF

BISHOP RIDLEY.

English Church.

THE

WORKS

OF

NICHOLAS RIDLEY, D.D.

SOMETIME LORD BISHOP OF LONDON,

MARTYR, 1555.

EDITED FOR

The Parker Society,

BY THE

REV. HENRY CHRISTMAS, M.A. F.R.S. F.S.A.

CAMBRIDGE:

PRINTED AT

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

M.DCCC.XLIII.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

BIOGRAPHICAL Notice of Ridley

ORIGINAL TREATISES.

PAGE

i

1. Brief Declaration or Treatise against Transubstantiation

2. Piteous Lamentation...

1

47

11. The Theological Variations of Stephen Gardiner

303

307

12. Answer to certain Queries touching the abuses of the Mass... 316

13. Injunctions to the Diocese of London

319

14. Reasons why the Lord's board should be in the form of a table 321

15. Letters.-XXXIV.

LETTERS.

325