on the contrary Part, but Down with the Daggle-tails.

Wat returning from Ludgate, fat down upon a Stall against Bell-Savage-Inn, where he mus'd a while, and retired towards the Court, and was not oppofed till he came to Temple Bar, where began fome Bickering but Clarencieux King at Arms coming to him, perfuaded him to fubmit to the Queen's Mercy; to whom Sir Thomas Wyat faid, If I muft yield, I will yield to a Gentleman, and yielded him felf to Clarencieux. Then was he mounted behind Sir Maurice Berkley, and fo carried to the Court, and in the Afternoon to the Tower. About Fifty of his Fellow-Rebels were -hang'd in London, and four hundred more were led thro' the City with Halters about their Necks to Weftinter, where they were all pardoned by the Queen.

A. D. 1554, and April the 11th, Sir Thomas Wyat was beheaded on Tower-Hill; where at his Death he warned the People to beware how they took any Thing in hand againit the higher Powers, and excufed the Lady Elizabeth, and the Lord Courtney, of having any Hand in his Rebellion. Alexander Bret, and Twenty Two Kentish Perfons more were executed in divers Parts of that Country. Thefe Commotions were the Occafion of great Troubles to the Lady Elizabeth, for the great Difference in Judgment that was betwixt her Sifter the Queen and her, caufed the Queen to fufpect that he was a principal Mover in them. Wherefore the good Princefs was in all hafte fent for from her Manor of Abbridge, where the then lay fick, and was committed Prifoner to the Tower of London; at her first coming being kept a close Prifoner under Locks and Bolts; but at length the Lord

Shandois obtained Liberty for her to 1554walk in the Queen's Chamber in the Garden. About May 9. fhe was re- Cardinal moved to Woodstock, where her Liber- Reginald ty was not much enlarged. In this Pole, A.B. her Confinement, as the fat looking of Cant. out of the Window, the happen'd to fee a Maid milking in the Park, and merrily finging over her Pail, which ftruck this penfive Prisoner into a deep Mufe, preferring the Maid's Fortunes above her own, and heartily wishing that herself was a MilkMaid. Perhaps this might be the Place where Stephen Gardiner (with intent to enfnare her Life) caufed her to be examined what the thought of thofe Words of Chrift, hoc eft Corpus meum, this is my Body. To which, after fome Paufe, the Princess thus warily, and as wittingly answer'd,

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Chrift was the Word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it ; And what the Word did make it, That I believe, and take it. A. D. 1554, and April the 16th, Difputation began concerning Tranfubftantiation, between certain Learned Men of the Popish Perfuafion, and Thomas Cranmer Archbifhop of Canterbury, Nicholas Ridley late Bishop of London, and old Father Latimer fometime Bishop of Worcester, of the Reformed Religion; which Difpute ended on the 20th of the fame Month; and a Year and fix Months after, the afore-named Bifhops gave Teftimony to the Truth in the Flames in the TownDitch of Oxford.

A. D. 1554, and July the 25th, was the Marriage betwixt Philip of Spain, and Mary Queen of England, with great State folemnized, and their Tities by Garter King at Arms folemnly proclaimed, with these following Stiles, Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God, King and Queen of England, France, Naples, Jerufalem, and Ireland, Defenders of

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1557. the Faith, Princes of Spain and Sicily, Arch-Dukes of Auftria, Dukes of Milain, Burgundy, and Brabant, Counts of Habfpurg, Flanders, and Tyrol. In the November next following this Marriage, the Queen was reported to be with Child, for Joy whereof Te Deum was commanded folemnly to be fung, and Proceffions and Prayers were made for her fafe Delivery.

The Queen took her Chamber, the Court was full of Midwives, all due Provifions made against the good Hour. And fo certain it was taken to be, that fome were punish'd but for questioning the contrary, and the Parliament enacted, That if God fhould take away Queen Mary, this their young Mafter coming into the World should fucceed, and that King Philip fhould be Protector during the Prince's Minority. Howbeit, tho' they had this Confidence to truft Philip with the Government of England, if fuch a Cafe fhould happen; yet had Philip little Confidence in the English; firft, because they would have hindred the Marriage betwixt him and the Queen, and then because a Nobleman had given his Counsel to cut off the Lady Elizabeth's Head, whence he affured himself, that thofe fo bad-minded to their natural Princefs, could not be well-minded to him a Stranger. A great Friend, 'tis faid, King Philip was to the faid Prince's Elizabeth, nor would he ceafe foliciting his Queen till he had gained her fome Freedom from her clofe Restraint. But now the expected time of Queen Mary's Deliverance being come, a Rumour was spread that a Prince was born, for Joy whereof the Bells were rung, Bonfires flamed, Proceffions were made, and fome in their Sermons fondly defcribed the Beauty of this young Prince. Notwithflanding at lalt it proved no

fuch Matter. Some faid this Rumour was spread in Policy, and that the Queen, to have put the Lady Elizabeth befides the Crown, would have mothered another Body's Child; but King Philip fcorned to father it. Others faid, that the Queen mifcarried; others, that she had a Tympany.

A. D. 1557, the Queen, to take part with the Spaniard and Pope, proclaimed War against France, and King Philip crofled the Seas into Flanders. After whom his Queen fent a Thousand Horsemen, Four thousand Foot, and Two thoufand Pioneers, under the Conduct of the Earl of Pembroke, who came with his Forces before the Town of St. Quintins (at that time befieged by the Dukes of Savoy and Brunswick) and in fhort time by their manly Courage forced the Town to yield; for Joy whereof great Triumphs were made in England, which laited not long; for this Success made the English too fecure, infomuch, that thro' neglect of seasonable and fitting Supplies, the Town of Calais was forced to yield to the French, upon but indifferent Terms on the Englib part. Thus the Town of Calais, won by the victorious King Edward the Third, and that by no less than eleven Months Siege, was now in the Compaís of eight Days besieged and regained, and that in the Depth of Winter, it being furrendred on January the 17th, 1557. And in the fame Month and Year were also the ftrong Forts of Guifes and Hames taken by the French, whereby all the English Footing was loft in France. This Lofs with the Abfence of King Philip (who did not paffionately love his Confort the Queen) is thought to have haftened the Death of Queen Mary. She was heard to fay, That the Lofs of Calais was written in her Heart, and might

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therein be read when her Body fhould be opened. She died of a burning Fever, November the Seventeenth 1558, and was buried at Westminster. The Church Poffeffions which this Queen had in her Hand, the freely refigned with this Saying, That he fet more by the Salvation of her own Soul, than fhe did by Ten Kingdoms. Though the was of no bad natural Temper, yet through a blind Zeal, fhe dealt fo rigidly and cruelly against thofe called Sacramentarians, the Proteftants, that in less than Four Years Space, fhe caufed to be put to Death of them 277. In Smithfield, and other parts of the Land, where confamed of them in the Flames, for Chrift's Sake, 5 Bifhops, i. e. Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury, Ridley Bishop of London, Latimer Bifhop of Worcester, Hooper Bishop of Gloucefter, and Farrar Bishop of St. David's; 21 Minifters, 8 Gentlemen, 48 Artificers, 100 Husbandmen, Servants, and Labourers, 26 Wives, 20 Widows, 9 Virgins, 2 Boys, and 2 Infants; one of them whipped to Death by bloody Bonner; and the other fpringing out of its Mother's Womb, as the burned at the Stake, was thrown again into the Fire. Sixty four more were perfecuted for their Profeffion of the true Chriftian Doc

trine; whereof 7 where whipped, 1558. 16 perished in Prifons, and were buried in Dunghills, and many lay in Captivity condemned till the coming in of Queen Elizabeth; and many fled the Realm in thofe fcorching Times, amongst whom was Ca therine Dutchefs of Suffolk, the last Wife of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk. Pray God of his great.. Mercy defend England from the Religion and Cruelties of Antichri ftian Rome!

On the felf-fame Day that Queen Mary died, died alfo Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury, and was buried at Canterbury.

In the Reign of this Queen, extreme Dearths raged, alfo Quartan Agues, of which many old People died, efpecially Clergymen.

At a little Town about a Mile, and Eattward from Nottingham, a Tempest of Thunder did great Harm, beat down many Houfes, forced the Bells out of the Steeple, carrying them to the Outfide of the Church-yard, and fome Webs of Lead Four hundred Feet into the Field. A Child, by the Violence of it, was taken out of a Man's Arms, and carried an hundred Feet. Five or fix Men, befides the Child, were flain by it. Some Hail-ftones fell that were fifteen Inches about.

1564. to her Breaft, faying, That the fame had been her chiefeft Delight, Matthew and fhould be the Rule by which Parker, he meant to frame her Govern A. B. of ment. January 15, was the Crown Cant. Imperial fet on her Head by Dr. Oglethorp, Bishop of Carlifle. Shortly after which a Parliament fat, wherein the Title of the Supremacy was reftored to the Crown, with the Tenths and Firft-Fruits of all Ecclefiaftical Livings, and the Book of Common-Prayer (fet forth in Edward the Sixth's Time) was ratified, as alfo thofe Acts repealed which were enacted, in Queen Mary's Time, in favour of the Romish, and against the Reformed Religion. During this Parliament, a Petition was made unto her Majefty to move her unto Marriage, in hope of Royal Iffue from her. To which the replied, That the best liked a Virgin's Life; but that if it happened that her Affection fhould change, her Choice fhould be only of fuch an one as fhould be as careful as any of themselves for the publick Good. As for her Iffue, fhe faid, if the fhould have any, it might grow out of Kind, and prove ungracious; and therefore to leave behind her a more lafting and grateful Remembrance, The held it fufficient, that a Marble. Stone fhould declare to Pofterities, that fhe a Queen had reigned, lived, and died a Virgin. This Maiden Queen, the better to fecure herself against the Bishop of Rome, who fought to difable her Title by the Calumny of Illegitimation, entred into a League with fome Princes of Germany. This done, the claimed the Reftitution of Calais as her Right, having been lawfully granted and affured by the French themselves unto the Crown of England. But the English Queen was not more defirous to have Calais than the French were unwilling to part with it;

howbeit, at length it was thus concluded, That Calais fhould remain to the French the Term of Eight Years, and then to return to the English, elfe the French to pay 500,000 Crowns; which they never performed, tho' the Agreement was fealed and fworn unto. Next, her Highness proceeds to purge the Clergy of England, ordering the Oath of Supremacy, and other Articles, to be tendred them; which many refufing, were forthwith deprived of their Ecclefiaftical Benefices and Promotions. Then went forth Commiffioners to fupprefs thofe Monafteries restored by Queen Mary, and to caft out all Images fet up in the Churches; and after the reducing of Church Matters into Order, this happy Queen brought her Coins into fine and pure Sterling, debafing of Copper Coins; caufing likewife great Store of Manition, Armour, and Powder, to be brought into the Land, and laid up in Readiness against a Time of Need.

A. D. 1562, her Majefty fent Aids into France to fupport the Reformed Religion there. These with great Joy were received into the Towns of Newhaven, Rean, and Diep; but within the Space of Twelve Months they were forced back into England, bringing thence many fick Soldiers, which dangeroufly infected the Nation with a long continuing Plague,

About the Year 1564, the Irib fought to fhroud themfelves from their Obedience unto Queen Elizabeth, under the Shelter of Shan-ONeal, a Man cruel by Nature, and claiming an Hereditary Right to the Province of Ulfter, as the ONeals formerly had done to all Ireland. Against this Rebel fo great Preparations were made, that he, terrified therewith, came over into

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England, and on his Knees begged the Queen's Pardon, which the granted him; howbeit, not long after he rebelled, but at length was flain by fome of his own Countrymen. A. D. 1567, fo great civil Diffenfions were in Scotland, that Outrages were not only committed upon the best Subjects, but even upon the King and Queen themfelves; him they barbaroufly murdered, and forced her to leave Scotland. Which unhappy Queen having em barked herself for France, hoping there to find many Friends, was by crofs Winds drove upon the English Coafts, from whence the might not return, but was detained Prifoner in England.

A. D. 1568, by the working Inftruments of the old Doctor at Rome, there were Difcontents bred and nourished in fome great Perfons of England, as the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland, Leonard Lord Dacres, Nevil, &c, who had in readiness certain English Priefts, Morton and others, with Bulls and Inftruments of Abfolution, Reconciliation, and Oaths to be taken to the Pope. Thefe Romish Rebels raifed Forces, and with Banner difplayed entred Burrow-Bridge, old Morton being their Enfign-bearer, in whofe Colours were painted the Crofs and Five Wounds of Chrift. But at the Approach of her Majefty's Forces, the Captains of the Rebels fled into Scotland, and their Followers were taken without any Refiftance. Of thefe Traitors were put to Death at Durham by Martial Law, an Alderman, a Prieit, fixtyfix Conftables, befides others of them

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A. D. 1570, Leonard Dacres of Harley renewed the Rebellion, and had amongst his Followers, many Women Soldiers; but upon a Moor nigh unto Naworth, the Lord Hunf. den difperfed them in Fight,

Auguft 22. of this Year, was the 1570. Earl of Northumberland beheaded at York, where in his laft Speech he Edward avowed the Pope's Supremacy, de- Grindal, nied that Subjection was due to the A. B. of Queen, affirmed the Realm to be Cant, in a Schifm, and that obedient Subjects were no better than Hereticks. For you must know that Pope Pius V had, by his Bull dated 1569, deprived the Queen of her Kingdoms, abfolved her Subjects of all Subjection to her, and pronounced all that yielded her Obedience accurfed; as appears by the latter Part of the faid Bull, in thefe Words, Being therefore frengthned with his Authority, wha bath pleased to fet us in this fupreme Throne of Fuftice, though unfit for fo great a Burthen, We by the Fulness of our Apoftolical Power, do declare the aforefaid Elizabeth an Heretick, and a Maintainer of Hereticks, and thofe that take her part in the Things aforefaid [that is, in ufing wicked Rites and Inflitutions according to Calvin's Prescriptions, and commanding them to be obferved by her Subjects, and abolishing the Sacrifice of the Mafs, Prayers, Alms, difference of Meat, Single Life, and Catholick Rites, and compelling many to for fwear and abjure the Authority and Obedience of the Bishop of Rome, &c.] to have incurred the Sentence of Anathema, and to be cut off from the Unity of Chrifl's Body. And moreover, that he is deprived of the pretended Right of her faid Kingdom, and alfo from all Rule, Dignity, and Prebeminence whatsoever; and also ber Nobility, Subjects, and People af the jaid Realm, and all others which have fworn unto her by any manner of Means, are abfolved for ever from fuch Oath, and from all Duty of Empire, Fidelity, and Obedience, in fuch fort as we do abfolve them by thefe Prefents, and deprive the faid Elizabeth of the pretended Right of

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