LXIII. CHAP. had conversed much with Cardinal Pole there, and was employed by him in a message into England to the Queen. Anno 1558. But he went not to Rome in this intended embassy, the Queen dying before he could be despatched. Yet the next year he fled away beyond sea, and left his bishopric. And was afterwards famous for nothing I know of, but for obtaining of the Pope, with much ado, an enlargement of the patent for pilgrimage, and offering to St. Winefrid's well in Flintshire. A promotion of bishops. Mallet. Wood. Edward Horne, martyr. In the month of October, divers sees being vacant, the Queen made a promotion of bishops: whereof this Goldwel, above mentioned, was to be translated to Oxon: her chaplain, Francis Mallet, D. D. upon the death of John late Bishop of Salisbury, to be made bishop of that see: and Thomas Wood, B. D. she appointed for St. Asaph. And there were accordingly three letters prepared from King Philip and Queen Mary to Pope Paul IV. to admit these three; which letters were all dated in the month of October. In the letter for Mallet, she signified to the Pope, that she had first offered this bishopric to William Peto, of the Franciscan order: whom, she said, she would have preferred the rather to this place, because she heard he had been thereunto nominated by the apostolic see; but that when she sent for him, he excused his acceptance of this dignity by reason of his age, and other causes alleged. In her letter for Wood, she told the Pope, that she chose him to this honour, for his constancy in the Catholic religion in the most difficult times, not suffering himself to be allured by rewards, nor terrified by punishments. But these letters, I guess, were never sent away, at least not delivered; the Queen's illness, and her death the next month, preventing. About eight weeks before the end of this reign, suffered, for the profession of the truth, one Edward Horne, of Newent, in the diocese of Gloucester, or Worcester. He was burnt in a place called the Court Orchyard, near the churchyard; and his wife was condemned with him, but she recanted, and refused to suffer with him. He sung at his burning the 146th Psalm, until his lips were burnt away; CHAP. and then they saw his tongue move, until he fell down in LXIII. the fire. This I relate the rather, because it was omitted by Anno 1558. Fox, in his Martyrology, as probably many others that suffered in those cruel times might be, for want of information. He makes mention indeed of one John Horne, and a woman, that suffered martyrdom for the testimony of their faith, at Wotton-under-Edge, in Gloucestershire. One John Deighton, a worthy minister, as it seems, somewhere in those parts, above seventy years after, had been so curious to inquire after the truth of this, and other relations of Mr. Fox, and could not be satisfied that any such persons had suffered there but in such a space of time the memory of it might be worn out. But he concluded hence, that it was a mistake through the default of others, that made the certificate for Mr. Fox out of the registers of Gloucester or Worcester. Whereupon this gentleman, a new edition of Fox being then in hand, sent up this information: and out of that reverence that he bore to the memory of Mr. 464 Fox, whose person and place of dwelling he knew, and the honour and love he bare to his works, he wished that this small error, which was none of his, were amended. But whether that were a mistake or not, it is certain that one Edward Horne suffered at Newent; where this Deighton had been, and spake with one or two of the same parish, that did see him there burnt, and did testify that they knew the two persons that made the fire to burn him: they were two glovers, or fellmongers, whose names he had in his notebook. And his son was then alive in the same parish, called Christopher Horn, an honest poor man, being about seventy-five or seventy-six years of age, and born in Queen Mary's time, about a quarter of a year before his father suffered. His mother, that promised to suffer with her husband, but recanted after she was condemned, was afterwards married to one that lived at Teynton, within a mile or two of Newent. bout Calais. CHAP. LXIV. Treaty about Calais. The Queen's sickness and death, with marks of her reign. Meetings of Protestants in this Anno 1558. TOWARDS the end of the Queen's reign, there was a Treaty a meeting near Dorleas, between the commissioners of France, of Spain, and of England: and some overture of peace was made, but broke off upon the article of the restitution of Calais. And (to shew what further became of the business of Calais) after Queen Mary's death, the King of Spain renewed the like treaty, wherein Queen Elizabeth concurred. The commissioners for the said princes met at the castle of Cambray. In the proceeding of this treaty, at the first, the commissioners of Spain for form, and in shew only, pretended to stand firm upon the demand of Calais; but it was discovered, that the King's meaning was, after some ceremonious and perfunctory insisting thereupon, to make a separate peace with the French, excluding the Queen, which he did. And so left her to make her peace, after her realm had made his wars: as we are told in an answer to a libel against Queen Elizabeth, touching her proceedings with Spain. So little beholden was this kingdom to that match with Spain. Cott. Vol. The Papists put by Lady As the Queen declined in her health, and grew worse and contrive to worse, by a feverish distemper wherewith the kingdom was Elizabeth. then grievously infected, insomuch that there was little hope of her life, the Papists beat their heads to put by the succession of the Queen's sister, the Lady Elizabeth. And they chiefly thought of Cardinal Pole, and fancied much his fitness to be promoted to the imperial crown of this realm, being of the blood royal: and besides him, several others they had in their minds, probably of royal blood too, that might serve their ends, and keep up their religion. 465 As seemed to appear by this passage. When Queen Mary was sick, one Date, a promoter, used these words to the wife of one Living, a prisoner before mentioned; "You hope, CHAP. "and you hope; but your hope shall be aslope: for though LXIV. "the Queen fail, she that you hope for shall never come at Anno 1558. "it: for there is my Lord Cardinal's Grace, and many Fox's Acts, 66 more between her and it." p. 181. in her sick In her sickness she carried herself very devoutly and TheQueen's taking this fatherly chastisement patiently, she surrendered behaviour herself to God, and prepared herself for death after the ness. manner of the popish superstition, wherein she had been bred; for she devoutly called for and partook of the sacraments of the Church. After she had received her supposed saviour, the wafer, the extreme unction was administered to her; and she repeated the Psalms of the Office without book, as the priest read them. When the strength of her body was quite wasted, and the use of her tongue failed her, yet in mass-time, when the sacrament was to be elevated, she lifted up her eyes towards it: and at the pronouncing of the benediction, she bowed her head, and soon after yielded up her spirit. dies. The sickly Queen held out to the month of November, The Queen when, on the 17th day thereof, she ended her life, to the great joy of the poor professors of the purer religion; who had been sufficiently harassed by some of her zealots, that shed abundance of innocent blood, and set a stain upon the Marian days which will never be wiped off. ter and praise of Mary. If we would therefore have some fair character and praise The characof Queen Mary, we must not expect it from Protestants, to whom she was very severe; but the Papists are not sparing Queen herein. He that made her funeral sermon, on the 13th of December, (when her funeral obsequies were celebrated in Westminster with great solemnity,) saith, "that the world "was not worthy of her, and that she was too good to tarry 66 any longer here. A virtuous and a gracious lady, an in"nocent and unspotted Queen. And he did verily think, "without prejudice to God's judgment, that then she was " in heaven, and there offered up a sacrifice for them. That "she feared God as much as the poorest creature. That LXIV. Anno 1558. 66 СНАР. "she married herself unto her realm; and, in token of faith "and fidelity, put a diamond ring upon her finger, which 66 was never put off after, during her life. That she was 66 never unmindful of her care for the nation: that she used singular mercy towards offenders, and much pity and compassion towards the poor and oppressed: clemency among her nobles. That she restored more noble houses decayed, than ever did any single prince of the realm; "[namely, of such as had been arraigned or executed, upon "the quarrel of the Pope and the supremacy, in the reign "of King Henry VIII.] That she found the realm poi"soned with heresy, and she purged it; restored to the "churches the ancient ornaments that had been taken away “and spoiled. And that she, who was a member of Christ's "Catholic Church, refused to write herself head thereof: "and was herself able, by learning, to render a cause why; no prince having for 1500 years usurped that title, [as "had King Henry her father.] That she argued it from 66 66 Scripture thus, that a woman is forbid to speak in the "Church, but the head of the Church must preach in the 466" Church; and he must offer sacrifice for the sins of the "dead: but it was not read, she said, either in the Old or "New Testament, that ever woman did sacrifice. That "there was never prince on earth that had more either of learning or virtue. She was praised, lastly, for her well "taking her sickness, and disposing herself against death; committing herself to God, and the realm to his provi"dence, [not to her sister."] All this, and the like, may read in the sermon preached at her funeral; which I have transcribed from a manuscript into the Catalogue. Number LXXXI. The preach 66 66 be The preacher was White, bishop of Winchester: against er of her fu- many passages in whose sermon (wherein, as he did over extol the deceased Queen, he too much depreciated her prefined. sent Majesty) such offence was taken, that he was com neral ser mon con manded to keep his house. And there he was confined till January 19: when being called before the Lords of the Council, after a good admonition given him, (I use the |