1558. forts, applied their several cordials to revive her spirits, she told AN. REG. 6, them in plain terms that they were mistaken in the nature of her disease; and that, if she were to be dissected after her death, they would find Calais next her heart1. Thus between jealousy, shame, and sorrow, taking the growth of her infirmity amongst the rest, she became past the help of physic. In which extremity she began to entertain some thoughts of putting her sister Elizabeth beside the crown, and settling the succession of it on her cousin the Queen of Scots; and she had done it, (at the least as much as in her was), if some of the council had not told her, That neither the Act of the Succession, nor the last will and testament of King Henry the Eighth, which was built upon it, could otherwise be repealed than by the general consent of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. So that, being altogether out of hope of having her will upon her sister, of recovering Calais, of enjoying the company of her husband, and reigning in the good affection of her injured subjects, she gave herself over to those sorrows which put an end to her life on the 17th of November, some few hours before day, when she had reigned five years and four months, wanting two days only. Her death accompanied within few hours after by that of the Lord Cardinal Legate2; ushered in by the decease of Purefew, alias Wharton, Bishop of Hereford3, and Holyman1 the new Bishop of Bristow, and Glyn' of Bangor; and followed within two or three months after by Hopton Bishop of Norwich, and Brooks of Gloucester7: as if it had been necessary in point of state that so great a Princess should not die without some of her Bishops going before, and some coming after. Her funeral solemnized at Westminster with a mass of requiem, in 1 Speed, 856. 2 Godwin de Præsul. 151. Machyn states that Pole outlived the Queen two days. 178, 368. He was the Queen's chaplain in former times, and died before the end of the year,-of grief for her death, it is said. Ibid. 441. 7 Richardson, in Godwin, 552, states, on the authority of H. Wharton, that Brooks died before the Queen, on Sept. 7. "There were nine who were of the death-guard of Queen Mary, as expiring either a little before her decease, or a little after." Fuller, iv. 278. 1558. AN. REG. 6, the wonted form, on the 13th of December then next following, and her body interred on the north side of the Chapel of King of this reign. Henry the Seventh, her beloved grandfather'. Foundations 6. I shall not trouble myself with giving any other character of this Queen than what may be gathered from her story; much less in descanting on that which is made by others, who have heaped upon her many gracious praiseworthy qualities, of which whether she were mistress or not, I dispute not now. She was indeed a great benefactress to the clergy, in releasing them of their tenths and first-fruits; but she lost nothing by the bargain. The clergy paid her back again in their bills of subsidies, which, growing into an annual payment for seven years together, and every subsidy amounting to a double tenth, conduced as visibly to the constant filling of the 25 exchequer as the payment of the tenths and first-fruits had done before. That which went clearly out of her purse without retribution was the re-edifying and endowment of some few religious houses, mentioned in their proper place. She also built the public schools in the university of Oxon, for which commemorated in the list of their benefactors: which, being decayed in tract of time, and of no beautiful structure when they were at the best, were taken down about the year 1612; in place whereof, but on a larger extent of ground, was raised that goodly and magnificent fabric which we now behold. And though she had no followers in her first foundations, yet by the last she gave encouragement to two worthy gentlemen to add two new colleges in Oxon to the former number. Sir Thomas Pope, one of the visitors of abbeys and other religious houses in the time of King Henry, had got into his hands a small college in Oxon, long before founded by the Bishop and Prior of Durham, to serve for a nursery of novices to that greaters monastery. With some of the lands thereunto belonging, and some others of his own, he erected it into a new foundation, consisting of a president, twelve fellows, and as many scholars, and called it by the name of Trinity College; a college sufficiently famous for the education of the learned and renowned 1 Stow, 635. 2 For Mary's benefactions to Oxford, see Wood's Hist. and Antiq ed. Gutch, iv. 118. 3 Ed. 3, "great." 4 • Fuller, iv. 239. may Selden, who needs no other "Titles of Honour" than what For the story of this bequest, see Ant. a Wood's Life, ed. Eccl. Hist. 2 See note at the end of the History. 3 Fuller, iv. 241. The name of the College was, no doubt, derived from the circumstance that the London Merchant Tailors' company was "the Guild of St John the Baptist." Stow, Survey, 189. For an account of Sir T. White's other benefactions, see Stow, Survey, 94. The erection of Gonville Hall, Cambridge, into a College, by its second founder, Dr Kaye (latinized Caius), also belongs to this reign. Hecker, Epidemics of the Middle Ages, tr. by Babington, 304. AN.REG. 6, 1558. OF CHURCH and STATE IN ENGLAND. During the Life, and first eight years of the Reign OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. Judges Chap. v. Ver. 7, 8. 7. The Inhabitants of the Villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a Mother in Israel. 8. They chose new gods; then was war in the gates; was there a shield or spear seen amongst forty thousand in Israel? Vell. Paterc. Hist. lib. 2. [c. cxxvi.] Revocata in Urbem fides, summota seditio e foro, e campo ambitio, discordia à curia; accessit Magistratibus Authoritas, Senatui Majestas, Judiciis gravitas; omnibus recte faciendi aut incussa voluntas, aut imposita necessitas. Martial. Epigr. lib. 1. [De Spectaculis, 6.] Hæc jam fœminea vidimus acta manu. LONDON, Printed for H. Twyford, T. Dring, J. Place, and |