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england_n	conqueror_n	king_n	william_n	6,142	5	7.8447	4	true

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A03193	Englands Elizabeth her life and troubles, during her minoritie, from the cradle to the crowne. Historically laid open and interwouen with such eminent passages of state, as happened vnder the reigne of Henry the Eight, Edvvard the Sixt, Q. Mary; all of them aptly introducing to the present relation. By Tho: Heywood.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Droeshout, Martin, b. 1601, engraver.; I. S., fl. 1631-1638, artist.	1631 (1631)	STC 13313; ESTC S104056	51,982	256

Lady Regent but the newes on their side was too good to bee true their ioyfull acclamations too extreame to continue their Haleluiahs were instantly turn'd to Lachrymae the report proued but poin'd and turned the Vane presently into another poynt it was after knowne to all their greefes that shee neuer had conceiued or euer was likely so to do some gaue out that shee was with Child but miscarried some that she had a Timpany others that such a thing was rumour'd onely for policy but the truth is King Philip seeing himselfe frustrate of his expected Is●ue and perceiuing such shuffling and cutting amongst them not long after took his leaue of the Queene to visite his Father the Emperour and take possession of the Low-Countreys his departure was very grieuous vnto her but as most are of opinion hee did but little affect her King Philip st●yed beyond Seas a full yeare sixe months during his abode there the Statists of that time lost not the least opportunity to extinguish if it might bee possible that Cause of God that hereticall faction as they termed it how many deere Saint● of God during the Kings absence in the space of 18. months mounted vp with Elias in a fiery Chariot to Heauen the fire was then at the hottest the flames were then at the highest and the Lady Elizabeth though peaceably seated in the Countrey with her louing friends yet was much daunted with the fearefull apprehension of such extremities she feared the more because shee knew that such as were aduerse vnto her would like the Diuell worke vpon the weakenesse of her Sisters frailety they would leape ouer the hedge where it is the lowest and that now the absence of King Philip beyond the seas was the only opportunity for the aduancement of their intended designes but King Philips returne into England not long after proued the happy resolution of all her feareful apprehensions her life was a continuall warfare like a ship in the middst of an Irish Sea where nothing can be expected but troublesome stormes and tempestuous waues and certainly it will appeare that those peillous occurences shee met withall in the foure yeeres of her Ante-Regnum during the principality of her Sister will way downe the ballance being poys'd with those seuerall Treasons which threatned her Maiesty being an absoulte Princesse Then her opposites were aliens now natiues It was thou o my friend c then forraigne Kings sought to inuade her now a moderne Qu. striues to entrap her they strangers this a Sister she liued then at liberty without their iurisdiction now a prisoner captiuated to an incensed Sisters indignation she was then attended by her Nobility and graue Counsellors shee hath now not any to conuerse with but keepers and Goalers but that God wherein she still trusted first let her see her desire vpon her Aduersaries then in a good old age gathered her to himselfe freed her from the opposition of the one and the decease of Queen Mary her Sister set a period to the malice of the other Cardinall Poole with the rest of that suruiuing faction seeing things thus retrograde to their desires perceiuing the discontents of the Queene and that but a few sands were left in the glasse of her time they Nebuchadnezzar-like heated the ouen of their persecution● seauen times hotter then before for hauing already burned fiue Bishops twenty one Doctors eight Gentlemen eighty foure Artificers an hundreth Husbandmen Seruants and labourers twenty sixe wiues twenty Widows nine Virgins two boyes two Infants the one whipped to death tho other sprange out of it's Mothers wombe being at the stake and was cruelly cast into fire againe Sixty foure persecuted whereof seuen whipped to death 16. dyed in prison and were buried in Dung-hils many in Captiuity abroad leauing all they had only for conscience sake Quis talia fando tempreet a lachrimis Yet did not their fury cease here they filled the cup vp to the brim perceiuing the heat of those fires beginne to slake and wanting fuell to encrease the flames they consulted to burne the bones of those which had beene long since expired they digged vp the bones of Martyn Bucer and Paulus Phagius long since buried at Saint Maries in Cambridge and with great Pontificall State first degraded them then committed them to the secular power afterward to the fire and lest the one Vniuersitie should mock the other they tooke vp the bones of Peter Martirs wife formerly interr'd at Oxford and buried them in a stinking dunghill nay in this fury the bones of K. Henry the eight and Edward the sixth hardly scaped free now they thought all sure that the hereticall faction as they termed it were with these bones vtterly extinguished but whilst they thus solace themselues in the supposed victory of Gods Saints euen then did the hand-writing appeare vpon the wall against them newes came ouer that Calice in France a towne of great import was recouered by the French hauing belonged to the Crowne of England two hundred eleuen yeeres and herin the losse of Calice was most memorable It was first won by Edward the third being the eleuenth King from William the Conquerour and lost againe by Mary being the eleuenth from Edward in 8 dayes The Queene took the losse to heart the people beganne to murmure some imputing the losse vnto the neglect of the Clergy who then sate at the helme of state others whispered that it was a iust Iudgement of God for the abundance of bloud already spilt broyled in the land In the interim those of the faction striue to allay the heat of this distemperature both in Prince and People by extenuation of the losse saying that it was a Towne of none such consequence but rather of greater inconuenience then they were aware of that it was onely a refuge for runnagate hereticks and cōsequently that no true Romane Catholik ought to deplore but rather reioyce at the dammage At Regina graui iam dudum saucia cura Vulnus alit venis How soeuer the Queene being struck to the heart the wound became vncurable then they call'd a Parliament many large profers were made for the recouery of Calice wherin the clergy did exceed yet all this would not do Calice still stuck in the Qu. stomack she went vp and downe mourning and sighing all the day long which being asked her by some what was the reason thereof whether K. Philips departure were the occasion No said she The losse of Calice is written in my heart and there may be reade the occasion of my griefe when after death my body shall bee opened her conceptions at length fayling great dearth in the land raigning much harme done by thunders on shoare and by fire on her Royall Fleete at Sea home troubles forraigne losses K. Philips vnkindnesse there with others discontentments brought her to a burning feauer of which ●he died at Saint Iames nere Westminster on the 17th of