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A03196	The exemplary lives and memorable acts of nine the most worthy women in the vvorld three Iewes. Three gentiles. Three Christians. Written by the author of the History of women.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 13316; ESTC S104033	101,805	245

Clesiphon A fifth wonder Chares Lyndius The sixth wonder Aelians The Pallace of Cyrus Memnon A remarkeable controversie A law among the Grecians Phidias A cruell and an injust sentence The plea of the Athenians The answer of ●he Elians The seventh wonder Scopas Briay Tymothius Leocares Rare buildings and Architectors A glorious tombe built by Simon the High Priest Mausolea The magnanimity of Queene Artimesia Xerxes Her demeanor in the Navall fight The Greekes prime Commanders Xerxes his character of Queene Artimesia Of turbulent and combustious women Helena Hippodamie Aspatia Teuca Polizo Lavinia Dejaneira Nicostrate Polidices Lucretia Virginia Phedra Martia Thais A briefe catalogue of eminent and excellent women Dominica Iuguldis Clotildis Placida Pompeia Paulina Helena Monica Elpheda The first Schoole in Oxford Mercia Ethel●ida King Alareds issue A remarkeable accident The Danes defeated by stratagem The day well divided Elpheda too as Virago King Edwards Royall and numerous issue Spinster from whence it came A Nunne ravisht The first profe of Elphedaes valour Her monomachy A brave victory Her valour and piety The death of Etheldredus Elphedaes Acts Buildings c. and reparations of decayed Cities Her rare Chastity Elswin● Chastity Beauty Further of Elphedaes valour The outrages of the Danes Turbetillus defeated An Emlation betwixt two women A strange deliverance Elphedaes death Elphedaes Daughter Her Epitaph King Edward subdued the two Kings of Scotland and Wales King Ethelstane Preparation for a marriage The Lady Margaret brought over into England The marriage of the King to the Lady Margaret An unprofitable match The Queene assumes regall prerogative Humphrey Duke of Glocester the Kings Vnckle His death A true character of Duke Humphrey A Parliament at Lecester The death of the Marquesse of Suffolke Blew-beard Iacke Cade The birth of Prince Edward The Queene the instigator of all combustions The proceeding of the Duke of Yorke A Peace mediated betwixt the King and the Duke The Duke of Yorke sent to the Tower The Earle of March soone to the Duke of Yorke Summerset created Captaine of Ca●is A new combustion Lords of the Queenes party The battle at Saint Al●ones The Kings prison The Duke of Yorke Protector Yorke discharged of his Protectorship Procession to Pauls Andrew Trollope Yorkes flight and his Army dissolved The Dutchesse of Yorke prisoner and Ludlow spoyled The Yorkists proclaimed Traitors Iohn Dinham surprised the Kings Navy Simon Mountford beheaded by the Yorkists The York●sts land in England The battle at Northampton The Kings host discomfitted The King taken Yorke lodgeth in the Kings Pallace Yorke layeth claime to the Crowne The Queenes magnanimity Yorks pride The decree of the Parliament The battle of Wakefield The Duke of Yorke slaine Another battle at Saint Albons Prince Edward made Knight Edward Earle of March raiseth new forces Henry thought worthy to be deposed Edward Earle of March made King The bloody battle at Towton or Shirborne Henry with his Queene flye into Scotland Henry in all his actions most infortunate The Coronation of King Edward the fourth of that name Queene Margarets Army Margaret distressed by Sea Exham field Henry tooke Prisoner King Edward marryeth Elizabeth Gray The Lady Bova The Duke of Clarens and Earle of Warwicke proclamed Rebels Henry againe proclaimed King King Edward flyes the land Henry received as King Strange alteration in the state Glocester who was after Richard the third Edward landeth in England He maketh his Proclamations in the name of King Henry Edward possesseth Yorke Henry surprised by Edward The Earle of Oxford leadeth the Van. The Battle at Barnet Lords slaine in the battle Queene Margaret landeth in England The battle at Teuxbury Margaret with the Prince her son taken Her magnanimity Prince Edward murthered by the Duke of Glocester Queene Margaret sent into her owne Country The death of Henry His buriall A Character of Queene Elizabeth Her descent Her birth Her Baptisme An oath of Allegiance taken Katherine the mother and Mary the daughter disabled of all● regall claime Vnder what Constellation she was borne Her Infancy Her Childhood Queene Anne dead Prince Edward borne Created Prince of Wales An alternate aff●ction betweene the Prince and his sister Elizabeth The death of King Henry the eighth Prince Edward procl●imed King His Coronation Her retirement into the Country Her first suiter His name is conceald Her Virgin modesty The death of King Edward the sixth The Lady Iane Gray proclaimed Queene The Duke of Northumberland sent against the Lady Mary Northumberland beheaded The deaths of Suffolke the Lady Ian● and Gu●lford Dudley Mary proclamed Queene Her Coronation The troubles of the Lady Elizabeth Her danger greater in her solitude then in her soveraigntie The reasons Winchester infidiateth her life Doctor Guin and Doctor Wendiffe Her committing to the Tower Her hard usage Her infinite dangers Her great patience King Phillip favoureth the Lady Elizabeth An imposterous birth King Phillip discovereth the plot Triumphs for the supposed heyre King Phillips departure out of the Land His returne Observations concerning Queene Maries raigne Callis lost The death of Queene Mary Lady Elizabeth proclaymed Her Coronation How the state stood in the beginning of her raigne King Phillip a suiter to marry Queene Elizabeth Great prepa●ation of the French to invade England A weake ground to support so great a title Sebastian Marteguinus two forward Spaine France and Scotland combine against Queene Elizabeth Her debilities Her prudent preparations Arthur Poole incouraged by the Guisians c. New invasions t●eatned The Bull of Pope Pius Quintus A rebellion in the North. Duke D'Alva Man purposeth God disposeth Dakers revolt from the Queene Bakers Forces routed by the Lord Hunsden Commotions in Ireland Spanish Plots Eighty eight Domestick conspiracies Discovered Prevented Don Iohn of Austria aymes at the Crowne of England and Scotland One brother crosseth the other England aymed at by all The death of Don Iohn Captaine Thomas Stukeley Brave boasts Tempting titles Stukeley slaine in the great battaile of Alcazer Nicolas Saunders a pestilent Traytor Sam. Iosephus The unpittied death of the rebells Divers other conspirators Bernardinus Mendoza base proceeding Cardinall Alan and others Doctor Parry The foureteene traytors Queene Elizabeths confidence in the Almightie A rare spirit in a Princesse The death of the foureteen Traytors The French Embassador The Spanish Armado The Navie stiled invincible defeated Doctor Lopes his treason His death Her Majesties deportment in the Campe at Tilbury The next yeare she assaulted Lysbone The treason of Edward Squire A miraculous preservation A Character of Queene Elizabeth

making them fit for action so that in a short season before her great enemies were well aware she was not onely able to maintaine a defensive but make an offensive warre being ever as ready to maintaine the causes of others oppressed as to support her owne ingaged I passe to the fourth yeare of her raigne in which Arthur Poole with his brothers descended from George Duke of Clarens confedered with one Anthony Fortescue who had married their sister these conspired with the Duke of Guise to bring over an Army into Wales and there to proclaime the Scottish Mary Queene of England then was sent abroad the thundring Bull of Pope Pius Quintus which Ipso facto deposed Queene Elizabeth and infranchised all her subjects quitting them from their allegeance this was the first animating and giving life to the insurrection in the North first set on foot by the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland into which the Duke of Norfolke that noble gentleman deluded with vaine hopes was so farre ingaged that it cost him his head but all this great conjuration was both prudently and politickly prevented For it was so projected by the enemy that if the two Earles Forces joyning with the Dukes could have beene brought to one head in any convenient place of the Land one Army was appointed to run from Ireland another the Duke D'alva was to send out of the Low Countries to seaze upon the person of the Queene subvert the state supplant the Religion and to despose of the Crowne and kingdome at their pleasure all this was cast but not compast so by them proposed but by God Almightie otherwise dispos'd yet this royall virago notwithstanding their menaces rested unmoved at all these devillish plots being no whit daunted After these Leonard Dakers second sonne to William L. Dakers of Gellesland after hee had given his faith to the Queene for the suppressing of these troubles in the North and having tooke leave of her Majestie to that seeming purpose made a contract with those rebells first attempting to kill the Lord Scroope and the Bishop of Carlile but fayling in his project tooke Grastocke Castle with Naworth Castle and others fortifying them but the noble Lord Hunsden with the trained Souldiers of Barwick met with him by the River of Geli and rowted his people who fled into Scotland and thence into the Low Countries and after dyed miserably at Lovaine After this were divers commotions raised in Ireland but suppressed by the Earle of Ormend the King of Spaine never ceasing with his Ministers and agents to molest her Majestie in all places and upon all occasions he first pretended the deliverance of the Scotch Queene but Duke D'alva being then his Generall in the Low Countries disswaded him from that enterprise by reason of her former marriage with the French King alledging that when England was first invaded and then conquered which they presumed was to bee as soone atchieved as attempted it would rather fall to the French then the Spaniard yet they concluded that they should never bee peaceably possest of the Low Countries till they had England in their possession which to compasse they thought it best to beginne with Ireland but after some vaine attempts not answering their hopes and many preparations which they kept smothered all in the yeare eightie eight burst out into flame and combustion In the interim were divers domestick conspiracies discovered in which were ingaged Thomas Standly and Edward his brother the younger sonnes of the Earle of Darby in this were interessed Thomas Gerard Hall and Rolstone a Pentioner to the Queene who was the first that disclosed the dissigne Sir Henry Percy made another attempt to the like purpose upon condition that his brother the Earle of Northumberland might bee delivered out of Scotland where he sheltered himselfe his assotiates were Powell Sanford a Gentleman pentioner and one Owen a servant to the Earle of Arundell about this businesse were committed the Earles of Arundell and South-hampton the Lords Lumlee and Cobham c. After these in the yeare 1576. Don Iohn of Austria brother to Phillip king of Spaine much tumored with the honour purchased in that incomparable Sea fight against the Turke commonly called the battaile of Lepantho in which he had beene chiefe Generall and now being made Governour of the Low Countries conceiving that poore title too narrow to limit his unbounded aymes begins to cast divers projects how first by releasing and after marrying the Queene of Scots to possesse himselfe of the two Crownes of England and Scotland but King Phillip unwilling the younger brother should parallell the elder either in stile or state and reserving England as a daintie morsell to relish his owne pallate would neither afford him countenance nor assistance though to that purpose he was earnestly sollicited by one Escovedus sent by him out of the Neatherlands into Spaine but being slightly put off by Peresius Secretary to the Catholicke King yet secretly and subtilly did Don Iohn negotiate this businesse labouring to have in his intire possession all the havens of Biskey where a Navie might bee prepared there to make their randevoues ready at all opportunitie to invade England deepely dissembling all that while with Queene Elizabeth under the colour of soliciting a perpetuall peace which jugling was first discovered by the Prince of Orange and shee finding it to bee true concluded a league with the Low Countries with a promise of mutuall ayde one to another which soever should bee first distressed soone after Don Iohn in the height of his hopes and prime of his age expired some thinke by poyson others of the Plague others of griefe to be so slighted by the King his brother after he successively had aymed at the kingdome of Funis where Guleta in Affrick was left to his great dishonour I cannot here omit the trayterous attempts of captaine Thomas Stukeley who after he had rioted his whole estate here in England went over into Ireland and there having projected with some Romists went thence into Italy where by his great ostentations and bragges he got admittance into the presence of Pope Pius quintus whom by his insinuation hee made constantly beleeve that with a small Band of Italian Souldiers he would not onely expell all the English out of Ireland but bring it under the principalitie of Rome burning the Queenes Navy c. but Pope Pius dying before ought was concluded he then importuned his successour Gregory the thirteenth who hearkned unto him upon promise to make Iames Beulampagno who went under the name of the Popes bastard and was a little before made Marquesse of Vineola King of Ireland Stukeley also should be honored with the titles of Marquesse of Lageu Earle of Wepford and Ca●erlogh Viscount of Morough and Baron of Rosse all these things concluded Stukeley was made generall of eight