"I remember this taulke gladly, both because "it is fo worthie of memorie, and because also "it was the last taulke that ever I had, and the "laft tyme that ever I saw that noble and wor‹ "thie ladie." Lady Jane Grey, on paffing the Altar of a Roman Catholic Chapel one day with Lady Wharton, and obferving her to make a low courtesy to it, afked her whether the Lady Mary were there, or not. "No," replied Lady Wharton, "but I made a courtesy to Him who made 66 ús all."" How can He be there," faid Lady Jane Grey," who, made us all, and the Baker "made him?" This anfwer coming to the Lady Mary's (afterwards Queen of England) ears, she did never love her after. When the Lieutenant of the Tower was leading her to the fcaffold, he requested her to give him fome little thing which he might keep as a prefent. She gave him her Table-book, where fhe had just written three sentences on feeing her husband's headlefs body carried back to the Tower; one in Greek, one in Latin, and another in English. was to this "The Greek," fays Heylin, " "effect: That if her husband's executed body "fhould give teftimony against her before men, "his most bleffed foul fhould give an eternal " teftimony of her innocence in the presence of "God. The Latin added, that human justice was against his body, but the Divine Mercy "fhould be for his foul; and then concluded "thus in English: that if her fault deserved "punishment, her youth at least and her im"prudence were worthy of excufe, and that "God and posterity would fhew her favour." ડ "She had before," adds Heylin, "received "the offer of the Crown with as even a temper as if it had been a garland of flowers, and "now she lays afide the thought thereof with 66 as much contentedness as fhe could have "thrown away that garland when the scent was 66 gone. The time of her glories was fo fhort, "but a nine days work, that it seemed nothing "but a dream, out of which fhe was not forry "to be awakened. The Tower had been to "her a prifon rather than a court, and inter"rupted the delights of her former life by fo ઃઃ many terrors, that no day paffed without fome new alarms to difturb her quiet. She doth "now know the worst that fortune can do unto "her; and having always feared that there stood 66 a fcaffold fecretly behind the throne, fhe was "as readily prepared to act her part upon the 66 one as upon the other." On the wall of the room in which he was imprisoned in the Tower, fhe wrote with a pin these lines: Non aliena putes homini quæ obtingere possunt, Sors hodierna mihi cras erit illa tibi. SIR JAMES HALES. By the kindness of EDMUND TURNOR, ESQ. the COMPILER is enabled to enrich his Volumes with the following account of a Dialogue which paffed between Sir James Hales and the Lord Chancellor Bishop Gardiner in Westminster-Hall. Sir James was a very exemplary Judge in the time of King Edward the Sixth, and honestly gave his opinion in favour of Queen Mary's fucceffion; but, not favouring that Queen's partiality to the Catholic religion, he was removed from his employment early in her reign. The Dialogue is printed from a scarce pamphlet, and is intitled, 66 THE COMMVNICATION BETWENE MY LORD 66 OTH IN WESTMINSTER HALL. 66 ANNO. M.D.LIII. VI. OF OCTOBER. "CHAUNCELOR. HALES. "Master Hales, ye fhall vnderstand that like as the Quenes Highnes hath hertofore receiuid good opinion of you, especiallie, for that ye "ftoode both faithfullie and laufulli in hir cause "of iuft fucceffion, refusing to set your hande "to the booke amonge others that were against "hir Grace in that behalfe: fo nowe through your owne late defertes: against certain hir 66 Highnes dooinges: ye ftande not well in hir "Graces fauour. And therfor, before ye take "anie othe, it fhal be neceffarie for you to make your purgation. 66. 66 HALES. "I praie you my Lorde, what is the caufe? 66 CHAUNCELOR. "Informatiō is geuen that ye haue indicted "certain pristes in Kent, for faiing of Maffe. HALES. "Mi Lorde it is not fo. I indicted none, but "in dede certaine indictamentes of like matter "wer brought before me at the laste affifes there "holdē, and I gaue order therein as the lawe re"quired. For I haue profeffed the law, against which, in cafes of iuftice wil I neuer (God willinge) procede, nor in ani wife diffemble, " but K 4 "but with the fame fhewe forth mi confcience, "and if it were to do againe, I wolde doe no "leffe then I did. "Yea mafter Hales, your cofience is knowne "wel inough. I know ye lacke no confcience. HALES. "Mi Lord, ye mai do wel to ferch your owne "confcience, for mine is better knowne to mie "felfe then to you, and to be plaine, I did afwell "vfe iuftice in your faide Maffe cafe bi mi "cōfcience as bi the law, wherin I am fulli bent "to ftand in trial to the vttermoft that can be "obiected. And if I haue therin done ani iniuri "or wrōg: let me be iudged bi the lawe, for I " will feeke no better defence, confidering chiefli "that it is mi profeffion. "Whi master Hales, althoughe ye had the rigour of the law on your fide, yet ye might "haue hadde regard to the Quenes Highnes pre"fet doinges in that cafe. And further although ye feme to be more then precife in the lawe: yet I thinke ye wolde be veri loth to yelde to "the extremitie of fuche aduantage as mighte be "gathered againfte your proceedinges in the ❝lawe, |