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"condemned to die. But I pray God fave the King, and fend him long to reign over you. "For a gentler nor a more merciful Prince there 66 never was, and to me hee was ever a good, a "gentle, and a foveraine Lord. And if any "perfon will judge of my caufe, I require them "to judge the beft. And thus I take my leave ❝of the world, and of you all. And I heartily "defire you all to pray for me."

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"After which," adds Lord Herbert," coming "to her devotions, her head was ftricken off by a fword. And thus ended the Queen, "lamented by many, both as fhe was defirous "to advance learned men, in which number "Latimer Bishop of Worcester and Saxton

Bishop of Salisbury are recounted, and as fhe "was a great alms-giver, infomuch that he is "faid in three quarters of a year to have be "stowed fourteen or fifteen thousand pounds in "this kinde, befides money intended by her "towards raising a stock for poor artificers in "the realme."

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In one of the letters which fhe wrote to Henry previous to her trial, fhe fays, " You have chosen me from a low estate to be your Queen and "companion, far beyond my defert or defire. "If then you found me worthy of fuch honour, ❝ let

"let not any light fancy or bad council of mine "enemies withdraw your princely favour from "me. Neither let that ftain, that unworthy "stain of a difloyal heart towards your good "Grace ever caft fo, foul a blot on your most "dutiful wife, and the infant Princeffe her "daughter. Try me, good King, but let me "have a lawfull trial, and let not my fworn ene"mies fit as my accufers and judges. Yea, let CC me receive an open trial, for my truth fhall "fear no open fhame."

CARDINAL WOLSEY

Told Sir William Cavendish, his Gentleman Ufher, that by means of his parents, and other his good friends, he was maintained at the Univerfity of Oxford, where he profpered so well, that in a fhort time he was made Bachelor of Arts when he was but fifteen years of age, and was commonly called there the Boy Bachelor.

Wolfey, on his return from Oxford, fettled in the country as a schoolmaster, where happening to displease a powerful neighbour, Sir James Pawlet," he (as his Biographer, Cavendish, fays) fet "Wolfey by the heels; which affront," it is

added,

added,

was neither forgotten nor forgiven ; "for when the schoolmafter mounted fo high as "to be Lord Chancellor of England, he was "not forgetful of his old difpleasure most cruelly "ministered to him by Sir James, but fent for "him, and after a very fharp reproof, enjoined "him not to depart out of London without "licence firft obtained; fo that he continued in "the Middle Temple for the space of five or fix years, and afterwards lay in the Gate-house near the Stayres, which he re-edified, and fumptuously beautified the same all over on the "outfide with the Cardinal's arms, his hat, his "cognizance, and badges, with other devices, "in fo glorious a manner, as he thought thereby "to have appeafed the Cardinal's displeasure."

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The eldest son of the Earl of Northumberland, who was in the Cardinal's household, was contracted in marriage to Anne Boleyn, to the extreme indignation of Henry the Eighth, who ordered the Cardinal to fend for his father to London, to talk to him on the subject of his intended marriage. "The Earl of Northumberland," fays Cavendish," came to London very speedily, "and came firft to my Lord Cardinal, as all great "perfonages did that in fuch fort were fent for,

by whom they were advertised of the cause of "their fending for; and when the Earl was come, he was presently brought into the gallery

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<to the Cardinal. After whofe meeting, my "Lord Cardinal and he were in fecret communi❝cation a long space. After their long dif "courfe, and drinking a cup of wine, the Earl

departed; and at his going away, he fate "down in the gallery, upon a form, and called "his fon unto him, and faid: Son, (quoth he,)

even as thou art and ever hast been a proud, "difdainful, and very unthrifty mafter, fo thou "haft now declared thyfelf. Wherefore what

joy, what pleasure, what comfort can I con"ceive in thee, that thus, without difcretion, "haft abufed thyfelf; having neither regard to "me thy natural father, nor unto thy fovereign "Lord, to whom all honest and loyal fubjects "bear faithful obedience, nor yet to the pro

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fperity of thy own eftate; but haft fo unad"visedly enfnared thyfelf to her, (Anne Boleyn,)

for whom thou haft purchased the King's ' high displeasure, intolerable for any fubject to "sustain? And but that the King doth confider "the lightness of thy head, and the wilful qua"lities of thy perfon, his difpleasure and indig"nation were fufficient to cat me and all my "pofterity into utter ruin and deftruction. But "he being my fingular good Lord and favour "able Prince, and my Lord Cardinal my very good friend, hath and doth clearly excufe me "in thy lewdness, and doth rather lament thy

66 folly than malign thee; and hath advised an "order to be taken for thee, to whom both you " and I are more bound than we can conceive " of. I pray to God, that this may be a fuffi "cient admonition to thee, to use thyself more "wifely hereafter. For affure thyself, that if "thou doft not mend thy prodigality, thou wilt "be the laft Earl of our House. For thy na

"tural inclination, thou art wasteful and prodigal "to confume all that thy progenitors have with

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great travail gathered, and kept together with "honour; but having the King's Majesty's my

fingular good Lord's favour, I trust (I affure "thee) fo to order the fucceffion, that thou shalt "confume thereof but little. For I do not intend "(I tell thee truly) to make thee heir; for, "thank God, I have other boys, that (I truft) << will use themselves much better, and prove "more like to wife and honeft men, of whom I " will chufe the moft likely to fucceed me."

"Then," continues Cavendish, " turning to "us who were the attendants of the Lord Car"dinal, he faid, Now, good Masters and Gen"tlemen, it may be your chances, when I am "dead, to see these things which I have spoken "to my fon, prove as true as I now speak them. "Yet, in the mean time, I defire you all to be "his friends, and tell him his faults in what he

"doth