went on a

King to

Gentleman-Ufher that they came to fpeak with the Queen's Grace, who told the Queen the Cardinals, were The Two Cardinals come to speak with her, then she rose up, having a Scane of Red Meffage Silk about her Neck (being at work from the with her Maids) and came to the theQueen. Cardinals, where they stayed attending her coming, at whofe approach quoth fhe, Alack my Lords, I am forry that you have attended on me fo long, what is your pleafures with me: If it please your Grace, quoth the Cardinal, to go to your privy Chamber, we will fhew you the cause of our coming.

My Lord faid fhe, if you have any thing to say to me, speak it openly before all these folk, for I fear nothing that you can say to me or against me, but that I am willing all the world fhould both 'fee and hear it, and therefore speak your minds openly.

Then

The Cardinal de

Then began my Lord to speak to clares the her in Latin: Nay my good Lord cause of fpeak to me in English, quoth fhe, ing. although I do understand fome Latin, Forfooth, quoth my Lord,

their go

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good Madam, if it please your Grace, we come both to know your mind what you are difpofed to do in this matter, and alfo to declare to you Secretly our ⚫ Counfels and Opinions, which ، we do for very zeal and obedience ⚫ to your Grace.

"My Lords, quoth fhe, I thank you for your good wills, but to make answer to your Requefts I cannot fo fuddenly, for I was fet amongst my Maids at work, lit tle thinking of any fuch matter, wherein is requifite fome delibe ration, and a better head then ⚫ mine to make anfwer, for I need • Counsel in this Cafe which con

cerns me fo near,

here I have none,

and Friends

they are in

Spain, in my own Country: Alfo my Lords, I am a poor Woman fomy of too weak Capacity to answer ⚫ fuch Noble Perfons of Wisdom as $ you are, in fo weighty a Matter. And therefore I pray you be good to me a Woman deftitute of Friend'fhip here in a Foreign Region, and your Counsel I alfo fhall be glad to hear, and therewith fhe took my Lord by the Hand and led him into her Privy Chamber, with the other Gardinal, where they • ftaved a while, and I heard her Voice loud, but what fhe faid I "know not.

This done, they went to the King, and made a Relation unto him of the Paffages between the Queen and them, and fo they departed.

This ftrange Cafe proceeded and went forwards from Court-day to Court-day, until it came to that, that every Man expected to hear

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Campains

Judgment given, at which time all their Proceedings were openly read in Latin, that done, the King's Counsel at the Bar moved for Cardinal Judgment, quoth Cardinal Camrefuled to paines, I will not give Judgment, give Judg- until I have related the whole Proceedings to the Pope, whofe Counsel and Commandment I will in this Cafe obferve: The matter is too high for us to give hafty Judg ment, confidering the Perfons and the doubtful Occafions alledged,and also whose Commiffioners we are,by whofe Authority we fit,

ment.

He makes a Speech.

It is good reason therefore that we make our chief Lord of Counsel in the fame before We proceed to Judgment Definitive: I came not to please for any Favour, Reward, or Fear of any Perfon alive, be he King or otherwife, I have no fuch refpect to the Perfon, that I fhould offend my Conscience. And the Party Defendant will make no Anfwer here; but rather doth Appeal

from

from us; I am an old Man, both Weak and Sickly, and look every Day for Death; what fhall it avail me to put my Soul in danger of God's Displeasure to my utter Dam nation, for the Favour of any Prince in this World. My being here is only to fee Juftice Adminiftred according to my Conscience.

The Defendant fuppofeth, that we be not indifferent Judges, confidering the King's High Dignity and Authority within his Realm. And we being both his Subjects, She thinks we will not do her Justice: And therefore to avoid all these Ambiguities, I Adjourn the Court for the Time according to the Court of Rome, from whence our JurifdiЯtion is derived: For if we fhould go further then our Commiffion doth Warrant us, it were but a folly and blame-worthy; because

then we shall be Breakers of the Orders from whom we have (as I faid) our Authority derived; and fo the

Court

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