"as if it had been a garland of flowers, and "now the lays afide the thought thereof with " as much contentednefs as fhe could have "thrown away that garland when the scent was gone. The time of her glories was fo short, "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 disturb her quiet. She doth now "know the worst that fortune can do unto her; "and having always feared that there ftood a fcaf"fold fecretly behind the throne, fhe was as rea dily prepared to act her part upon the one as upon the other." On the wall of the room in which fhe was imprisoned in the Tower, fhe wrote with a pin these lines: Non aliena putes homini quæ obtingere poffunt, To mortals' common fate thy mind refign, 128 SIR JAMES HALES. By the kindnefs 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 employhient early in her reign. The Dialogue is printed from à fcaree pamphlet, and is intitled, "THE COMMVNICATION BETWEŃE MY LORD "CHAUNCELOR AND IUDGE HÁLES, BEING AMONG OTHER IUDGES TO TAKE HIS ፡፡ OTH IN WESTMINSTER HALL. ANNO. M. D. LIII. VI. OF OCTOBER. "CHAUNCELÓR.. HALES. "Master Hales, ye fhall vnderstand that like " as the Quenes Highnes hath heretofore receiuid good opinion of you, especiallie, for that ye "ftoode both faithfullie and lawfulli in hir caufe "of iuft fucceffion, refufing to fet your hande " to "to the booke amonge others that were against "hir Grace in that behalfe: fo nowe through "your owne late defertes: against certain hir 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. "C HALES. "I praie you my Lorde, what is the cause? "Informatiō is geuen that ye haue indicted "certain priftes in Kent, for faiing of Maffe. 86 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 required. For I haue profeffed the law, against which, in cafes of iuftice wil I neuer (God willinge) procede, nor in ani wife diffemble, "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 cōfience is knowne "wel inough. I know ye lacke no confcience. " 66 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, wherein 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 mafter 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, as ye haue fome time taken vppon you in "place of iuftice. And if it were well tried, I "belcue ye fhuld not be wel able to stand ho"neftli therto. 66 HALES. "Mi Lord i am not fo perfect but i mai erre "for lacke of knowledge. But both in con"fience "fience & fuch knoledge of the law as God hath geuē me, i wil do nothing but i wil maintain And if mi goodes and all that « and abide in it. "I haue be not able to counterpaife the cafe: mi "bodie fhal be redi to ferue the turne, for thei be "all at the Quenes Highneffe pleasure. "Ah fir, ye be veri quicke and ftoute in your "anfwers. But as it fhoulde feme, that which << ye did was more of a will, fauouring the opi"nion of your Religion against the Seruice nowe vfed, then for ani occafiō or zeale of iuftice, feinge the Quenes Highnes dooth fet it furthe, as yet wishinge all hir faithful fubiectes to im"brace it accordingli: & where ye offer both "bodie and goodes in your triall, there is no fuch "matter required at youre handes, and yet ye "fshall not haue your owne will neither. " "My Lord, I feke not wilful will, but to fhew my self as i am bound in loue to God, and "obedience to the Quenes Maieftic, in whose "caufe willingly for iuftice fake (al other respectes "fet apart) i did of late (as your Lordship knoeth) aduenture as much as i had. And "as for my religion, i truft it to be fuche as "pleaseth God, wherin i am redy to aduenture " afwell K 2 |