Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After whose death,The archbi|shop of Yorke lord chãcellor. Nicholas heath archbishop of Yorke, was preferred by the quéene to the office of the chancellor. ¶She likewise gaue the priuie seale to the lord Paget, and made him lord priuie seale, Iohn Stow. these were both Londoners borne. In this moneth of Fe|bruarie, the lord maior of London and the aldermen entered into Bridewell, and tooke possession thereof, according to the gift of king Edward, now con [...]|med by queene Marie.] In the moneth of March next following, there was in maner no other talke, but of the great preparation that was made for the quéens lieng in childbed, who had alredie taken vp hir cham|ber, and sundrie ladies and gentlewomen were pla|ced about hir in euerie office of the court.

¶And now forsomuch as in the beginning of the moneth of Iune about Whitsuntide, Abr. Fl. ex. I.F. martyrologio. Rockers and nurses proui|ded for quéene Maries child. the time was thought to be nie, that this yoong maister should come into the world, and that midwiues, rockers, nurses, with the cradle and all, were prepared and in a readi|nesse, suddenlie vpon what cause or occasion it is vn|certeine, a certeine vaine rumor was blowne in London of the prosperous deliuerance of the quéene, and the birth of the child: insomuch that bels were roong, bonefiers and processions made,Processions and bonefires in London for ioy of the yong prince. not one|lie in the citie of London, and in most other parts of the realme, but also in Antwerpe guns were shot off vpon the riuer by the English ships, and the mari|ners thereof were rewarded with an hundred pisto|lets or Italian crownes by the ladie regent,Triumph at Antwerpe for the same. who was the quéene of Hungarie. Such great reioising and triumph was for the quéenes deliuerie, and that there was a prince borne. Yea, diuerse preachers, namelie one the person of saint Anne within Alders|gate, after procession and Te Deum soong, tooke vpon him to describe the proportion of the child, how faire, how beautifull, and great a prince it was, as the like EEBO page image 1131 had not béene seene.

In the middest of this great adoo, there was a simple man (this I speake but vpon information) dwelling within foure miles of Barwike, that neuer had béene before halfe waie to London, which said concerning the bonefires made for quéene Maries child; Here is a ioifull triumph, but at length all will not proue woorth a messe of pottage,Q. Maries child would not come. as in déed it came to passe: for in the end all prooued cleane con|trarie, and the ioy & expectations of men were much deceiued. For the people were certified, that the quéene neither was as then deliuered, nor after was in hope to haue anie child. At this time manie talked diuerslie. Some said this rumour of the quéenes con|ception was spread for a policie: some other affirmed that she was deceiued by a timpanie or some other like disease,What became of Q. Maries child no man can tell. to thinke hirselfe with child, and was not: some thought shée was with child, and that it did by some chance miscarie, or else that she was bewit|ched: but what was the truth therof, the Lord know|eth, to whome nothing is secret. One thing of mine owne hearing and séeing I cannot passe ouer vn|witnessed.