Secondlie, we haue againe to consider, all this notwithstanding, how strangelie, or rather miracu|louslie from danger she was deliuered: what fauour and grace she found with the almightie, who when all helpe of man, and hope of recouerie was past, stret|ched out his mightie protection, and preserued hir highnesse, and placed hir in this princelie seat of rest and quietnesse, wherin now she sitteth, and long maie she sit, the lord of his glorious mercie grant, we be|séech him Amen.. In which storie, if I should set foorth at large and at full, all the particulars and circumstan|stances therevnto belonging, and as iust occasion of the historie requireth, besides the importunate length of the storie discoursed, peraduenture it might mooue offense to some being yet aliue, and truth might get me hatred. Yet notwithstanding, I intend (by the grace of Christ) therein to vse such breuitie and mo|deration, as both may be to the glorie of God, the discharge of the storie, the profit of the reader, & hurt to none, suppressing the names of some, whome here although I could recite, yet I thought not to be more cruell in hurting their name, than the quéene hath béene mercifull in pardoning their liues.
Therefore now
to enter into the discourse of this tragicall matter,The historie of the ladie
Elizabeth. first here is to be noted, that quéene Marie when she was first queene, before she was
crowned, would go no whither, but would haue hir by the hand, and send for hir to dinner and supper: but
after she was crowned, she neuer dined nor supped with hir, but kept hir
aloofe from hir, &c. After this it happened, immediatlie vpon the rising of sir Tho|mas Wiat (as
before was mentioned,
These refe| [...]cies by the page where| [...]uer they [...]ll in this [...]course of [...]. Elizabeth [...]ment of the impression published 1583 Sir Richard Southwell, sir Edward Hastings, and [...] Thomas Cornwallis, [...] to fetch [...] ladie Eli|zabeth, with w [...]om also [...]erward was sent the [...] William [...]ward, &c.
Hir grace hauing knowledge thereof, was right glad of their comming: howbeit, being then verie sicke, and the night farre spent (which was at ten of the clocke) she requested them by the messenger, that they would resort thither in the morning. To this they answered, and by the said messenger sent word againe, that they must néeds sée hir, and would so doo, in what case soeuer she were.The [...] of the knights. Whereat the ladie be+ing against, went to shew hir grace their words: but they hastilie following hir, came rushing as soone as she into hir graces chamber vnbidden. At whose so sudden comming into hir bed chamber, hir grace be|ing not a little amazed, said vnto them: Is the hast such, that it might not haue pleased you to come to+morrow in the morning? They made answer, that they were right sorie to see hir in that case. And I (quoth she) am not glad to see you here at this time of the night. Wherevnto they answered, that they came from the quéene to doo their message and dutie: which was to this effect, that the quéens pleasure was, that she should be at London the seauenth daie of that present moneth. Wherevnto she said; Certesse, no creature more glad than I to come to hir maie|stie, being right sorie that I am not in case at this time to wait on hir, as you your selues do sée and can well testifie.