The earle, who had some intelligence of the dutches before, after he was come, & had shewed such courte|sie as he thought to hir estate was séemelie, the townesmen perceiuing the earle to behaue himselfe so humblie vnto hir, began to consider more of the matter: and further vnderstanding the capteine to be aliue, both they, and especallie the authors of the stir shrunke awaie, and made all the friends they could to maister Bertie and his wife, not to report their dooings after the woorst sort. And thus maister Bertie and his wife escaping that danger,M. Bertie with the dut|chesse honora [...]blie intertei|ned of the K. of Poole. procéeded in their iournie toward Poleland, where in conclusi|on they were quietlie interteined of the king, and placed honorablie in the earledome of the said king of Poles in Sanogelia, called Crozan, where mai|ster Bertie with the dutchesse hauing the kings ab|solute power of gouernment ouer the said earldome, continued both in great quietnesse and honor, till the death of queene Marie.] Whose troublesome time (sa|uoring altogither of bloudshed & mercilesse murthe|ring of Gods saints, wherof the poet saith full trulie,

— tellus madefacta cruore

Christicolûm regerit decursus sanguinis atros,

Heu carnem mollem puerorum deuorat ignis,

Foemina másque perit, nulla ratione virilis

Foeminei aut sexus habita)

¶King Edward died, Abr. Fl. ex I. [...] martyrologi [...] D. Sands vicechancell [...] when the duke of Nor|thumberland came down t [...] Cambridge t [...] proclame the ladie Iane quéene. the world being vnworthie of him, the duke of Northumberland came downe to Cambridge with an armie of men, hauing com|mission to proclame ladie Iane quéene, and by pow|er to suppresse ladie Marie, who tooke vpon hir that dignitie, and was proclamed quéene in Norffolke. The duke sent for doctor Sands being vicechancellor, for doctor Parker, for doctor Bill, and maister Lea|uer, to sup with him. Amongst other spéeches he said; Maisters, praie for vs that we spéed well: if not, you shall be made bishops, and we deacons. And euen so it came to passe: doctor Parker, and doctor Sands were made bishops, and he and sir Iohn Gates, who was then at the table, were made deacons yer it was long after on the tower hill. Doctor Sands be|ing vicechancellor, was required to preach on the morrow. The warning was short for such an audito|rie, and to speake of such a matter: yet he refused not the thing, but went to his chamber, and so to bed. He rose at thrée of the clocke in the morning, tooke his bible in his hand, and after that he had praied a good space, he shut his eies, and holding his bible be|fore him, earnestlie praied to God that it might fall open where a most fit text should be for him to intreat of. The bible (as God would haue it) fell open vpon the first chapter of Iosua, where he found so conueni|ent EEBO page image 1146 a péece of scripture for that time, that the like he could not haue chosen in all the bible. His text was thus: Responderúntque ad Iosue, atque dixerunt, Omnia quae praecepisti nobis faciemus, & quocunque miseris ibimus: sicut obediuimus in cunctis Mosi ita obediemus & tibi, The t [...]xt of D. Sands [...]revpon [...] tantúm sit Dominus Deus tuus tecum sicut fuit cum Mose, qui contra|dixerit ori tuo, & non obedierit cunctis sermonibus quos prae|ceperis ei, moriatur: tu tantùm confortare & viriliter age. Who shall consider what was concluded by such as named themselues by the state, and withall, the auditorie, the time, and other circumstances, he shall easilie sée that this text most fitlie serued for the pur|pose. And as God gaue the text, so gaue he him such order and vtterance, as pulled manie teares out of the eies of the biggest of them.

In the time of his sermon one of the gard lift vp to him into the pulpit a masse booke and a graile, which sir George Howard with certeine of the gard had ta|ken that night in master Hurlestons house, where la|die Marie had béene a little before, & there had masse. The duke with the rest of the nobilitie required doc|tor Sands to put his sermon in writing;The duke & [...] desire D. Sands to write his sermon that it might be printed. and appoin|ted maister Leauer to go to London with it, and to put it in print. Doctor Sands required one daie and a halfe for writing of it. At the time appointed he had made it readie, and maister Leauer was readie booted to receiue it at his hands, & carie it to London. As he was deliuering of it, one of the bedels na|med maister Adams, came wéeping to him, & praied him to shift for himselfe, for the duke was retired, and queene Marie proclamed.