Then would she needs bring in king Philip, and by hir strange marriage with him,Q. Maries mariage with a stranger. Q. Marie disappointed of hir purpose in crowning k [...]ng Philip. Q. Marie stopped of hir will in resto|ring abbeie lands. make the whole realme of England subiect vnto a stranger. And all that notwithstanding, either that she did or was able to doo, she could not bring to passe to set the crowne of England vpon his head. With king Philip also came in the pope and his popish masse: with whome also hir purpose was to restore againe the monks and nunnes vnto their places, neither lacked there all kind of attempts to the vttermost of hir abilitie: and yet therein also God stopt hir of hir will, that it came not forward. After this, what a dearth happened in hir time here in hir land, the like wherof hath not light|lie in England béene seene, in so much that in sun|drie places hir poore subiects were fame to féed of a|corns for want of corne.

Furthermore,The victorie of king Ed|ward the sixt in Scotland. where other kings are woont to be renowmed by some worthie victorie and prowesse by them atchiued, let vs now sée what valiant victorie was gotten in quéene Maries daies. King Edward the sixt hir blessed brother, how manie rebellions did he suppresse in Deuonshire, in Norffolke, in Oxford|shire,The ill luck [...] of Q. Marie in losing of Calis. and else where? What a famous victorie in his time was gotten in Scotland, by the singular wor|king (no doubt) of Gods blessed hand rather than by anie expectation of man?The eleuenth king from the conquest got Calis, and the eleuenth a|gaine after him lost it. King Edward the third (which was the eleuenth king from the conquest) by princelie puissance purchased Calis vnto England, which hath béene kept English euer since, till at length came queene Marie, the eleuenth likewise from the said king Edward, which lost Calis from England againe: so that the winnings of this quéene were verie small; what the losses were, let other men iudge.

Hitherto the affaires of quéene Marie haue had no great good successe, as you haue heard.The ill lucke of quéene Marie in hir childbirth. But neuer worsse successe had anie woman, than had she in hir childbirth. For séeing one of these two must néeds be granted, that either she was with child or not with child; if she were with child and did trauell, why was it not séene? if she were not, how was all the realme deluded? And in the meane while where were all the praiers, the solemne processions, the deuout masses of the catholike cleargie? Why did they not preuaile with God, if their religion were so godlie as they pre|tended? If their masses Ex opere operato be able to fetch Christ from heauen, & to reach downe to purgatorie, how chanced then they could not reach to the quéens chamber, to helpe hir in hir trauell, if she had béene with child in déed? If not, how then came it to passe, that all the catholike church of England did so erre, and was so déepelie deceiued? Quéene Marie, after these manifold plagues and corrections, which might sufficientlie admonish hir of Gods disfauor prouoked against hir, would not yet ceasse hir persecution, but still continued more & more to reuenge hir catholike zeale vpon the lords faithfull people, setting fire to their poore bodies by dozens & halfe dozens togither. Wherevpon Gods wrathfull indignation increasing more and more against hir, ceassed not to touch hir more neare with priuat misfortunes and calamities.