The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 1161)

At last, when all these faire admonitions would take no place with the queene,The finall [...]nd and death of Q. Marie. nor mooue hir to re|uoke hir bloudie lawes, nor to staie the tyrannie of hir priests, nor yet to spare hir owne subiects; but EEBO page image 1162 that the poore seruants of God were drawne dailie by heapes most pittifullie as sheepe to the slaugh|ter, it so pleased the heauenlie maiestie of almightie God, when no other remedie would serue, by death to cut hir off, which in hir life so little regarded the life of others: giuing hir throne, which she abused to the destruction of Christs church and people, to ano|ther,

Q. Marie [...]gned fiue ye [...]res & fiue [...]neths.

The shortnes [...] Maries [...]gne noted.

who more temperatlie and quietlie could guide the same, after she had reigned here the space of fiue yeares and fiue moneths. The shortnesse of which yeares and reigne, vneth we find in anie other storie of king or quéene since the conquest or before (being come to their owne gouernement) saue onelie in king Richard the third. Which reigne was so rough and rigorous, notwithstanding the shortnesse of the same, that it became a verie spectacle to all christen|dome; and the maner of dealing vsed vnder hir go|uernment was so detestable, that as it was rare, so it raised vp a rare report, euen among strangers, whose heads being fuller of matter than their pens full of inke, wrote in tearmes brode inough of the tu|mults and slaughters happening in hir vnhappie daies: among whome I will set downe for a saie a few verses drawne out of an hundred and od, pre|sented to Henrie the French king of that name the second, touching the conquest of Calis, whereat for ioy the French were rauished. Thus therfore he saith:

Regina pacem nescia perpeti,

I am spreta m [...]ret foedera, E [...] Simone S [...]rdio de capto Calero, pag. 1968. iam Dei

Iram pauet sibi imminentem,

Vindicis & furiae flagellum.

Ciues & hostes iam pariter suos

Odit pauét & ciuium & hostium

Hirudo communis, cruorem

Aequè auidè sitiens vtrúnque.

Huic luce terror Martius assonat,

Dirae, caedis mens sibi conscia,

Vmbrae nocturnae quietem

Terrificis agitant figuris.

These short verses were thus subscribed. La. B. Te.

And thus much here, as in the closing vp of this storie, I thought to insinuat, touching the vnluckie and rufull reigne of quéene Marie: not for anie de|traction to hir place and state roiall, wherevnto shee was called of the Lord:An admoniti|on to all chri| [...]an r [...]iers. but to this onlie intent and effect, that forsomuch as she would needs set hirselfe so confidentlie to worke and striue against the Lord and his proceedings, all readers and rulers not one|lie maie sée how the Lord did worke against hir ther|fore, but also by hir maie be aduertised and learne what a perillous thing it is for men and women in authoritee, vpon blind zeale and opinion, to stirre vp persecution in Christs church, to the effusion of chri|stian bloud, least it prooue in the end with them (as it did here) that while they thinke to persecute here|tikes, they stumble at the same stone as did the Iewes in persecuting Christ and his true members to death, to their owne confusion and destruction.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Leauing quéene Marie being dead & gone, you are to vnderstand and note, that the same euening, or (as some haue written) the next daie after the said quéens death,The death of [...]rdinall Poole. Cardinall Poole the bishop of Romes legat departed out of this life, hauing béene not long afore made archbishop of Canturburie: he died at his house ouer against Westminster commonlie called Lambe [...]h, and was buried in Christs church at Can|turburie. This cardinall was descended of the noble house of Clarence,The descrip|tion of cardi|nall Poole that is to saie, of one of the yoon|ger sonnes of Margaret countesse of Salisburie, daughter of George duke of Clarence, brother to K. Edward the fourth. ¶ So that hereby you haue a proofe of the noblenesse of his birth, [...] Fl. ex I. F. [...]rtyrologio. but how barba|rous he was of behauiour, and how vnnaturall in the course of his life (which blemished the honour of his descent) it maie appeare by the order and maner of his visitation in Cambridge, with the condem|ning, taking vp, and burning both the bones and bookes of Bueer and Paulus Phagius, as also by the despitefull handling and madnesse of the papists to|wards Peter Martyrs wife at Oxford, taken vp from hir graue at the commandement of the said cardinall, and after buried in a dunghill: so that in his actions he shewed himselfe (as he is noted) ear|nest in burning the bodies of the dead.Cardinall Poole earnest in burning the bones of the dead. And for fur|ther testimonie of his crueltie, it shall not be imperti|nent out of maister Fox, here to adioine and set forth to the eies of the world, the blind and bloudie arti|cles set out by cardinall Poole, to be inquired vpon within his dioces of Canturburie. Whereby it maie the better appeare what yokes and snares of fond and fruitlesse traditions were laid vpon the poore flocke of Christ, to intangle and oppresse them with losse of life and libertie. By the which wise men haue to sée what godlie fruits proceeded from that catho|like church and see of Rome. In which albeit thou seest (good reader) some good articles insparsed withall, let that nothing mooue thée: for else how could such poi|son be ministred, but it must haue some honie to re|lish the readers tast?

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