[1] When the most wise and victorious prince late our king and maister, king Henrie the eight, in o|ther of his mariages not most fortunate, had by his most lawfull and most vertuous wife, quéene Iane, his otther two wiues before that mariage departed this world, and neuer surmise nor question made of that mariage, since that time to this daie, nor so much as all hir life time, name or motion to or of a|nie other wife, one prince of so high expectation, of so great gifts of God, the right and vndoubted heire of the realme of England and his maiestie onelie of male issue left behind him to succéed the imperiall crowne. If nothing else had béene doone, what can anie wise or anie christian man that thinketh the world to be gouerned by Gods proui|dence and not by fortune, thinke otherwise, but that it was Gods pleasure it should be so,The lord pro|te [...]tor infor| [...]eth by [...]itchie persuasions a perpetuall [...]itie be|twéene the [...] realms [...] the foresaid [...]. that these two realmes should ioine in mariage, and by a godlie sa|crament, make a godlie, perpetuall and most friend|lie vnitie & concord, whereby such benefits as of vni|tie and concord commeth, may through his infinit grace come vnto these realmes. Or if anie man of you or of anie nation doubteth hereof, except you looked for miracles to be doone herein, and yet if ye marke all the possibilities of the natures of the two princes, the children alreadie had, the doubtfull chance, least each of them should haue a sonne, or both daughters, or not of méet ages, with other cir|cumstances both of the partie of this realme of England, and that of Scotland, which hath not chan|ced in eight hundred yeares, it must néeds be rec|koned a great maruell and a miracle.