Now furthermore, how God blessed hir waies and indeuors in the meane time,Quéene Ma|rie prospered so long as she went not a|gainst the Lord. while she thus persecu|ted the true seruants of God, remaineth to be discus|sed. Where first this is to be noted, that when she first began to stand for the title of the crowne, and yet had wrought no resistance against Christ and his gospell, but had promised hir faith to the Suffolke men, to mainteine the religion left by king Edward hir bro|ther,Q. Maries p [...]omise to the gospellers broken. so long God went with hir, aduanced hir, and by the means of the gospellers brought hir to the pos|session of the realme. But after that she breaking hir promise with God and man, began to take part with Stephan Gardiner, and had giuen ouer hir supre|masie vnto the pope, by and by Gods blessing le [...]t hir, neither did anie thing well thriue with hir after|ward during the whole time of hir regiment. For first incontinentlie the fairest and greatest ship she had,The ship cal|led the great Harrie bur|ned. called great Harrie, was burned: such a vessell as in all these parts of all Europe was not to be matched.

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.