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WARWICK'S black envy SOMERSET enthrals,
And, mourned by many, the Protector falls ;
Now, with Northumbria's coronet elate,
WARWICK, unconscious of approaching fate,
Rules the young monarch.--EDWARD's early
doom,

Changes his crown already for a tomb.
Christchurch, Bartholomew, and Bridewell bear
A liberal witness of his fostering care ;*
Religion too began to own reform,

When the bright prospect, black'ning to a storm,
With EDWARD vanish'd quite ;†-and MARY

came,

MARY, a blemish to the regal name,

Heir to her father's vice, without one jot
Of good, she came to cast a dark red blot
On British story ne'er to be forgot.

* The King compleated the endowments of these Hospitals a few days before his death, with £600 per Annum from the Savoy. HOLINGSHED.

Edward was an Author; olingshed says he wrote a most elegant Comedy, called the Whore of Babylon; of which, as of several other of his productions, Horace Walpole avers, "All the subjects were religious, all the conduct farcical."

CATALOGUE OF ROYAL AUTHORS.

The cost of his Household was, the first year, £49,187; the second, £46,902; the third, £46,100; the fourth, £100,578; the fifth, £62,863; the sixth, £65,923.

STRYPE.

SUMMARY

SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF

MARY THE FIRST.

Born, A. D. 1515. Accession, 1553. Married Philip II. of Spain, at Winchester, 1554 Reigned Five Years, Four Months, and Eleven Days. Died November 17th, 1558. Buried at Westminster.

PRINCIPAL EVENTS.

Marriage of the Queen with Philip of Spain, who drew his sword on landing; which arrogant action was variously interpreted. Suppression of the reformed religion, and a persecution of its professors, unexampled since that of the Christians in the reign of Dioclesian, the Roman Emperor: in addition to many executions and oppressions on the score of opinions in this reign, there were burnt alive-one Archbishop; five Bishops; twenty-one Clergymen ; eight Gentlemen; eighty-four Artificers; one hundred Husbandmen, Servants, and Labourers; twenty-six Wives; twenty Widows; nine Maidens; two Boys; and two Infants; besides many who perished by imprisonment. Rebellion and execution of Thomas Wyatt. Executions of Lord Guildford Dudley, Lady Jane Grey, the Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk. The Great Harry, a ship of a thousand tons, burnt at Woolwich by the negligence of the mariners. Several dearths, and one succeeded by such a year of plenty, that Wheat fell from £2...13s...4d. per quarter, to 5s. Calais taken from the English, who have never since had possessions in France.

EMINENT PERSONS.

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Archbishop Cranmer; Bishops Hooper, Ridley, Latimer, Ferrer, Rogers, and Saunders, Taylor, and many others of the

Clergy

Clergy who suffered for their religion. Cardinal Pole, Bishops Gardiner, Bonner, Thirlby, &c. who were fiery supporters of the Papal power. Lord Stafford.

COTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS.

Popes.

Julius III. 1550. Marcellus II. 1555. Paul IV. 1555.

Emperors.

Of Germany.-Charles V. 1519.

Of the Turks.-Soliman II. 1520.

Kings and Queen.

Of France.-Henry II. 1547.

Of Spain.-Philip II. 1555.

Of Portugal.-John III. 1521.
Of Denmark. Frederic II. 1559.
Of Sweden.-Gustavus Vasa, 1522,
Of Scotland.-Mary, 1542.

MARY

MARY THE FIRST.

"But she, I ween, was not that virgin mild "The Poet wooes along sequestered grove."

LEIGH HUNT.

For, tho' sometimes each dreary pause between,

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Dejected pity by her side,

"Her soul-subduing voice applied,

"Yet still she kept her wild unaltered mien.”

COLLINS.

"Sum Marie, male grata patri, male grata marito, "Cælo invisa, meæ pestis atrox patriæ;

"Nulla aberat labes, nisi quod fuit addita custos

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Recoiling, closes quick its trembling leaves: So shrinks the muse to sing her native land

Sway'd by remorseless bigotry.-It grieves
My inmost heart to read a mind so fell,
Found room in any British form to dwell;
And more it irks me still to think,

A sex which forms the intermediate link
'Twixt men and angels, e'er shou'd own
The blood-stain'd animal, whose throne,
For six disgraceful and polluted years,

Saw Superstition's fires, unquench'd by Virtue's

tears.

Black

Black shades of BONNER, GARDINER, arise!
Lo! where above your narrow, murd'rous

pride,

Spirits ætherial soar, whose worth you dared despise ;

See white-rob❜d LATIMER, by CRANMER's side, HOOPER and RIDLEY, leading martyrs blest, Who feel, (could angels ever feel distrest,) Sorrow that this our much-lov'd parent earth, To souls so very mean as your's gave birth.

How sensitive are we of latter times?

How senseless they in such an age of crimes?
We start to tumult at a patriot word,
And draw, and dare, for liberty, the sword.
They, for their God, saw dearest friends expire,
And trembling crouch'd around the impious fire;
Had modern souls illum'd their coward clay,
And turn'd their firelight into reason's day,
Goodness the flame of guilt had never fed,
But injured innocence, by justice led,

Had hurl'd each brand on the oppressor's head.

The wolf, sheep clad, by vengeance brought to quake,

Had found a gibbet where he placed a stake.

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