WARWICK'S black envy SOMERSET enthrals, Changes his crown already for a tomb. When the bright prospect, black'ning to a storm, came, MARY, a blemish to the regal name, Heir to her father's vice, without one jot * 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. t 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. 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, 66 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 Recoiling, closes quick its trembling leaves: So shrinks the muse to sing her native land Sway'd by remorseless bigotry.-It grieves A sex which forms the intermediate link Saw Superstition's fires, unquench'd by Virtue's tears. Black Black shades of BONNER, GARDINER, arise! 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? 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. Reader |