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A45999	Idem iterum, or, The history of Q. Mary's big-belly from Mr. Fox's Acts and monuments and Dr. Heylin's Hist. res.	Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662. Ecclesia restaurata.	1688 (1688)	Wing I33; Wing F2040_CANCELLED; ESTC R5327	8,878	8

said Trust in his Majesty reposed with no less good will and affection than if his Highness had been naturally born amongst us In consideration whereof be it enacted by the King and the Queens most excellent Majesties by the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same c. As it is to be seen in the Act more at large ratified and confirmed at the same Parliament to the same intent and purpose ¶ Thus much out of the Act and Statute I thought fit to rehearse to the intent the Reader may understand not so much how Parliaments may sometimes be deceived as by this Child of Q. Mary may appear as rather what cause we Englishmen have to render most earnest thanks unto Almighty God who so mercifully against the Opinion Expectation and working of our Adversaries hath helped and delivered us in this case which otherwise might have opened such a window to the Spaniards to have entred and replenished this Land that peradventure by this time Englishmen should have enjoyed no great quiet in their own Country The Lord therefore make us perpetually mindful of his benefits Amen Thus we see then how man doth purpose but God disposeth as pleaseth him For all this great Labour Provision and Order taken in the Parliament-House for their young Master long looked for coming so surely into the World in the end appeared neither young Master nor young Mistris that any man yet to this day can hear of Furthermore as the labour of the Lay-sort was herein deluded so no less ridiculous it was to behold what little effect the Prayers of the Pope's Church men had with Almighty God who travelled no less with their Processions Masses and Collects for the happy deliverance of this young Master to come as here followeth to be seen A PRAYER made by Dr. Weston Dean of Westminster daily to be said for the Queen's Deliverance O Most righteous Lord God which for the offence of the first Woman hast threatned unto all Women a common sharp and inevitable Malediction and hast enjoined them that they should conceive in sin and being conceived should be subject to many and grievous torments and finally be delivered with the danger and jeopardy of their Lives We beseech thee for thine exceeding great goodness and bottomless mercy to mitigate the strictness of that Law asswage thine Anger for a while and cherish in the bosom of thy favour and mercy our ●…ting the trouble may with joy laud and praise the bountifulness of thy Mercy and together with us praise and bless both thee and thy holy Name world without end This O Lord we desire thee we beseech thee and most heartily crave of thee Hear us O Lord and grant us our Petition Let not the Enemies of thy Faith and of thy Church say Where is their God A solemn PRAYER made for K. Philip and Q. Mary's Child that it may be a Male-child Well-favoured and Witty c. O Most mighty Lord God which regardest the Prayer of the humble and despisest not their request bow down from thine high habitation of the Heavens the eyes of thy mercy unto us wretched Sinners bowing the knees of our Hearts and with many and deep sighs bewailing our sins and offences humbly with eyes intent and hands displayed praying and beseeching thee with the shield of thy Protection to defend Mary thy Servant and our Queen who hath none other helper but thee and whom through thy Grace thou hast willed to be conceived with Child and at the time of her Travel graciously with the help of thy right hand deliver her and from all danger with the Child in her conceived mercifully preserve It hath seemed good in thy sight merciful Father by thy Servant Mary to work these Wonders that is to say in her hands to vanquish and overthrow the stout Enemy and to deliver us thy People out of the hands of Hereticks Infidels Enemies to thee and to the Cross of thy beloved Son Jesus Christ that of thy Servant thou mightest speak in far Countries Therefore for these wonderful Works which thou dost to thy Servants thou art magnified Lord God for ever and we thy People bless thee the God of Heaven which hath wrought upon us this great Mercy and hast excluded from us the Heretick the Enemy of Truth the Persecutor of thy Church We know we know that we have grievously Lord sinned that we have been deceived by Vanity and that we have forsaken thee our God. Our Iniquities be multiplied on our head and our sins be encreased up to Heaven and we our selves having offended and our Princes and our Priests for these our sins have deserved an Hypocrite to our Prince our sins have deserved a Tyrant to our Governor that should bring our life to bitterness We be not worthy to have so gentle and merciful a Queen so godly a Ruler and finally so vertuous a Prince at the very beginning of whose Reign a new Light as it were of Gods Religion seemed to us for to spring and rise The Jews did bless the Widow Judith with one voice saying Thou art the Glory of Jerusalem thou art the Joy of Israel thou art the Honour of our People for that thou hast loved Chastity and thou shalt be blessed for ever And we the English People with one agreeable consent do cry Thou Mary art the Glory of England our Joy the Honour of thy People for that thou hast embraced Chastity thine heart is strengthened for the hand of our Lord hath comforted thee and therefore thou shalt be blessed for ever But bow down O most merciful Father thine ear and open thine eyes and behold our Affliction and our humble Confession Thou knowest Lord that against Philip not by humane but by thy Ordinance our King and against thy Servant Mary by thy Providence our Queen the Restorers and Maintainers of thy Testament of the Faith and most constant Defenders of thy Church thou knowest I say that against these our two Governors By the Power of their hands they would change thy Promises and destroy thine Inheritance and stop and shut up the mouths of them that praise thee and extinguish the glory of thy Catholick Church and Altar It is manifest and plain how many Contentions how many Conspiracies and Seditions how great Wars what Tumults how many and how great troublesome Vexations how many Heresies and Schisms for these be the most ready Devices and evident tokens of Hereticks for our sins do hang over us if thy Servant be taken from this life for we acknowledge that our Lord is omnipotent who hath pitched his dwelling-place in the midst of his People to the intent to deliver us out of the hands of our Enemies Turn therefore thy countenance unto us shew unto us O Lord thy face punish us for our sins according to thy Will and Pleasure only now deliver us We bowing the knees of our

Heart beseech thee that thou wilt not reserve unto us Punishment for ever and we shall praise thee all the days of our life Hear our cry and the Prayer of thy People and open to them the treasure of thy mercy thy gracious favour the spring of lively Water Thou that hast begun make in the hand of thy Servant a perfect work suffer not we pray thee the faithless Rebels to say of thy Servant and her Counsellors that they have devised matters which they cannot perform and grant unto thy Servant an happy and an easie Travel for it is not impossible to thy Power nor indecent to thy Justice nor unwonted to thy Mercy It is well known unto us how marvellously thou didst work in Sarah of the Age of 90 Years and in Elizabeth the barren and also far stricken in Age for thy Counsel is not in the power of Men. Thou Lord that art the searcher of Hearts and Thoughts thou knowest that thy Servant never lusted after Man never gave her self to wanton Company nor made her self partaker with them that walk in lightness but she consented to take an Husband with thy Fear and not with her Lust Thou knowest that thy Servant took an Husband not for carnal Pleasure but only for the desire and love of Posterity wherein thy name might be blessed for ever and ever Give therefore unto thy Servants Philip our King and Mary our Queen a Male Issue which may sit in the Seat of thy Kingdom Give unto our Queen thy Servant a little Infant in fashion and body comely and beautiful in pregnant Wit notable and excellent Grant the same to be in Obedience like Abraham in Hospitality like Lot in Chastity and Brotherly-love like Joseph in Meekness and Mildness like Moses in Strength and Valour like Sampson let him be found faithful as David after thy heart let him be wise among Kings as the most wise Solomon let him be like Job a simple and an upright man fearing God and eschewing evil let him finally be garnished with the comeliness of all vertuous Conditions and in the same let him wax old and live that he may see his Childrens Children to the third and fourth Generation and give unto our Soveraign Lord and Lady King Philip and Queen Mary thy Blessings and long life upon Earth and grant that of them may come Kings and Queens which may stedfastly continue in Faith Love and Holiness and blessed be their Seed of our God that all Nations may know thou art only God in all the Earth which art blessed for ever and ever Amen Another O Almighty Father which didst sanctifie the Blessed Virgin and Mother Mary in her Conception and in the Birth of Christ our Saviour thine only Son also by thine omnipotent Power didst safely deliver the Prophet Jonas out of the Whale's Belly defend O Lord we beseech thee thy Servant Mary our Queen with Child conceived and so visit her in and with thy godly gift of Health that not only the Child thy Creature within her contained may joyfully come from her into this World and receive the blessed Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation enjoying therewith daily increase of all Princely and gracious gifts both of Body and Soul but that also she the Mother through thy special Grace and Mercy may in time of her Travel avoid all excessive dolor and pain and abide perfect and sure from all peril and danger of Death with long and prosperous Life through Christ our Lord Amen It followeth now further in process of this Story That upon the Tuesday being the 10th of January nineteen of the Lower House of the Parliament with the Speaker came to Whitehall to the King and offered him the Government of the Realm and of the Issue if the Queen should fail which was confirmed by Act of Parliament within ten days after Concerning the Child-bed of Queen Mary as it was rumoured among the People LOng persuasion had been in England with great expectation for the space of half a year or more that the Queen was conceived with Child This Report was made by the Queen's Physitians and others nigh about the Court so that divers were punished for saying the contrary and commandment was given That in all Churches Supplication and Prayer should be made for the Queen 's good Delivery the Certificate whereof ye may read before in the Letter of the Council sent to Boner and also the same moreover may appear by Provision made before in Act of Parliament for the Child And now forasmuch as in the beginning of this month of June about Whitsontide the time was thought to be nigh that this young Master should come into the World and that Midwives Rockers Nurses with the Cradle and all were prepared and in a readiness suddenly upon what cause or occasion it is uncertain a certain vain Rumour was blown in London of the prosperous Deliverance of the Queen and the Birth of the Child insomuch that the Bells were rung Bonfires and Processions made not only in the City of London and in most other parts of the Realm but also in the Town of Antwerp Guns were shot off upon the River by the English Ships and the Mariners thereof rewarded with an hundred Pistolets or Italian Crowns by the Lady Regent who was the Queen of Hungary Such great rejoycing and triumph was for the Queens Delivery and that there was a Prince born yea divers Preachers namely one the Parson of St. Anne within Aldersgate after Procession and Te Deum sung took upon him to describe the proportion of the Child how fair how beautiful and great a Prince it was as the like had not been seen In the midst of this great ado there was a simple man this I speak but upon information dwelling within four Miles of Berwick that never had been before half Child Here is a joyful Triumph but at length all will not prove worth a Mess of Pottage as indeed it came to pass For in the end all proved clean contrary and the joy and expectations of men were much deceived For the People were certified that the Queen neither was as then delivered nor after was in hope to have any Child At this time many talked diversly Some said this Rumor of the Queens Conception was spread for a policy some other affirmed that she was deceived by a Tympany or some other like Disease to think her self with Child and was not some thought she was with Child and that it did by some chance miscarry or else that she was bewitched but what was the truth thereof the Lord knoweth to whom nothing is secret One thing of mine own hearing and seeing I cannot pass over unwitnessed There came to me whom I did both hear and see one Isabel Matl a Woman dwelling in Aldersgate-stree in Horn-Ally not far from the House where this present Book was printed who before witness made this Declaration unto us That she being delivered of a Man-Child upon Whitsunday