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A03193	Englands Elizabeth her life and troubles, during her minoritie, from the cradle to the crowne. Historically laid open and interwouen with such eminent passages of state, as happened vnder the reigne of Henry the Eight, Edvvard the Sixt, Q. Mary; all of them aptly introducing to the present relation. By Tho: Heywood.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Droeshout, Martin, b. 1601, engraver.; I. S., fl. 1631-1638, artist.	1631 (1631)	STC 13313; ESTC S104056	51,982	256

beauty or that through scruple of Conscience which for his honors sake is most receiued I am not able to censure But sure it is that hee beganne deepely to consider with himselfe that notwithstanding the vsurped liberty of the Pope whose Prerogatiues till then was neuer thought disputable that his marriage was not onely vnlawfull but incestuous some are of opinion that hee was hereunto moued by the Nobility others that hee was instigated by the Clergy but if we may giue credit to his owne Protestation in open Court the first original● of this touch in Conscience was because the Bishop of Bayon being sent Ambassador from the French King to debate a Marriage betwixt the Duke of Orleance his second sonne and the Lady Mary the sole suruiuing Issue of him and his Queene Katharine but as the match was vpon the point to bee concluded the Bishop beganne to demurre and desired respit till he were fully resolued whether the Lady Mary by reason of the Kings Marriage with his brothers wife were legitimate or not The cause is doubtfull but the effect I am sure is vnquestionable Although the King receiued from this Spanish Lady a Prince called Edward borne at Richmond on Newyeeres day in the second yeer of his raigne for whose Natiuity great Triumphs were kept at Westminster yet breathed his last vpon Saint Mathews day following Besides hee had by her a second issue the Lady Mary before-named so that neither sterility and barrennesse could be aspersed vpon her nor any knowne disobedience or disloyalty obiected against her but that as the King himselfe often protested she was a wife no way refractory but in all things corresponding to his desires and pleasures These things notwithstanding the pretended diuorce was to the Kings great cost and charge so effectually negotiated that after they had liued together by the space of 22 yeeres and vpwards in vnquestioned Matrimony it was made the publique Argument in Schooles debated by the Italian French German and our owne moderne Doctors both Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill by an vnanimous consent determined and for the better confirmation thereof by th● Seales of diuers Academies signed that the Marriage betwixt the King and Queene neuer till now called his Sister or Brothers wife was a meere nullity absolutely vnlawfull and that his sacred Maiesty had liberty and licence howsoeuer the Pope sought by all meanes to antipose their opinions warrātable from them after a legal diuorce sued out from the Court to make choice of any other lady to his wife where he himselfe best liked Cardinall Campeius was sent from his Holinesse and Cardinall Wolsey was ioyned with him in commission to determine of this difficult point the King and Queene were conuened in open Court then held in Black Friers the Resolution of the weighty Argument then in hand was so abstruse that it puzled all though many seemed confident yet not a few of the best Orthodoxall diuines then staggered in their opinions in so much that the Legate departed the land before he would giue vp a definitiue sentence in the cause the reason was because hee desired further Order and Instruction from his Holinesse In the Interim the good Princess greatly beloued was much pittied and the King much honored was greatly feared For now most mens thoughts were in their hearts a time better to thinke then speake but before the Diuorce was publikly denounced the Lady Anne Bullein on the first of S●pt An. 1532. was at Windsor created Marchiones of Pembrooke and one thousand pound per annum conferred vpon her by the King which news no sooner arriued to the deiected Princesse eare but shee beganne to consider with her selfe the ficklenesse and instability of greatnesse and seeing that Sunne to set in a cloud on her which was beginning to rise serenely on another who was now maiestically ascending those steps by which shee was miserably descending exprest a womans wondrous modesty and without speaking any distastfull or irreuerent word against the King said Great men enterprizing great things ought neither by the Lawes of God nor man to employ their power as their owne mind wil leth but as Iustice and Reason teacheth but fearing lest in speaking so little she had spoken too much shut vp the rest of what shee thought to vtter in a modest and welbeseeming silence Vpon the 25. of Ianuary An. 1533. the King was married in his Closset at Whitehall to the Marchionesse of Pembrooke the Lady Anne Bullein but very priuately few were present at the ceremonies then celebrated by Dr. Rowland Lee not long after consecrated Bishop of Chester In this concealed So●emnity one Mistresse Anne Sauage much trusted ●y them both bore vp the Queenes traine this Lady was within few moneths after espoused to the Lord Berkely In Easter Eue being the 12 of Aprill the Queene being known to the King to bee young with child went to the Chappell o●enly as a Queene and was proclaimed publikly the same day Queene of England vpon Whitsunday following crowned at Westminster with all the ●ompe state and magnificence therto belonging Queene Katharine who for many yeeres had been their Soueraigne Lady is now quite forgotten and Queene Anne being to the people scarcely known is soly honored The rising Sunne is onely adored their ioyful acclamations readier for the coronation of the one then their vniust exclamations to forward the deposing of th● other Vpon the 7th of Sep●tember being Sunday be●twixt the houres of 3● and 4● in the Afternoone Queene Anne was deli●uered of a fayre daughte● at Greenewich who 〈◊〉 the great vnspeakable ioy● both of Prince and people was christened on th● third day following be●ing Wednesday the May●● of London and his bre●hren with more then for●y other of the grauest Ci●izens being commanded ●o attend vpon the solem●ities It was performed ●n the Fryers Church in Greenewich the Font was of siluer placed in the middle of the church with ●n ascent of three steps ●igh the old Dutchesse of Norfolke bore the Babe wrap'd in a Mantle of purple veluet The Consponsors or witnesses were Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury the Dutchesse of Norfolke and ●he Marchionesse of Dorset both widdowes Not long after the birth of the Lady Elizabeth a generall oath of allegianc● past thorow the kingdom to bind al such as by their● yeers were capable thereof to maintaine and vphold the successiue heyre● descending from the bodies of the King Queen Anne lawfully begotten i● the true and legall possession of the Throne Crown Sword and Scepter with all the royalties and impe●riall honors thereunto be●longing The coniecturall of the● administration of thi● oath together with the suddenesse of the Queene● coronation was to stre●● then the match and mak● the legitimation of her i●●sue which by the King● former match was amongst many yet made questionable of more va●●idity for as one obser●eth Anna coronatur quod ●ulli