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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

wither the King feeling himself dangerously sick many infirmities growing more and more vpon him cal'd his Councell about him made his last will and Testament part of which so much as concernes this present Discourse shall be deliuered as it hath been extracted out of the originall Coppie still reserued in the Treasury of the Exchequer Dated the Thirtieth day of December 1546. Item I giue and bequeath vnto our two Daughters Mary and Eli●abeth● if they shall be mar●●ed to any outward Poten●●tes the Summe of tenn●●housand pounds a peecee ●nd that to be paid them by ●he consent of our Councell 〈◊〉 Money Plate Iewels and Houshold-stuffe if wee be●●ow them not in our life ●ime or a larger Summe ●t the discretion of our Ex●cutors or the most part of ●hem And both of them vpon our blessing to be orde●ed aswell in marriage as ●ll other lawfull things by ●he aduice of our fore said Councell and in case they will not that then those Summes are to be dimini●hed at our Councels pleasure Further our will is that from the first houre of our death vntill such time as they can prouide either of them or both of an honourable Marriage they shall haue either of them or both of them three Thousand pounds vltra Reprisas to liue vpon I haue knowne many a Noble Man's Daughter left as great a Legacie nay a larger Dower who neuer had any claime or alliance to a Crowne but so it pleased the King at that time Vpon the nineteenth day of Ianuary following the King lying vpon his death-bed euen when hee was ready to giue an accompt to God for the aboundance of bloud already spilt when hee knew himselfe was no longer able to liue hee ●imprisoned the Duke of Norfolke the Father signed a warrant for the execution of the Earle of Surrey the Sonne within nine dayes after he himselfe expired and on the eighteenth of February following was with great State and magnificence interred at Windsore On the same day wherin the Father deceased was the Sonne inaugura●ed King of England by the name of E●ward the ●●xth being of the age of 9. yeares on the nineteenth of February following he rode with his Vncle the Lord Protector Duke of Sommerset through the Citie of London and the next day ensuing was anoynted King at West-minster by Thomas Cranmer Arch-bishop of Canterbury who● that day administred the holy Eucharist together with sundry other Ceremonies appropriated for such Solemnities Great is the person o● a King reigning heere● vpon earth amōgst men hee is a liuely Embleme of the high and glorious Maiesty of God in heauen The King was no ●ooner crowned but the Lady Elizabeth gaue ●ay to his State there ●as now a discontinu●nce of that frequent ●nd priuate familiarity ●suall betwixt them ●ormerly she loued him ●s a Brother now she ho●ours him as her Soue●aigne Honour and Royalty make difference ●etwixt the Sonne and ●he Father the degrees ●f State distinguish be●wixt brother and Sister ●hey which liued socia●ly in all familiarity together now doe not so ●uch as talke but at a distance The death of ●he Father which raysed him to the Crowne remoued her from the Court set him in the Throne sent her down● into the Countrey i● which retirement being nobly attended as wel● by diuers voluntary Ladies and Gentle-wome● as her owne traine an● houshould Seruants sh● led there though a mor● solitary yet a much more contented life as hauin● now more leisure houre to contemplate and ruminate on those Rudiments and Exercise● wherein she had for merly beene conuersant Diligence is the bree●e●● and productor of Arts but practise and exercis● doth nourish and cherish them She in her great discretion made gainfull vse of t●is Soli●ude as is apparant by ●he future Being setled in the Country to adde vnto her Reuenue shee had many gifts and visits ●ent her from the King who was very carefull ●oth of her honour and ●ealth shee liued under ●he charge of a noble ●nd vertuous Lady who ●as stil'd her Gouer●esse scarce was she yet ●ull fourteene yeares of ●ge when one of her Vncles then in great office and place about the King brought vnto her 〈◊〉 Princely Suitor as great in means as come●●y in Person A stranger richly habited and nobly attended whose name my Author giues not● he after much importunitie both from himselfe and friends yet at last crost in his purpose by modest repulses and cold answeres and finding her immutable disposition solely addicted to a single life as not enduring the name of a husband setled in his mind though not satisfied in her denyall retyred into his Countrey for though it may be said of women in generall that they are spare in their answeres and pe●●remptory in their demands purposes tha● their affections are stil in ●e extreames either so ●assionate as by no coun●ell to be redressed or so counterfeit to be by no man beleeued and again ●f they are beautiful they are to be won with pray●es if coy with prayers if ●roud with gifts if co●etous with promises yet ●his sweet L. tho her beau●y were attractiue yet by ●o flattery could be re●oued frō her setled re●olution and being concious neither of Pride ●oyness or couetousnes ●ould not be easily drawn ●ithin the compas of any ●●btile temptation This ●●rst vnwelcome motion ●f Marriage was a 〈◊〉 why shee liued afterwards more solitary and retyred If at any time the King her Brother vpon any weighty or important occasion had sent to enioy her company at Court she made no longer Residence then to know his highnesse pleasure and to make humble tender of her duty and allegiance That done with all conuenient returned backe into the Country where she spent the entire season of her Brothers Raigne The King had 3 Vncles left him by the Mothers side Edward Thomas and Henry Seymour Edward was Lord Pro-Protector and Thomas high Admirall of England These two Brothers being knit and ioyned together in amity were like a Bunch of Arrowes not easily broke asunder but once dispersed distracted betwixt themselues they made but way for their Aduersaries how to assaile them with little disaduantage The two great Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolke Dudley and Gray murmuring that his Maiesties two Vncles should beare such great sway in the Kingdome by which their glory seem'd to bee eclipsed and darkned sought all meanes how to oppose this great vnited strength of Fraternall loue but finding that there was no other way le●t to cast this yoake from off their necks which their Ambition held to be intolerable but onely by making a disiunction of that brotherly loue which had so long continued and doubting how to worke it by their Seruants tooke a neerer course to effect it by their wiues and so to draw their ruines out of their owne bosomes and most successiuely to their owne purposes thus it happened Sir Thomas Seymour