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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

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

IDEM ITERVM OR The History of Q. Mary's Big-belly FROM Mr. Fox's Acts and Monuments and Dr. Heylin's Hist Ref. The thing that hath been it is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done and there is no new thing under the Sun. Eccles 1. 9. UPon Wednesday being the 28. of Novemb. there was a general Procession in Pauls for joy that the Queen was conceived and quick with Child as it was declared in a Letter sent from the Council to the Bishop of London The same day were present at this Procession ten Bishops with all the Prebenda●●es of Pauls and also the Lord Major with the Aldermen and a great number of Commons of the City in their best Array The Copy of the Council's Letter here followeth ad perpetuam rei memoriam A Copy of a Letter sent from the Council unto Edmund Bonner Bishop of London concerning Queen Mary's conceiving with Child AFter our hearty Commendations unto your good Lordship Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God amongst other his infinite benefits of late most graciously poured upon us and this whole Realm to extend his Benediction upon the Queens Majesty in such sort as she is conceived and quick of Child whereby her Majesty being our natural Liege Lady Queen and undoubted Inheritor of this Imperial Crown good hope of certain Succession in the Crown is given unto us and consequently the great Calamities which for want of such Succession might otherwise have fallen upon us and our Posterity shall by God's Grace be well avoided if we thankfully acknowledge this benefit of Almighty God endeavouring our selves with earnest Repentance to thank honour and serve him as we be most bounden ●hese be not only to advertise you of these good news to be by you published in all places within your Diocess but also to pray and require you that both your self do give God Thanks with us for this his special Grace and also give order that Thanks may be openly given by singing of Te Deum in all the Churches within your said Dio●●ss and that likewise all Priests and other Ecclesiastical Ministers in their Masses and other Divine Services may continually pray to Almighty God so to extend his holy hand over her Majesty the King's Highness and this whole Realm as that ●●is thing being by his Omnipotent Power graciously thus begun may by the same well continued and brought to good effect to the Glory of his Name Whereunto ●●it we doubt not ye would of your self have had special regard without these our Letters diligently continued we have also written these our Letters to put you in remembrance and so bid your Lordship most heartily well to fare From Westminst Nov. 27. 1554 Your assured loving Friends S. Winton Cancel Arundel F. Shrewsbury Edward Darby Henry Sussex John Barton R. Rich. Thomas Watthom John Huddilstone R. Southwell Ye heard a little before the Councils Letter sent to Bishop Boner signifying the good News of Q. Mary to be not only conceived but also quick with Child which was in the Month of Novemb. the 28 day Of this Child great talk began at this time to rise in every mans mouth with busie preparation and much ado especially amongst such as seemed in England to carry Spanish Hearts in English Bodies In number of whom here is not to be forgotten nor defrauded of his condign Commendation for his worthy Affection toward his Prince and her Issue one Sir Richard Southwell who being the same time in the Parliament-House whereas the Lords were occupied in other Affairs and matters of Importance suddenly starting up for fulness of joy burst out into these words following Tush my Masters quoth he what talk ye of these matters I would have you take some order for our Master that is now coming into the World apace lest he find us unprovided c. By the which words both of him and also by the aforesaid Letters of the Council and the common talk abroad it may appear what an assured Opinion was then conceived in mens Heads of Q. Mary to be conceived and quick with Child insomuch that at the same time and in the same Parliament there was eftsoons a Bill exhibited and an Act made upon the same the words whereof for the more evidence I thought good here to exemplifie as followeth The Words of the Act. ALbeit we the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled have firm hope and confidence in the goodness of Almighty God that like as he hath hitherto miraculously preserved the Queens Majesty from many great imminent Perils and Dangers even so he will of his infinite Goodness give her Highness strength the rather by our continual Prayers to pass well the danger of deliverance of Child wherewith it hath pleased him to all our great comforts to bless her yet forasmuch as all things of this World be uncertain and having before our eyes the dolorous experience of this inconstant Government during the time of the Reign of the late King Edward VI. do plainly see the manifold Inconveniencies great Dangers and Perils that may ensue this whole Realm if foresight be not used to prevent all evil chances if they should happen for the eschewing hereof we the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled for and in consideration of a most special trust and confidence that we have and repose in the King's Majesty for and concerning the Politick Government Order and Administration of this Realm in the time of the young years of the Issue or Issues of her Majesties Body to be born if it should please God to call the Queens Highness out of this present life during the tender years of such Issue or Issues which God forbid according to such order and manner as hereafter in this present Act his Highness's most gracious Pleasure is should be declared it hath pleased his Highness not only to declare That like as for the most part his Majesty ●erily trusteth that Almighty God who hath hitherto preserved the Queens Majesty to give this Realm so good an hope of certain Succession in the Blood Royal of the same Realm will assist her Highness with his Graces and Benedictions to see the Fruit of her Body well brought forth live and able to govern whereof neither all this Realm nay all the World besides should or could receive more comfort than his Majesty should and would yet if such chance should happen his Majesty at our humble desires is pleased and contented not only to accept and take upon him the care and charge of the Education Rule Order and Government of such Issues as of this most happy Marriage shall be born between the Queens Highness and him but also during the time of such Government would by all ways and means study travel and employ himself to advance the Weal both Publick and Private of this Realm and Dominion thereunto belonging according to the