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An astrological calculation concerning the queen's marriage. Written by secretary Cecil, propria manu.

De significationibus 7mæ domus, et de conjugio. SIGNIFICATORES conjugii sunt quinque; Sol et MSS. Burg. Mars, Cancer signum, Luna et Saturnus.

Sol et Mars reperiuntur in signis negantibus conjugium. Igitur negant affectionem moventem ad conjugium.

Sed domus septimæ Cancer, et ejus domina Luna conjugium promittunt optimum.

Saturnus verò loci sui ratione, conjugium promittit ætate consistente: et ex dispositione significatorum, principaliter ex Saturno in angulo occidentali, expectatur tarditas conjugii; et quòd post maturam ætatem habebit juvenem virum, qui antea non duxit uxorem, circa annum suæ ætatis 31 labentem.

Uni tantum viro socia dabitur. Colligitur ab eo, quod uni tantum planetæ matutinati, videlicet Saturno, applicata. Idem etiam testatur constitutio solius Mercurii inter medium cœli et Venerem.

De qualitate viri sui.

Cum extraneo contracturam matrimonium indicat pars conjugii in nona domo. Similiter peregrinatio Saturni principalis significatoris conjugii, virum extraneum promittit.

Abhorrere et non multùm delectare videtur in conjugio, 5 præcipue in medietate vitæ, indicant Mars et Venus in signis masculinis, et Saturnus in septima.

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Viro obediet, reveretur, et in magna æstimatione habebit eum, indicat utrumque luminare in signo fœmineo.

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Perveniet ad matrimonium prosperum, sed tarde et post multa consilia, et vulgarem ubique gentium rumorem. de ejus matrimonio erit ubique locorum maxima disputatio et altercatio per multos annos, universis personis, priusquam ad matrimonium perveniet. Et tamen sponsa fiet sine ullo impedimento. Hæc colliguntur ex trino aspectu Martis, Veneris et Mercurii, et ex sextili aspectu Saturni et Solis.

Vir præmorietur, et tamen diu vivet cum marito; et possidebit muta [multa] bona viri. Id Saturnus in septima affirmat.

De liberis.

Nullus planetarum reperitur in locis prolium, excepto Marte, qui parcos liberos promittit; nisi trinus Veneris aspectus ad cuspidem domus filiorum ipsius Martis judicium

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Verum Venus est in domo propria, conjuncta Mercurio, domino filiorum. Et idcirco spes maxima datur de filio uno robusto, claro et felici in ætate sua matura. Luna in Tauro unam filiam designat.

Number V.

The charter for wrecks on the coasts of Sussex; granted by king Henry VI. to Adam, bishop of Chichester.

Paper Office, HENRICUS Dei gra. rex Anglie et Francie, et dom. Hib. Omnibus ad quos presentes literæ pervenerint, Sal. Monstravit nobis venerabilis pater Adam epus. Cicestren. et custos privati sigilli nri', qualiter quamplurima dominica et collata prope costeras maris in comit. Sussexie situata existunt, homines et tenentes; non solum ipsius epi', verum etiam homines tenentes canonicorum, et aliorum ministrorum ejusdem ecclesie, necnon residentes super eadem dominica, maneria, terras, ten' et feod' per admirallium nostrum Angl' et ejusdem locum tenentem, ac eorum deputatos, officiarios et ministros multipliciter, &c.

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Clam' etiam per cartam et diploma manerii de Ripla cum BOOK hundred' et ecclesia et pertinentiis suis, tempore conquestus Angl. et a tempore quo non existat memoria.

Item, Clam' wrakea maris per omnes terras et feod' sua jacent, juxta mare de tempore ante conquest. Angl. et a tempore quo non exstat memoria: et quod ipse et predecessorum suorum plene usi sunt libertate predict. &c.

Number VI.

Cautions given by Mr. Fox to the reader of his Acts and Monuments; concerning some things mentioned in the first edition thereof.

MR. GEORGE BLAG is named one of the privy cham- P. 1427.

ber. Nota bene, That tho' he were not admitted as one of the privy chamber, yet his ordinary resort thither, and to the king's presence there, was such as tho' he were one of them; and so commonly taken.

In the story of the duke of Somerset, where it is said, P.1545. that at the return of the earl of Warwic out of Norfolk, there was a consultation among the lords, assembling them-6 selves together at the house of Mr. York, &c. against the duke of Somerset: here is to be noted, that that coming of the lords to the said house of Mr. York, was not immediately upon the duke of Northumberland's return, but first he went to Warwic, and from thence, after a space, came to that house aforesaid.

Item, Here is also to be noted touching the said duke of Somerset, that albeit at his death relation is made of a sudden falling of the people, as was at the taking of Christ; this is not to be expounded as that I compared in any part the duke of Somerset with Christ. And tho' I do something more attribute to the commendation of the said duke of Somerset, which dyed so constantly in his religion; yet I desire the gentle reader so to take it not, that I did ever mean to derogate or impair the martial praise or facts of other

BOOK men; which also are to be commended in such things where they wel deserved.

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P. 1360.

P. 1579.

P. 1580.

Item, Touching the duke of Somerset, where the story is, that he was attainted, read indicted.

Item, Where mention is made of one Nicholas Underwode to be the betrayer of the duke of Suffolk, joyn with the said Underwode also Nicolas Laurence, alias Nicolas Ethel, keeper of Astely-park. Who taking upon him and promising to keep the duke for two or three days, until he might find some means to escape, conveyed him into a hollow tree, and after most traiterously bewrayed him. Both these live, one at Coton by Nun Eaton, and the other at

Nun Eaton.

Item, In the story of sir Tho. Wyat, there is also to be corrected, that where the story saith, that he was taken by sir Clement Parson, which was not so, nor he no knight, amend it thus: that he came first to Clarentius, being sent unto him, and after yielded himself to sir Morice Barckey.

The martyrdome of one Snel, about Richmond, [in Yorkshire,] in Q. Maries time, omit in the history. There were two of the Snells taken up for their religion. One, after his toes were rotted off by lying in prison, by order of Dakins, the bishop of Chester's commissary, and so went upon crutches, at last went to mass, having a certain sum of mony given him by the people. But in three or four days after, drowned himself in a river called Swail, by Richmond. The other [Snel] was burned.

A story of one Laremouth omit in the body of the history. He was a Scotchman, and chaplain to the lady Anne of Cleves. The story, for the strangeness and incredibility thereof, he would not insert in his history of the Acts and Monuments. But being testified by one Thorn, a godly minister, yet alive, which heard it of the mouth of the party himself, he added it here. He heard a voice sounding in his ears, being in prison in Q. Maries days, Arise, go thy ways. Which he giving no credit to at first, the same words were spoken the second time; which was about half an hour after.

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So he arising upon the same, immediately a piece of the pri- BOOK son fell down : and as the officers came at the outward gate of the castle or prison, he leaping over the ditch escaped. And in the way, meeting a certain beggar changed his coat with him; and coming to the sea shore found a vessel ready to

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go over, was taken in, and escaped the search.

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Dr. Thomas Wylson to sir William Cecill, kt. when he sent him the copy of his translation of certain orations of Demosthenes, for his patronage thereof.

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ET jam quidem Demosthenis tres Olynthiacas orationes, Epist. MSS. cum quatuor Philippicis, tandem aliquando indigenas feci, doctor. viet nostrates, ut potui: sed ita tamen ut advenas, ut ex sermone cognoscas. Tam enim concisus orator iste est, tam astrictus, et acumine sic ubique excellens, ut illud in eo τὸ δεινὸν vix sermone nostro explicari possit, aut ingeniosi nostri 7 tenuitate comprehendi. Sed quomodocunque a me conversæ sunt, si tu eas in tuo nomine apparere patieris, ego in vulgus emittam tanti viri orationes, et formis excudendas parabo. Sed ita, si tu nostræ imbecillitati sic suffragaberis, ut ignavorum quorundam contumeliæ tuo spiritu et gravitate compescantur.

Number VII.

Mr. Walsingham, the queen's ambassador, his letter from Paris to the lord Burleigh. His discourse with the queen mother, concerning her majesty's matching with the duke of Anjou.

IT may please your lordship to advertise her majesty, Paper Office. that Mr. Cavalcant arrived here the 24th of this month: by whom I received her majesties letters. The contents whereof after I had perused, and conferred with him touching his proceeding, for that both the king and queen mother were departed out of this town, the one to S. Leggiers, the other

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