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6 ANNUAL REGISTER 
But it pleased God, for my fins and offences, to putt thoughts into my head of marriage, which turned oute my uttar ruin and confusion; for I fell into an opinion not to marry and ritch woman, nor any great woman, nor any widdoe; and flattered myself with such wordly reasons, as I thought wear wisdome for choyfe of a wife; which wear thes, namly, I imagined great women or rich women would louse for great joyntars out of my estate, and so hurt my children, and would aske great charge to be mayntayned, and thayr great frends would curre me and ouarswaye me, and that thay wolde brage of them and thayre estates, and value of thayr frends, and so contemne me, and not respecte me; and I thought a meanor woman would be the contrary, and be behoulden to me for safeing of hir, and so I should liue more contentedly in my cottarage: but I find the wisdome of man is folly with God. Therefore I doe aduise my sonne to be wife in his mariage as concerning wordly mattars, as ritches, and his liking, &c. but contentment, and the disposision of humors, leaue those and all things els that may happen to God, who knoues and gides all; only pray for thos happenesses, and auoyde sinnes; and praye alfo, that God may heare, and give the blessing, and marry as ritchly as he can; for a ritch woman and great woman, I find by fuar experience, will aske as little to mayntayned, and give as much contentment, if the she be religius and good, as the porest and meanest; for the ould prouerbe is treue, Sett a beggar on horsebake, and thay will ride. Houfoeuar ritches  will be comforts, when othar things ar amis, 
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and faue on from many mifchiefs. 
-Well I **** aftar my worldy resons, and married the daughtar of Henry Hickman, Doctor of the feuell laue, finding hir at Gainfborrowe, at hir oncle's, Sir William Hickman's, and broughte myselfe by hir to a worlde of afflictions; for the proued so jealous, so malincholy, so angry, peuifh, and capsius, so proud and conseated, and so full of deauilish and unreformable humors * * * * 
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A curious detail respecting the persecutions of the Princess (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth, containing many incidents never before published. From Mr. Warton's Life of Sir Thomas Pope. 

IN the year 1555, the Princess Elizabeth, afterwards Queen, having been before treated with much insolence and inhumanity, was placed under the care and infection of Sir Thomas Pope. Mary cherished that antipathy to the certain heiress of her crown and successor, which all princes who have no children to succeed naturally feel. But the most powerful cause of Mary's hatred of the princess, with whom she formerly lived in some degree of friendship, seems to have arisen from Courtney, Earl of Devonshire. The person, address, and other engaging accomplishments of this young nobleman, had made a maniseft impression on the queen. Other circumstances also contributed to render him an object of her affection; for he was an Englishman, and nearly allied to the crown, and

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consequently could not fail of proving acceptable to the nation. The earl was no stranger to these favourable dispositions of the queen towards him; yet he seemed rather to attach himself to the princess, whose youth and lively conversation had more prevailing charms than the pomp and power of her sister. This preference not only produced a total change in Mary's sentiments with regard to the earl, but forced her openly to declare war against Elizabeth. The ancient quarrel between their mothers remained deeply rooted in the malignant heart of the Queen; and she took advantage, from the declaration made by parliament in savour of Catharine's marriage, to represent her sister's birth as illegitimate. Elizabeth's inclination to the protestant religion still further heightened Mary's aversion; it offended her bigotry, disappointed her expectations, and disconcerted her politics. The causes of dislike, however, might perhaps have been forgotten by degrees, or, at least, have ended in secret disgust. But, when the queen found that the princess had obstructed her designs in a matter of the most interesting nature, female resentment, founded on female jealousy, and exasperated by pride, could no longer by suppressed. So much more forcible, and of so much more consequence in public affairs, are private feelings, and the secret undiscerned attachments of the heart, than the most important political reasons.

Elizabeth, being now become the public and avowed object of Mary's aversion, was openly treated with much disrespect and insult. She was forbidden to take place in the presence-chamber of the Countess of Lenox and the Duchess of Suffolk, as if her legitimacy had been dubious. This doctrine had been insinuated by the Chancellor Gardiner, in a speech before both houses of parliament; among other arguments enforcing the necessity of Mary's marriage, he particularly insisted on the the failure of the royal lineage; artfully remarking, that none of Henry's descendants remained except the queen and the princess Elizabeth. Her friends were neglected and affronted; and while her amiable qualifications every day drew the attention of the young nobility, and rendered her universally popular, the malevolence of the vindictive queen still increased. The princess, therefore, thought it more prudent to leave the court, and, before the beginning of 1554, retired to her house at Ashridge, in Herefordshire. In the mean time Sir Thomas Wyat's rebellion broke out, in opposition to the queen's match with Philip of Spain. It was immediately pretended that the princess Elizabeth, together with Lord Courtney, was privately concerned in this dangerous conspiracy, and that she had held a correspondence with the traitor Wyat. Accordingly Sir Edward Hastings, afterwards Lord Loughborough, Sir Thomas Cornwallis, and Sir Richard Southwell, attended by a troop of horse, were ordered to bring her to the court. They found the princess sick, and even confined to her bed, at Ashridge. --- Notwithstanding, under pretence of the strictness of their commission, they compelled her to rife; and, still continuing very weak and indisposed, she proceeded in the queen's litter by flow journies to London. AT the the court they kept
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