Chap. III. ie HISTORY of the PUI 1TANS. 79 gallery, or upon the leads. Wyat and his confederates were examined . Mary, concerning her, and Tome of them put to the rack ; but they all cleared 15tn her except Wyat, who once accufed her, in hopes of laying his life, but declared upon the fcaffold to all the people,athat he only did it from that motive, After force time fhe was tent to Weod/lock, in cuftody of Sir Henry Benefield, who ufed her fo ill, that fhe apprehended they defigned to put her privately to death. Here fhe remained under dole confine- ment, being feldom indulged to walk in the gardens. The politick bifhop Gardiner.often moved the queen, to put her out of the way; lay- ing, It was to no purpofe to lop off the branches while the tree was (landing. But king Philip was her friend ; who fens for her to court, where falling upon her knees before the queen, fhe protefted her in- nocence, as to all confpiracks and treafons againft her majefty ; yet the queen Rill hated her ; However after that, her guards were difcharged, and the was fuffered to retire into the country, where íhé gave herfclf wholly to Rudy, medling in no fort of bufinefs, being always appre- henfive of having fpies about ber. The princefs complied outwardly with her lifter's religion, avoiding as much as fhe could any intercourfe with the bifhops, who fufpeéted her of an inclination to herefy from her education. Thequeen,herfelf was apprehenfive of the danger of the po pith religion, if (he died without iffue; and was often urged by her clergy, efpecially when her health was vifibly declining, to fecure the roman catholick religion, by delivering the kingdom from fuck a pre- fumptive heir; and as her majefty had no fcruple of confcience about fpil- ling human blood in the caufe of religion.; the prefervation of the princefs was little lets than a miracle, and was owing under God, to the protec- tion of king Philip, who defpairing of iffue from his queen, was not without expectations from the princefs. But the hand of God was againft queen Mary and her government, 1558 which was hardly attended with one profperous event ; for inftead of hav- ing iffue by her marriage, fhe had only a falfe conception, after which the Dation, there was little or no hopes of her having a child. This encreafed the fowernefs of her temper ; and her hufband being much younger than fhe, grew weary of her company, and at length left her to look to his here- ditary dominions, after he had lived with her about 15 months. There being a war between Spain and France, the queen was obliged to take part with her hufband ; this exhaufted the treafure of the nation, and was the occafion of the lofs of all the Englifh dominions upon the continent. In the beginning of the year 1558, the ftrong town of Calais was taken, which' had been in poflèflion of the Engle z 1o years: Afterwards the French took Guines, and the ref of that territory ; nothing being left except the ifles ofJerfey and Guernfey. The Englifh (fays a learned writer) had
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