relling with the Duchess of Suf- | very short time-than start on a folk; and the foolish Guilford new contention of Lancaster and was going about whimpering that York. Wise men might forecast he wanted to be king. Her the future in another way; but in council was also divided against days of turmoil, wise men do not itself. Dudley was absent; Pem- shoulder pikes and brandish broadbroke and Winchester were little swords; and while the thinkers more than prisoners; Paget and were weighing arguments for and Arundel were false; Bedford was against the two queens, a hundred suspected; and Cranmer, if true thousand men, moved by their to Jane, was acting as a councillor hot blood only, were bearing Queen with the faint heart of a man who Mary to her father's throne. feared that he was doing wrong. Her country was divided, too, but in no equal parts. Jane was popular, yet the people were mainly on Mary's side; and no thunders of Ridley and Knox could make common folk understand that a woman ought to lose her civil rights because she held certain opinions about the Keys and the Bread and Wine. As yet there had never been a prince on the throne of hostile creed; and the people had yet to read in the light of Smithfield fires the sad lesson of a country divided in its body and its head. The Commons felt for Mary, and they fancied she could do no harm. Single and sickly, she was not likely either to leave a son or even to live long. Her sister, strong and beautiful as a pard, was English in blood and English in thought. What the Spanish weakness of Mary might put crooked, the English strength of her sister could set straight. They would rather bear with Mary's monks for a time—a | Ninth Day-On Tuesday morning the game was seen to be up. The queen's council were nearly of one mind. Cranmer and Grey were true; but of the noble crowd who elbowed them at the table, every other man was false. Most of them-Winchester, Arundel, Pembroke, Paget, Shrewsburyhad made their peace, and kept their places in the council only to betray the girl whom they had forced to ascend the throne. army was as rotten as the council. When Dudley marched on Bury, his soldiers mutinied on the road, and forced him to fall back on Cambridge, which was already filling with Queen Mary's friends. In fact, when he took up his quarters in King's College, he was a prisoner, though suffered to sleep without the appearance of a guard. The Next day, the council left Queen Jane in the Tower alone; Queen Mary was proclaimed in Cheap and in St. Paul's Churchyard. The nine days' reign was over. MARTYRDOM OF RIDLEY AND LATIMER. (Foxe's Acts and Monuments.) 1555. THE degradation being past, and all things finished, Dr. Brooks called the bailiffs, delivering to them Master Ridley, with this charge, to keep him safely from any man speaking with him, and that he should be brought to the place of execution when they were commanded. Then Master Ridley, in praising God, burst out and said, “God, I thank thee, and to thy praise be it spoken, there is none of you able to lay to my charge any open or notorious crime for if you could, it would surely be done, I see very well." Whereunto Brooks said, he played the part of a proud pharisee, exalting himself. But Master Ridley said, “No, no, as I have said before, to God's glory be it spoken. I confess myself to be a miserable sinner, and have great need of God's help and mercy, and do daily call and ery for the same: therefore I pray you have no such opinion of me." Then they departed, and in going away, a certain warden of a college, of whose name I am not very H | sure, bade Master Ridley repent him and forsake that erroneous opinion. Whereunto Master Ridley said, "Sir, repent you, for you are out of the truth: and, I pray God (if it be his blessed will) have mercy upon you and grant you the understanding of his word.” Then the warden, being in a chafe thereat, said, "I trust that I shall never be of your erroneous and devilish opinion, either yet to be in that place whither you shall he is," saith he, "the most obstinate and wilful man that ever I heard talk since I was born." go: The night before he suffered, his beard was washed and his legs: and as he sat at supper, the same night, at Master Irish's, who was his keeper, he bade his hostess, and the rest at the board, to his marriage; "for," said he, "tomorrow I must be married," and so showed himself to be as merry as ever he had been before. And wishing his sister at his marriage, he asked his brother, sitting at the table, whether he thought she could find in her heart to be t1 or no: and he answered, “Yea, | such as he was wont to wear, being I dare say, with all her heart.” At which word he said, "he was glad to hear of her so much therein." At this talk Mrs. Irish wept. But Master Ridley comforted her, and said, “O, Mrs. Irish, you love me not, I see well enough: for in that you weep, it doth appear you will not be at my marriage, neither are content therewith. Indeed you be not so much my friend as I thought you had been. But quiet yourself, though my breakfast shall be somewhat sharp and painful, yet I am sure my supper shall be more pleasant and sweet." When they arose from the table, his brother offered to watch all night with him. But he said, | "No, no, that you shall not. For I mind (God willing) to go to bed, and to sleep as quietly to-night as ever I did in my life." On this, his brother departed, exhorting him to be of good cheer, and to take his cross quietly, for the reward was great, etc. On the north side of the town, in the ditch, over-against Baliol College, the place of execution was appointed; and for fear of any tumult that might arise to let the burning of them, the Lord Williams was commanded by the queen's letters, and the householders of the city, to be their assistant, sufficiently appointed; and when everything was in a readiness, the prisoners were brought forth by the mayor and the bailiffs. Master Ridley had a fair black gown furred, and faced with foins, | bishop; a tippet of velvet furred likewise about his neck, a velvet night-cap upon his head, and a corner cap upon the same, and going in a pair of slippers to the stake, and going between the mayor and an alderman, etc. After him came Master Latimer in a poor, Bristol frieze frock, much worn, with his buttoned cap and kerchief on his head, all ready to the fire, a new, long shroud hanging over his hose down to the feet: which at the first sight stirred men's hearts to rise upon them, beholding, on the one side, the honour they sometime had; and on the other, the calamity into which they had fallen. Master doctor Ridley, as he passed toward Bocardo, looked up where Master Cranmer did lie, hoping, belike, to have seen him at the glass window, and to have spoken to him. But then Master Cranmer was busy with friar Soto and his fellows, disputing together, so that he could not see him through that occasion. Then Master Ridley, looking back, espied Master Latimer coming after. Unto whom he said, "Oh, be ye there?"—" Yea," said Master Latimer, "have after, as fast as I can." So he following a pretty way off, at length they came both to the stake, the one after the other, where first Master Ridley entering, marvellously earnestly holding up both his hands, looked towards heaven: then shortly after, espying Master Latimer, with a wondrous cheerful look, he ran to him, embraced and kissed him, | of Christ and the Catholic faith saying, “Be of good heart, brother, believed far otherwise. At which for God will either assuage the fury place they lifted up both their of the flame, or else strengthen hands and eyes to heaven, as it us to abide it." were calling God to witness of the truth: the which countenance they made in many other places of his sermon, where, as they thought, he spake amiss. He ended with a very short exhortation to them to recant and come home again to the Church, and save their lives and souls, which else were condemned. His sermon was scant; in all a quarter of an hour. With that went he to the stake, kneeled down by it, kissed it, and most effectuously prayed, and behind him, Master Latimer kneeled, as earnestly calling upon God as he. After they arose, the one talked with the other a little while, till they which were appointed to see the execution, removed themselves out of the sun. What they said I can learn of no man. Then Dr. Smith began his sermon to them upon this text of St. Paul, in the 13th chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians: “If I yield my body to the fire to be burnt, and have not charity, I shall gain nothing thereby." Wherein he alleged, that the goodness of the cause, and not the order of death, maketh the holiness of the person: which he confirmed by the examples of Judas, and of a woman in Oxford who | of late hanged herself, for that they and such like as he recited, might then be adjudged righteous, which desperately sundered their lives from their bodies, as he feared that those men that stood before him would do. But he cried still to the people to beware of them, for they were heretics and died out of the Church. And on the other side, he declared their diversity of opinions, as Lutherans, Arcolampians, Zwinglians, of which sect they were, he said, and that was the worst; but the old Church Ridley said to Latimer, "Will you begin to answer the sermon, or shall I ?" Master Latimer said, 'Begin you first, I pray you."— "I will," said Ridley. Then, the wicked sermon being ended, Master Ridley and Master Latimer kneeled down upon their knees, towards my Lord Williams, the vice-chancellor of Oxford, and divers other commissioners appointed for that purpose, who sat upon a form thereby, and said, "I beseech you, my lord, even for Christ's sake, that I may speak but two or three words:" and whilst my lord bent his head to the mayor and vice-chancellor, to know whether he might give him leave to speak, the bailiffs and Dr. Marshal, the vice-chancellor, ran hastily unto him, and with their hands stopped his mouth, and said, "Master Ridley, if you will revoke your erroneous opinions and recant the same, you shall not only have liberty so to do, but also the benefit of a subject, that Master Latimer gave nothing, but very quietly suffered his keeper to pull off his hose, and his other array, which, to look unto, was very simple; and being stripped into his shroud, he seemed as comely a person as one could lightly see, and whereas in his clothes he appeared a withered and crooked, silly old man, he now stood bolt upright as comely a father as one might lightly behold. is, have your life."—"Not other- | him to everyone that stood next wise ?" said Master Ridley.—"No," him. Some plucked the points of quoth Dr. Marshal; "therefore, his hose. Happy was he that if you will not do so, then there might get any rag of him. is no remedy, but you must suffer for your deserts.""Well," quoth Master Ridley, 66 so long as the breath is in my body, I will never deny my Lord Christ, and his known truth: God's will be done in me;" with that he rose and said with a loud voice, "Well then, I commit our cause to Almighty God, which shall indifferently judge all." To whose saying, Master Latimer added his old posy, "Well, there is nothing hid but it shall be opened." And he said he could answer Smith well enough, if he might be suffered. Incontinently they were commanded to make them ready, which they with all meekness obeyed. Master Ridley took his gown and his tippet, and gave it to his brother-in-law, Master Shipside, who all the time of his imprisonment, although he might not be suffered to come to him, lay there at his own charges to provide him necessaries, which from time to time he sent him by the serjeant who kept him. Some other of his apparel he also gave away; other the bailiffs took. He gave away besides divers other small things to gentlemen standing by, and divers of them pitifully weeping; as to Sir Henry Lea, he gave a new groat; to divers of my lord William's gentlemen, some napkins, some nutmegs and rases of ginger; his dial and such other things as he had about Then Master Ridley, standing as yet in his truss, said to his brother, "It were best for me to go in my truss still.”—“ "No," quoth his brother, "it will put you to more pain: and the truss will do a poor man good." Whereunto Master Ridley said, "Be it in the name of God," and so unlaced himself. Then being in his shirt, he stood upon the aforesaid stone, and held up his hand and said, "O heavenly Father, I give unto thee most hearty thanks, that thou hast called me to be a professor of thee, even unto death; I beseech thee, Lord God, have mercy on this realm of England, and deliver the same from all her enemies." Then the smith took a chain of iron, and brought it about both their middles: and as he was knocking in the staple, Master Ridley took the chain in his hand, and shaked the same, for it did gird in his belly, and looking aside to the smith, said, "Good fellow, |