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CHAP. man. He reminded him, how he and the Lord Chancellor 

 IV had told him, that they were to countenance and back the 

 Commissioners in the said Commission ; which he humbly 

 prayed his Lordship to do, or else he saw not how he might 

 continue in that place ; and that for his own part, if every 

 man might thus rail at them for their faithful and painful 

 service in the executing of her Majesty s Commission, it must 

 needs make him weary. Finally, he hoped his Lordship 

 would not suffer him to be so abused. This care and these 

 discouragements soon made him earnestly desirous to change 

 his see, as we shall hear hereafter. 



A book The Queen and her Court were now in September 1579 



QueenV he startled upon one or two occasions. The one was, the news 

 marriage o f t ] le breaking out of a rebellion in Ireland; and the other, 



with Mon- . . _, , , -,- 



sieur. the publishing of a book written by one Stubbs, a great Pu 

 ritan, against the Queen s marriage with the Duke of An- 

 jou, the French King s brother : for he being a Papist and 

 a Frenchman, the English had an antipathy against him 

 upon both accounts. Many expressions in the book tended 

 to sedition, and gave high offence to the Queen ; as though 

 she herself were warping from religion by her entertain 

 ment of such an one. It made also very dishonourable re 

 flections upon that Prince ; which she feared France might 

 well resent. The very title also was penned after that rude 

 The Disco- sort that it might justly offend ; viz. The Discovery of a 

 V ^n fa S a P m g Grulph, whereinto England is like to be swallowed 

 Guiph. by another French Marriage, if the Lord forbid not the 

 banns, by letting her Majesty see the Sin and Punishment 

 thereof. In one place of this book he disparaged the per 

 son of this Prince, and by consequence the Queen s judg 

 ment in entertaining him. &quot; I humbly beseech her Majesty 

 &quot; that she will view it, (his person,) and surview it ; and in 

 &quot; viewing she will fetch her heart up to her eyes, and carry 

 &quot; her eyes down to her heart. And I beseech God grant 

 &quot; her at that time to have her eyes in her head; even in the 

 &quot; sense which Solomon placeth a wise man s eyes in his 

 &quot; head : and then, I doubt not, upon conference of her wise 

 &quot; heart and her eyes together, he shall have her dispatching 



