forbidden to speak in church. Is it then fit. ting that your church should have a dumb head?"

On the 15th of September, Archbishop Cranmer, Latimer, and others, were arrested and committed to prison. All doubt was at an end now,-Queen Mary was determined to distinguish herself as a heretic-burner; a religious persecutor.

During the last week in September, the queen was busily occupied in preparing for her approaching coronation. She had no money left in her treasury, and was obliged to borrow £20,000 of the citizens of London for the occasion. The day appointed was the first of October. Three days before the coronation, the queen set out from Whitehall by barge for the Tower, attended by the lord mayor and different honorable companies. At the Tower, she made fif teen knights of the bath, and remaining over night, the next day she went in grand procession through the streets of London.

On the coronation morning, the queen and her numerous attendants took their barges, and proceeded to the stairs leading to Parliamentchamber. The whole city was in the streets,

notwithstanding the day before had been one of the utmost pomp and pageantry. The Parliament-chamber was splendidly hung with tapestry, and blue cloth was laid in the street, from Parliament-hall to Westminster Abbey. At about ten o'clock the queen was conducted to the robing-chamber, where she waited till eleven, when the procession commenced to the Abbey. Bishop Gardiner performed the part usually allotted to the Archbishop of Canterbury, pronouncing the coronation-oaths. Mary was at tired in royal robes of velvet, a mantle with a train, a surcoat, a riband of Venice gold, a mantle-lace of gold and silk, with buttons and tassels of the same material, having the imperial crown on her head, the sceptre in her right hand, an orb in her left, and a pair of gold-crimson sebatons on her feet. Mary's personal appearance at this time was not striking. Nearly forty years old, low in stature, very thin and pale in her face, which was not indicative of either intellect or good nature, she made little impression through her beauty, though she was by no means repulsive in her appearance. After the principal ceremonies were over, a general pardon of prisoners was read, but it contained so many excep

tions, that to many the day was a day of sorrow rather than a day of rejoicing.

When the queen left Westminster Abbey it was in a robe of purple velvet, an open surcoat of the same material, with miniver and pow. dered ermine, a mantle-lace of silk and gold, a riband of gold, and a crown upon her head. The banquet followed, and among the entertainments of the occasion were dramatic and comic representations. The comedian, Heywood, presented himself at court, from banishment. The queen asked him:

"What wind has blown you hither?"

"Two special ones," said Heywood, "one of them to see your majesty."

"We thank you for that," replied Mary, "but I pray for what purpose was the other?"

"That your majesty might see me!" replied the comedian.

His wit was successful, and the queen often saw him, and amused herself with his comic representations.

During all this pageantry Lady Jane Grey remained in her prison, separated from her husband and all her friends; yet she was happy,

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for she had the peace "which passeth all understanding."

In a few days Mary's first parliament was opened. Its first act was to repeal all former acts of Henry VIII.'s reign in reference to Katharine of Arragon and her daughter, Queen Mary. Its next was to pass a bill of attainder upon Lady Jane Grey and her husband.

CHAPTER XI.

TRIAL OF LADY JANE GREY AND LORD GUILDFORD AT GUILDHALL.THEIR CONDUCT. SENTENCED TO DEATH.-SYMPATHY FOR LADY JANE.-RELIGIOUS MATTERS.-DR. SANDYS.-PROJECT OF MARY'S MARRIAGE WITH PHILIP.-OPPOSITION OF PEOPLE AND PARLIAMENT.-INSURRECTION OF SUFFOLK, CAREW, AND WYATT.-WYATT IN LONDON.-HIS DOWNFALL.

THE trial of Lady Jane Grey and her husband, Lord Guildford Dudley, on a charge of high treason, took place at the Guildhall on the 13th of November. Archbishop Cranmer, Lord Ambrose and Sir Henry Dudley, were at this time also charged with treason. The time of Lady Jane's trial was in the saddest month of the English year—a month usually crowded full of sombre skies and melancholy fogs. On the morning of the memorable 13th of November, a morning, probably, like almost all November days in London, overcast with the solemnest clouds of autumn, Lady Jane and Lord Guildford were led from the Tower, in which so long