the rebels, and the foot soldiers getting near them, assailed them with their arquebusses, and broke their ranks. The prisoners, for the most part, escaped their danger, as the Earl endeavoured so to direct his fire that it did not touch them; but some were slain by the foreign troops in the Earl's army, who knew not who they were. The Earl's light horsemen at length made so furious a charge on the rebels, that they were obliged to take to flight. The horsemen, following in chase, slew them in heaps, as they overtook them, to the number of above 3500 men, and the prophecy on which they so much relied was literally fulfilled, but not in the way which they expected, being filled up with the slaughtered bodies, not of their enemies, but of themselves.

The Earl of Warwick, having driven them into their trenches, sent once more the King-at-arms to them, to renew his offers of pardon, if they would throw down their weapons and yield; and to threaten that if they still refused to accept those offers, there should not a man of them escape the deserved punishment. They answered, that if they might be assured that their lives would be saved, they could be contented to yield; but that they could have no trust or confidence that that promise should be kept with them; and that notwithstanding all such fair offers of pardon, they believed that it was only intended to entrap them into the hands of their enemies, and to put them to death.

The Earl of Warwick, seeing the desperate resolution of the rebels to refuse all offers of mercy, reinforced his army by drawing from the city such forces as he left there for its defence, and once more put his troops, both horse and foot, in order of battle. Before, however, he renewed his attack upon the rebels, he sent to them to inquire whether, if he himself came among them and pledged his own word that they should receive a free pardon, they would lay down their arms and disperse. They answered, that they had so much confidence in his honour, that if he would pledge his own word, they would believe him and submit themselves to the King's mercy. He then went immediately to them, and commanded Norroy to read the King's pardon freely granted to all who would yield, with the exception of Ket and a few others; on

which every man threw down his weapon, and a unanimous shout of "God save King Edward!" burst from the vast multitude.

Thus were the Norfolk rebels at length subdued by the high prowess, wisdom, and policy of the Earl of Warwick, but not until after the sacrifice of many lives.

The next day, the Earl was informed that Ket, having crept into a barn to hide himself, had been discovered and made prisoner. He was immediately brought to Norwich, and after undergoing a very summary examination or trial, was hanged, together with several of his most flagitious associates, upon the branches of the Oak of Reformation.

The above details of the Norfolk insurrection, strange and improbable as they may appear, are faithfully drawn from the ancient chronicles, and are unalloyed with the slightest intermixture of fiction.

1553.

HISTORICAL SUMMARY.

MARY.

THE death of Edward was kept secret for some time by Northumber land, who hoped to get the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth into his power; but Mary, on her way to London, being made acquainted with the event by Lord Arundel, fled to Framlingham, in Suffolk; on which the Duke ordered Lady Jane Grey to be proclaimed Queen, much to her own dissatisfaction.

Mary raised troops in Suffolk, which the Duke went to oppose; but being deserted by his soldiers, he was taken prisoner, and, on Mary's arrival in London, condemned to death. Thus ended Lady Jane's reign of ten days.

Mary released from the Tower the Duke of Norfolk (who had been condemned at the end of Henry the Eighth's reign), and many prelates confined there on account of religion. The latter she reinstated in their benefices, and issued a proclamation to prevent every person from preaching who had not her licence.

Mary sent Cardinal Pole to Pope Julius III. to assure him of her wish to reconcile her kingdom to the Holy See.

The Emperor was very unsuccessful against France; but he entered into measures with Mary to marry her to his son Philip, then a widower.

1554. The mass was everywhere performed, and the established religion totally changed.

Mary was married by proxy to Philip II. An insurrection, headed by Sir Thomas Wyatt, broke out in Kent and other counties, but was in a short time suppressed, and Wyatt was taken and executed.

The Queen treated her sister Elizabeth with great harshness and severity; and, on her refusing to marry the Duke of Savoy, confined her under a strong guard at Woodstock.

Lady Jane Grey, her father (the Duke of Suffolk), and her husband, Lord Guilford Dudley, were beheaded.

Philip landed at Southampton. Mary was married to him at Winchester; after which, they proceeded to London. He disgusted the nobles very much by his formal and supercilious behaviour.

Pole arrived in England, as legate, and absolved the kingdom on its return to the subjection of the Pope.

1555.-Violent persecutions and cruelties were practised on the Protestants by Philip and Mary, and their Chancellor, Bishop Gardiner.

Philip went over to Flanders.

1556.—The Emperor Charles resigned all his dominions to his son Philip, and retired to the monastery of St. Just.

Archbishop Cranmer was burnt.

1557.-Philip, being at war with France, went to England, to prevail on that kingdom to enter into the war; and the Queen obtained the consent of the Parliament to that effect, and sent 10,000 men to the Low Countries.

1558.—The French, under the Duke of Guise, took Calais from the English. Queen Mary died on the 17th of November.

Nuptials at Sark.

Ruffian, let go that rude, uncivil touch!
Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.

IN

N the latter part of the reign of Queen Mary the government of the little island of Sark was committed to Sir Robert Dudley, a very valiant knight, of an ancient and honourable family, who was equally distinguished by the accomplishments of his mind and person, and by the brilliancy of his military achievements. He did not find the duties of his government very arduous. The island was defended by a fortress which was impregnable, except in one part, where the ascent was steep and difficult, and so narrow that only two persons could walk abreast. The place, too, being very barren, and the inhabitants zealously loyal to the Queen of England, there was nothing in it, with the exception of its commodious harbour, to tempt the approach of an invader. With a little garrison, therefore, of only twenty men, Sir Robert Dudley found himself sufficiently strong to bid defiance to any enemy, and sufficiently at leisure to seek such pleasure as so lonely and barren a rock as the island of Sark could offer. At first, the knight murmured much at what he called his banishment. His reputation as a chivalrous warrior, and his alliance with several noble houses, seemed to justify the hope which he had entertained of being appointed to a much more distinguished and profitable command. In time, however, letters of complaint were much less frequently received from him by his friends in London; and the rest of the garrison in the island imagined that the symptoms of