The history of the reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary the first written by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; the other three by the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God, Francis Godwyn, Lord Bishop of Hereford.

ANNO DOM. 1546. REG. 38, & ultimo.

VVE are now come to the last year of Henry his Reign; [ 1546] who having tired himself with the French Wars, be∣gan at length seriously to bethink himself of Peace. Neither was Francis less desirous of his Friendship. To this end Deputies from both sides meet often between Guisnes and Ardres: For Henry, the Earl of Hertford, Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, the Viscount Lisle Lord Admiral, Sir William Paget Secretary of Estate, and Dr. Wotton the first Dean of Canterbury: For Francis, the Admiral Annebault, Raymond first President of Rouan, and Bou∣cherel Secretary. After many consultations a Peace was conclu∣ded on these Conditions:

That Francis within eight years should pay fourscore hundred thou∣sand Crowns to the King, as well for the arrerage of his Pension, as for many other expences made by him in War, in the fortification of Bo∣loign and of the Countrey: And upon receipt of the said Summ, Henry should deliver unto the King of France Boloign and all the Countrey belonging to it, with the ancient places or newly edified by him, Mont∣Lambert, the Tower of Ordre, Ambleteul and others, with all the Artillery and Munition in them.

For the confirmation whereof, the Viscount Lisle was sent Ambassador into France, and from thence came the Admiral An∣nebault to receive the Oaths of each King, and the Peace was Proclaimed in London.

On the sixteenth of July were burnt at London for their Religion John Lassels, Nicholas Otterden, John Adlam, and Ann Askew a young Gentlewoman aged twenty five, of an ancient Descent, excellent beauty, and acute wit, whose examinations, writings, tortures, and patient suffering are at large set down by Mr. Fox, being before their Execution by Dr. Schaxton exhorted to Recant, as he then was forced, who some years passed had resigned his Bishoprick to enjoy his Conscience.

And here I may not omit an addition to the septenary number of Sleepers, William Foxley a Pot-maker in London, who without any touch of any preceding infirmity was seised with such a dead sleep, that for fourteen days and fifteen nights no force nor in∣vention could awake him; on the fifteenth day this miraculous sleep forsaking him, he was as it were restored to life, and found as sound and entire as if he had taken no more than an ordinary repose: Neither would he believe that he had taken other, but that the building of a certain Wall made it apparent to him how

much time he had slept away. He lived above forty years after, [ 1546] viz. to the year 1587.

Let us conclude this year with the death of Martin Luther that famous impugner of the Church of Rome, who being sent for by the Counts of Mansfield to compose some differences between them concerning their inheritance, died among them in his Climacterical year, and after much contention for his Body, lieth buried at Wirtenberg.