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Rh very good judge, says, was admirably performed. To this Mr. Udall wrote a preface, wherein he observes "the great number of noble women at that time in England, not only given to the study of human sciences and strange tongues, but also so thoroughly expert in holy scriptures, that they were able to compare with the best writers, as well in inditeing and penning of godly and fruitfull treatises, to the instruction and edifying of realms in the knowledge of God, as also in translating good books out of Latin or Greek into English, tor the use and commodity of such as are rude and ignorant of the said tongues."

In Mr. Fox's Acts and Monuments, are printed eight letters, written by the princess Mary to King Edward VI, and to the lords of the council, concerning her non-conformity to the establishment, and about the imprisonment and releasing her chaplain, Dr. Francis Mallet.

In the appendix to Mr. Strype's 3d vol. of Historical Memorials, No. 82, is a prayer of the lady Mary to the Lord Jesu, against the assault of vice. And No. 83, is a meditation touching adversity; made by lady Mary's grace, 1549.

In the Sylloge Epistolarum, at the end of T. Livy's Life of King Henry V, published by Mr. Hearne, is a large collection of Queen Mary's letters.

In the Bodleian library, B. 94, is a manuscript primer, curiously illuminated, which was formerly Queen Mary's, and afterwards Prince Henry's. It was given him by Richard Connock, Esq; July 7, 1615. Just at the beginning of the Psalms, is the following passage, written by Queen Mary's own hand, viz. 'Geate you such riches as when the shippe is broken may swyme away wythe the master. For dyverse chances take away the goods of fortune. But the goods of the soule, whych