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 1563.] THE ENGLISH AT HA VRE. 99 Elizabeth, ' that we may rather rejoice in the birth of your Majesty's body before any other without the same, whom God may put in your heart to yield your right unto after your Majesty's days/ * Randolph to Elizabeth, January 21, 1564 : Scotch MSS. Rolls House. NOTE TO p. 30. EXTRACT from the Sermon of Dr Nowell made at the opening of Parliament, January 12, 1562-3, from a manuscript in the library of Caius College, Cambridge : ' Furthermore, where the Queen's Majesty of her own nature is wholly given to clemency and mercy, as full well appeareth hitherto ; for in this realm was never seen a change so quiet and so long since reigning without blood (God be thanked for it) ; howbeit those which hitherto will not be reformed, but obstinate and can skill by no clemency or courtesy, ought otherwise to be used. But now will some say^ * Oh, bloody man that calleth this the house of right, and now would have it made a house of blood.' But the Scripture teach- eth us that divers faults ought to be punished by death, and therefore following God's precepts it cannot be accounted cruel ; and it is not against this house, but the part thereof ; to see justice ministered to them who will abuse clemency. Therefore the goodness of Her Ma- jesty's clemency may well and ought now therefore to be changed to justice, seeing it will not help. But now to explicate myself, I say, if any man keeping his opinion, will, and mind, close within himself, and so not open the same, then he ought not to be punished, but when he openeth it abroad then it hurteth and ought to be cut off: And especially, if in anything it touch the Queen's Majesty ; for such errors of heresy, ought not, as well for God's quarrel as the realm's, to be unlocked unto, for clemency ought not to be given to