EXTRACTS FROM BAKER'S CHRONICLE, &C. 169

gown over his shirt, with his girdle and fword, in which posture he used to walk in the morning, in the base court of the caftle, to take the air, met with the lion roaring and frizzling his fhaggy creft; but the Earl being undaunted, said in a harsh and angry tone, "Stand you dog!" at which, the lion couched at his feet, and the Earl took him by the neck, and put him into his den, leaving his night-cap upon the lion's back, and fo walked off unconcerned; and looking up to the windows where the courtiers were, said, "Now let the proudest of you all, that boast so much of your noble birth, go and fetch my night-cap and take it for his pains;" but they fhamefully pulled in their heads, and made no reply.

Crantz. Hift. Saxon. Ch. 24, p. 91.

Queen Anne, wife of King Henry VIII. and mother of Queen Elizabeth, as she was going to be beheaded in the Tower, feeing a gentleman there of the King's privychamber, called him to her, and with a chearful countenance, and a foul undaunted at approaching death, said to him, "Remember me to the king, and tell him he is conftant in advancing me to the greatest honours. From a private gentlewoman he made me a marchioness, from that degree made me a queen, and now, because he can raise me no higher in this world, is translating me to heaven, to wear a crown of martyrdom in eternal glory."

Bak. Chron. p. 408. Dr. Frecknam being fent by Queen Mary I. to the Lady Jane Grey, then a prifoner in the Tower, to tell her the muft die on the morrow, made ufe of that opportunity to perfuade her to renounce the proteftant religion, and embrace popery; but obtaining no answer from her, than, "that she had no time for any thing but to recommend her foul to God by fervent prayer," the doctor thought the defired a longer time; therefore went to the queen, and procured a reprieve for three days longer, and came back VOL. I. No. 4.

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and acquainted the Lady Jane with it, who, fmiling, said, "Doctor, you are mistaken if you think I defire to live longer; for, fince the time you brought me that meffage, my life has been a burden to me, and I defire nothing fo much as death; and, fince it is in the queen's pleasure, I care not how foon I fuffer it."

Bak. Chron. p. 458.

The Marquis of Montrose being sentenced by a Scottish court of justice, May 21, 1650, to be hanged at Edinburgh Crofs, upon a gallows thirty foot high, for the space of three hours, then his head to be cut off and fet upon the tolbooth, and his legs and arms to be hung up in four other great towns in that kingdom; he faid, "He was obliged to the parliament for the honour they had done him; for he accounted it a greater glory to have his head stand upon the prifon-gate for this cause, than to have his picture in the king's bed-chamber; and, left his loyalty fhould be too foon forgotten, they had highly honoured him, in designing lasting monuments to four of the chiefeft cities to keep his memory to pofterity; and he only wifhed he had flesh enough to have a piece fent to every city in christendom, as a teftimony of his loyalty to his king and country." When at the place of execution, and his declaration was hanged about his neck with a cord, he faid, "He did not think himself more honoured by the garter, which noble order his Majesty had beftowed upon him, than by that cord and book, which he took with as much joy as he did the garter and chain of gold."

Hift. Eng. 8vo. Vol. II. p. 307.

Peter, Count of Savoy, a Sovereign prince, prefenting himself before Otho, Emperor of Germany, to receive inveftiture from him of his dominions, came dreffed in a very ødd manner. One fide of him was clothed with a very rich attire, and the other fide was all in armour; and the Emperor asking him the reafon of this fantastical garb, he an

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