October 1766 - The Gospel Magazine

446 THE G OS P EL. M A GA Z I M E.
When Mary was fettled on the throne, the fhewed Elifabeth
no affeaion, and fent her to the tower on pretence that file
was concerned in Wiat's rebellion. The princefs was acquitted
by her accufer, though Gardiner fo paffionate1y defired
her death, that he procured a warrant for her execution, from
which {he efeaped by the affiftance of Bridges, then lord
(''hrmJois, the lieutenant of the tower. Elifabeth was then
fent to /f/ooc!Jlock, near Oxford, where file continued two
years, under the cuftody of Sir Henry Bminfield, and was
treated with fo little marks of humanity, that it gave her
room to (ulpeCl: a defign againft her life. She was removed
from rf/oodflock to Hampton-court, and from th~nce to Hatjie/d: '
about twenty miles from London, where all her aCtions were
narrowly watched; and file was obliged to be cautious in
declaring her fentiments, while file had the mortification to
fee the perfecution of the pr0teftants violently raging in all
parts of the kingdom. In the time of her fifter's reign, when
n popi!h pridl: preffecJ her hard to declare her opinion' of
CHRIST'S prcfence in the facrament, file truly and warily
anfwercd him thus:
"I'was God the I'Pord that [pake it j
He took the bread and brake it;
And what that {;Pord did malre it,
ej'bat 1 believe, and take it.
When queen Mary pe;'ceived that her death was approaching,
her greateft uneaJinefs was, like that of her brother
. Edward, when he was in the fame condition, that after her
death the whole ftruaurc of religion, which file had Iraifed
with fo. much care, would infallibly be overturned. We are
told, "that many of the biiliops were perpetually infinuating
the danger of letting the princefs live: and the queen in
all appearance would not have fpared a flfter, whom file looked
on as a ba{\:ard and a heretic, if the providence , of GOD had
not been immediately her defence." The prineefs meddled
in no fort 'of bufinefs, but gave herfelf up wholly to ftudy.
Thus