1. That King Edward VI. died the very same day of the same month in which he caused the altar to be taken down, and the image of the Blessed Virgin in the Cathedral of St Paul's.
2. That Cranmer was burnt at Oxford the same day and month that he gave King Henry VIII. advice to divorce his Queen Catherine.
3. That Queen Elizabeth died the same day and month that she resolved, in her Privy Council, to behead the Queen of Scots.
4. That King James died the same day that he published his book against Bellarmine.
5. That King Charles's long Parliament, which ruined him, began the very same day and month which that Parliament began, that at the request of his predecessor robbed the Roman Church of all her revenues, and suppressed abbeys and monasteries.
How just his calculations were, or how true the matter of fact, I cannot tell, but it put me upon the same in several actions and successes of this war. And I found a great many circumstances, as to time or action, which befell both his Majesty and his parties first;
Then others which befell the Parliament and Presbyterian faction, which raised the war;
Then the Independent tyranny which succeeded and supplanted the first party;
Then the Scots who acted on both sides;
Lastly, the restoration and re-establishment of the loyalty and religion of our ancestors.