[16] He “laid all his subjects on the bed of Procrustus; some he stretched as too short for the extent of the monarch’s faith; and others he decapitated for presuming to look over his shoulders.”—Bogue and Bennett, i. 44.
[17] Stat. 2 & 3, Edw. VI. c. 1. 5 & 6, Edw. VI. c. 1.
[18] Burnet’s Hist. Ref. ii. 178.
[19] Framlingham Castle had been granted by the preceding monarch to Mary. One inducement to take her station there during the suspension of her rights, probably was the proximity of the place to the sea coast. The residents in Suffolk who came forward as her adherents do not appear to have been all favourable to the reformation. The first who took up arms and levied men in her defence was Sir John Sulyard of Wetherden, who, as a reward for his fidelity, was appointed to guard her person during her stay at Framlingham; and whom we shall presently find zealously engaged in executing her sanguinary edicts.
[20a] Eftsoons, immediately.—Bailey.
[20b] It was an argument employed in her favour by the Earl of Arundel, in his harangue at the great meeting of her friends at Baynard’s castle, that she had made this promise. Who, he asked, had seen cause to think that, in matters of religion, Queen Mary intended any alteration? for when she was lately addressed about this, in Suffolk, she had given a very fair, satisfactory answer.—Green’s Hist. of Framlingham, p. 79.
[21a] Fox’s Acts and Monuments, ed. 1684, vol. iii. p. 12.
[21b] Neal’s History of the Puritans, ed. 1822, vol. i. p. 73.
[22a] Stat. 1 Mary, sess. 2, c. 2.
[22b] Neal’s Pur. i. 77.