Whereunto the Spaniards answered, saying, "GOD forbid that their King and Master should have that mind to consent to such a mischief!" This was the courteous answer of the Spaniards to the Englishmen speaking, after that sort, against their own country.
From that day, the Spaniards never left off their good persuasions to the King, that the like honour he should never obtain as he should in delivering the Lady Elizabeth's Grace out of prison: whereby, at length, she was happily released from the same.
Here is a plain and evident example of the good nature and clemency of the King and his Councillors towards Her Grace. Praised be GOD therefore! who moved their hearts therein.
Then hereupon, she was sent for, shortly after, to come to Hampton Court.
In her imprisonment at Woodstock, these verses she wrote with her diamond, in a glass window.
Much suspected by me,
Nothing proved can be,
Quoth Elizabeth the prisoner.
[In the Second Edition of his Actes,&c., published in 1570 under the fresh title of Ecclesiastical History, p. 2,294; John Fox gives the following additional information of the Woodstock imprisonment.
And thus much touching the troubles of Lady Elizabeth at Woodstock.