The Age of Elizabeth (1547-1603)

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	Introduction		[v]
1547.	Ballad Sung at Edward VI.’s Coronation	Strype, “Memorials”	[1]
1547-1551.	Extracts from the Journal of Edward VI.	Cotton MS.	[2]
1548.	Commission for Continuance of Schools	Leach, “English Schools”	[7]
1550.	Report of the Schools Commissioners for Stratford-on-Avon	Leach, “English Schools”	[9]
1550.	Coventry and Warwickshire Schools Continuance Warrant	Leach, “English Schools”	[11]
1550.	Lady Jane Grey	Ascham, “Scholemaster”	[12]
1554.	Proclamation that Courtesy be used to King Philip	Strype, “Memorials”	[13]
1555-1556.	Speech of Mary upon Restoring Church Lands	Somers’ “Tracts”	[15]
1557.	Proclamation by Thomas Stafforde	Strype, “Memorials”	[16]
1555.	Behaviour of Ridley and Latimer at their Death	Foxe, “Acts and Monuments”	[19]
1558.	Interrogatories to Churchwardens	B. M. (Huth Quarto)	[26]
1572.	Presbyterian Demands	“Admonition to the Parliament”	[32]
1572.	The Anglican Position	Whitgift, “Answere to Admonition”	[35]
1572.	The Elizabethan Poor Law	Statutes of the Realm	[37]
1571-1572.	The Condition of Ireland	Carew MSS.	[40]
1569.	The Rising in the North:
	(a) Proclamation by the Earls	State Papers	[49]
	(b) Another by the Same	Dodd, “Church History”	[50]
	(c) Proclamation by the Earl of Sussex	State Papers	[51]
	(d) Border Ballad	Percy’s Folio MS.	[52]
	(e) London Ballad by Elderton	B. M. (Huth Broadside)	[58]
1569-1570.	Bull Deposing Elizabeth	Camden, “Annales”	[60]
1571.	Act against the Execution of Bulls	Statutes of the Realm	[63]
1584.	Act against Jesuits	Statutes of the Realm	[67]
1586.	Death of Mary Queen of Scots	Camden, “Annales”	[69]
1587.	The Catholic’s Dilemma	Stonyhurst MS.	[75]
1588.	The Armada:
	(a) Letter from Drake to Walsingham	Barrow, “Life of Drake”	[76]
	(b) Letter from Howard to Walsingham	Barrow, “Life of Drake”	[77]
1588.	The Navy of 1588	Murdin, “State Papers at Hatfield”	[79]
1591.	The Last Fight of the “Revenge”	Hakluyt, “Voyages”	[84]
1600.	The Earl of Essex’ Apology	Carew MSS.	[91]
1601.	Elizabeth’s Speech to her Last Parliament	Somers’ “Tracts”	[93]
1603.	Elizabeth’s Death	Somers’ “Tracts”	[97]

APPENDIX
The Entertainment of Queen Elizabeth	Nichols’ “Progresses”	[99]
London in the Plague	Lansdowne MSS.	[104]
A Pessimist on the Age	Ascham, “Scholemaster”	[108]
Puritanism on Dress	Stubbes, “Anatomy”	[111]
Puritanism on Sport	Stubbes, “Anatomy”	[113]
Puritanism and the Stage	“Remembrancia”	[114]
Euphuism: A Fashion of 1580		[117]
An Elizabethan Man of Letters (Greene)	Nashe, “Strange Newes”	[120]

THE AGE OF ELIZABETH
1547-1603

A BALLAD SUNG TO KING EDWARD IN CHEAPSIDE, AS HE PASSED THROUGH LONDON TO HIS CORONATION (1547).

Source.—Strype: Ecclesiastical Memorials. Ed. 1822. Vol. ii., part ii., p. 329.

Sing, up heart, sing, up heart, and sing no more downe,
But joy in King Edward that weareth the crowne.

Sir, song in time past hath been downe a downe,
And long it hath lasted in tower and towne,
To have it much meeter, downe hath been added:
But up is more sweeter to make our hearts gladded.

Sing, up heart, &c.

King Edward up springeth from puerilitie,
And toward us bringeth joy and tranquilitie;
Our hearts may be light and merry chere,
He shal be of such might, that al the world may him fear.