Thus hast thou, gentle Reader! simply but truly described unto thee, the time, first, of the sorrowful adversity of this our most Sovereign Queen that now is; also, the miraculous preserving her in so many straights and distresses: which I thought here briefly to notify, the rather for that the wondrous works of the LORD ought not to be suppressed; and that also Her Majesty, and we her poor subjects likewise, having thereby a present matter always before our eyes, be admonished how much we are bound to His Divine majesty, and also to render thanks to Him condignly for the same. ¶ A compendious Register in metre, containing the names and patient sufferings of the members of Jesus Christ, and the tormented, and cruelly burned within England; since the death of our famous King, of immortal memory, +EDWARD+ the Sixth, to the entrance and beginning of the reign of our Sovereign and dearest Lady +ELIZABETH+, of England, France, and Ireland, Queen; Defender of the Faith; to whose Highness truly and properly appertaineth, next and immediately under GOD, the supreme power and authority of the Churches of England and Ireland. So be it. [Illustration] _Anno. 1559._ _Apocalypse 7._ _And one of the angels_ (saith Saint JOHN) _spake, saying unto me, "What_ _are they, which are arrayed in long white_ _garments; and whence come they?" (before_ _the people, before sealed by the angel). And_ _I said unto him, "Lord, thou wottest!"_ _And he said unto me, "These are they_ _which came out of great tribulation; and_ _washed their garments, and made_ _them white in the blood of the_ _Lamb. Therefore are they in_ _the presence of the Throne of_ _GOD, and serve Him, day and_ _night, in His Temple:_ _and He that sitteth_ _in the Throne_ _will_ _dwell among_ _them."_ [Illustration] [Illustration]