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| 30 | <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><font size=-1>This account
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| 31 | of Mary's famous speech rallying her subjects was recorded by John Foxe in <i>The Actes and Monuments
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| 32 | of these latter and perillous dayes</i>.</font><p><font size=-1>The first year
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| 33 | of Mary's reign witnessed a Protestant rebellion led by Sir Thomas Wyatt.
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| 34 | The uprising was sparked by her impending marriage to Philip II of Spain.</font><br>
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| 40 | 'I am your Queen, to whom at my coronation, when I was wedded to the
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| 41 | realm and laws of the same (the spousal ring whereof I have on my finger,
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| 42 | which never hitherto was, not hereafter shall be, left off), you promised
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| 43 | your allegiance and obedience to me.... And I say to you, on the
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| 44 | word of a Prince, I cannot tell how naturally the mother loveth the child,
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| 45 | for I was never the mother of any; but certainly, if a Prince and Governor
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| 46 | may as naturally and earnestly love her subjects as the mother doth love
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| 47 | the child, then assure yourselves that I, being your lady and mistress,
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| 48 | do as earnestly and tenderly love and favour you. And I, thus loving
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| 49 | you, cannot but think that ye as heartily and faithfully love me; and then
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| 50 | I doubt not but we shall give these rebels a short and speedy overthrow'.<p align="center"> <p align="center"><a href="primary.html">
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