Latimer, and Ridley, and Cranmer were heretics. But Mary had another reason for burning them: they had given an opinion in the question of her mother's divorce Henry demanded their opinion, and for giving it they must be put to death.

       OLD MARSHALSEA.

      For three years the fires blaze. It is not that Mary has any personal hatred toward the men and women whom she causes to be executed. But they will not acknowledge that the Pope is the head of the Church; they do not believe that the bread is changed into the body of Christ when the priest blesses it. they think for themselves; and that is not to be tolerated. It is heresy, to be exterminated. Mary thinks of herself as being responsible for the eternal welfare of the people. The Church of Rome demands the rooting-out of the heretics, and she must obey, or lose her own soul. Thousands are cast into prison; and the poor men and women suffer terrible hardships, lying on the cold stones of the Old Marshalsea Prison, in London, or in the Bocardo, at Oxford. Families are broken up. Orphans beg their bread from door to door, or else starve in the streets. By way of warning, some heretics are burned on the hand and liberated. Women are compelled to do penance in public, standing all day with a lighted torch in their hands, exposed to the insults of a motley rabble. No one may succor them — no one take pity. They suffer for conscience' sake. It is the protest of heroic souls in behalf of liberty. They will suffer every indignity, and give their bodies to be burned, rather than yield their convictious of right and duty. Through such sacrifice freedom comes to the human race.

       BURNING THE HAND.

       OLD PAUL'S CROSS — RIOTS IN 1556.

      Does such harshness exterminate heresy? On the contrary, the harsher the treatment of heretics, the more they multiply. Those who witness their heroism in death begin to think that there must he something in their cause which should command respect. the people are weary with the burnings. They begin to murmur. When the priests ascend the pulpit at St. Paul's Crass to preach, the mob hoots them down.

       THE MARTYR'S MEMORIAL, OXFORD.

      Philip is tired of England. He intended to be king; but Parliament will not let him be crowned. lie is only a figure-head — a man of straw, with no voice in public affairs. He is tired of Mary; she is almost old enough to be his mother — pale, weak, sickly, quernlous — always repeating her prayers. He is gross in all his tastes. He loves bacon-fat, and can eat a dish of it at a meal. He cannot gratify all his tastes in England ; he will cross the Channel to Brussels, and visit his father. He bids Mary farewell, promising with his lips soon to return, but intending never to set foot in England again unless ho can be king. We shall see him at Brussels.