37.
** The common net at that time, says Sir Richard Baker, for catching of Protestants, was the real presence; and this net was used to catch the lady Elizabeth; for being asked, one time, what she thought of the words of Christ.

"This is my body," whether she thought it the true body of Christ that was in the sacrament, it is said that, after some pausing, she thus answered:-- "Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what the word did make it, That I believe, and take it." Which, though it may seem but a slight expression, yet hath it more solidness than at first sight appears; at least, it served her turn, at that time, to escape the net, which, by a direct answer, she could not have done.

Baker's Chronicle, p.

320.
The money granted by parliament enabled the queen to fit out a fleet of a hundred and forty sail, which, being joined by thirty Flemish ships, and carrying six thousand land forces on board, was sent to make an attempt on the coast of Brittany.

The fleet was commanded by Lord Clinton; the land forces by the earls of Huntingdon and Rutland.