ABSTRACT
My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear; I have always so behaved myself that under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects … I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too. 1
