ABSTRACT
Marking Elizabeth Tudor's accession on 17 November 1558 was a flood of tracts published in England and abroad congratulating the new queen and celebrating her reign as a golden age for the "true" religion. A second wave accompanied Elizabeth's coronation on 15 January 1559. John Foxe's contribution was Germaniae ad Angliam gratulatio, a pamphlet published by Joannes Oporinus in January 1559. This chapter discusses that Bale and Foxe departed for England only after the conclusion of what is called the "Elizabethan settlement" of religion by the Parliament that ended on 8 May 1559. The great love that God holds for England, Bale similarly argues, has combined with the toils that Bale has undertaken, and the perils that Elizabeth has survived, to make it possible for England's books and commonweal jointly to be saved and restored. That message is not merely one of exuberant congratulations to the new queen, but neither is it just self-promotion.
