Excerpt from Constance Sherwood, Vol. 1 of 2: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century I 'had not thought to write the story of 'my life; but the wishes of those who have at all times more right to command than occasion to entreat aught at my hands, have in a manner compelled me thereunto. The divers trials and the unlooked-for comforts which have come to my lot during the years that I have been tossed to and fro on this uneasy sea the world have wrought in my soul an exceeding sense of the goodness of God, and an insight into the mean ing of the sentence in Holy Writ which saith, His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts like unto our thoughts. And this puts me in mind that there are sayings which are in every one's mouth, and there fore uot to be lightly gainsayed, which nevertheless do not approve themselves to my conscience as wholly just and true. Of these is the common adage, That misfortunes come not alone. For my own part, I have found that when a cross has been laid on me, it has mostly been a single one and that other scams} were oftentimes removed as if to make mum is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.