[308] “A Brief Note of my submission and of my doings,” Lansdowne MS. 102, f. 2, Brit. Mus.; printed by Tytler, England under the Reigns of Edward VI. and Mary, vol. ii., p. 192.
[309] The Ambassadors of Charles V. to their Master, 6th August 1553, Record Office.
[310] Armand Baschet, La Diplomatie Vénitienne au Seizième Siècle, p. 128. The Venetian ambassador Sorranzo describes Mary about this time as “d’une taille plutôt petite que grande, d’une carnation blanche, mêlée de rouge, et très-maigre; elle a les yeux gros et gris, les cheveux roux et la figure ronde, avec le nez peut-être un peu bas et large: en somme, si par suite de son âge elle ne commençait un peu à marcher vers son déclin, on pourrait plutôt la dire belle que laide” (ibid., p. 121).
[311] De Noailles, Ambassades, vol. i., p. 228.
[312] Harl. MS. 284, f. 127, Brit. Mus.
[313] Foxe says that he was induced to make this profession by a promise of pardon; but this assumption appears to be purely gratuitous.
[314] Pollini, p. 355. For the text of this letter see Appendix C to this volume.
[315] It is remarkable that active as the Duchess of Suffolk had been in the usurpation, she was always treated by Mary with consideration and even confidence.