The History of Mary I, Queen of England / as found in the public records, despatches of ambassadors, in original private letters, and other contemporary documents

by J. M. Stone

[329] A Florentine, formerly one of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine, who, joining the Swiss Reformers, became the intimate friend of Zwingli and Bucer, subsequently also that of Cranmer, who often consulted him in compiling the Book of Common Prayer.

[330] Harl. MS. 422, Brit. Mus., in Grindal’s hand. Foxe, Acts and Monuments, vol. vi., p. 539. Strype, Memorials of Cranmer, vol. i., p. 437 et seq.

[331] Acts of the Privy Council, vol. iv., p. 347, new series.

[332] Strype, Memorials of Cranmer, vol. i., p. 449.

[333] Ibid.

[334] Dixon, History of the Church of England, vol. iv., p. 44.

[335] See also Haynes, i., 183-84.

[336] Ambassades, vol. ii., p. 138.

[337] Louis Wiesener, La Jeunesse d’Elisabeth d’Angleterre, p. 101.

[338] Renard apud Griffet, xii., pp. 106, 107. De Noailles, vol. ii., pp. 138, 141, 160. Record Office, Belgian Transcripts, i., pp. 360-62. Père Griffet, who now becomes one of the chief authorities for this part of the reign, discovered, in the middle of the last century, a number of Renard’s despatches in the royal library at Besançon, and wrote, in answer to David Hume’s gross libel and caricature of Queen Mary, a volume 12mo, of 197 pages, which was published at Amsterdam in 1765. Its title, Nouveaux Eclaircissements sur le règne de Marie Tudor reine d’Angleterre, shows the importance of the book, which is now scarce. There is no copy of it in the British Museum.