[369] Letter of the Queen to the Council of the Marches, Historical MSS. Commission, Report 13, app. iv., p. 318.
[370] Belgian Transcripts, Record Office, vol. i., pp. 600-2.
[371] Ambassades, vol. ii., p. 283.
[372] MS., St. Mark’s Library, Cod. xxiv., Letter-Book, Ven. Archives. He only just missed being elected. Two Cardinals, coming to his cell in the Conclave one evening, begged him, as he had the necessary two-thirds of the votes, to come to the chapel, where he would be made Pope by “adoration”. Pole induced them to put off the ceremony till the next day, when a further scrutiny showed that Cardinal del Monte had a majority of votes.
[373] Papiers d’Etat du Cardinal de Granvelle, vol. iv., p. 156.
[374] Wriothesley, vol. ii., p. 104.
[375] Cranmer’s Remains, p. 443.
[376] Ambassades, vol. ii., p. 309.
[377] Ambassades, vol. ii., p. 342.