[423] Record Office Transcripts, Belgian Archives, vol. ii., p. 4; printed by Tytler, England under the Reigns of Edward VI. and Mary, vol. ii., p. 310.
[424] Ibid. Griffet, p. 39.
[425] Lingard, vol. v., p. 441 et seq.
[426] The Emperor was evidently unaware that Courtenay was already in the Tower.
[427] Record Office Transcripts, vol. ii., Instructions of Charles V. to Count Egmont.
[428] Chronicle of Queen Jane, etc., p. 64.
[429] Foxe, vol. viii., p. 607. Heywood, England’s Elizabeth, p. 89.
[430] Lingard and Miss Strickland have supposed with Griffet, that Mary herself questioned the Lords of the Privy Council on this subject. But Wiesener points out (La Jeunesse d’Elisabeth, p. 224 note) that in the document on which P. Griffet supports the statement, namely, Renard’s letter of the 22nd March, no mention is made of the Queen’s presence at that sitting; and he agrees with Froude that the question was probably put by the Chancellor.
[431] Vol. viii., p. 608.
[432] Chronicle of Queen Jane, etc., p. 70.