[619] The Life of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, p. 64.
[620] These words show that Mary performed the ceremony not in imitation of Christ washing the feet of His apostles, but in commemoration of the act of devotion of St. Mary Magdalen towards our Lord.
[621] Cramp rings blessed by Queen Mary were in request at the Emperor’s Court. See Foreign Calendars, Mary, 347 and 348, 25th and 26th April 1555.
[622] MS. St. Mark’s Library, Cod. xxiv., Cl. x., pp. 168-74; Ven. Cal., vol. vi., pt. i., p. 434 et seq.
[623] “Saturday the 21 of November, Mr. Dr. Feckenham, late Dean of Paul’s in London, was made Abbot of Westminster, and stalled, and took possession of the same; and fourteen monks more received the habit the same day with him of the order of St. Bennett, and the Queen gave to the said Abbot all such lands as remained that day in her hands, suppressed and taken by King Henry the Eighth, for ever” (Wriothesley, Chronicle, p. 136).
[624] Ven. Cal., vol. vi., pt. i., 634. Besides the religious houses mentioned in the text, Mary restored that of the Black Friars in London, the Hospital of St. John at Smithfield, and the convent at Sion, near Brentford.
[625] Ven. Cal., vol. vi., pt. ii., 697.