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

[195] Gairdner, Cal., xi., 219.

[196] Gairdner, Cal., xi., 221.

[197] Add. MS. 28,589, f. 44, Brit. Mus., Chapuys to the Empress, 29th Aug. 1536.

[198] Gayangos, Cal., vol. v., pt. ii., p. 157.

[199] See an interesting letter from Lady Bryan to Cromwell, appendix B.

[200] Cotton MS. Otho C. x., f. 291. Hearne, p. 131.

[201] Cotton MS. Otho C. x., f. 274. Hearne, p. 129.

[202] Cotton MS. Otho C. x., f. 292. Hearne, 132.

[203] Gayangos, Cal., vol. v., pt. ii., p. 258.

[204] The depositions of the malcontents often contained expressions to the effect that the country was “ruled by knaves,” and that the people thought “the Lady Mary would have a title to the Crown one day”. In the course of the examination of the ringleaders, in the Tower, after the rebellion, one of them said, “The Lady Mary ought to be favoured for her great virtues, and the statute annulled ... that she should not be made illegitimate except by the law of the whole Church, for she is marvellously beloved by the whole people” (Examination of Aske, Record Office).