Footnote 600: Exchequer Accounts: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. xii. State Paper Office.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 601: Bitterly hating their work that they were sent upon, "the people went to the musters, said Sir Thomas Smith, with kerchiefs on their heads—they went to the wars hanging down their looks; they came from them as men dismayed and forlorn."—Strype's Life of Sir Thomas Smith, Appendix, p. 249.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 602: Instructions to the Lord Admiral: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. xi.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 603: Sir Edward Karne to the Queen: Burnet's Collectanea.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 604: Printed by Strype, Memorials of the Reformation, vol. vi. p. 476, and described by him as a letter of the parliament. But at this time there was no parliament in existence; the last had been dissolved eighteen months before, the next did not meet till the ensuing January. The queen's letter is dated the 21st May, and the letter which I suppose to have been from the council, and another, said also to have been from "the nobility," were evidently written under the same impression, and at the same time, when the idea of the recall was new.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 605: Letters to the Pope: Strype, vol. vi. pp. 476-482. The drafts of the letters are not signed, nor does it appear what names were attached to them. It is not even certain that they were sent.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 606: Pole to the Pope: Strype's Memorials, vol. vi. p. 34, etc.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 607: Pole's sufferings in consequence were really piteous. "Your holiness," he wrote on the 30th of March, 1558, "is taking my life from me when you take from me the reputation of orthodoxy. You told the English ambassador it was God's doing; God has told you, like Abraham, to kill your son; and that your holiness intends that kind of death for me, I know far more certainly than Isaac seemed to know his father's purpose. When I see the fire and the knife in the hands of your holiness, and the wood laid upon my shoulders, there is no need for me to ask where is the victim.
"When I was yet a lamb, I gave myself as a sacrifice to the pontiff, who chose me for a cardinal. Thus I thought of myself; thus I spoke when I lay prostrate before the altar. Little did I then think the time would come, when I should be offered up by my father's hands a second time, especially when the Bishop of Rochester was here hanging as a ram among the briars ready to be immolated," etc.—Pole to the Pope: Epistolæ, vol. v. p. 31.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 608: Commission for the Loan: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. xi.[(Back to Main Text)]