Footnote 625: "Surely," Wentworth wrote to the queen, "if your majesty's ships had been on the shore, they might either have letted this voyage, or, at the least, very much hindered it, and not unlike to have distressed them, being only small boats. Their ordnance that comes shall be conveyed in the same sort. It may therefore please your majesty to consider it. I am, as a man may be, most sure that they will first attempt upon Rysbank, and that way chiefly assail the town. Marry, I think that they lie hovering in the country for the coming of their great artillery and also to be masters of the sea, and therefore I trust your highness will haste over all things necessary with all expedition."—Wentworth to the Queen: Calais MSS. bundle 10.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 626: Grey to the Queen: Calais MSS. The letter was dated January 4, seven o'clock at night. The messenger was to carry it to Gravelines under cover of darkness. It is endorsed, "Haste, haste, haste! post haste for thy life, for thy life."(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 627: Rutland to the Queen: Calais MSS.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 628: MS. Council Records.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 629: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. xi.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 630: The Queen to Sir William Woodhouse, January 12: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. xii.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 631: Circular for Staying of the Musters: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. xii.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 632: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. xii., January 17.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 633: Commons Journals.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 634: Ibid. The famous graziers and other people, how well willing soever they be taken to be, will not be known of their wealth, and by miscontentment of their loss, be grown stubborn and liberal of talk. The Council to Philip: Cotton. MS. Titus, B. 2.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 635: Estimate of the money to be provided for the furniture and charges of the war: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. xii.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 636: Discourse on the order that was used in granting of the Subsidy: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. xii.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 637: The Council to Philip: Cotton. MSS. Titus, B. 2.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 638: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. xii.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 639: 4 and 5 Philip and Mary, statute 2.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 640: Ibid. statute 3.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 641: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. xii.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 642: Flanders MSS. Mary. The aggregate of the debts to the Flanders Jews, which Elizabeth inherited, cannot be prudently guessed at; and I have not yet found any complete account on which I can rely. It cost her, however, fifteen years of economy to pay them off.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 643: Queen Mary to the Aldermen of the City of London: MS. Ibid.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 644: Foxe: Burnet.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 645: Strype's Memorials, vol. vi. p. 120.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 646: Privy Council Register, MS. Mary.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 647: Royal Proclamation, June 6, 1558: Strype's Memorials, vol. vi.; Foxe, vol. xiii.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 648: Oration on the Queen's Marriage: Strype's Life of Sir Thomas Smith.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 649: Privy Council Register, MS.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 650: Bentham to Lever: Strype's Memorials, vol. vi.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 651: "This fact," says Foxe, "purchased him more hatred than any that he had done of the common people."(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 652: Swift to the Earl of Shrewsbury: Lodge's Illustrations.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 653: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. xiii.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 654: Renard found it necessary to warn Philip of this, in a despatch written in October: Granvelle Papers, vol. v. p. 225.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 655: Arundel, Thirlby, and Wotton to the Council: French MSS., bundle 13.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 656: Ibid.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 657: Philip to the English Ambassador, October 30: Ibid.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 658: "Condigna animadversione plectendos."—Wilkins's Concilia, vol. iv.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 659: Report of the Count de Feria: Tytler, vol. ii. p. 494. Memorial of the Duchess of Feria, MS., quoted by Lingard.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 660: Cotton. MS. Vespasian. F. 3. The letter is written in a shaking hand. The address is lost, and being dated the 14th of November, while Mary was still alive, it has been described as to her and not to her sister. But an endorsement "From the queen's majesty at Hatfield," leaves no doubt to whom it was written.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 661: Among the apocryphal or vaguely attested anecdotes of the end of Mary, she is reported to have said, that if her body was opened, Calais would be found written on her heart. The story is not particularly characteristic, but having come somehow into existence, there is no reason why it should not continue to be believed.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 662: Underhill's Narrative.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 663: Burghley's Execution of Justice.(Back to Main Text)
Footnote 664: The number is variously computed at 270, 280, and 290.(Back to Main Text)