"Though Pole and Mary could have laid their hands on earl and baron, knight and gentleman, whose heresy was notorious, although, in the queen's own guard, there were many who never listened to a mass, they durst not strike where there was danger that they would be struck in return. ... They took the weaver from his loom, the carpenter from his workshop, the husbandman from his plough; they laid hands on maidens and boys 'who had never heard of any other religion than that which they were called on to abjure'; old men tottering into the grave, and children whose lips could but just lisp the articles of their creed; and of these they made their burnt-offerings; with these they crowded their prisons, and when filth and famine killed them, they flung them out to rot." _J. A. Froude, History of England, chapter 24._ Queen Mary's marriage with Philip of Spain and his arbitrary disposition, "while it thoroughly alienated the kingdom from Mary, created a prejudice against the religion which the Spanish court so steadily favoured. ... Many are said to have become Protestants under Mary who, at her coming to the throne, had retained the contrary persuasion." _H. Hallam, Constitutional History of England, volume 1, chapter 2._ ALSO IN: _J. Collier, Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, part 2, book 5._ _J. Lingard, History of England, volume 7, chapter 2-3._ _J. Fox, Book of Martyrs._ _P. Heylyn, Ecclesia Restaurata, volume 2._ _J. Strype, Memorials of Cranmer, book 3._ ENGLAND: A. D. 1557-1559. Involved by the Spanish husband of Queen Mary in war with France. Loss of Calais. See FRANCE: A. D. 1547-1559. ENGLAND: A. D. 1558. Accession of Queen Elizabeth. ENGLAND: A. D. 1558-1588. The Age of Elizabeth: Recovery of Protestantism.