Henry’s various machinations were cut short by death, and Mary’s troubles were henceforth to take an entirely different form. [Illustration: _Walker & Cockerell, Photographers, London._ THE PRINCESS MARY AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-EIGHT. From the original painting in the National Portrait Gallery.] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 218: Francis told Marillac, his ambassador in England, that as the Dauphin had no children, it would be a great pleasure to him to see his son Orleans marry Lady Mary of England, and he was to inquire of her physician whether all she had suffered would not prevent her bearing children (Gairdner, _Cal._, xvi., 1186).] [Footnote 219: _Correspondance Politique de MM. de Castillon et de Marillac, ambassadeurs de France en Angleterre_, p. 349.] [Footnote 220: P. 63. The _Household Book of Queen Mary_ mentions (pp. 119, 126 and 184) the names of Mabel and Elizabeth Sydney.] [Footnote 221: Cotton MS. Otho C. x., f. 282. Printed in _Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies_, by M. A. E. Wood (afterwards Green), vol. iii., p. 13.] [Footnote 222: Smith MS. lxviii., f. 15, Bodleian Library. Printed in _Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies_, vol. iii., p. 15.] [Footnote 223: Don Diego and Chapuys to Charles V., 31st August 1538, Vienna Archives.] [Footnote 224: Gairdner, _Cal._, xiii., pt. i., 647.] [Footnote 225: Cotton MS. Titus B. i., 465, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 226: Cotton MS. Otho C. x., f. 277, Brit. Mus. Printed in Hearne’s _Sylloge_, 135.] [Footnote 227: Cromwell’s Memorial of Instructions to his friend Christopher Mount. Cotton MS. Vit. B. xxi., f. 159, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 228: Cotton MS. Vit. B. xxi., f. 86, 18th March 1539.] [Footnote 229: _Correspondance Politique de M. de Marillac_, p. 275.] [Footnote 230: Gairdner, _Cal._, xiv., pt. i., 980.] [Footnote 231: Gairdner, _Cal._, xiv., pt. ii., 212.] [Footnote 232: Cotton MS. Titus B. i., 489, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 233: Gairdner, _Cal._, xvi., 897, Chapuys to the Queen of Hungary, 10th June 1541.] [Footnote 234: There is a draft of a treaty in the British Museum between Henry VIII. and Philip Count Palatine, and Duke of Bavaria, for a marriage between him and the Lady Mary. In this treaty she is declared incapable by the laws and statutes of the realm of claiming any succession or title by right of inheritance.] [Footnote 235: Smith MS. xlvii., fol. 31-2. Hearne’s _Sylloge_, p. 149.] [Footnote 236: Smith MS. lxviii., fol. 17. Printed in _Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies_, vol. iii., p. 89.] [Footnote 237: _Correspondance Politique_, p. 148.] [Footnote 238: _Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary_, p. 176.] [Footnote 239: Cotton MS. Titus B. i., 409.] [Footnote 240: Cromwell to Henry VIII., Hatfield MS.] [Footnote 241: _Correspondance Politique de Castillon et de Marillac_, p. 189.] [Footnote 242: _Correspondance Politique de Castillon et de Marillac_, p. 193.]