[Footnote 295: Foxe, vol. vi., p. 385.] [Footnote 296: Stow, 610, 611.] [Footnote 297: Foxe, _Acts and Monuments_, vol. vi., p. 389. Burnet, vol. ii., p. 384. Holinshed, 1087. Bishop Godwin says that “he was scarce heard out with patience” (_Life of Ridley_ by the Rev. Gloucester Ridley, LL.B., p. 415).] [Footnote 298: According to Foxe he “had such cold welcome” at Framlingham, “that being despoiled of all his dignities, he was sent back on a lame, halting horse to the Tower” (vol. vi., p. 390).] [Footnote 299: _Chronicle of Queen Jane_, etc., p. 8.] [Footnote 300: De Noailles, _Ambassades_, i., p. 222.] [Footnote 301: _Acts of the Privy Council_, vol. iv., p. 297.] [Footnote 302: Harl. MS. 353, f. 139 _et seq._, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 303: _The Chronicle of Queen Jane_, etc., p. 11.] [Footnote 304: _Acts and Monuments_, vol. vi., p. 388.] [Footnote 305: “Dissi loro che se la corona s’ appetava a me, io sarei contenta di fare il mio marito Duca ma non consentirei di farlo Rè]” (Pollini, _Istoria ecclesiastica della rivoluzione d’Inghilterra_, p. 357).] [Footnote 306: The draft is the Lansdowne MS. 3, f. 24, the copy with Jane’s signature No. 1236 in the same collection.] [Footnote 307: De Noailles, _Ambassades_, vol. i., p. 225.] [Footnote 308: “A Brief Note of my submission and of my doings,” Lansdowne MS. 102, f. 2, Brit. Mus.; printed by Tytler, _England under the Reigns of Edward VI. and Mary_, vol. ii., p. 192.] [Footnote 309: The Ambassadors of Charles V. to their Master, 6th August 1553, Record Office.] [Footnote 310: Armand Baschet, _La Diplomatie Vénitienne au Seizième Siècle_, p. 128. The Venetian ambassador Sorranzo describes Mary about this time as “d’une taille plutôt petite que grande, d’une carnation blanche, mêlée de rouge, et très-maigre; elle a les yeux gros et gris, les cheveux roux et la figure ronde, avec le nez peut-être un peu bas et large: en somme, si par suite de son âge elle ne commençait un peu à marcher vers son déclin, on pourrait plutôt la dire belle que laide” (_ibid._, p. 121).] [Footnote 311: De Noailles, _Ambassades_, vol. i., p. 228.] [Footnote 312: Harl. MS. 284, f. 127, Brit. Mus.] [Footnote 313: Foxe says that he was induced to make this profession by a promise of pardon; but this assumption appears to be purely gratuitous.] [Footnote 314: Pollini, p. 355. For the text of this letter see Appendix C to this volume.] [Footnote 315: It is remarkable that active as the Duchess of Suffolk had been in the usurpation, she was always treated by Mary with consideration and even confidence.] CHAPTER X. AGAINST THE TIDE. _July-December_ 1553. Mary’s opportunity was in many ways a splendid one. From her earliest youth, the new Queen had been the hope, the admiration, the delight of the English people, and the poet expressed no mere conceit in the words:— _Il n’est cœur si triste qui ne rie En attendant la princesse Marie._