place there, being resolved not to receive the Prince of Spain, nor to obey his commands in any way, assuring de Noailles that the country gentlemen of the neighbourhood would do the same.[377] Gardiner, ignorant of the Queen’s definite step, continued to struggle against the marriage, till the Emperor, at Lord Paget’s suggestion, wrote to six members of the Privy Council, introducing the subject of the treaty. Then, seeing that all further opposition would be fruitless, the Chancellor, ever patriotic, consented to negotiate terms likely to safeguard the rights, liberties and interests of the nation. There remained only for the Emperor to make the formal demand for Mary’s hand, on behalf of his son. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 316: _Ambassade de Renard_, Belgian Archives, Record Office Transcripts, vol. iii., 27-29, July 1553.] [Footnote 317: St. Mark’s Library, Venice, Cod. xxiv., Cl. x.] [Footnote 318: Rawdon Brown, _Venetian Calendar_, 1534-54, 766, 776, 805, 823.] [Footnote 319: _Ibid._, 836.] [Footnote 320: De Noailles, vol. ii., p. 109.] [Footnote 321: The Imperial Ambassadors to Charles V., Record Office Transcripts, vol. i., pp. 276, 278.] [Footnote 322: Bonner had been sent to prison for what he had failed to say in a sermon at Paul’s Cross, namely, that “the king’s authority was as great during the minority as if he were thirty or forty years old,” a doctrine which the Council had ordered him to preach. He obeyed on all other points, but passed this one over in silence. Hooper and Latimer laid information against him; he was examined on seven different days before Cranmer, and was in the end deprived and thrown into prison, to remain there perpetually at the King’s, in other words, the Council’s, pleasure (_Dictionary of National Biography_, Art. “Edmund Bonner”).] [Footnote 323: Stow, p. 613. _Grey Friars’ Chronicle_, p. 83.] [Footnote 324: Foxe, vol. vi., p. 392.] [Footnote 325: Burnet, vol. iii., p. 384.] [Footnote 326: Foxe, vol. vi., p. 390 _Acts of the Privy Council_, vol. iv., p. 317, new series.] [Footnote 327: Machyn, p. 42.] [Footnote 328: Dixon, _History of the Church of England_, vol. iv., p. 37 note.] [Footnote 329: A Florentine, formerly one of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine, who, joining the Swiss Reformers, became the intimate friend of Zwingli and Bucer, subsequently also that of Cranmer, who often consulted him in compiling the Book of Common Prayer.] [Footnote 330: Harl. MS. 422, Brit. Mus., in Grindal’s hand. Foxe, _Acts and Monuments_, vol. vi., p. 539. Strype, _Memorials of Cranmer_, vol. i., p. 437 et seq.] [Footnote 331: _Acts of the Privy Council_, vol. iv., p. 347, new series.] [Footnote 332: Strype, _Memorials of Cranmer_, vol. i., p. 449.] [Footnote 333: _Ibid._] [Footnote 334: Dixon, _History of the Church of England_, vol. iv., p. 44.] [Footnote 335: See also Haynes, i., 183-84.] [Footnote 336: _Ambassades_, vol. ii., p. 138.]