[Footnote 361: Henry II. rejoiced greatly at the passing of the act confirming Mary’s legitimacy, as it _ipso facto_, as he thought, removed the one barrier between Mary and the succession of his daughter-in-law the Queen of Scots, the next legitimate heir to the English throne. Both sisters could not be legitimate (Henry to de Noailles, _Ambassades_, ii., p. 250).] [Footnote 362: The Book of Common Prayer is called in the Act of Parliament “a new thing, imagined by a few of singular opinions”.] [Footnote 363: De Noailles, _Ambassades_, ii., pp. 143-48.] [Footnote 364: _Ibid._, p. 186.] [Footnote 365: Griffet, xxviii.] [Footnote 366: When Mary told Gardiner that she would never marry Courtenay, the Chancellor replied with tears, owning that he had entertained an affection for the young man from the time of their mutual imprisonment. Mary then asked him whether it was proper for her to marry him just because her Chancellor was fond of him in prison (Renard to the Emperor, Record Office Transcripts).] [Footnote 367: Belgian Transcripts, Record Office, vol i., pp. 497-505.] [Footnote 368: She charged Renard to inform Mary that it had been painted three years previously, and that, like all Titian’s works, it required to be studied at a little distance, in order to perceive the likeness. She added, that since it had been executed, Philip had matured and had grown more beard. About this time, Cardinal Granvelle sent the painter, Antonio More, to England to paint Mary’s portrait for Philip. She sat to him at different times, and he painted several fine portraits of her. The principal one is at Madrid, in the Museo del Prado.] [Footnote 369: Letter of the Queen to the Council of the Marches, Historical MSS. Commission, Report 13, app. iv., p. 318.] [Footnote 370: Belgian Transcripts, Record Office, vol. i., pp. 600-2.] [Footnote 371: _Ambassades_, vol. ii., p. 283.] [Footnote 372: MS., St. Mark’s Library, Cod. xxiv., Letter-Book, Ven. Archives. He only just missed being elected. Two Cardinals, coming to his cell in the Conclave one evening, begged him, as he had the necessary two-thirds of the votes, to come to the chapel, where he would be made Pope by “adoration”. Pole induced them to put off the ceremony till the next day, when a further scrutiny showed that Cardinal del Monte had a majority of votes.] [Footnote 373: _Papiers d’Etat du Cardinal de Granvelle_, vol. iv., p. 156.] [Footnote 374: Wriothesley, vol. ii., p. 104.] [Footnote 375: _Cranmer’s Remains_, p. 443.] [Footnote 376: _Ambassades_, vol. ii., p. 309.] [Footnote 377: _Ambassades_, vol. ii., p. 342.] CHAPTER XI. THE COMING OF THE KING. _January-July_, 1554.