As the hope of an heir was gradually abandoned, all other reasons for congratulation appeared also to fade away. De Noailles’ intrigues had prepared a fresh harvest of discontent, and with Elizabeth’s release, the turbulence of the Londoners assumed a more insolent character than ever. Hideous lampoons were circulated, bearing upon the Queen’s supposed condition, and to increase her agony of mind, Philip showed signs of a sickening conviction of the uselessness of his sacrifice. A little book of prayers, once belonging to Queen Mary is to be seen at the British Museum.[506] Its leaves are worn and thumbed, and it opens of itself at a blurred and tear-stained page, on which is a petition for the unity of the Catholic Church, and another for the safe delivery of a woman with child. These oft-conned prayers afford us a glimpse into the Queen’s heart, which not all the despatches of ambassadors are able to give. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 445: Santarem, _Relations diplomatiques de Portugal_, etc., vol. iii., p. 523 _et seq._] [Footnote 446: _Papiers d’Etat du Cardinal de Granvelle_, vol. iv., p. 257.] [Footnote 447: Mgr. Namèche, _Le Règne de Philippe II._, vol. i., p. 7 _et seq._] [Footnote 448: Armand Baschet, _La Diplomatie Vénitienne au seixième siècle_, p. 239.] [Footnote 449: “Relations des ambassadeurs sous Charles V et Philippe II,” _Le Règne de Philippe II_, par Mgr. Namèche, vol. i., p. 7 _et seq._] [Footnote 450: Rawdon Brown, _Venetian Calendar_, 1534-54, p. 532.] [Footnote 451: Machyn, Stow, Foxe and others all agree that there were twenty cartloads of bullion.] [Footnote 452: _Papiers d’Etat du Cardinal de Granvelle_, vol. iv., p. 267.] [Footnote 453: According to Renard. De Noailles says that he was invested with the Order before disembarking.] [Footnote 454: Created Viscount Montague after the royal marriage.] [Footnote 455: De Noailles, _Ambassades_, vol. iii., p. 285.] [Footnote 456: De Noailles, _Ambassades_, vol. iii., p. 287.] [Footnote 457: _Ibid._, p. 280.] [Footnote 458: Hume, whose history of Mary’s reign repeats the prejudices of Foxe and others with unwarrantable additions of his own, says, among a tissue of other inaccuracies, that the marriage took place at Westminster. Murray’s reprint of Hume’s _History of England_, corrected in some points by Brewer, rectifies this error.] [Footnote 459: Some of the Spaniards commenced disembarking, either because they were ordered to do so, or because they were tired of being on ship-board, but the English Government made them go back (_Ven. Cal._, vol. v., p. 923).] [Footnote 460: Mgr. Namèche, _Le Règne de Philippe II_, etc., vol. i., p. 44 _et seq._] [Footnote 461: According to other chroniclers, an hour; some say two hours.] [Footnote 462: John Elder’s letter, printed in the _Chronicle of Queen Jane_, etc., p. 136, appendix.] [Footnote 463: Wriothesley, vol. ii., p. 120.]