[Footnote 481: Martin Hume, _The Great Lord Burghly_, p. 55. Although Cecil never held any office under Mary, in consequence of the manner in which he had distinguished himself in the first rebellion, he sometimes appeared at court, was rich and influential, and spent most of his time in luxurious ease at his house at Wimbledon. He not only professed himself a Catholic, but according to Parsons in his _Three Conversions of England_, common report attributed his safety during Mary’s reign to the diligence with which he manipulated a monstrous pair of beads every morning in Wimbledon Church. The first entry in the Easter book of Wimbledon Parish in 1556 is: “My Master Sir Wilyam Cecell and my lady Myldred his wyff,” denoting that they had made their Easter, _i.e._, had confessed and received the Sacrament of the altar.] [Footnote 482: Journal of the House of Commons, 38. Pole’s Correspondence, appendix, 315-18. Thomas Phillips, _The Life of Reginald Pole_.] [Footnote 483: Cole MS., Brit. Mus.; printed in the _Portfolio of a Man of Letters_.] [Footnote 484: Journal of the House of Commons, 21st October 1555.] [Footnote 485: Pole’s _Letters_, vol. v., pp. 293-300. Foxe, _Acts and Monuments_.] [Footnote 486: The Act 1 and 2, Philip and Mary, ch. 8, for restoring the Pope’s supremacy was passed in January 1555.] [Footnote 487: Ribier, _Lettres et Mémoires d’Etat_, vol. ii., p. 542.] [Footnote 488: Wriothesley, _Chronicle_, vol. ii., p. 123.] [Footnote 489: _Ibid._, p. 125.] [Footnote 490: _Venetian Calendar_, 1555-56, 150.] [Footnote 491: Strype, _Ecclesiastical Memorials_, vol. iii., pt. i., p. 342. “At this time there was so many Spaniards in London, that a man should have met in the street for one Englishman, above four Spaniards, to the great discomfort of the English nation” (_Chronicle of Queen Jane_, etc., p. 81). For want of other accommodation, they were lodged in the halls of the city companies.] [Footnote 492: _Venetian Calendar_, vol. v., 966. St. Mark’s Library, Cod. xxiv., Cl. x.] [Footnote 493: _Venetian Calendar_, vol. vi., pt. i., 37.] [Footnote 494: _Acts of the Privy Council_, vol. v., pp. 157, 159, 171, 173, new series. The disturbances here mentioned were the direct consequence of the liberation of the disaffected.] [Footnote 495: De Noailles, _Ambassades_, vol. iii., pp. 262, 263.] [Footnote 496: Miss Strickland is wrong in supposing that she was at court in December 1554, returning afterwards to Woodstock. Renard, de Noailles, Foxe, Holinshed, Stow and others only mention her appearance there on her release in April 1555.] [Footnote 497: _Bedingfeld Papers_, p. 225.]