[Footnote 509: But it was not only to the poor that Mary showed kindness and a tender charity. All sorts and conditions of men experienced her help in the hour of need, one instance of which appeared in an article on Harrow School, in the _Quarterly Review_ for January 1899. This instance was taken from a letter belonging to the Roper family, in which it is recorded, that after the death of one of the family, who had been keeper of Enfield Chase and Marylebone Forest, “Queen Mary came into our house within a little of my father’s death, and found my mother weeping, and took her by the hand, and lifted her up—for she neeled—and bade her be of good cheer, for her children should be well provided for. Afterward my brother Richard and I, being the two eldest, were sent to Harrow to school, and were there till we were almost men.”] [Footnote 510: _Venetian Calendar_, vol. vi., pt. i., 80, partly in cipher; deciphered by Signor Luigi Pasini.] [Footnote 511: Strype, _Memorials of Cranmer_, vol. i., p. 499. _Ecclesiastical Memorials_, vol. iii., pt. i., p. 417.] [Footnote 512: Stow, p. 624.] [Footnote 513: See Machyn’s _Diary_, p. 84. Wriothesley (vol. ii., p. 128) gives the sequel to the outrage. “The xx day of April in the forenoon, in the consistory of Paul’s was arraigned the said Wm. Branch _alias_ Flower, who struck the priest on Easter Day in the parish church of St. Margaret in Westminster. And being condemned of heresy, he was delivered to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex. This Flower was once a monk in Ely Abbey, professed at his age of 17 years, and after made priest, and then married and had three or four children; and then ran about the country using the art of surgery. The 24 of April, the said Wm. Flower, for his said fact, had his right hand smitten off, and for opinions in matters of religion was burned in the sanctuary nigh to St. Margaret’s churchyard.” Flower is included by Foxe among the martyrs.] [Footnote 514: Stow, p. 624.] [Footnote 515: _Acts of the Privy Council_, vol. v., p. 30, new series.] [Footnote 516: In a letter from Calvin to the Duke of Somerset in 1548, the Reformer says: “As I understand you have two kinds of mutineers against the King and the estates of the realm; the one are a fantastical people who under colour of the Gospels would set all to confusion; the others are stubborn people in the superstition of the Antichrist of Rome. These altogether do deserve to be well punished by a sword, seeing they do conspire against the King and against God who had set him in the royal seat. Of all things let there be _no moderation_. It is the bane of genuine improvement” (MSS. Edward VI., vol. v.).] [Footnote 517: _Knox’s Works_, vol. iv., pp. 500-15, Laing’s edition.] [Footnote 518: Wilkins, _Concilia_, iv., 44.] [Footnote 519: Lingard, vol. v., p. 463.] [Footnote 520: Froude, _History of England_, vol. x., p. 360.]