the reformed.

These persecutions were now become extremely odious to the nation; and
the effects of the public discontent appeared in the new parliament,
summoned to meet at Westminster.[****] A bill[v] was passed restoring to
the church the tenths and first-fruits, and all the impropriations which
remained in the hands of the crown; but though this matter directly
concerned none but the queen herself, great opposition was made to the
bill in the house of commons.

* Father Paul, lib. v. Heylin, p. 45.

** Depeches de Noailles, vol. iv. p. 312.

*** Heylin, p. 53, 65. Holingshed, p. 1127. Speed, p. 826.

**** Burnet, vol. ii. p. 322.

v 2 and 3. Phil, and Mar. cap. 4.

An application being made for a subsidy during two years, and for two
fifteenths, the latter was refused by the commons; and many members
said, that while the crown was thus despoiling itself of its revenue, it
was in vain to bestow riches upon it. The parliament rejected a bill for
obliging the exiles to return under certain penalties, and another for
incapacitating such as were remiss in the prosecution of heresy from
being justices of peace. The queen, finding the intractable humor of the
commons, thought proper to dissolve the parliament.

The spirit of opposition which began to prevail in parliament was the
more likely to be vexatious to Mary, as she was otherwise in very bad
humor on account of her husband's absence, who, tired of her importunate
love and jealousy, and finding his authority extremely limited in
England, had laid hold of the first opportunity to leave her, and had
gone over last summer to the emperor in Flanders. The indifference
and neglect of Philip, added to the disappointment in her imagined
pregnancy, threw her into deep melancholy; and she gave vent to her
spleen by daily enforcing the persecutions against the Protestants, and
even by expressions of rage against all her subjects; by whom she
knew herself to be hated, and whose opposition, in refusing an entire
compliance with Philip was the cause, she believed, why he had alienated
his affections from her, and afforded her so little of his company.[*]

* Depeches de Noailles, vol. v. p. 370, 562.

The less return her love met with, the more it increased; and she passed
most of her time in solitude, where she gave vent to her passion, either
in tears, or in writing fond epistles to Philip, who seldom returned
her any answer, and scarc