he
soon acquired all the accomplishments of a courtier and a gentleman, and
made a considerable figure during the few years which he lived after he
recovered his liberty.[**] Besides performing all those popular acts,
which, though they only affected individuals, were very acceptable to
the nation, the queen endeavored to ingratiate herself with the public
by granting a general pardon, though with some exceptions, and by
remitting the subsidy voted to her brother by the last parliament.[***]

* Heylin, p. 20. Stowe, p. 613. Holingshed, p. 1088.

** Depeches de Noailles, vol ii. p 246, 247.

*** Stowe, p. 616.

The joy arising from the succession of the lawful heir, and from the
gracious demeanor of the sovereign, hindered not the people from being
agitated with great anxiety concerning the state of religion; and as
the bulk of the nation inclined to the Protestant communion, the
apprehensions entertained concerning the principles and prejudices of
the new queen were pretty general. The legitimacy of Mary's birth had
appeared to be somewhat connected with the papal authority; and that
princess being educated with her mother, had imbibed the strongest
attachment to the Catholic communion, and the highest aversion to those
new tenets, whence, she believed, all the misfortunes of her family
had originally sprung. The discouragements which she lay under from her
father, though at last they brought her to comply with his will, tended
still more to increase her disgust to the reformers; and the vexations
which the protector and the council gave her during Edward's reign, had
no other effect than to confirm her further in her prejudices. Naturally
of a sour and obstinate temper, and irritated by contradiction and
misfortunes, she possessed all the qualities fitted to compose a bigot;
and her extreme ignorance rendered her utterly incapable of doubt in
her own belief, or of indulgence to the opinions of others. The nation,
therefore, had great reason to dread, not only the abolition, but the
persecution of the established religion from the zeal of Mary; and it
was not long ere she discovered her intentions.

Gardiner, Bonner, Tonstal, Day, Heath, and Vesey, were reinstated in
their sees, either by a direct act of power, or, what is nearly the
same, by the sentence of commissioners appointed to review their trial
and condemnation. Though the bishopric of Durham had been dissolved by
authority of parliament, th