cs, were left. He failed, however, in his benevolent design.
Elizabeth was, at length, released; and Hatfield House was assigned to
her as a residence, under the care of one SIR THOMAS POPE.

It would seem that Philip, the Prince of Spain, was a main cause of this
change in Elizabeth's fortunes. He was not an amiable man, being, on the
contrary, proud, overbearing, and gloomy; but he and the Spanish lords
who came over with him, assuredly did discountenance the idea of doing
any violence to the Princess. It may have been mere prudence, but we
will hope it was manhood and honour. The Queen had been expecting her
husband with great impatience, and at length he came, to her great joy,
though he never cared much for her. They were married by Gardiner, at
Winchester, and there was more holiday-making among the people; but they
had their old distrust of this Spanish marriage, in which even the
Parliament shared. Though the members of that Parliament were far from
honest, and were strongly suspected to have been bought with Spanish
money, they would pass no bill to enable the Queen to set aside the
Princess Elizabeth and appoint her own successor.

Although Gardiner failed in this object, as well as in the darker one of
bringing the Princess to the scaffold, he went on at a great pace in the
revival of the unreformed religion. A new Parliament was packed, in
which there were no Protestants. Preparations were made to receive
Cardinal Pole in England as the Pope's messenger, bringing his holy
declaration that all the nobility who had acquired Church property,
should keep it--which was done to enlist their selfish interest on the
Pope's side. Then a great scene was enacted, which was the triumph of
the Queen's plans. Cardinal Pole arrived in great splendour and dignity,
and was received with great pomp. The Parliament joined in a petition
expressive of their sorrow at the change in the national religion, and
praying him to receive the country again into the Popish Church. With
the Queen sitting on her throne, and the King on one side of her, and the
Cardinal on the other, and the Parliament present, Gardiner read the
petition aloud. The Cardinal then made a great speech, and was so
obliging as to say that all was forgotten and forgiven, and that the
kingdom was solemnly made Roman Catholic again.

Everything was now ready for the lighting of the terrible bonfires. The
Queen having declared to the Council, in writin