enay, if necessary, she could kill; against him the
proofs were complete; as to Elizabeth, she knew her guilt; the
evidence was growing; and she would insist to the council that justice
should be done.

[Footnote 266: Renard to the Emperor, March 8:
_Rolls House MSS._]

[Footnote 267: La quelle me respondit et afferme
qu'elle ne dort ny repose pour le soucy elle tient
de la seure venue de son Altesse.--Renard to the
Emperor: Tytler, vol. ii.]

About the marriage itself, the lords had by this time agreed to yield.
Courtenay's pretensions could no longer be decently advanced, and
Gardiner, abandoning a hopeless cause, and turning his attention to
the restoration of the church, would consent to anything, if, on his
side, he might emancipate the clergy from the control of the civil
power, and re-establish persecution. Two factions, distinctly marked,
were now growing in the council--the party of the statesmen, composed
of Paget, Sussex, Arundel, Pembroke, Lord William Howard, the Marquis
of Winchester, Sir Edward Hastings, and Cornwallis: the party of the
church, composed of Gardiner, Petre, Rochester, Gage, Jerningham, and
Bourne. Divided on all other questions, the rival parties agreed only
no longer to oppose the coming of Philip. The wavering few had been
decided by the presents and promises which Egmont brought with him
from Charles. Pensions of two thousand crowns had been offered to, and
were probably accepted by the Earls of Pembroke, Arundel, Derby, and
Shrewsbury; pensions of a thousand crowns were given to Sussex, Darcy,
Winchester, Rochester, Petre, and Cheyne; pensions of five hundred
crowns to Southwell, Waldegrave, Inglefield, Wentworth, and Grey;[268]
ten thousand crowns were distributed among the officers and gentlemen
who had distinguished themselves against Wyatt. The pensions were
large, but, as Renard observed, when Charles seemed to hesitate,
several of the recipients were old, and would soon die; and, as to the
rest, things in England were changing from day to day, and means of
some kind would easily be found to put an early end to the
payments.[269]

[Footnote 268: _Granvelle Papers_, vol. iv. p.
267.]

[Footnote 269: Renard to Charles V., March 8:
_Rolls House MSS._]

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