the Tower.
The council, or Paget's party there, remonstrated against the arrest;
they yielded, however, perhaps that they might make the firmer stand
on more important matters.

[Footnote 312: Que tant altere la dicte dame
qu'elle a este trois jours malade, et n'est encore
bien d'elle.--Renard to Charles V.: Tytler, vol.
ii. p. 374.]

Since Elizabeth could not be executed, the court were the more anxious
to carry the Succession Bill. Gardiner's first desire was that
Elizabeth should be excluded by name; but Paget said that this was
impossible.[313] As little could a measure be passed empowering the
queen to leave the crown by will, for that would be but the same thing
under another form. Following up his purpose, notwithstanding,
Gardiner brought out in the House of Lords a pedigree, tracing
Philip's descent from John of Gaunt; and he introduced a bill to make
offences against his person high treason. But at the second reading
the important words were introduced, "during the queen's
lifetime;"[314] the bill was read a third time, and then disappeared;
and Paget had been the loudest of its opponents.[315]

[Footnote 313: He whom you wrote of comes to me
with a sudden and strange proposal, that, since
matters against Madame Elizabeth do not take the
turn which was wished, there should be an Act
brought into Parliament to disinherit her. I
replied that I would give no consent to such a
scheme.--Paget to Renard: Tytler, vol. ii. p. 382.]

[Footnote 314: _Lords Journals._]

[Footnote 315: Renard complains of Paget's conduct
bitterly.--Renard to Charles V., May 1: Tytler,
vol. ii.]

Beaten on the succession, the chancellor, in spite of Renard's
remonstrances, brought forward next his Religious Persecution Bills.
The House of Commons went with him to some extent; and, to secure
success in some form or other, he introduced three separate measures,
either of which would answer his purpose--{p.133} a bill for the
restoration of the Six Articles, a bill to re-enact the Lollard
Statute of Henry IV., _De Haeretico Comburendo_, and a bill to restore
(in more than its original vigour) the Episcopal Jurisdiction. The Six
Articles had so bad a name