estic_, vol. xii. State Paper Office.]

[Footnote 601: Bitterly hating their work that they
were sent upon, "the people went to the musters,
said Sir Thomas Smith, with kerchiefs on their
heads--they went to the wars hanging down their
looks; they came from them as men dismayed and
forlorn."--Strype's _Life of Sir Thomas Smith_,
Appendix, p. 249.]

[Footnote 602: Instructions to the Lord Admiral:
_MS. Mary, Domestic_, vol. xi.]

Happy, however, in having succeeded in gratifying her husband, the
queen brought at once upon herself a blow which she had little
foreseen, and from a quarter from which an injury was most painful. In
her desire to punish France for assisting her rebellious heretical
subjects, she seemed to have forgotten that France had an ally beyond
the Alps. No sooner did Paul IV. learn that England was about to
declare on the side of Philip, than, under the plausible pretence that
he could have no ambassador residing in a country with which he was at
war, he resolved to gratify his old animosity against Cardinal Pole,
and cancel his legation.

Sir Edward Karne, the English resident at Rome, waited on the pope to
remonstrate. He urged Paul to recollect how much the Holy See owed to
the queen, and how dangerous it might be to re-open a wound
imperfectly healed. The pope at first was obstinate. At length he
seemed so far inclined to yield as to {p.288} say that, if the queen
would herself expressly desire it, he would distinguish between her
and her husband.[603] But the suspension of the legation, though not
at first published, was carried through the Consistory; and so
ingeniously was it worded, that not only the formal and especial
commission was declared at an end, but the legatine privileges,
attached by immemorial custom to the archbishopric of Canterbury, were
cancelled with it. The pope chose to leave himself without
representative, ordinary or extraordinary, at the English court.

[Footnote 603: Sir Edward Karne to the Queen:
Burnet's _Collectanea_.]

The queen was in despair. Before Karne's letter reached her, she had
heard what was impending, and she wrote a letter of passionate
expostulation, in which she expatiated on her services to religion,
and on the assistance which Pole had rende