lar distinction between general
attachment to Catholic tradition and indifference to Catholic unity,
he supposed that the country really was, on the whole, determined in
its adherence to the reformed opinions. But the political alliance was
still of infinite importance to him; and therefore he was anxious
beyond everything that the princess whom he intended to persuade to
break her word about her marriage should be discreet and conciliatory
about religion. He lost not a moment, after hearing that she was
proclaimed queen, in sending her his congratulations; but he sent with
them an earnest admonition to be cautious; to be content with the free
exercise for herself of her own creed, to take no step whatever
without the sanction of parliament, and to listen to no one who would
advise her, of her own authority, to set aside the Act of Uniformity.
Her first duty was to provide for the quiet of the realm; and she must
endeavour, by prudence and moderation, to give reasonable satisfaction
to her subjects of all opinions. Above all things, let her remember to
be a good Englishwoman (_bonne Anglaise_).[62]

[Footnote 60: Governor of Calais.]

[Footnote 61: Noailles.]

[Footnote 62: Charles V. to Renard, July 22:
_Granvelle Papers_, vol. iv.]

It was, in consequence, with no light anxiety that Renard learnt from
Mary her intention of commencing her reign with an act which was so
far at variance with the emperor's advice, and which would at once
display the colours of a party. To give the late king a public funeral
with a ceremonial forbidden {p.026} by the law, would be a strain of
the prerogative which could not fail to create jealousy even among
those to whom the difference between a Latin mass and an English
service was not absolutely vital; and the judicious latitudinarianism
to which the lay statesmen of the better sort were inclining, would
make them dread the appearance of a disposition that would encourage
the revolutionists. She owed her crown to the Protestants as well as
to the Catholics. If she broke the law to please the prejudices of the
latter, Renard was warned that her present popularity would not be of
long continuance.[63]

[Footnote 63: Elle sera odieuse, suspecte, et
dangereuse.--Renard to the Emperor: _Rolls House
MSS._]

Yet, as the ambassador trembled to know, a carel