desconseillier a la dicte Royne qu'elle fist les
obseques du feu Roy, ce qu'elle peult tant plus
delaisser avecque le repos de sa conscience,
puisque comme escripvez il est decede soustenant
jusques a la fin, selon, qu'il avoit este persuade
de depuis sa jeunesse, les opinions de desvoyez de
nostre ancienne religion: par ou l'on ne peult sans
scrupule luy faire l'enterrement et obseques
accoustumez en nostre dicte religion. Et est bien
que l'ayez persuade par vostre dicte lettre a la
dicte dilation.--Charles V. to Renard, July 29:
_Granvelle Papers_, vol. iv.]

[Footnote 66: Et il seroit a esperer que y
appellant ceulx du Noort et de Cornuailles avec les
autres comme ce sont ceulx qui sont demeurez plus
ferme en la religion, et qui ont demonstre plus
d'affection en son endroit qu'elle trouveroit
envers iceulx pour tout ce qu'elle vouldroit
ordonner plus de faveur.--Ibid.]

If the emperor had been equally earnest in urging Mary to consult the
wishes of her subjects on her marriage, he would have been a truer
friend to her than he proved to be. But prudential arguments produced
no effect on the eager queen; Renard had warned her not to resist
Northumberland; she had acted on her own judgment, and Northumberland
was a prisoner, and she was on the throne. By her own will she was
confident that she could equally well restore the mass, and in good
time the pope's authority. The religious objection to the funeral was
more telling, and on this point she hesitated. Meantime she began to
move slowly towards London, and at the end of the month the reached
her old house of Newhall in Essex, where she rested till the
preparations were complete for her entry into the city.

The first point on which she had now to make up her mind concerned the
persons with whom she was to carry on the government. The emperor was
again clear in his advice, which here she found herself obliged to
follow. She was forced to leave undisturbed in their authorities such
of her brother's late ministers as had contributed to the revolution
in her favour. Derby, Sussex, Bath, Oxford, who had hurried to her