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CONTENTS

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Execution of the Dudleys—Elizabeth sent to the Tower	—	145
Mary's Letter to Bonner—Commissions to eject seven Bishops	—	145
This done by the Supremacy only—Marriage Bill passed—Gardiner's Bills rejected	—	146
Parliament dissolved (May 5)—Marriage of Philip and Mary (July)—Their Characters	1554	147
Bonner's Visitation—Discontent	—	148
Parliament meets (November)—Reverses the Attainder of Cardinal Pole—Repeals the Anti-papal Legislation of Henry VIII.—Refuses to restore the Church Lands	—	149
Reconciliation with the Church (Nov. 30)—Parliament refuses to exclude Elizabeth from the Succession, to Repeal the Praemunire, or the Mortmain Acts — Rejects a Regency Bill in Philip's favour, and is dissolved (January)—Mary's Success	1555	150
Its Limits—Unsatisfactory to herself	—	151
She commences a Persecution	—	152
Gardiner's, Bonner's, and Pole's Shares in it respectively	—	153
Character of Pole	—	154
Convocation in Mary's Reign—Its Doings	—	155
Is overshadowed by Pole's Synod—Pole obtains a Warrant under the Great Seal to permit to assemble it	—	156
Arbitrary Character of Mary's Proceedings—Remonstrances against them from unlikely quarters	—	168
Mary's single-minded Fanaticism—Her Conduct to Cranmer and Gardiner respectively	—	159
Not accomited for by their Conduct in regard to her Mother's Divorce—Gardiner's Reaction probably due to Cromwell's Policy	—	160
Character of Gardiner	—	161
Character and Later History of Cranmer	—	162
Character of Mary	—	171
Effects of her Persecution	—	172
Death of Mary	—	174
CHAPTER VIII REIGN OF ELIZABETH
General Rejoicing at Elizabeth's Succession	—	175
Another Ecclesiastical Revolution—Cecil, Elizabeth's Chief Adviser	—	176
Changes before the Meeting of Parliament slight	—	177

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