Identifier: twoenglishqueens00hume (find matches)
Title: Two English queens and Philip
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp, 1847- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598 Mary I, queen of England, 1516-1558. (from old catalog) Elizabeth I, queen of England, 1533-1603
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Pole, for it was Philips policy to win him over entirely to his side, and Mary was overjoyed at the prospect of the full reconciliation of her country with the Papacy on conditions that seemed to promise general harmony. The people, too, who knew Poles history, welcomed him warmly. THey, like Mary herself, had been unjustly used, and his family judicially murdered; he was virtuous, upright, and honest, and above all, in the eyes of the populace, he represented an English force strong enough to champion the cause of his country, then, if needs be, against the Spanish faction. Pole Enriquez's narrative (Sociedad de Bibliofilos) and John Elder's letter, Camden Society. Queen Jane and Queen Mary. John Elder says that, as an instance of Poles good repute,that when he (Elder) was in Rome it was a common saying there, not only amongst Englishmen, but amongst Italians as well, Polus Cardinalis natione Anglus pietatis et literarum testimonio dignus, non qui Polus Anglus, sed qui Polus angelus vocetur.^
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CARDINAL REGINALD POLE, PAPAL LEGATE AND ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AFTER A PAINTING BY Sebastiano del Piombo RECEPTION OF POLE 103 was lodged at Lambeth Palace, from which the unhappy Cranmer had been sent to the Tower, and on the day of the Cardinals arrival in London, Mary offered him the primacy, an offer which Pole for the moment put aside until, as he said, he had done his errand as papal ambassador. For the next three days Pole and the Sovereigns were closeted for hours together settling the preliminaries for the formal return of England to the papal fold, and Philip himself on one occasion, breaking through all the traditions of his house, crossed alone to Lambeth and remained with Pole for the entire afternoon. At length, on Wednesday, 28th November, all was ready, and in the great hall of the Palace the assembled Lords and Commons were gathered in the presence of the Queen and King to receive the Popes representative. Outside the people were still saying—to the horror of the Spanish listened

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