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Bloody Statute was not yet re-enacted. All statutes of premunire were
repealed, and all laws of King Edward in favour of reformation in the
Church. But that first and worst of all the penalties remained as yet
in the oblivion to which he had consigned it. But in recompense for
this, there was a very black cloud darkening the horizon of 1554. The
Queen had announced to her Parliament her intended marriage with Prince
Philip of Spain. All the old insular prejudices against foreigners rose
up to strengthen the Protestant horror of a Spanish and Popish King.
The very children in the streets were heard to cry, "Down with the Pope
and the Spaniards!" Elizabeth would have known how to deal with such an
emergency. But Mary was blind and deaf. Disregarding this outbreak of
popular feeling, she went on, in the way which led to her ruin and
England's. It was only one of the two which was irremediable. The one
was followed by a summer day of glory; the other closed only in the
night of death.

The first news which reached the Lamb in 1554, was the startling
information--if any information can be called startling in that age of
sudden and shocking events--that the night before, Mr Ive had been
hastily apprehended and committed to the Marshalsea. He was soon
released, unhurt; but this occurrence quickened Mr Underhill's tardy
movements. He had already made up his mind to remove from the
Limehurst, where his abode was too well-known to the enemy; the arrest
of his friend and neighbour determined him to go at once. He took "a
little house in a secret corner at the nether end of Wood Street,"
Cheapside. About Epiphany was born Susan Bertie, the only daughter of
the Duchess of Suffolk. Shortly before this the Emperor's Ambassadors
came over to treat concerning the Queen's marriage, and were pelted with
snowballs by children in the streets of the City. The vacant sees were
filled up by Popish divines; Cardinal Pole was invited to return to
England (from which he had been so many years exiled), in the capacity
of Legate; the Queen dissolved the Court of First Fruits, and commanded
that the title of "Head of the Church in earth" should be omitted from
the enumeration of her titles in all future documents. Permission
granted to Lady Jane to walk in the Queen's garden and on Tower Hill
revived for a moment the hopes of the Protestants so far as concerned
her. No harm would come to her, they sanguinely repeated, if the Quee