of his public ministry which he was destined to
perform. Simultaneously, as Mary had determined, requiems were chanted
in the Tower Chapel; and Gardiner, in the presence of the queen and
four hundred persons, sung the mass for the dead with much solemnity.
The ceremony was, however, injured by a misfortune; after the gospel
the incense was carried round, and the chaplain who bore it was
married; Doctor Weston, who was afterwards deprived of the deanery of
Windsor for adultery, darted forward and snatched the censer out of
the chaplain's hand. "Shamest thou not to do thine office," he said,
"having a wife, as thou hast? The queen will not be censed by such as
thou."[82] Nor was scandal the worst part of it. Elizabeth had been
requested to attend, and had refused; angry murmurs and curses against
the Bishop of Winchester were heard among the yeomen of the guard;
while the queen made no secret of her desire that the example which
she had set should be imitated. Renard trembled for the consequences;
Noailles anticipated a civil war; twenty thousand men, the latter
said, would lose their lives before England would be cured of
heresy;[83] yet Mary had made a beginning, and as she had begun she
was resolved that others should continue.

[Footnote 82: Strype.]

[Footnote 83: Noailles, vol. ii. p. 111.]

In the Tower she felt her actions under restraint. She was still
surrounded by thousands of armed men, the levies of Derby and
Hastings, the retainers of Pembroke and Arundel and Bedford; the
council were spies upon her actions; the sentinels at the gates were a
check upon her visitors. She could receive no one whose business with
her was not made public to the lords, and whose reception they were
not pleased to sanction; even Renard was for a time excluded from her,
and in her anxiety to see him she suggested that he might come to her
in disguise.[84] {p.037} Such a thraldom was irksome and
inconvenient. She had broken the promise which Renard had been allowed
to make for her about religion; she had been troubled, it is easy to
believe, with remonstrances, to which she was not likely to have
answered with temper; Pembroke absented himself from the presence; he
was required to retire and to reduce the number of his followers; the
quarrels which began while the queen was at Newhall broke out with
worse violence than ever; Lord Derby complained to Renard that those
who had saved her crown w