tumult throughout the whole realm, and what a
weakening to the State, should thereby arise; with
none of these matters were they moved a whit, but
still held on their cry, Restore! Restore!"

"And that ye may be sure they meant nothing more
than how to have all, and that with all haste;
after that their Pope, this seditious Paul IV.,
that now is, had sent hither his bulls and his
thunderbolts for that cause, and other (and yet
little restored, because the world, indeed, would
not be so faced out of their livelihood) sundry of
our prelates, like hardy champions, slacke not a
whit themselves to thrust lords out of their lands,
and picked quarrels to their lawful possessions.
Well. Let nobility consider the case as they list;
but, as some think, if the clergy come to be
masters again, they will teach them a school point.
Christ taught the young man that perfection was in
_vade, vende, et da_, not in _mane, acquire,
accumula_."--Grace to be said at the Accession of
Elizabeth: _Tannes MSS._, Bodleian Library.]

{p.241} Language had been heard in both Houses, during the debates,
of unusual violence. Bradford's letter on the succession was
circulating freely among the members, and the parliament from which
the queen anticipated so much for her husband's interests proved the
most intractable with which she had had to deal.[521] After the
difficulty which she had experienced with the first-fruits, she durst
not so much as introduce the question of the crown.[522] She attempted
a bill for the restoration of the forfeited lands of the Howards, but
it was lost.[523] The Duchess of Suffolk,[524] with {p.242} several
other persons of rank, had lately joined the refugees on the
Continent; she attempted to carry a measure for the confiscation of
their property, and failed again.[525] A sharp blow was dealt also at
the recovered privileges of ecclesiastics. A man named Benet Smith,
who had been implicated in a charge of murder, and was escaping under
plea of clergy, was delivered by a special act into the hands of
justice.[526] The leaven of the h