ord whom she loved best, she had chosen me whom
she loved worst."--Holinshed.]

[Footnote 525: Et de mesme fust rejette audict
parlement a la grande confusion de ladicte dame ung
aultre bill, par lequel elle vouloit confisquer les
personnes et biens de ceulx qui sont transfuges de
ce royaulme despuis son advenement a la
couronne.--Noailles to the King of France, December
16: _Ambassades_, vol. v.]

[Footnote 526: 2nd and 3rd Philip and Mary, cap.
17.]

Unwise she was indeed, and most unhappy. When the poor results of the
session became known to Philip, he sent orders that such of his
Spanish suite as he had left behind him should no longer afflict
themselves with remaining in a country which they abhorred; he
summoned them all to come to him except Alphonso, his confessor. "The
queen wept and remonstrated; more piteous lamentations were never
heard from woman." "How," exclaimed a brother of Noailles,[527] "is
she repaid now for having quarrelled with her subjects, and set aside
her father's will! The misery which she suffers in her husband's
absence cannot so change her but that she will risk crown and life to
establish him in the sovereignty, and thus recall him to her side.
Nevertheless, she will fail, and he will not come. He is weary of
having laboured so long in a soil so barren; while she who feels old
age stealing so fast upon her, cannot endure to lose what she has
bought so dearly."

[Footnote 527: Francois de Noailles to Madame de
Roye: _Ambassades_, vol. v.]

Nothing now was left for Mary but to make such use as she {p.243}
was able of the few years of life which were to remain to her. If
Elizabeth, the hated Anne Boleyn's hated daughter, was to succeed her
on the throne, and there was no remedy, it was for her to work so
vigorously in the restoration of the church that her labours could not
afterwards be all undone. At her own expense she began to rebuild and
refound the religious houses. The Grey Friars were replaced at
Greenwich, the Carthusians at Sheene, the Brigittines at Sion. The
house of the Knights of St. John in London was restored; the Dean and
Chapter of Westminster gave way to Abbot Feckenham and a college of
monks. Yet these touching efforts might soften her sorrow