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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...had given up his fair prospects in his championship of the ill-used queen and her child. That was almost thirty years ago, and he was now prematurely aged, broken in health, and far more of an Italian than an Englishman. His mother and brothers had been put to death for his sake, and, except the queen herself and one young nephew, there were no kindred to greet him; but he must have felt that the work he was called on to do was a requital for all he had suffered in what his whole heart believed to be the cause of the Church. So feeble was he that he was forced to be lifted in and out of his litter when he left Brussels, conducted by Lords Paget and Hastings. He was met at Calais by a joyous welcome, shouts and bonfires in the streets, and a Te Deum in the churches. Ten ships of war escorted him across the strait, and the men of Kent welcomed him enthusiastically, more no doubt as a long-persecuted exile than as a Cardinal, but with their generous feelings stirred for one of the last remnants of the blood royal, and apparently with no thought of the Archbishop, always to them a gentle ruler, in his captivity in the Tower. The Cardinal was not to be treated as legate till the temper of the people had been felt; but at Canterbury he was greeted with great respect, and welcomed by Archdeacon Harpsfield in a fulsome speech on the Providence that had brought the Queen to the throne, the Cardinal all the time sitting wearily on his horse, having mounted to ride into the town. He endured it as long as he could, but when it came to "Thou art Pole, and to us the polar star," it was no longer bearable. "I heard you with pleasure while you were praising God." said Pole, Cameo XX. The meeting of Parliament. Cameo XX. Peturn of Pole. 1554. "my ow...
