The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-29

tUi. having feacned the presence CndnDtI, Jhe
three great personages stood underTa canopy con-
versing with one another for quarter OF an hour.
one by one the members OF the legaJloh Were pIe,,
sented to their maestes by Lord Paget 1hey kissed
hands and were gracously received. WneA tne
cardinal TOOK his departure, NOTWITHSTANDING ms
polite remonsrances, the queen insisted upon AZ AZ
tending him to the top OF the stairs, where she
had FIRST met him. The King went with him to
Of A1va, and the nobility both English and Spanish,
accompanied him to his barge at the head Oi the
pier The bishop, indeed entered the barge with
him and crossed the water. lie put the legate IN
possession Of Lambeth, which had been splendldy
hung with costly tapestry"
Soon. there followed the humiliating scene
in which Queen, King Philip, and Parliament
took part-silence there being taken for con-
sent-when, on the nation asking pardon of
the Pope, Cardinal Pole declared 1t reconclled
to the Holy See. Later, in 1000, by aud OF
Parliament the act was passed by which the
heel of Popery was fixed crushingly on the
neck of England but not, as ii was supposed,
forever. Speedily thereafter commenced that
bloody persecution of Protestants which
changed all loyal feeling towards the Queen,
on the part of Anglo-Catholics Gas dlstin-
guished from Ultramontanes) as well as OF Re-
formers, into feelings of fear or detestatlon.
Within three days, in March, 1906, as soon as
Cranmer was burnt, Pole was ordained priest
and consecrated Archbishop of Canter-
bury, Mary assumed, for her share in the new
order of things, the extirpation Of heresy,
Sometimes fifty poor wretches were left for
execution, when the judge quilted an asslze
town. After all, Rome was not satisfied, for
the Pontiff complained that Pole, who miser-
ably failed in trying to play Cardinal Wolsey,
was more careful of Spanish interests than he
was of the Papacy. Pole, not being suf-
ficiently servile to Rome, was smitten with
charge of heresy. Some faint trace of Eng
lish spirit exhibited by Pole and the Queen
caused this storm to blow over; but Rome
remained as ready to insult the sovereign
and the nation as if these had not fallen
PROSTATE, and placed their heads beneath its
feet
"In fact, Paul the Fourth troubled himself no fur
ther in the matter, and Pole was contented to let
things remain as they WERE But notwithstanding
this the charge of heresy was not withdrawn; the
citation OF Pole TO appear before the nquistiOn as
a reputed hereto was never revoked He who
in England was cOndemning hcreticS to the stake
was afraid to appear in Rome, lest the furnace he
heated for others should be heated sevenfod for
himself. SO deeply did Pole feel and so Indignantly
M dld ne resent the injury 64at ne composed brea1
language TO which his malignant passions would
mpel Pole when he went forth, pen in hand, to
meet an adversary. We can understand, therefore,
why he should have paused before transmitting the
treatise; and we are impressed with the depth and
informed that on reviewing what he had written,
he thought of the curse which Ham had incurred
Gen. tx. 22-25), and saying i will not discover
my fathers nakedness, he threw the fair copy of
the memorial into the fire. wish, for the credit
often overlooked, cannot be concealed, that it
during Poles ascendancy in the councils of Queen
Mary that the majority of those prosecutions for
religious opinions took place which have attached
forever the epthetS OF the bloody toi her name,
and covered her reign with ignOminy and dis
grace"
For these, and host of other iniquitous
proceedings, the Dean of Chichester holds
Pole responsible. He gives both the nara
tive and his reasons at considerable length.
DIR. Hook has also something to say in miti-
cation of Judgment; at least on the Queen
$50 dear to our hearts are the interests of COM
merce, that within our own memory Fauntleroy was
hanged for forgery; SO yglant were our fathers in
their zeal for the rights of property that many
starving fellow-creature has been condemned to
death for sheep stealing; SO sacred are the game
laws that men are still destroyed like vermln who
cannot be made to understand that the rights OF pro-
perty extend over birds or beasts which they regard
as being wild. We must mete out the same measure
to Pole and to Mary; they felt tnat the country
would cease to he Christian land If men were per-
mitted to exercise their private Judgment in rei-
gious matters, contrary to the decision OF
those councils which were regarded as expressing
| the voice Of Chrstendom. We are, at the same
time to remember that, under the cruel code then
! in actual existence, great was the number of
those who suffered in the cause of religion, it was
| nothing in comparison with the number OF those
consigned without cOmpuncton to a death if posi-
BILE more cruel for political offences. Hundreds Were
condemned for utteTing sentiments which we should
now regard as patriotic, but when We're at mat
| time reasonable. For one person executed IN tns
| reign for religion there were hundred buchered
| for treason; that is for contention on oehalI OF
|
| express disgust, and we are justified II doing so,
at the unfeeling cOaTseness of Bonner: but surely
| we ought to feel equal disgust at reading such
| sentence as the following:-The queen granted a
general pardon to the people of Kent-aiter having
caused IRE score of the most guilty to be executed.
| The sentence occurs in letter from Renard
to the Emperor This is not said to palliate the law
extreme severity, but to account for the fact that
| neither Mary nor Pole, nor any other member of
the privy council, felt any compunctious visit
Dgs OF conscience for having permitted the law to
take its course To execute five score was considered
| an act of mercy; and in sparing the other guilty
persons Mary felt entitled to call herself merciu
Any really merciful person will admit the full force
OF those palliating and explanatory circumstances
and, in my desire to do justice to all persons, have
| alluded to them more than once. l am inclined to
| think much more severely Of Poles case. When we
| remember that his temper was merciful, and when
| we compare the lenlency OF his government al
| Vlterbo with the severity he exhibited in England
we attribute the change in his conduct to selfish
ness aWiully criminal. 1t is impossible not TO per.
ceiye that he let the law take its without an
attempt on his part mitigate its ferocity in order
| that the zeal against heresy in England might he
| sufficient answer TO those who denounced him as
| hereto at Rome
We have only to add that Pole was not an
enemy to Madame Elizabeth yet, to the
last there was full homage of love in his
heart towards Mary, of whose death he heard,
as he was dying, with a calm touching sor-
row. Between them, however, they had lost
England
"On the morning Of the 18th of November, 1888
| eight years and six months He had survived
Queen Mary twO-and-twenly hours; he lived long
enough to hear the cheers with with the accession
! OF Queen Elizabeth was acclaimed and the policy
| OF his late mistress and her minister was in
| those joyful acclamatons condemned. He lay
in state at Lambeth during forty days
soul. With much formal pomp the corpse
was conveyed to Canterbury, where Il was met by q