Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-31

a crown. For the Duke of Northumber-
land, thinking complete and unshakable
the plans he made. had his daughter-in-
law Lady Jane Grey, proclaimed queen
in the tower and was raising an army
to support her pretensions.
People Rise to Aid Her.
Mary herself was an evil sort. Promi-
nent and tried advisers she had none,
for of those who sat about the council
board both of Henry and Edward prac-
tically all We're acting In collision with
Northumberland Dazed and irresolute
for the moment, she fled from Lonuoh
to Suffolk leaving the field to Lady Jane.
But her flight and seeming weakness
reused up for her the one power ina,
could bring northumberland plans 10
dismal disaster. The people or Enelaho'
who had openly sided with her mother
against King Henry and who had com
PEELED parliament to announce Mary 5
right to the succession, now rose TO en-
force that right. They rose with sucn
unanimity as to prevent Northumberiand
from raising army. The nopIe uuhe
fled like a cur, leaving his daughter-in-
law, for whose success he had plotteu
for years, to meet the long suffering OF
Imprisonment and the swift, sharp an
guish of the AK Within nine days or her
brothers death Mary was proclaimed
queen.
The reign upon which the English peo-
pie now so joyously embarked proved
BRIEF turbulent and bloody. Froude-
most picturesque OF English hlsto-
assembled the throne with larger popu-
larity than Mary The country was eager
to atone to her for her mothers injuries
All the instructive loyalty of the English
toward the natural sovereign was en-
HANGED by the abortive attempt of
northumberland to rob her of her inheri-
dence. She reigned little more than five
years. and descended into the grave
amid deeper curses than the acclama-
tons which greeted her accession. In
name in the horrible epithet which will
cling to it forever, and yet from the
passions which in general tempt sover-
eigns to crime she was entirely free.
Married Spanish Kings Son.
History has yet to determine the forces
which led Mary into the courses which
brought disaster upon her reign and
obloquy upon her name. But the facts
of her career are clear and undisputed
Destitute, as I have said. of wise aadvis-
ers at home. she turned for guidance to
Charles of Spain, and doubtless at his
SUGGESTION married his SOT, 1IlIlp l.,
boy eleven years her junior, whose in
difference to her and to England were
notorious and whose infidelities were IN
Vulnerable. The marriage and the re-
sultant alliance with Spain We're unpopu-
lar among her subjects. They had
known we'll enough that her accession
would mean the effort to replace the 'old
religion, or the Roman Catholic faith.
but while the nation was fairly tolerant
on the subject it wished the task accom-
pliShed by EngliShmen, not by SpaniardS.
Moreover, Spain was at war with France,
and the English, who above all things de-
sired peace, foresaw truly that they
would be dragged into a quarrel not of
their choosing. Parliament sent a delega-
ton to Mary to protest against the mar
riage and various parts of England rose
in armed revolt. Thus swiftly were heard
the portentS of the storm destined to
turn the most popular of new queens into
the most abhorred of English sovereigns.
AS Henry had outlawed Catholicism by
it as the state religion of the land. In
her zeal and contrition for the past she
even persuaded the Pope to dispatch
Cardinal Pole to absolve the whole nation
from the sin of living in heresy for so
many years. Yet the task to which Mary
had set her hand was not accomplished
with the ease with which Henry VIII
had wrought his religious revolution.
When the Catholics had been rudely
shorn of power the rich lands which sur
rounded their abbeyS, the ruins OF
which still stand in the garden spots of
England, had been royalty distributed by
Henry among his favorites and the hus-
bands of his mistresses.