GARDINER. 
years, and on the 23d he was preeik chancellor of En- 
giand, and immediately became the queen’s prime minifter, 
and was’ entrufted with the chief eager of public 
e now determined to re-eftablith the popit reli- 
ingdom to the fee ome. 
Preaching, except by the queen’s fpecial ice, was in- 
ftantly prohibited : pay were fet up by the popifh party, 
nd the old rites an e Latin fervice were very generally 
introduced. Th ae the laws of Edward VI. were full 
unrepealed, yet thefe practices, which were highly poe 
were connived at and abetted by the council, which, bet 
modelled after Gardiner’s own mind, harraffed ane pee 
fo nment and very fevere ufage, fir James Hales, one of the 
who had ventured to inftruct the juttices i in Kent, to 
put in execution the laws of muy . that were ftill in force. 
le new government ney it 
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eerie A their 
ies were employed 
dar ee orn to pleafe their oe 
ie id sceanen againit the preachers. Thefe had no r 
obliged to fubmit to the prefcribed rn 
0 &tober the 1ft was ap- 
ueen, when a general 
pardon to all offenders was proclaimed, with the exception 
of thofe who were imprifoned in the Tower and other places, 
on the charge of being Proteftants. On the roth of the 
fame month Gardiner aie the firft parliament in Mary’ 
reign; and one of t c early acts of this aflembly was the 
palling a wus for contin Te a marriage of atherine 
Pe) eee e queen’s mother, with I., in the 
mble of which fle sore was Soni: ae impious and 
i and the whole blame of it, againit all truth and juf- 
1 i Cranmer. He next caufed 
a bill to be brought into the houfe of lords, which, after a 
debate of fix days in the houfe of commons, was at length 
carried 5 by this, all the laws relating to religion made in 
na 
e laft year of kein 
ory s was a orcad ss é ce moft fevere and 
once micatares: : feveral Proteftant prelates were de- 
prived of their fees ; and their aie were filled by Papitts 
who had been excluded 1 in the laftr elgn. The commiffion 
others. 
aie had the means, fought for fafety by withdrawing into 
foreign > and thofe _— were left behind egan to fee 
the effects of the bitho vengeance. ‘The prifons were 
crowded a victims, w ie with anxiety and terror the 
decrees of a bloody tribunal. In the mean time Gardiner 
‘ was enzaged in the management of a treaty of marriage be- 
tween the queen and Philip, fon of Charles V., king .of 
Spain. This meafare was extremely odious to the nation 
in gencral, and though the articles of the treaty were drawn 
-with great art and plaufibility, and apparently muc 
me 
England at length would be reduced to the degraded ee 
tion of a province to Spain. The general difcontent on 
this fubject gave to the infurreGtion headed by fir 
Thomas Wyat. was foon quelled, but the infurgents 
“were purfued with ee aca fury, and the odium of the 
-meafures was cait on Gardiner, which. made him univerfally 
hated. On the fame occafion, the princefs Elizabeth was 
t to the Tower, under the pretence of being concerned 
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was enabled to' conclude the treaty of the oH 8 marriage, 
and in July the queen met the Spamith prince at Winchefter, 
where they were sie by the bifhop. 
felf fecure and determined to avenge himfel 
tants in retaliation ie “an 1e had fuffered from them during 
ingland, 
odd to ae ae the obje& of his miffion, and in- 
vited them to reconcile y acioetee and ed kin 
oe fee _prefented 
England once more into ne bolo 
Imoft eT gia ay an aah was _ affed, Hh which 
the authority n pont -efta a 
a ae quickly followed it, by hich hee “old Rac oak 
aS eretics were revived in full force. From this perive 
for fome months pala saprees in the moft ae 
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a kind of congrefs wi a was held there for the purp sole of 
mediating a peace between the emperor and the king of 
France. During this negociation, the pope died, and upon 
the elevation of his fucceflor, Gardincr took every precau- 
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t time afterwar ds he was re ill o 
of November. The cau 
related. By fome his laft ei is {aid to have been the 
but by others it is regarded a a fuppreffion of aco an a 
fome have imputed the ae caufe of his death to the 
effe& of God’s judgments on him for : oo exercifed 
towards the bifhops Ridley and Latim y every hifto- 
rian he is pide as bine fuffered fe a texericiating 
agonies on his , and to have ne the utmoilt remorie 
in the recolleétion of pait mifdee tl 
eal wit _ the utmoft angui 
etro, fed non flevi cum Petro. 
apottle Peter: were not to be compared, and Pasay not to he 
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Gardiner. ' The denial of his mafter in one cafe v 
bifhop of Winchetter were the deliberate aéts of a malignant 
t of c eek ound 
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fays he, ing look,. frowning 
brows, eyes an inch within his inet “a nofe hooked as a 
buzsard, noftrils like a horfe, ever fnuffing i in the wind, a 
f{parrow mouth, &e.”? This was, probably, m fome degree, 
a caricature” Se eae ede diGtated by oo hatre ie 
neverthelefs it is a portrait well ada a perfecu 
It has, however, been remarked, that with all. the deformity 
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