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CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.




CHAPTER XIV.
 
THE COMMISSION OF CARDINAL POLE.
 
Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve in St Peter's 1
Reginald Pole is commissioned to France and Flanders 3
The Pope's Letters 5
Fresh Disturbances in Yorkshire 8
Insurrection of Bigod and Hallam 9
Divided Counsels 13
The Duke of Norfolk at Pomfret 15
Attack on Carlisle 16
Martial Law and Executions 19
The King of France refuses an Interview to Pole 20
Pole retires to Cambray, and thence to Liège 21
Treasons and Arrests in England 23
Aske, Darcy, and Constable 25
Trials of the Lincolnshire Prisoners 27
Trials in Yorkshire and London 29
Last Petitions of Aske and Darcy 33
Executions on Tower Hill and at Tyburn 34
Death of Aske 38
The noble Catholics and the ignoble 40
Reginald Pole at Liège 40
Cromwell and Michael Throgmorton 43
Illustrative Sketches of the Condition of England 49