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xii CONTENTS. CHAPTER LVI. THE RIDOLFI CONSPIRACY PAGE Unwillingness of Elizabeth to encounter a Parliament 421 The Succession to the Crown . . . . ..422 Prospects of Mary Stuart . . . . . . 423 Necessity that Parliament must meet . . . . 424 Catholic Conspiracy to seize Elizabeth's Person . . 425 Defeated through the Cowardice of the Duke of Norfolk . . . . . . . . . . 427 Beginning of the Session . . . . . . 428 Temper of the Lower House . . . . . . 429 Collision between the Queen and the Commons . . 430 Puritan Legislation . . . . . . . . 432 The Thirty-nine Articles . . . . . . 433 Marriage of the Clergy . . . . . . . . 435 JBill for Attendance at the Communion . . . . 436 Bill for the Protection of the Queen . . . . 438 Act of Attainder against the Northern Insurgents . . 441 A Subsidy . . . . . . . . . . 442 The Parliament ends . . . . . . . . 443 Ridolfi at Brussels . . . . . . . . 444 Letter of Alva to Philip . . . . . . . . 446 Elizabeth to be killed or captured . . . . 449 Ridolfi sends home a favourable Report . . ..451 His Messenger, Charles Baily, is taken at Dover . . 452 Lord Cobham and the Bishop of Ross . . . . 453 Cecil and his Instruments . . . . . . 454 Charles Baily in the Marshalsea . . . . . . 457 Intercepted Correspondence . . . . . . 458 Baily is racked . . . . . . . . 460 Confession of Baily . . . . . . . . 462 Examination of the Bishop of Ross . . 4.65 Execution of Dr Story . . . . . . . . 467