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by James Anthony Froude (Author) , Ernest Rhys (Editor)

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The memory of no English sovereign has been so execrated as that of Mary Tudor. For generations after her death her name, with its horrid epithet clinging round it like the shirt of Nessus, was a bugbear in thousands of Protestant homes. It is true that nearly 300 persons were burnt at the stake in her short reign. But she herself was more inclined to mercy than almost any of her predecessors on the throne. Stubbs speaks of her father's "holocausts" of victims. The persecution of Papists under Edward was not less rigorous than that of Protestants under Mary. When her record is compared with that of Philip of Spain, with his Council of Blood in the Netherlands, or of Charles IX. in France, she appears as an apostle of toleration. Why, then, has her memory been covered through centuries with scorn and obloquy?

Customer Review: The Reign of Mary Tudor

I am slowly but surely making my way through this book. I did so want a book about Queen Mary, and I will continue the search. It was a complicated time and this is a complicated book. My heart went out to Queen Mary.

The most frustrating part of the book is losing so much information because there are pages and pages of footnotes that were in Latin, French, and Spanish. I do understand this book was written in the 1800, but those footnotes have peeked my interest.

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