. European history : an outline of its development. as the childof the marriage which had overthrown the supremacy of thepope, was just as necessarily constrained to be Protestant asMary to be Catholic. Her situation was, however, critical,and demanded that she should proceed with caution. Eng-land was probably still more than half Catholic, No onewho was more Catholic than Englishman could regard heras legitimately sovereign. The true heir of the crown in hiseyes was Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland and wife of theking of France, and she had already assumed the arms andstyle of queen of England
. European history : an outline of its development. as the childof the marriage which had overthrown the supremacy of thepope, was just as necessarily constrained to be Protestant asMary to be Catholic. Her situation was, however, critical,and demanded that she should proceed with caution. Eng-land was probably still more than half Catholic, No onewho was more Catholic than Englishman could regard heras legitimately sovereign. The true heir of the crown in hiseyes was Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland and wife of theking of France, and she had already assumed the arms andstyle of queen of England. England was a small land,and, even if it had been thoroughly united, no match for thegreat Catholic powers. It was with great discretion thatElizabeth met the difficulties with which her reign opened,and, though the sovereign became again the head of theChurch, it was some years before the laws began to bearhard upon the Catholics. 321. The Situation in the Netherlands. — It was in theNetherlands that Philips plans received their first decided.
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