Richard Watson Dixon: History of the Church of England: 1554, 4.154ff.

1554—deprivations, resignation and deaths—vacancies in the diocese of London (155). Bye, bye married fellas. In the diocese of Norwich (158). In the diocese of Ely. Parties in the Council (160). Each with variable followers, there was a rivalry of Gardiner and Paget. Change in Gardiner: his violent and imperious demeanor (161). Paget was offended by Gardiner (162). “Gardiner at this period of his career, by all accounts, exhibited a violence of conduct, which in part sprang from his inability to maintain his own former opinions against the Romanensian or papal party With them indeed he now cast in his lot. Foreseeing the return of the Papacy, he showed himself among the first in welcoming it.” (163). Paget on Gardiner: “`I share the opinion,’ he said another time, `that the affairs of the kingdom cannot be remedied without restoring the old religion; but the Lord Chancellor is for carrying the matter through by fire and blood’” (163).  The noblemen were not for extremes. Various proposals and notions (163). The Second Parliament of Mary, 2 April, 1554. 1. Queen’s marriage. 2. Religion. Great changes in the composition of the Commons (164). The marriage articles ratified which circumscribed Philip’s claims to England. “…to him is to be ascribed the preservation of England from the yoke of Spain” (166). The speech of Gardiner thereon. He speaks of further measures in religion. He proposes the revival of the See of Durham (165). Tunstall appears in the House of Commons: the bill passed (166). The Commons afraid of a general restitution of church lands. Bill about the Queen s power: curious debate. Other bills about the succession, and the King s person. Religious measures of this Parliament (168).