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AND THEIR REFUTATION. 23
trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor, whose
imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors.
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22. Mary, likewise, proclaimed
the innocence of Cardinal
Pole, and requested Julius III. to send him to England as his
Legate, a latere. He arrived soon after, and, at the request of
the Queen, reconciled the kingdom again to the Church, and
absolved it from schism, on the Vigil of St. Andrew, 1554. He
next restored Ecclesiastical discipline, reformed the Universities,
and re-established the practices of Religion. He absolved all
the laymen from the censures they incurred by laying hands
on the property of the Church during the time of the schism ;
remitted the tithes and first fruits due to the Clergy ; confirmed
in their Sees the Catholic Bishops, though installed in the time
of the schism, and recognized the new Sees established by
Henry. All this was subsequently confirmed by Paul IV. ; but,
unfortunately for England, Mary died on the 15th of November,
1558, in the forty-fourth year of her age, and fifth of her
reign. She was married to Philip II., King of Spain,
and at
first mistook her sickness, which was dropsy, for pregnancy.
The Faithful all over the world mourned for her death (4).
ad 7.
(4) Nat. Alex. art. 5, -in fin. ; Varillas, ;>.
I. 21,
229; Gotti, sec. 2, n 5,