Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

House of York, had attained the Roman purple, and
was at this hour living on the shores of Lake Garda,
in Italy, the favorite retreat of the poet Lucullus.
The queen requested the Pope to send Cardinal
Pole to England, with full powers to receive the
kingdom into the Roman pale. Julius III at once
named Pole his legate, and dispatched him to
England on the august errand of receiving back the
repentant nation.[2] The legate was the bearer of a
letter from the Pope to the queen, in which he said,
"That since she carried the name of the Blessed
Virgin, he called on her to say the Magnificat,
applying it to the late providence of God toward
herself."
The impatience of Pole to complete the task
which had been put into his hands was as great as
that of Mary herself. But Gardiner and Bonner,
more cautious though not less in earnest, and
fearing that the great project was being pushed on
too rapidly, wrote to Charles V to delay Pole on his
way through the Low Countries, till they had
prepared the way for his arrival. Pole, much against
his will, and not a little to his surprise and chagrin,
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