Note 430 — Chapter XI
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Lingard and Miss Strickland have supposed with Griffet, that Mary herself questioned the Lords of the Privy Council on this subject. But Wiesener points out (La Jeunesse d’Elisabeth, p. 224 note) that in the document on which P. Griffet supports the statement, namely, Renard’s letter of the 22nd March, no mention is made of the Queen’s presence at that sitting; and he agrees with Froude that the question was probably put by the Chancellor.