Now we find by Murden, (p.

506,) that Charles Paget did actually write her a letter of that date.
This violence of spirit is very consistent with Mary's character.

Her maternal affection was too weak to oppose the gratification of her passions, particularly her pride, her ambition, and her bigotry.

Her son, having made some fruitless attempts to associate her with him in the title, and having found the scheme impracticable on account of the prejudices of his Protestant subjects, at last desisted from that design and entered into an alliance with England, without comprehending his mother.

She was in such a rage at this undutiful behavior, as she imagined it, that she wrote to Queen Elizabeth, that she no longer cared what became of him or herself in the world; the greatest satisfaction she could have before her death, was, to see him and all his adherents become a signal example of tyranny, ingratitude and impiety, and undergo the vengeance of God for their wickedness.