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570 Language had been heard in both Houses, during the debates, of unusual violence. Bradford's letter on the succession was circulating freely among the members, and the Parliament from which the Queen anticipated so much for her husband's interests proved the most intractable with which she had had to deal. After the difficulty which she had experienced with the first-fruits, she durst not so much as introduce the question of the crown. She attempted a bill for the restoration of the forfeited lands of the Howards, but it was lost. The Duchess of Suffolk, with several other persons of rank, had lately joined the refugees on the Continent; she attempted to carry a measure for the confiscation of