Mary (Called in the New Testament)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

called in the New Testament the Mother of Jesus. MARY OF MAGDALA. See MAGDA- LEN. MARY I. (MARY TUDOR), Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII. and 141 MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS his first queen, Catherine of Aragon; 17 months, her husband dying in Decemborn in Greenwich Palace, Feb. 18, 1516. She early espoused her mother's cause during the proceedings for divorce then pending, and thereby became estranged from her father. On her accession to the throne in 1553 she liberated the imprisoned Roman Catholic prelates, substituting Archbishop Cranmer, Bishop Latimer, and other leading Protestant divines in their stead; then she sent Lady Jane Grey and her husband, Lord Guilford Dudley, to the block on a charge of treason; and on the instigation of Gardiner proclaimed the repeal of all the laws of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. for the maintenance of the Reformed religion. She married Philip II. of Spain in 1554. In 1557, war being renewed between France and Spain, and Mary taking sides with Spain , Calais was lost to the English nation. She died in St. James Palace, Nov. 17, 1558. MARY II., Queen of England; born in St. James Palace , April 30, 1662. She was daughter of James, Duke of York, afterward James II. , by his wife Anne Hyde, daughter of Lord Clarendon. She was married in 1677 to William, Prince of Orange; and when the Revolution dethroned her father, Mary was declared joint-possessor of the throne with William, on whom all the administration of the government devolved. She died of smallpox in Kensington Palace, Dec. 28, 1694. Albert Frederick,