^{page 1 note a} The earliest notice of these rebellions is in Wriothesley's Chronicle, vol. ii. p. 13, where he says : “In the month of May there was a commotion of the commons in Somersetshire and Lincolnshire concerning a proclamation for enclosures, and they broke down certain parks of Sir William Harbertes and Lord Stourtons, which said Sir William Harberte was sent into Wales for rescue, and slew and put to death divers of the rebels. Also at Bristowe and divers other shires, likewise the commons arose and pulled down parks, but by good policy of the Council and other noblemen of the county they were pacified.” The following extract from the Council Book throws some further light on the proceedings of the Council:—

^{page 2 note a} This was the Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, the brother of Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII. created Viscount Beauchamp in 1536, and Earl of Hertford in 1537. He was made a Privy Councillor and Knight of the Garter in 1541, Captain of Jersey and Lord Admiral in 1542, and afterwards in the same year Lord Warden of the Scottish border, Lord Chamberlain in 1543, Commander at Roulogne in 1545, lieutenant in the North in the same year, and in 1.546 the King's lieutenant in parts beyond the sea. Lastly in 1547, Duke of Somerset and Earl-Marshall of England.

^{page 2 note b} The first person addressed in this letter is Henry Grey, third Marquis of Dorset, who succeeded his father Thomas in 1530, and was created Duke of Suffolk Oct. 11,1551, and afterwards beheaded Feb. 23,1654. He had married Frances, eldest daughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, whose two brothers (sons of the Duke by his last wife) had died of the plague, both having succeeded to the dukedom, July 14, 1551. She was the daughter of Mary Tudor, the French Queen, and mother of Lady Jane Grey. The other is Francis Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, who succeeded to the title on the death of his father George in 1544, and died in 1561.

^{page 3 note a} Dr. William Turner was domestic physician to the Protector Somerset, and appears to have been in deacon's orders, but was not ordained priest for more than three years after this, by Ridley, December 21, 1552. He was a licensed preacher. He wrote several works on medical and other subjects. His principal theological work is a Dialogue against the Mass and the Priesthood, published without date. He died July 7, 1568.

^{page 3 note b} William Cecil, afterwards created Baron Burleigh, Feb. 25, 1571, was at this time Secretary of State, having been appointed to that office in September of the preceding year, 1548. He was now in his 29th year, having been born Sept. 13,1520. His introduction to the Protector's notice was through Sir John Cheke, whose sister Mary he had married, August 8, 1541. This lady died, Feb. 22, 1543, and he soon afterwards married Mildred, the daughter of Sir Anthony Cook, the King's tutor. This strengthened his interest with the Protector, and he was thrown with him into prison, in November, 1549. After his release he served under the Duke of Northumberland, and his signature is appended to the device for making Lady Jane Grey Queen, he himself vindicating his conduct in this, by saying that he signed merely as witness of the King's signature at Edward's earnest intercession. He managed to keep in with all parties till his death on the 4th of August, 1598.

^{page 3 note c} This was Robert Holgate, who succeeded Edward Lee in the Archbishopric of York in 1544, and was deprived at the beginning of the reign of Queen Mary. He had been provincial of the monks of the order of Sempringham, and is chiefly known as having been brought before the Council to answer to a charge brought against him by one Norman of having taken away his wife from him. Harpsfield describes him as being at that time of about fourscore years of age, and says that the lady was a young girl of fourteen or fifteen. He speaks of her not as the wife, but “as a person betrothed to another man, and by very force kept from him, as I have heard the party myself confess and complain in this Queen's time, and that he intended to procure process out for him. But whether the Archbishop's death or some composition stayed the suit or to what end the matter came I know not.”

^{page 4 note a} Sir John Mason, Knight, had been appointed to the deanery of Winchester in succession to William Kingesmyll in 1549, and held it till the beginning of Queen Mary's reign. The mother-in-law alluded to in the letter is the wife of George Auder, an alderman of Cambridge, whose daughter Jane was first married to Turner, and afterwards to Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely.

^{page 6 note a} After the following memorial there are three pages vacant. Then follow two leaves belonging to it, on the back of the second of which is the endorsement and date, and on the obverse of the first is—

^{page 7 note a} This document was printed with several errors of copying by Strype in his Memorials, vol. ii. p. 168.

^{page 7 note b} If we may judge from the account given by the author of the Troubles as Frankfort, neither Mr. Gregory nor Dr. Reynolds did much service in their capacity of preachers. He says: “If yon call to remembrance who hazarded his life with that old honourable Earl of Bedford, when, as he was sent to subdue the popish rebels of the west, you shall find that none of the clergy were hasty to take that service in hand but only old Father Coverdale (p. 196).

^{page 7 note b} If we may judge from the account given by the author of the Troubles as Frankfort, neither Mr. Gregory nor Dr. Reynolds did much service in their capacity of preachers. He says: “If yon call to remembrance who hazarded his life with that old honourable Earl of Bedford, when, as he was sent to subdue the popish rebels of the west, you shall find that none of the clergy were hasty to take that service in hand but only old Father Coverdale (p. 196).

^{page 19 note a} Between the letters of the 29th June and the 10th of July there is a document entitled “The King's Majesty's Answer to the Supplication made in the name of his Highness's subjects of Devon and Cornwall.” This has been printed by Tytler in his England under the Reigns of Edward VI. and Mary, vol. i. p. 178, who says, “There are in the State Paper Office three contemporary drafts of this answer, none of them signed by Edward or Somerset. This is dated July 8th, and on the same day Sir William Paget wrote from Brussels to Secretary Petre, shewing how soon tidings of the mutiny had reached the Continent.”

^{page 20 note a} It appears from the Council Book that a letter on the subject of conformity to the new Prayer Book was issued by the Council on Trinity Sunday, June 16, and sent to the Princess Mary, commanding her to send her comptroller and Dr. Hopton, her chaplain, to them. See Harl. MS. 2308, fol. 92b. The entry is as follow :—

^{page 21 note a} Nearly all the letters that passed between the Princess Mary and the Council on the same subject may be seen in the Appendix to vol. ii. of Canon Tierney's edition of Dod's Church History. They range from the date of June 22,1549, to July 16, 1551. The story is continued to the 29th of August, 1551, by extracts from the proceedings of the Privy Council, reprinted from the Archaeologia and from Foxe. There is a gap, however, in the correspondence of nearly a year and a-half, between June 27, 1549, and December 2, 1550. The letter here printed from the Petyt Manuscripts shows that during that interval there was no intermission in the persecution of the princess on the score of her religion. edition of Dod's Church History. They range from the date of June 22,1549, to July 16, 1551. The story is continued to the 29th of August, 1551, by extracts from the proceedings of the Privy Council, reprinted from the Archaeologia and from Foxe. There is a gap, however, in the correspondence of nearly a year and a-half, between June 27, 1549, and December 2, 1550. The letter here printed from the Petyt Manuscripts shows that during that interval there was no intermission in the persecution of the princess on the score of her religion.

^{page 23 note a} This was Sir William Herbert, son and heir of Sir Richard Herbert, an illegitimate son of William Herbert, who was created Earl of Pembroke 27th May, 1468, and beheaded in 1469. Sir William was one of the sixteen executors of the will of King Henry the Eighth, and was afterwards created Baron Herbert of Cardiff Oct. 10,1561, and on the following day Earl of Pembroke. He married Anne, sister of Queen Catherine Parr. His eldest son, Lord Herbert, married Catherine, the younger sister of Lady Jane Grey, in 1553. In May of this year 1549 he had dispersed the rising in Wiltshire. He was afterwards one of the peers who sat on the trial of Somerset in 1551, and was one of the conspirators who proclaimed Lady Jane Grey as Queen, but turned with the tide in favour of Mary, and afterwards was one of Elizabeth's Privy Council.

^{page 24 note a} A long letter from the Protector and Council, of July 4, 1549, to Paget, the ambassador at Brussels, was published by Strype in his Memorials, vol. ii. Appendix, p. 101. It is very incorrectly transcribed, and omits altogether the concluding part, which contains the following allusion to the insurrections of this year :—

^{page 25 note a} These numbers are somewhat uncertain,

^{page 26 note a} This was William Lord Grey de Wilton 1529–62, who had been one of the council at Calais in 1540, lieutenant of Hampnes Castle 1539, governor of Boulogne 1546. He had been in the unsuccessful expedition against Scotland in the preceding year, and was supplanted by the Earl of Rutland, and had just been sent against the rebels of Oxfordshire, whom he dispersed with 1500 men under his command. He was sent to the Tower with Somerset, October 17th, 1549, and was pardoned and released June 10th, 1553 ; and on September 23rd of the same year was appointed deputy of Calais in place of Lord Willoughby, and afterwards captain of Guisnes October 6th, being succeeded at Calais by Lord William Howard. He was afterwards, in Elizabeth's reign, sent to Scotland in the year 1560. He has earned an infamous notoriety by his order of July 19th, 1549, for the execution of rebels in Oxfordshire and other counties, such amongst them as were priests to be hanged on the top of the steeples of their own churches.

^{page 28 note a} A mistake of the writer for July 17.

^{page 30 note a} This was a mistake of the writer for 18th of July.

^{page 31 note a} This was Sir John Dudley, son of Edmund Dudley, who had been executed Aug. 10,1510. He was created Viscount Lisle March 12, 1542, and was one of the sixteen executors of the will of Henry VIII. On the 17th of February, 1547, he was created Earl of Warwick, and made Great Chamberlain of England. It is remarkable how absent he was from the Council during the latter part of 1547 and till the middle of 1549. He seems to have been waiting Ms time to upset Somerset. After Somerset's fall he appears to have become reconciled to him, when his eldest son married Lady Anne Seymour, Somerset's daughter. He became Duke of Northumberland in 1551, and was chief manager for placing Lady Jane Grey on the throne. His attempt to show loyalty to Queen Mary, when Lady Jane Grey's cause wag hopeless, did not succeed, and he was executed on the 21st of August, 1553, professing that he had been all along a Catholic at heart; though, for political ends, he had professed agreement with the men of the new learning.

^{page 33 note a} Complain omitted by accident of copying.

^{page 34 note a} This was Sir William Paulet, Baron St. John of Basing, March 9, 1539, one of the most constant attendants at the Council during the whole of this period. He was created Earl of Wiltshire, Jan. 19, 1550, and on the 12th of October, 1551, Marquis of Winchester. He was one of the executors of the will of Henry VIII., and received the great seal March 7,1547, when Wriothesley was deprived of the chancellorship. He sealed the letters patent which made Somerset Protector, and held the seal till All Saints Day, when Rich was appointed Lord Chancellor. He stood by Somerset till his fall was certain, and then cast in his lot with Warwick, and presided at Somerset's trial in 1551. He afterwards took the part of Lady Jane Grey, but deserted her cause, and went over to Queen Mary's side ; but afterwards conformed to the changes in religion under Elizabeth, and kept his place of Lord High Treasurer through the reigns of Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth, till his death in 1572, at the age of 96.

^{page 35 note a} This name is doubtful.

^{page 36 note a} This was Richard Rich, created Baron Rich of Leeze in the county of Essex, Feb. 16, 1547. He was one of the most contemptible characters in the Council. He first sided with Somerset against his brother, and signed the warrant for Seymour's execution. He accompanied Somerset from Hampton Court to Windsor when Edward was removed there, but, finding that Somerset's party was deserting him, he took the great seal with him, and joined Warwick in October, 1549. In the dissensions of 1551, not knowing what side to take, he pretended illness, and resigned office Dec. 21, 1551. He soon recovered, and lived on till the year 1560. His treachery towards Sir Thomas More and perjury on the trial of Bishop Fisher of Rochester may be read in any history of the period.

^{page 37 note a} This was Sir Edward North, who first appears as clerk of the Parliament and afterwards as treasurer of the Court of Augmentations in 1540, and in 1546 Chancellor of the same court. He was one of the sixteen executors of the will of Henry VIII., and one of the three sent with Lord Seymour and Sir Anthony Browne to take the great seal from Wriothesley. He was one of the twenty-six appointed Councillors to Somerset, March 12, 1547, by the commission which excluded Wriothesley, and was one of the nine conspirators against Somerset who met at Ely House, Oct. 6,1549. His name does not appear on the Council's subscription to Edward's limitation of the crown, but he signed the answer to Mary's letter, announcing to her that Lady Jane Grey was queen, July 9, 1553, and also the letters to the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby written from the Tower, July 12, calling Mary a rebel and a bastard. Yet he was raised to the peerage by Mary, April 7,1554,-and bore the sword before Philip, Nov. 24, 1554, on his meeting Cardinal Pole, and it appears from a State Paper of April 29, 1554, that the French ambassador had then lodged at Lord North's house for six months. Elizabeth, on her journey from Hatfield to the Tower, stayed at his house from NOT. 23rd to 28th, 1558. He died Dec. 31,1564.

^{page 39 note a} The name of Sir John Baker has appeared only once before in these papers, viz., on July 10th. He was not one of the executors of the will of Henry VIII., but one of the twelve appointed to assist them as privy councillors. He had been attorney-general from 1536 to 1540. He was one of the twenty-six councilors whose namos are mentioned in the patent by which Somerset held his protectorship. He was present at the Council, Aug. 10,1540, when Paget was made clerk of the Council, where he is designated as Chancellor of the First Fruits and Tenths. He was Speaker of the House of Commons at the time of Lord Seymour's condemnation. On the 9th of October he joined Warwick's party against Somerset. He was forced to come to the Council, June 11th, 1553, and on June 21st was one of the twenty-four who set their hands to Edward's device for the limitation of the crown, though he was very unwilling at first to do so. He was present at the Proclamation of Queen Mary, July 19,1553. After this he disappears from history.

^{page 46 note a} This is a mistake of copying for 8 August. This letter, which was misplaced in the MS. volume, is here restored to its proper place according to its date.

^{page 47 note} a Lord Russell had defeated the insurgents towards the end of July, and six days later, viz. on Saturday, August 3, began his march with about 1,000 men towards Exeter, which he reached on Tuesday, August 6.

^{page 48 note a} There is a letter of the same date, August 10, printed by Tytler, vol. i. p. 193, from Warwick to Cecil, deprecating the substitution of himself in the place of the Marquis of Northampton, to be Commissioner for the counties of Cambridge, Bedford, Huntingdon, Northampton, Norfolk, and Suffolk, on the ground that it would be a fresh discouragement to Northampton, who had “lately by misfortune received discomfort enough.” Northampton had entered the City of Norwich, July 31, and on the same night was defeated by the rebels, who burned part of the town and killed Lord Sheffield.

^{page 49 note a} This is the first time in the course of these papers that the name of the Earl of Southampton appears as a conncillor. He is better known by the name of Lord Chancellor Wriothesley. In 1538 he had been made Secretary of State, and had always been a particular friend of Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, and with him was chiefly concerned in the Act of the Six Articles. He was always zealous for the old learning, and, having previously been raised to the peerage, January 1, 1544, as Baron Wriothesley of Titchfield, he succeeded to Audley when he resigned the great seal, April 22, 1544, and took the oath abjuring the Papal Supremacy, April 30. Upon Audley's death he was made Lord Chancellor, May 3. He drew the king's will, and was appointed one of the sixteen execntors, and was created Earl of Southampton, Feb. 16,1547. He was the only one of the council of whom Somerset at that time was afraid, who accordingly managed to deprive him of his office March 6,1547, as well as of his seat in the Council. Accordingly little more is heard of him for two years. It is probable he regained his seat in the Council by the influence of Warwick, who could calculate upon him as an ally in the coming contest with Somerset, but the exact time has not been ascertained, but he signed the warrant for committing Lord Seymour to the Tower, Jan. 17, 1549. He also signed the new Statutes for Cambridge as a member of the Council, April 8,1549 He, with Gardiner, appears to have been quite sincere in his acquiescence in the abolition of the Papal authority in England, but was opposed to all other changes in religion. From this time forward he appears as the opponent of Somerset believing that Warwick was at heart a Catholic, and died apparently disgusted with the turn affairs had taken, July 31,1550. On Somerset's deposition he, with Northampton, Warwick, St. John, Russell, and Wentworth, was appointed to the charge of governor of the king's person.

^{page 51 note a} “The 10th of August, being Saturday, the Archbishop of Canterbury made a collation in Paul's quire for the victory that the Lord Russell, lord Privy Seal had on Monday last past against the rebels in Devonshire, which had besieged Exeter, and lain in camp before it by the space of three weeks, and like to have famished them in the town, but the said Monday, the Lord Privy Seal entered the city and slew, hurt, and took prisoners of the said rebels 4000, and after hanged divers of them in the town, and about the country.”—Wriothesley's Chronicle, vol. ii. p. 20.

^{page 53 note a} This brother was Sir William Paget, clerk of the Council, 1540–43, made a Privy Councillor, April 23,1543, and one of the sixteen executors of the will of Henry VIII. He was afterwards raised to the peerage with the title of Lord Paget of Beandesert, Jan. 19, 1550, when he resigned his office of Comptroller of the Household, which was given to Sir Anthony Wingfield. This was the same day that Kussell was made Earl of Bedford and St. John Earl of Wiltshire. Two days afterwards he was sent as ambassador to France with the Earl of Bedford, Sir William Petre, and Sir John Mason. He sided with Somerset, and Oct. 10,1549, addressed a letter from Windsor to the Lords of the Council at London, which was signed also by Cranmer and Smith. He stack by Somerset to the last, and was sent with the Earl of Arnndel to the Tower in November, 1551. On the 22nd of April, 1552, his Garter and George were taken from him, and given to the eldest son of the Duke of Northumberland. And on the following 6th of December he was deprived of the chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster. His name does not appear among the councillors who signed Edward's device for the succession. Probably he had been deprived of his seat in the Council; and he was sent with the Earl of Arundel to Queen Mary, whose cause they had espoused on the night of July 19,1553, and July 24th they conducted Northumberland from Cambridge to London. He seems afterwards to have been in high favour with Philip and Mary, and was made Lord Privy Seal January 1, 1556, the same day that Archbishop Heath was created Lord Chancellor.

^{page 55 note a} On the same day, Sunday, August 11, there was an order of Council as follows:— “An order was taken, that from henceforth no printer should print or put to vente any English book but such as should first be examined by Mr. Secretary Peter, Mr. Secretary Smyth, and Mr. Cicell, or the one of them, and allowed by the same, under pain,” &c.

^{page 55 note a} On the same day, Sunday, August 11, there was an order of Council as follows:— “An order was taken, that from henceforth no printer should print or put to vente any English book but such as should first be examined by Mr. Secretary Peter, Mr. Secretary Smyth, and Mr. Cicell, or the one of them, and allowed by the same, under pain,” &c.

^{page 60 note a} This must be a mistake of the copier for August 14th.

^{page 62 note a} On the 16th of August, 1549, Lord Russell wrote to the Mayor and his brethren of the city of Exeter, to compel such citizens as had not contributed to the expense of defending the city to pay their share. Cotton and Woollcombe, p. 192.

^{page 64 note a} A draft of this letter of Aug. 21 is in the Record Office, Domestic Papers of Edward VI. vol. viii. art. 47, one paragraph of which has been printed by Tytler.

^{page 66 note a} This word is doubtful.

^{page 68 note a} This letter is in a different hand from the others, and spelt differently.

^{page 72 note a} Sir Ralph Sadler, or Sadleyr, is best known as the person appointed in the reign of Elizabeth to take charge of Mary, Queen of Scots. He first appears as a servant of Cromwell's, and afterwards in 1537 as a gentleman of the Privy Chamber in which capacity he was in attendance at the reception of Anne of Cleves in 1539, He was knighted in April, 1540, at the same time with Wriothesley, afterwards Lord Chancellor, when they were both made secretaries to the King. He was one of the twelve appointed to assist the sixteen executors, and is also one of the twenty-six named as Councillors in Somerset's patent, where he is called Master of the Wardrobe. His name seldom appears in the Council books, though he was one of the forty in Edward's list of his Councillors, but he signed the warrant for Seymour's execution March 17,1549, and the letter to the Princess Mary of July 7, printed above. He married a woman who had been a laundress in Cromwell's family, and was the wife of Matthew Barlow, an artisan, who was supposed to be dead, but when the first husband appeared she was adjudged according to the doctrine of the Reformatio Legum Ecolesiasticarum to Sadler. He joined the conspiracy against Somerset on Oct. 7. His name does not appear in any of the documents connected with the usurpation of Lady Jane Grey, or the accession of Mary to the crown, except amongst the 101 who testified to the Letters Patent for the limitation of the Crown June 21,1563.

^{page 73 note a} The order here was carried into effect, as appears by a letter of Russell to the Mayor of Exeter in Cotton and Woollcombe's Gleanings, p. 192, wrongly there dated Aug. 1549. The letter in the text was printed from this copy with several errors by Strype in his Memorials, vol. ii. p. 173. Between this letter and the following is a letter from Warwick to Cecil, of Sept. 14, 1549, asking for payment to be made to Captain Drury for his services against the rebels.

^{page 74 note a} This letter appears in Strype's Memorials, ii. 180. There is a letter of the same date from Lord Chancellor Rich to Cecil, providing for the execution of the prisoners Essex and More, who are to be tried after they should have been sent to Brentwood.

^{page 75 note a} This was Simon Heynes, Dean of Exeter, who had been Master of Queen's College, Cambridge, from 1528 to 1537, and Canon of Windsor from 1535 to 1537, when he was appointed to the Deanery of Exeter, which he held till his death in October, 1552. He was employed in France in 1535 to ascertain the opinions of the learned as to the King's proceedings, and their attitude towards the Pope. His first service to the King was in 1529, when he was mainly instrumental in procuring the decision of the University of Cambridge in his favour in the matter of the divorce of Catharine of Aragon. He afterwards came under some suspicion, and was sent to the Fleet for lewd and seditious preaching (see the extract from the Council Book in Pocock's Burnet, vol. v. p. 269). In 1538 he was sent with Bonner to the Emperor's Court. He was one of the committee appointed in 1548 to examine the offices of the Church with a view to the projected alterations.

^{page 76 note a} This letter appears in Tytler's series of letters, with two or three variations, and With a wrong date of the 1st for the 5th of October assigned to it. It is wrongly entered in the Domestic Calendar of State Papers as of that date. The original which is in the Record Office, has a note appended to it in an unknown hand as follows: —“I received this letter the vi. day of October of George Tunstal, my lord of Canterbury's servant, between the hours of one and two before noon on the same day.”.

^{page 78 note a} There are in the Record Office four other documents of this date in the Domestic Papers. The first two contain the Proclamation of October 5th in duplicate. The third is the letter to Sir Harry Seymour printed here. The fourth is with Somerset's autograph to his servant Golding to assemble the Earl of Oxford's servants for the King's service, printed by Tytler.

^{page 80 note a} Of the five documents of this date amongst the Domestic Papers, the first, as calendared, is a letter from Somerset to Russell and Herbert, the original from which Secretary Petre copied, desiring them to hasten to the court. The second is a subsequent letter, telling them to take instructions from the bearer, Sir Edward Seymour. The third is another copy almost identical with this, and printed by Foxe, p. 1546, ed. 1570. The fourth is this letter from Somerset in the King's name to Russell and Herbert, which has also been printed by Tytler, vol. i. p. 214, with two unimportant mistakes ; and the fifth is from the Council in London, summoning the people to their assistance, which is printed below.

^{page 81 note a} This was William Parr, first Baron Parr of Kendal, brother of Katherine, sixth wife of Henry VIII. He married Ann Bourchier, daughter of Henry, fifteenth Earl of Essex, with whose death in 1539 the title of Essex became extinct. Although his issue by her had been bastardised by Act of Parliament, entitled an Act for the Bastardy of the Lady Parr's children (34 Hen. VIII.), yet he was created Earl of Essex 23 Dec. 1543, after the death of Cromwell, who was the sixteenth person who had] borne the title “with the same place and voice in Parliament as Henry Bourchier, late Earl of Essex, had.” He was one of those appointed to assist the executors of Henry the Eighth's will, and was one of the first twenty-six Councillors of Somerset. He had illegally married Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Cobham, his wife being still alive, but the new marriage was decided to be good by Cranmer, Ridley, and others, and four years afterwards the marriage was declared legal by Act of Parliament, and annulled by a subsequent Act Nov. 28, 1553. He was created Marquis of Northampton Feb. 16, 1546. He joined the conspirators against Somerset Oct. 7, 1549, on whose trial he sat in 1551, having been rewarded for his services to Warwick by being made Lord Great Chamberlain of England Feb. 2, 1550, and also one of the six governors of the King's person after Somerset's removal. He seems to have abetted Northumberland throughout, and was tried and condemned Aug. 19, 1553, for treason, but was afterwards pardoned by the Queen. Upon Wyatt's rising in Kent he was apprehended on suspicion by the Lord Mayor Jan. 25,1554, and sent to the Tower. He had been restored in blood but not in honours in 1553, and afterwards was created Marquis of Northampton Jan. 13, 1559, and presided at the trial of Lord Wentworth, deputy of Calais, for treason, April 22, 1559. The title became extinct at his death in 1571. His third wife, Helen, a daughter of a Swede, survived him.

^{page 81 note b} This was Francis Talbot, historically speaking, the eighth Earl of Shrewsbury, but fifth earl in direct descent from John Talbot, created May 20,1442. He succeeded his father, George, fourth earl, in 1541, and died in 1560. He had been the King's Lieutenant of the North in 1545, and was“made Knight of the Garter April 23, 1546. He commanded the expedition into Scotland in 1548. He was one of the messengers sent to Lord Seymour to intimate the charges brought against him, and signed the warrant with Cranmer and others for his execution. He sided altogether with Somerset till Oct. 7, 1549, when with Rich, Northampton, Cheyney, Gage, Sadleyr, and Montague, he joined in Warwick's conspiracy against him. On the 10th of January, 1553, he attended on the Princess Mary when she paid a visit to the King at Westminster ; and signed, with twenty-two others, the letter to the Princess Mary, declaring Lady Jane Grey queen. He was one of the principal mourners at the burial of Edward in Westminster Abbey, when the service was performed in surplice, on Tuesday, Aug. 8, according to the Prayer Book of 1552 ; though on the same day there was a Requiem Mass in the Tower at which Gardiner officiated and the Queen attended. He was one of those who signed Edward's limitation of the Crown, as well as the letter of July 12 to the Sheriffs of Notts and Derby, calling Mary a bastard, and also the letter in the name of Queen Jane of July 19 to Lord Rich, the lieutenant of the county of Essex, yet joined with Cranmer and others in proclaiming Mary, July 19, when Arundel and Paget were sent off to her with the great seal, and the next day signed the charge of the Council to Northumberland to disarm. He carried the crown at her coronation, and conducted Cardinal Pole to London, Nov. 24, 1554. He appears to have been in great favour with Philip and Mary, and was present at the proclamation of Elizabeth, Nov. 17,1558, and was one of the first chosen to be of her Privy Council. He dissented from the Act of Supremacy March 18, 1559, and from the new Service Book April 18, yet afterwards was one of the commissioners appointed of the royal visitation for enforcing it in the Province of York, June 24, 1559.

^{page 83 note a} This document was printed by Foxe, p. 1546, with tolerable correctness, but he omitted the postscript. It appears also in Holinshed from Foxe.

^{page 83 note b} There are three copies of this document in the Record Office calendared as Nos. 17, 18, 19. There is a copy in the Council Book, p. 4, and it was printed from the original in the Cotton Library, by Burnet, vol. iv. p. 273. There are no variations of any importance. The signatures are here added as they exist in the original MS., but they do not exist in any of the copies.

^{page 85 note a} Sir Thomas Cheyney first appears in 1520 at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and afterwards as ambassador in France in 1522 He was afterwards Treasurer of the Household and Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1540 till his death in-1558. He was present at the Council, Aug. 10,1540, when Paget was made secretary, and was one of the twelve appointed to assist the sixteen executors of the will of Henry VIII. He signed the patent for Somerset's protectorship and the order for committing Gardiner to the Tower, and was one of those sent to Lord Seymonr to bring him to submission. On Oct. 7, 1549, he, with Northampton, Shrewsbury, Montague, Gage, and Sadler, joined the conspirators against Somerset. He signed Edward's limitation of the Crown, and also the letter, dated July 9, of the Council to Mary announcing Lady Jane Grey as Queen, and also that of July 19 to Rich in her favour, but almost immediately declared for Mary, whom he on the same day joined with Arundel, Shrewsbury, Pembroke, Bedford, and Cobham in proclaiming Queen. He was of her Privy Council, and retained by Elizabeth as a councillor at her accession, but died immediately afterwards, Dec. 15, 1558. From a letter in Le Grand it appears that he had, in 1529, in some way offended Wolsey, and was dismissed from court, but was restored by the influence of Anne Boleyn.

^{page 86 note a} This letter, with the signatures of the Councillors, was printed from the original in Ellis's Letters, First Series, vol. ii. p. 166. It differs very little from this corrected draft. These two letters, written on the same day, are signed by the same Councillors, except that one has the name of Edward Montague, the other of Nicholas Wotton.

^{page 88 note b} Sir John Gage appears first in 1523 as Comptroller of Calais, and Captain of Guisnes. He was Vice-Chamberlain from 1528 to 1540, and then promoted, 9th Oct. to be Comptroller of the Household, which office he held till the death of the king. He was made Knight of the Garter in 1541, and was also Constable of the Tower. He was one of those who assisted Cranmer at the trial for the divorce of Catharine at Dunstable. He was also concerned in examination of evidence against Catharine Howard. He had been employed also during the reign of Henry VIII. in the visitation of the monasteries. He was one the twelve assistants to the executors of the king's will and one of Edward's Privy Council. He joined the conspiracy against Somerset, Oct. 7, 1549. He does not appear to have been implicated in Lady Jane Grey's usurpation, and received Mary at the Tower, August 3, 1553; was made Lord Chamberlain by Mary, and was Constable of the Tower when Somerset was sent there, and also when the Princess Elizabeth was imprisoned on suspicion of being implicated in Wyatt's rebellion. Upon the accession of Elizabeth he retired to the Continent.

^{page 90 note a} This is a mistake of the transcriber for October 8, as it is rightly dated at the end of the letter. There are five distinct documents bearing this date (Oct. 7) in the Record Office. The first is in the handwriting of Sir Thomas Smith, from Somerset to the Council, printed in Holinshed 1058, and in Stow 598, and also in Tytler, vol. i. p. 214, wondering that they have kept Sir William Petre and returned no answer, and stating that every reasonable concession will be granted by the King. The second is from the Council to the King, here printed, stating that they have had his message sent by Petre, and that they are grieved that their fidelity should be doubted. The reason of their consulting together is to depose Somerset. This is a draft partly in Petre's and partly in Wriothesley's hand. There are also two copies of this. The third is from the Council to the Sheriff of —, evidently a circular declaring the treason of Somerset, to compass which he had endeavoured to levy great numbers of men. None of the King's subjects are to be raised except by order of Council. The fourth is another to the Justices of the Peace to the same effect ; and the fifth is to Cranmer and Paget at Windsor, protesting their loyalty, and offering to treat with Somerset if he will absent himself from the King, disperse his forces, and submit.

^{page 91 note a} Here the transcriber has omitted the words “that they are his highness' most true and loving subjects, meaning no otherwise than as to their duties of allegiance may appertain; so as in conclusion it doth also appear.”

^{page 92 note a} The signatures and address have been added from the copy in the Record Office.

^{page 93 note a} This was Sir Edward Montague, who had exchanged the office of Chief Justice of the King's Bench for the inferior place of Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, NOT. 6, 1546. This office he held throughout the reign of Edward VI. He was one of the sixteen executors. He joined the party against Somerset Oct. 7, 1549, and on that day signed the letter to the King against the Protector, but not the letter from the Council in London to the Council at Windsor, which bears the same date. The Duke of Northumberland compelled him to draw Edward's will for the succession of Lady Jane Grey, but he was one of the first to desert her cause. His change of front did not save him from arrest. He was sent to the Tower July 27, 1553, deprived of the Chief Justice ship, fined 1,0001, and forced to surrender the abbey lands that had been granted him by Somerset. He died in obscurity, Feb. 10, 1556.

^{page 94 note a} This was Henry Parker, ninth Baron Morley, son of Sir William Parker, by Alice Lovel, sister and sole heir of Henry Lovel, eighth Baron Morley, who sueceeded to the title in his mother's right, and was summoned to Parliament from the 15th of April, 14 Henry VIII. i.e. 1523, to the 28th of October, 2 and 3 Philip and Mary, 1555. He was one of the Commissioners sent in 1623 to present the insigaia of the Garter to the Archduke Ferdinand, whose instructions are printed at length in Strype's Ecclesiastical Memoirs, vol. i. pp. 42–46. He signed the letter of the Lords to the Pope about Catharine's divorce, and afterwards sat on the trial of Anne Boleyn; his son, Henry Parker, haying been made Knight of the Bath at her coronation. This son died before him, and was buried in December 1553, and is wrongly called Lord Morley in Machyn's Diary.He was one of the lords who dissented from the bill for the marriage of priests, Feb. 19, 1548, and in 1550 from the act for destroying the old office books and defacing of images. He died not, as is generally supposed, in 1555, but, as Machyn says, on Wednesday, NOT. 25,1556, and was buried on the following Thursday, Dec. 3, and was succeeded by his grandson, Henry Parker, tenth baron.

^{page 95 note a} This proclamation is No. 48 (printed) in Coll. of Soc. Ant. mounted on three leaves. It is not in Grafton's little book. It is followed by another of Oct. 10, signed by the same nineteen, with the addition of the Lorde Wentworth and Sir Anthony Wingfeld, knyght of the ordre, the Kynges Maiesties vice Chamberlain, and capitain of the Garde, and Sir Edmund Peckham, knyght, high Threasaurer of all the Kynges Maiesties Myntes. It is No. 49, and is headed, “A Prodⁿ set furth by the body and state, &c. conccrnyng the devisers, writers, and casters abrode of certain vile, slaunderous, and moste trayterous letters, Miles, scrowes, and papers tending to the seducement of the kynges maiesties good and lovyng subjectes.” The draft of this in Record Office, vol. ix. It is remarkable that nearly all the proclamations of this period have disappeared. Grafton's collection contains none between August 23, 1549, and March 28, 1550, and the collection in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries has only one, dated Sept. 30, between August 15 and this one of October 8, against the Duke of Somerset.

^{page 101 note a} This was Sir Richard Southwell, who is often confounded with his brother Sir. Robert Southwell, the Master of the Bolls and a Privy Councillor, in the reign of Henry VHI. July, 1542. He resigned in 1550, under Edward VI. and died in NOT. 1559. They were both commissioned to visit the monasteries in 1535. Sir Richard was in attendance on the Duke of Norfolk at the reception of Anne of Cleves in 1539, and was one of those who informed against the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Surrey in 1546, when they were committed to the Tower. He was authorised, May 26, 1547, by Somerset, Rich, and others, to receive the surrender of the property of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, on a false pretence that they should not be sufferers by the transaction. He was not one of the executors of the will of Henry VIII., but was appointed one of the twelve to assist them as councillors, and afterwards became one of the councillors appointed in Somerset's patent to be Protector. He was one of the chief contrivers of Somerset's fall, having been one of the conspirators on the first day, Oct. 6, and was in attendance Oct. 14, when Somerset was sent to the Tower; but when Southampton was driven away from the Conncil, and Arundel fined, he was put in the Fleet by Warwick for dispersing seditious bills. His name does not appear among the twenty-four councillors who signed Edward's limitation of the Crown, but his name as a Privy Councillor is amongst those who signed their consent on the 21st of June, as is that of his brother Sir Robert as sheriff of Kent. He was employed by Mary, after she came to the throne, and appointed Master-General of the Ordnance in 1554. He with Lord Hastings and Sir Thomas Cornwallis fetched Elizabeth to Court on suspicion of being concerned in Wyatt's conspiracy. He had been granted an annuity of 100?., Dec. 4,1553, for his services against the Duke of Suffolk.

^{page 102 note a} This is one of the four documents of this date printed by Tytler, vol. i. p. 220, the others being the letter from Eussell and Herbert to the Protector, that from Paget, Cranmer, and Smith to the Council at London, and the private letter from Smith to Petre.

^{page 103 note a} This was Sir Philip Hobby or Hobby, son of William Hobby, of Leominster, who is spoken of by Wood as being a zealous Protestant—elder brother of Sir Thomas Hobby who translated into English Bucer's Gratulationand Answer to Gardiner, printed after the translator's death by Jugge: and uncle of Sir Edward, a writer of some eminence in the reign of Elizabeth and James I. His first appearance in history is in March, 1538, when he was sent by Cromwell with Hans Holbein to Brussels concerning the projected marriage of the King with the Duchess of Milan. As gentleman of the King's privy chamber he was appointed to receive Anne of Cleves in 1539. In 1543 he was imprisoned with Heynes, dean of Exeter, for his advanced Protestantism. He was one of Edward VI.'s first Council, but his name does not appear till the year 1649, when he returned from Flanders, and stood by the Protector. The state of affairs at the time of writing this letter is thns described by the King in his diary :—“Then began the Protector to treat by letters, sending Sir Philip Hobbey, lately come from his ambassad in Flaundres, to see to his family, who brought in his return a letter to the Protector, very gentle, which he delivered to him, another to me, another to my house, to declare his faults, ambition, vain-enriching of himself of my treasure, following his own opinion, and doing all by his own authority, &c. Which letter was openly read, and immediately the lords came to Windsore, took him and brought him through Holborn to the Tower.”— (Pocock's Burnet, vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 11.) In 1551 he was employed in Trance, and in the following year was sent to Flanders again, to mediate a peace between the Emperor and the French king. In this embassy he was continued by Queen Mary, July 12, 1553. Yet, July 15th, he wrote to the Council a letter, in conjunction with Sir Kichard Morysine, in which Lord Guildford Dudley is spoken of as having been called king. Both of them were recalled Aug. 5, 1553.

^{page 105 note a} On the 6th of October the conspirators were nine in number. On the 7th, 15 sign the letter to the King, and 14 that to the lords at Windsor, the name of Montague being omitted. On the 9th Warwick's name is omitted, but there is an addition of Montague and Baker, and on the 10th there is added the name of E. Wentworth.

^{page 106 note a} There is no date to this letter. That assigned to it conjecturally by the editor of the State Papers—viz. Oct. 9—is uncertain. It may have been written on Oct. 10th or 11th. How his application fared may be seen from the following extract from the Council Book :— “At ”Wyndsour, Sunday, the 13th of October, the lords called before them Sir Thomas Smyth, Sir Michael Stanhop, Sir John Thyn, knight, Edward Wulf, one of his Majesty's privy Chamber, and William Gray, esquire, adherents of the said Duke, and the principal instruments and counsellors that he did use both at this time, and otherways also in the affairs of his ill government, whom when they had charged with their offenses they accorded to send to the tower of London, there to remain until further order were taken with them. The same day also Sir Thomas Smyth, for sundry his misdemeanours and tmdiscreet behaviour heretofore, being thought unmete to continue any longer of the privy Council, was both sequestered from the Council and also deprived from the office of one of his majesty's secretaries.” They were all sent the next day, Monday, October 14th (wrongly entered in the Council Book as the 13th), with the Duke to the Tower, conducted there by the Earls of Sussex and Huntingdon, the Lords Grey and Abergavenny, and Sir John Gage, the Constable of the Tower—and the next day Dr. Wotton, dean of Canterbury, was appointed secretary in the room of Sir Thomas Smith.

^{page 106 note a} There is no date to this letter. That assigned to it conjecturally by the editor of the State Papers—viz. Oct. 9—is uncertain. It may have been written on Oct. 10th or 11th. How his application fared may be seen from the following extract from the Council Book :— “At ”Wyndsour, Sunday, the 13th of October, the lords called before them Sir Thomas Smyth, Sir Michael Stanhop, Sir John Thyn, knight, Edward Wulf, one of his Majesty's privy Chamber, and William Gray, esquire, adherents of the said Duke, and the principal instruments and counsellors that he did use both at this time, and otherways also in the affairs of his ill government, whom when they had charged with their offenses they accorded to send to the tower of London, there to remain until further order were taken with them. The same day also Sir Thomas Smyth, for sundry his misdemeanours and tmdiscreet behaviour heretofore, being thought unmete to continue any longer of the privy Council, was both sequestered from the Council and also deprived from the office of one of his majesty's secretaries.” They were all sent the next day, Monday, October 14th (wrongly entered in the Council Book as the 13th), with the Duke to the Tower, conducted there by the Earls of Sussex and Huntingdon, the Lords Grey and Abergavenny, and Sir John Gage, the Constable of the Tower—and the next day Dr. Wotton, dean of Canterbury, was appointed secretary in the room of Sir Thomas Smith.

^{page 107 note a} This was Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary of State. He was one of the judges who deprived Bonner of the bishopric of London. He stuck by the Duke of Somerset and was sent with the rest of his adherents to the Tower, Oct. 14, 1549, and deprived

^{page 108 note a} The proclamation as finally written and issued is in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries. It is without date, but is marked in pencil there as having been issued on the 10th of October.

^{page 109 note a} One of the bills alluded to in this despatch has been printed by Tytler, vol. ii. p, 208, as also another entitled “The Copy of the Bill sowed amongst the Commons.” He has also printed two letters from Somerset of the 6th of October, intimating that the conspiracy is against the King, and another of the 6th, signed by Somerset in the name of Edward, to the same effect. On the following day, October 7th, Somerset wrote to the Lords offering “reasonable conditions.” This letter is in the handwriting of Sir Thomas Smith, and also appears in Tytler, vol. ii. p. 216.

^{page 111 note a} This name in full is written in Latin Christophorus Montaborinus; but he usually signs his name Mont and is sometimes called Mount. He was a native of Cologne who had a grant of denization in England, July 18,1531. He first appears in history June 28, 1533, when he had a grant of 6l. 13s. 4d. “for translating of books.” He was much employed by Cromwell; and at the end of July, 1533, was sent by the king with Vaughan to try to conciliate the German princes in the attitude he had assumed towards the Pope. He separated from Vaughan at Nuremburg, and went on to Augsburg, and was at the beginning of the next year joined by Heath. He was afterwards employed in Germany about the marriage with Anne of Cleves, and sent again to excuse the divorce of Anne, and again in 1544 to the Duke of Saxony and the Landgrave of Hesse to cement an alliance with England. In a letter written from Frankfort, Dec. 27, 1546, he gives his address as Oxford and signs his name as Bergottus. He was of use on these embassies because of his knowledge of German and Latin, but was unable to correspond in English, his colleagues being imperfectly acquainted with German. In Seckendorff's history he is always called Montius.

^{page 116 note a} From this place when me saw down to oration is almost word for word the same with the letter from the Council to Mary and Elizabeth of the 9th of October, as printed by Tytler, vol. i. p. 249, in which the letter continues as follows : “and, among many his untrue and idle sayings, declared that one special cause of our displeasure to him was that we would have him removed from his office, and that we minded to have your Grace to be Regent of the realm, and also to have the rule and government of the King's Majesty's person; dilating what danger it should be to his Majesty to have your Grace, next in succession and title to the crown, to be in that place ; and that therein was meant a great treason, which as God knoweth we never intended, considering all laws touching government to provide to the contrary ; neither any of us all at any time by word or writing hath opened any such matter to your Grace, as your honour knoweth.” After this place it proceeds as in the text nearly.

^{page 118 note a} Here the letter to the princesses adds: “Beseeching your Grace not to conceive any lack to be in us that we have not advertised the same hitherto of our doings, for the matter was so much to us unlooked for and so quick that we were fain to travail almost night and day since the ruffle to keep him from advantage and put ourselves in order for him. He hath now carried his Majesty to Windsor late in the night, in such sort as may declare that he maketh no great store of him ; but God we trust will help us to deliver his Majesty out of his cruel and greedy hands; wherein if it should come to an extremity, as we trust it shall not, and for our parte we shall do what we can to manage it so, if it can be possible, as no blood be shed on the occasion of it; we trust your Grace in our just and faithful quarrel will stand with us; and thus we shall pray to Almighty God for the preservation of your Grace's health.”

^{page 118 note a} This is a rough draft very wetted and defaced, endorsed,—

^{page 119 note a} This was Thomas Wentworth, knighted in 1523, and summoned to Parliament as Lord Wentworth, Dec. 2, 1529. He signed the letter of the lords to the Pope about the divorce of Catharine. He was in attendance on the King at his interview with Francis in 1532, and sat on the trial of Anne Boleyn and Lord Rochford. He was in the reign of Edward VI. Lord Chamberlain of the Household, and was with the Marquis of Northampton in the suppression of the rebellion in Norfolk. He was one of the six lords of the Council appointed to be in attendance on Edward after Somerset's deposition from the Protectorate, having joined the conspiracy against him on the 9th of October. In 1550 he was rewarded with the manors of Stepney and Hackney, and died March 3,1551, being succeeded by his son Thomas, second lord, who was one of the earliest adherents of the Princess Mary at the time of Lady Jane Grey's usurpation. His iuneral was on the 7th of March, and Miles Coverdale preached at it. On the same day Cranmer, Paget, and Wingfield wrote from Windsor to the Council in London announcing the arrest of Somerset. This letter is printed in Tytler, vol. i. p. 241. Two copies of it exist in the Record Office, Domestic Papers of Edward VI. arts. 42 and 43.

^{page 124 note a} A corresponding list exists in the Record Office, from which extracts have been printed by Tytler, i. 268. It is headed “A Report of the Prisoners being in the Tower the 22nd of October, made by Serjeant Mullinax and the King's Attorney.” Tytler omits several of the names in the earlier part of this catalogue, and it has the same separation between those who were there before October 14th and those lately committed, who are in both lists eleven, the last name of Edward Bowes not appearing, but having that of Hales substituted for it. The names are arranged apparently nearly in order of commitment, but there are some variations in the order in the two lists.

^{page 124 note b} This name is entered in Tytler's list as Anthony Foster, late Marshal of Ireland.

^{page 125 note a} From Wriothesley's Chronicle we learn that in the month of November “Sir William Shirington, knight, which was condempned the last yeare for high treason, had his pardon and was released out of prison in the Tower, and admitted to be one of the Comon House of the Parliament againe.” This session began November 4, 1549.

^{page 125 note b} Bell and Fuller were committed to the Tower by Lord Wentworth on Whitsun even and Cappe on Wednesday in Whitsun week.

^{page 126 note a} Arundel and the three following were captains of the insurgents in Devonshire, and were tried Nov. 5, 1549, with Robert and William Kett. The four had been brought up by Lord Grey Sept. 8, and were executed at Tyburn Jan. 27, 1550.

^{page 126 note b} Wriothesley gives the names of Somerset and the five following as being delivered to Sir John Gage, the Constable of the Tower, on the 14th of October. The next four were perhaps not committed till later.

^{page 129 note a} In this document the signatures are an attempt to copy the autographs, but are really written by a scribe.

^{page 129 note b} This was Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely from 1534 to 1554, being the first bishop consecrated by Cranmer after the separation. He was a mere tool in the hands of Cromwell during the Vicar-General's administration, and amongst the first acts of his episcopate was the substitution of a new oath to be taken by those admitted to benefices, in which the abjuration of the Lutheran heresy enjoined by his predecessor, Nicolas West, was altered into a promise to renounce the Pope and all such his constitutions and decrees as had been or should hereafter be condemned by Parliament. His first appearance in history is as giving his sentence, in favour of the divorce at Cambridge. Godwin significantly declines to say anything about his character, and Burnet gives him up as one of those who would make as much advantage of the Reformation as he could, “but would suffer nothing for it.” He had succeeded Rich in the Chancellorship in Edward's reign, but was deprived by Mary, July 20, 1553, but managed to conform and keep his bishopric till his death, though he had signed the letter of July 9 as Chancellor, declaring Lady Jane Grey Queen. In the matter of the rebellion against Somerset his name does not appear, because he was not at that time of the Privy Council; the Atheœ Cantabrigienses erroneously states that he was made a Privy Councillor at the accession of Edward, but his name does not appear as a Councillor till after Somerset's deposition from the Protectorate, after which he appears to have followed the fortunes of Northumberland till his fall, to which he contributed by signing, July 20, 1553, the charge of the Council to Richard Rose, pursuivant, who was sent to Cambridge to procure that he should be disarmed. He had that morning joined with Suffolk, Cranmer, and the other Lords of the Council, who all dined with the Lord Mayor and adopted the side of the Princess Mary.

^{page 130 note a} March 16 fell on a Sunday in 1550, so that Cranmer used the foreign commencement of the year.

^{page 130 note b} The answer to this is of Dec. 8, from Cambridge, in Buceri Scripta, p. 681.

^{page 132 note a} This was Dr. William Clayburgh, who was made Prebendary of York, Sept. 22, 1549, and held his preferment till 1554.

^{page 132 note b} The archdeaconry which Turner wanted to get was vacant by the death of Dr. Thomas Magnus, which happened August 27, 1550, according to Wood, at Sessay, a parish near Thirsk, in Yorkshire. He was a foundling, first seen by some clothiers of Yorkshire travelling through Newark-upon-Trent, in Nottinghamshire, and had given him the surname of Among us, as being maintained among certain people there. He must have been an old man, having held the Archdeaconry of the East Riding since June, 1504, He held many preferments, having been made Canon of Windsor in 1520 ; he was also Rector of Bedall and of Sibthorp, and master of the hospital at St. Leonard's, York ; he was also sacrist of the Chapel of Our Lady and the Holy Angels at York, to which he was collated in Dec. 1504; he was incorporated at Oxford in 1520 ; he was chaplain to the King in 1513, in which year and the following years he appears to have been employed in the Scotch embassy. On the 14th of August, 1517, he had a grant of the deanery of the collegiate church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgenorth Castle. His name appears amongst the Councillors in 1520. The archbishop alluded to is the notorious Holgate. It appears that neither Turner nor Oglethorpe secured the archdeaconry, which was bestowed on Dr. John Dakyn, who was installed April 13, 1551. Ogelthorpe was afterwards Bishop of Carlisle, and in that capacity crowned Queen Elizabeth, and died soon after his deprivation.

^{page 133 note a} The Bishop of Bath and Wells alluded to in this letter was the notorious William Barlow, bishop successively of St. Asaph, St. David's, and Bath and Wells, who at the accession of Elizabeth, as Bishop-elect of Chichester, consecrated Matthew Parker to the archbishopric of Canterbury. The dean was John Goodman, who held the office from 1548 till 1550, when he was deprived and William Turner succeeded and held the office till the accession of Mary. Goodman brought a writ of præmunire against the bishop, who obtained a pardon. The judges proceeded with the case, and were summoned before the Privy Council, and Goodman was committed to the Fleet, Feb. 12, 1551. The deprivation was held to be valid, and he was discharged May 25, 1551. He was afterwards deprived again from the deanery to which he had been restored at the accession of Mary, and Turner succeeded to the deanery in 1560. A letter was written by the Council, dated July 5, 1550, to the fellows of Oriel College, Oxford, desiring them to accept Dr. Turner as master, i.e. provost, upon the King's appointment.

^{page 134 mote a} St. John, lately created Earl of Wiltshire.

^{page 135 mote a} The lords present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earls of Wiltshire and Dorset, the Bishop of Ely, Wentworth, Wotton, Montague, and Baker. Dr. Nicholas Wotton was made the first Dean of Canterbury in 1542, and was installed Dean of York Dec. 4, 1544, and held both these offices till his death, Jan. 26, 1567, through all the changes of the reigns of Henry, Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth. He was one of the sixteen executors of the will of Henry, and of Edward's Privy Council, and at the beginning of Edward's reign was ambassador in France. He was one of the nine conspirators against Somerset who met Oct. 6, and upon Somerset's deposition he was made secretary in place of Sir Thomas Smith, who was imprisoned with Somerset, but resigned Sept. 6 of the following year in favour of Cecil. In 1551 he was sent to the Emperor to remonstrate with him for interfering with the Princess Mary's hearing mass, April 10. But neither he nor his brother Sir Edward were concerned in the usurpation of Lady Jane Grey, he being at the time ambassador in France. His brother, Sir Edward Wotton, first appears in a public capacity in 1540 as Treasurer of Calais, but is mentioned in the retinue of the Duke of Suffolk at the reception of Anne of Cleves at Dover. He too was one of the earliest conspirators against Somerset.

^{page 136 mote a} This was Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London 1522, translated to Durham in 1530. He was at first on the King's side in the matter of the divorce, but afterwards recanted and condemned the book he had written in favour of it, but afterwards supported the King in most of his actions, especially in the matter of the divorce of Anne of Cleves. He preached at Paul's Cross on Quinquagesima Sunday, February 27, 1536, in defence of the royal supremacy, and was the only bishop except Cranmer who was amongst the executors of Henry VIII.'s will, and was one of the twenty-six first councillors of Edward VI. He resisted all the changes inaugurated by Edward VI. and his Council. He was sent to the Tower Dec. 30, 1551 and deprived of his bishopric in October, 1552, when the bishopric was dissolved. He was released from the King's Bench Aug. 5, 1553, and reinstated, and the bishopric restored at the beginning of the reign of Mary. And on the accession of Elizabeth he refused to take the oath of supremacy and was deprived, though no bishop was appointed till after his death Nov. 18, 1559. He assisted in the consecration of the six bishops at St. Mary Overy's church in Southwark, Gardiner and Bonner being the other consecrators.

^{page 134 mote b} This was John Bird, who appears to have been educated partly at Cambridge and partly at Oxford, where he took his degree of D.D. in 1513. He was afterwards provincial of the order of Carmelites. He was a great supporter of the King's supremacy, and after having served as suffragan bishop of Penrith, and abetted all the proceedings of the King in the divorce of Catharine of Aragon, and afterwards in that of Anne of Cleves, he was appointed to the bishopric of Bangor, and thence translated to the newly-created see of Chester, which he held from 1541 to 1554, when he was deprived-for heresy and because he had married. He soon afterwards recanted and acted as suffragan to Bonner, Bishop of London. He gave the Council, Jan. 12,1548, an account of the sale of church ornaments and jewels within the diocese of Chester, and of the appropriation thereof. He did not live long enough to have the sincerity of this last change tested, as he died in the year 1558.

^{page 137 mote a} No names are inserted.

^{page 137 mote b} This was the notorious Dr. John Poynet, afterwards translated to Winchester..

^{page 138 mote a} This was Nicholas Heath, afterwards Archbishop of York. He had in the late reign gone some lengths in the King's service, and was made Bishop of Rochester in 1540, and removed to Worcester in 1543. He appears to have disapproved of all the measures of the Privy Council in this reign, and was deprived Oct. 10, 1551, for refusing to take down the altars in his diocese. After Mary's accession he was translated to York, and made Lord High Chancellor 1556, and consecrated Cardinal Pole to Canterbury. Upon refusing the oath of supremacy he was deprived of his archbishopric and committed to the Tower, but was soon afterwards released and lived in retirement till his death, which took place in 1579.

^{page 138 mote b} This was Sir John Yorke, treasurer of the Mint in Southwark, at whose house the conspirators against Somerset dined on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1549, just before they proclaimed him a traitor. He was rewarded for the part he had taken by being knighted Oct. 17. At his house also Somerset met Warwick and the rest of the Council Feb. 6, 1550, when he was liberated from the Tower. Sir John was afterwards sent to the Tower July 31, 1553, according to Wriothesley, or July 27 as Machyn gives it, and was released in October. He conformed in the reign of Mary, and kept his place under Elizabeth.