sorrow for the young King's death, and
said that she knew she was unfit to govern
the kingdom, but, that if she must be Queen,
she prayed God to direct her. She was then
at Sion House, near Brentford, and the lords
took her down the river in state to the
Tower, that she might remain there (as the
custom was) until she was crowned. But the
people were not at all favorable to Lady Jane,
considering that the right to be Queen was
Mary's, and greatly disliking the Duke of
Northumberland. They were not put into a
better humour by the Duke's causing a
vintner's servant, one Gabriel Pot, to be
taken up for expressing his dissatisfaction
among the crowd, and to have his ears nailed
to the pillory, and cut off. Some powerful
men among the nobility declared on Mary's
side. They raised troops to support her
cause, had her proclaimed Queen at Norwich,
and gathered around her at the castle of
Framlingham, which belonged to the Duke
of Norfolk. For she was not considered so
safe as yet, but that it was best to keep her in
a castle on the sea-coast, from whence she
might be sent abroad, if necessary.

The Council would have dispatched Lady
Jane's father, the Duke of Suffolk, as the general
of the army against this force; but as Lady
Jane implored that her father might remain
with her, and as he was known to be but a
weak man, they told the Duke of Northumberland
that he must take the command
himself. He was not very ready to do so,
as he mistrusted the Council much, but there
was no help for it, and he set forth with
a heavy heart: observing to a lord who rode
beside him through Shoreditch at the head of
the troops, that, although the people pressed
in great numbers to look at them, they were
terribly silent.

And his fears for himself turned out to
be true. While he was waiting at Cambridge
for further help from the Council, the
Council took it in their heads to turn their
backs on Lady Jane's cause, and to take
up the Princess Mary's. This was chiefly
owing to the before-mentioned Earl of Arundel,
who represented to the Lord Mayor and
aldermen, in a second interview with those
sagacious persons, that, as for himself, he did not
perceive the Reformed religion to be in much
danger—which Lord Pembroke backed by
flourishing his sword as another kind of
persuasion. The Lord Mayor and aldermen,
thus enlightened, said, there could be no
doubt that the Princess Mary ought to be
Queen. So, she was proclaimed at the Cross
by St. Paul's, and barrels of wine were given
to the people, and they got very drunk, and
danced round blazing bonfires—little thinking,
poor wretches, what other bonfires would
soon be blazing in Queen Mary's name!

After a ten days' dream of royalty, Lady
Jane Grey resigned the Crown with great
willingness, saying that she had only accepted
it in obedience to her father and mother; and
went gladly back to her pleasant house by
the river, and her books. Mary then came
on towards London; and at Wanstead, in
Essex, was joined by her half sister, the
Princess Elizabeth. They passed through
the streets of London to the Tower, and
there the new Queen met some eminent
prisoners then confined in it, kissed them, and
gave them their liberty. Among these were
that Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, who had
been imprisoned in the last reign for holding
to the unreformed religion. Him she soon
made chancellor.

The Duke of Northumberland had been
taken prisoner, and, together with his son
and five others, was quickly brought before
the Council. He, not unnaturally, asked that
Council, in his defence, whether it was treason
to obey orders that had been issued under
the great seal, and if it were, whether
they, who had obeyed them too, ought to be
his judges? But they made light of these
points, and, being resolved to have him out of
the way, soon sentenced him to death. He
had risen into power upon the death of another
man, and made but a poor show (as might be
expected) when he himself lay low. He
entreated Gardiner to let him live, if it were
only in a mouse's hole; and when he ascended
the scaffold to be beheaded on Tower Hill,
addressed the people in a miserable way,
saying that he had been incited by others,
and exhorting them to return to the
unreformed religion, which he told them was his
faith. There seems reason to suppose that
he expected a pardon even then, in return
for this confession; but it matters little
whether he did or not. His head was struck
off, and Sir John Gates and Sir Thomas
Palmer, two better and moree manly gentlemen,
suffered with him.

Mary was now crowned Queen. She was
thirty-seven years of age, short and thin,
wrinkled in the face, and very unhealthy. But
she had a great liking for show and for bright
colours, and all the ladies of her Court were
magnificently dressed. She had a great liking
too for old customs, without much sense in
them; and she was oiled in the oldest way,
and blessed in the oldest way, and done
all manner of things to in the oldest way, at
her coronation. I hope they did her good.

She soon began to show her desire to put
down the Reformed religion, and put up the
unreformed one: though it was dangerous
work as yet, the people being something wiser
than they used to be. They even cast a
shower of stones—and among them a dagger—
at one of the royal chaplains, who attacked
the Reformed religion in a public sermon.
But, the Queen and her priests went steadily
on. Ridley, the powerful bishop of the last
reign, was seized and sent to the Tower.
LATIMER, also a celebrated prelate of the last
reign, was likewise sent to the Tower, and
Cranmer speedily followed. Latimer was an
aged man; and as his guards took him through