s by his wilful
negligence."

"`Shaken the chair of the King's seat!'" cried he. "If the men be not
rebels that writ this paper, I have little wit to know what a rebel is.
How dare they speak or think of shaking the King's seat, which is in the
hands of God, and is accountable unto none save Him?--`Little esteemed
the advice of the King's faithful councillors'--to wit, the runagates
that writ this paper. `Laboured to sow dissension betwixt the gentry
and the commoners!' 'Tis the enclosures they point at, I reckon. What!
was he the only man that allowed them? and who could have thought the
commons had been such dolts? Now let us see the names of these wise,
good, and faithful councillors. `R. Rich, W. Saint John, W.
Northampton, J. Warwick,'" [Note 5] and he paused a minute. "Isoult,"
said he again, "methinks that Earl of Warwick is a knave."

"I never thought him otherwise, Dr Thorpe," said Isoult quietly.

Sir Anthony Wingfield was sent by the Lords of the Council to Windsor on
the following Friday. He parted the Lord Protector from the King, and
set a strong guard to watch him until the coming of the Lords. On the
Saturday the Lord Chancellor and the Council rode to Windsor, and that
night the Protector was set in ward in the Beauchamp Tower of Windsor
Castle. And on the Monday afternoon was the Duke of Somerset (no longer
Lord Protector) brought to the Tower of London, riding between the Earls
of Southampton and Huntingdon, accompanied by many gentlemen, and three
hundred horse. At his own desire, he came into London by way of Saint
Giles in the Fields; and opposite Soper Lane were knights sitting on
horseback, and all the officers with halberds. And so they led him from
Holborn Bridge to Cheapside; where, with a loud voice, he cried to the
bystanders, "Good people, I am as true a man to the King as any here."
In all the streets were Aldermen or their deputies, on horseback; and
the householders, each man at his door, all standing with bills in their
hands, as he passed. And so he was conducted to the Tower, where he
remained.

"As true a man to the King!" Poor little Edward, bewildered and
deceived! He did not know there was none other half so true.

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Note 1. The enclosure riots had a more religious aspect in the West
than in the East or the Midland Counties.

Note 2. William Lord Grey de Wilton was an eminent General, a