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efore long from Mr Barry, written at Christmas, and informing his sister that matters were now settled and peaceable. Indeed, at Wynscote they had heard nothing of the rioters. But Potheridge had been surrounded, and in answer to the rebels' summons to surrender, Mr Monke had sent them a dauntless message of defiance: upon which they had replied with threats of terrible vengeance, but had retired, discomfited at the first trial of strength, and never came near the place more. Darker grew the clouds, meanwhile, over the prisoner in the Tower. His enemies drew up twenty-nine articles against him, and, going to him in his captivity, read them to him, and informed the world that he had humbly confessed them. "Well," said John Avery, "some of these be but matter for laughter. To wit, that the Duke did command multiplication [coining] and alcumistry, whereby the King's coin was abated. As though my Lord of Somerset should take upon him to abate the King's coin!" "Nay, better men than he have dealt with alcumistry," answered Dr Thorpe. "The former charge moveth my laughter rather,--That my said Lord hath done things too much by himself: to wit, without the knowledge and sage avisement of these my Lords of the King's Council. Is there so much as one of them that would not do the same an' he had the chance?" "Why," said Avery, "he had the chance, and therein lieth his offence. They had not, and therein lieth their virtue." From two poor innocent lambs cruelly pent up by the Protector, now that he was himself in durance, there came a great outcry for relief. These were the imprisoned prelates, Bonner and Gardiner. The latter said that "he had been in prison one year and a quarter and a month; and he lacked air to relieve his body, and books to relieve his mind, and good company (the only solace of this world), and lastly, a just cause why he should have come thither at all." How well can the wolf counterfeit the lamb! Had none of his prisoners lacked air, and books? And had my Lord Bishop of Winchester been so careful to see to a just cause in the case of every man he sent to Tower or Fleet? On the 27th of January the leaders of the Devon riots were hanged at Tyburn; the chief of whom was Humphrey Arundel. And on the 6th of February the Duke of Somerset was delivered from the Tower, and suffered to go home; but four days before a change had been made in the Council, the Earls of Arundel and Southampton bein
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