without resistance, his followers, finding that no person of note joined
him, insensibly fell off, and he was at last seized near Temple Bar by
Sir Maurice Berkeley.[**] Four hundred persons are said to have suffered
for this rebellion:[***] four hundred more were conducted before the
queen with ropes about their necks: and falling on their knees, received
a pardon, and were dismissed. Wiat was condemned and executed: as it
had been reported that, on his examination, he had accused the lady
Elizabeth and the earl of Devonshire as accomplices, he took care, on
the scaffold, before the whole people, fully to acquit them of having
any share in his rebellion.

* Heylin, p. 33. Godwin, p. 341. Stowe, p. 619. Baker, p.
318. Holingshed, p. 1094.

** Fox, vol. iii. p. 31. Heylin, p. 34. Burnet, vol. ii. p.
270. Stowe, p. 621.

*** Depeches de Noailles, vol. iii. p. 124.

The lady Elizabeth had been, during some time, treated with great
harshness by her sister; and many studied instances of discouragement
and disrespect had been practised against her. She was ordered to take
place at court after the countess of Lenox and the duchess of Suffolk,
as if she were not legitimate:[*] her friends were discountenanced on
every occasion: and while her virtues, which were now become eminent,
drew to her the attendance of all the young nobility, and rendered
her the favorite of the nation;[**] the malevolence of the queen still
discovered itself every day by fresh symptoms, and obliged the princess
to retire into the country. Mary seized the opportunity of this
rebellion; and hoping to involve her sister in some appearance of guilt,
sent for her under a strong guard, committed her to the Tower, and
ordered her to be strictly examined by the council. But the public
declaration made by Wiat rendered it impracticable to employ against her
any false evidence which might have offered; and the princess made
so good a defence, that the queen found herself under a necessity of
releasing her.[***] In order to send her out of the kingdom, a marriage
was offered her with the duke of Savoy; and when she declined the
proposal, she was committed to custody under a strong guard at
Wodestoke.[****] The earl of Devonshire, though equally innocent, was
confined in Fotheringay Castle.

But this rebellion proved still more fatal to the lady Jane Gray, as
well as to her husband: the duke of Suffolk's guilt was imputed to her;
an