e lading, some going,
some discharging, some coming for more, some breaking down
the walls to bring in the next (nearest) way.[36]

In the midst of all this dismay and confusion the Archbishop of York,
Thomas Rotheram, Chancellor of England, brought the Queen the Great
Seal, trying to comfort and encourage her with a message from the Lord
Chamberlain Hastings, who thought matters were not so hopeless as she
imagined. But she mistrusted Hastings as "one of those that laboreth to
destroy me and my blood." The Archbishop left the Great Seal with her,

and departed home again, yet in the dawning of the day. By
which time, he might in his chamber window (his palace was
on the site of the present Whitehall) see all the Thames
full of boats of the Duke of Gloucester's servants, watching
that no man should go to Sanctuary; nor none could pass
unsearched.

The Queen seems to have withdrawn into her old quarters in the fortress
of the Sanctuary itself, where she had before found safety; and the
Protector, determined to get possession of both his nephews, proposed at
his council in the Star Chamber, that if she would not give up the Duke
of York to keep his brother company he should be taken from thence by
force. But this proposition only served to show in what respect the
privilege of Sanctuary was held. The archbishops and spiritual lords
promptly refused their consent to such a sacrilegious measure. Said the
Archbishop of Canterbury,

God forbid that any man should for anything earthly,
enterprise or break the immunity and liberty of the sacred
Sanctuary, that hath been the safeguard of so many a good
man's life.[37]

The Protector then tried to show that as the child was incapable of such
crimes as needed sanctuary, so he was incapable of receiving it. This
ingenious bit of casuistry convinced some of the listeners; and the
archbishop and several lords went at once to Westminster to try to
persuade the Queen to give up her boy. But she resisted "with all the
force of a woman's art and a mother's love."[38]

_In what place could I reckon him sure, if he be not sure in
this Sanctuary, whereof was there never tyrant yet so
devilish that durst presume to break...._ If examples be
sufficient to obtain privilege for my child I need not far
to seek; _for in this place in which we now be_ (and which
is now in question whether my child may take benefit of i