don, or fanatics, who believed they were fighting the
Lord's battle, and some of the Protestant clergy. Ponet, the late
Bishop of Winchester, was with them; William Thomas, the late clerk of
the council; Sir George Harper, Anthony Knyvet, Lord Cobham's sons,
Pelham, who had been a spy of Northumberland's on the continent,[239]
and others more or less conspicuous in the worst period of the late
reign.

[Footnote 239: The Regent Mary to the Ambassadors
in England: _Granvelle Papers_, vol. iv.]

From the day that Wyatt came to Southwark the whole guard had been
under arms at Whitehall, and a number of them, to the agitation of the
court ladies, were stationed in the queen's ante-chamber. But the
guard was composed of dangerous elements. Sir Humfrey Radcliff, the
lieutenant, was a "favourer of the gospel;"[240] and the "Hot
Gospeller" himself, on his recovery from his fever, had returned to
his duties.[241] No {p.106} additional precautions had been taken,
nor does it seem that, on Wyatt's departure, his movements were
watched. Kingston Bridge having been broken, his immediate approach
was certainly unlooked for; nor was it till past midnight that
information came to the palace that the passage had been forced, and
that the insurgents were coming directly back upon London. Between two
and three in the morning the queen was called from her bed. Gardiner,
who had been, with others of the council, arguing with her in favour
of Courtenay the preceding day, was in waiting; he told her that her
barge was at the stairs to carry her up the river, and she must take
shelter instantly at Windsor.

[Footnote 240: Underhill's _Narrative_.]

[Footnote 241: Underhill, however, was too
notorious a person to be allowed to remain on duty
at such a time of danger.

"When Wyatt was come to Southwark," he says, "the
pensioners were commanded to watch in armour that
night at the Court.... After supper, I put on my
armour, as the rest did, for we were appointed to
watch all the night. So, being all armed, we came
up into the chamber of presence with our pole-axes
in our hands, wherewith the ladies were very
fearful. Some lamenting, crying, and wringing their
ha