hronicle of Queen Mary_, pp. 58,
59.]

The same day Courtenay was sent to the Tower, and a general slaughter
commenced of the common prisoners. To spread the impression, gibbets
were erected all over London, and by Thursday evening eighty or a
hundred bodies[258] were dangling {p.114} in St. Paul's Churchyard,
on London Bridge, in Fleet Street, and at Charing Cross, in Southwark
and Westminster. At all cross-ways and in all thoroughfares, says
Noailles, "the eye was met with the hideous spectacle of hanging men;"
while Brett and a fresh batch of unfortunates were sent to suffer at
Rochester and Maidstone. Day after day, week after week, commissioners
sat at Westminster or at the Guildhall trying prisoners, who passed
with a short shrift to the gallows. The Duke of Suffolk was sentenced
on the 17th; on the 23rd he followed his daughter, penitent for his
rebellion, but constant, as she had implored him to be, in his faith.
His two brothers and Lord Cobham's sons were condemned. William
Thomas, to escape torture, stabbed himself, but recovered to die at
Tyburn. Lord Cobham himself, who was arrested notwithstanding his
defence of his house, Wyatt, Sir James Crofts, Sir William St. Lowe,
Sir Nicholas Arnold, Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, and, as the council
expressed it, "a world more," were in various prisons waiting their
trials. Those who were suspected of being in Elizabeth's confidence
were kept with their fate impending over them--to be tempted either
with hopes of pardon, or by the rack, to betray their secrets.[259]

[Footnote 258: Renard says: "A hundred were hanged
in London and a hundred in Kent." Stow says:
"Eighty in London and twenty-two in Kent." _The
Chronicle of Queen Mary_ does not mention the
number of executions in London, but agrees with
Stow on the number sent to Kent. The smaller
estimate, in these cases, is generally the right
one.]

[Footnote 259: On Sunday the 11th of February, the
day on which he exhorted the queen to severity from
the pulpit, Gardiner wrote to Sir William Petre,
"To-morrow, at your going to the Tower, it shall be
good ye be earnest with one little Wyatt there
prisoner, who by all likelihood can tell al