ey shall go to the bottom." Officers, sailors, troops, all declared
for Queen Mary, and landed with their arms and artillery. The report
was borne upon the winds; it was known in a few hours in London; it
was known in the duke's army, which was now close to Cambridge, and
was the signal for the premeditated mutiny. "The noblemen's tenants
refused to serve their lords against Queen Mary."[35] Northumberland
sent a courier at full speed to the council for reinforcements. The
courier returned "with but a slender answer."[36]

[Footnote 33: Cecil's Submission, printed by
Tytler, vol. ii.]

[Footnote 34: Scheyfne to Charles V.: _Rolls House
MSS._]

[Footnote 35: _Chronicle of Queen Jane._]

[Footnote 36: Ibid.]

The lords in London, however, were still under the eyes of the Tower
garrison, who watched them narrowly. Their first {p.016} meeting to
form their plans was within the Tower walls, and Arundel said "he
liked not the air."[37] Pembroke and Cheyne attempted to escape, but
failed to evade the guard; Winchester made an excuse to go to his own
house, but he was sent for and brought back at midnight. Though Mary
might succeed, they might still lose their own lives, which they were
inclined to value.

[Footnote 37: Cecil's Submission: Tytler, vol. ii.]

On Sunday, the 16th, the preachers again exerted themselves. Ridley
shrieked against Mary at Paul's Cross;[38] John Knox, more wisely, at
Amersham, in Buckinghamshire, foretold the approaching retribution
from the giddy ways of the past years; Buckinghamshire, Catholic and
Protestant, was arming to the teeth; and he was speaking at the peril
of his life among the troopers of Sir Edward Hastings.

[Footnote 38: Stow.]

"Oh England!" cried the saddened Reformer, "now is God's wrath kindled
against thee--now hath he begun to punish as he hath threatened by his
true prophets and messengers. He hath taken from thee the crown of thy
glory, and hath left thee without honour, and this appeareth to be
only the beginning of sorrows. The heart, the tongue, the hand of one
Englishman is bent against another, and division is in the realm,
which is a sign of desolation to come. Oh, England, England! if thy
mariners and thy governors shall consume one another, shalt not thou
suffer shipwreck? Oh England, alas! these plagues are p