, and carried to London.

[Footnote 56: Foxe, vol. viii. pp. 591-2.]

Mary, meanwhile, notwithstanding the revolution in her favour,
remained a few more days at Framlingham, either suspicious of
treachery or uncertain whether there might not be another change. But
she was assured rapidly that the danger was at an end by the haste
with which the lords and gentlemen who were compromised sought their
pardon at her feet. On the 21st and 22nd Clinton, Grey, Fitzgerald,
Ormond, Fitzwarren, Sir Henry Sidney, and Sir James Crofts presented
themselves and received forgiveness. Cecil wrote, explaining his
secret services, and was taken into favour. Lord Robert and Lord
Ambrose Dudley, Northampton and a hundred other gentlemen--Sir Thomas
Wyatt among them--who had accompanied the duke to Bury, were not so
fortunate. The queen would not see them, and they were left under
arrest. Ridley set out for Norfolk, also, to confess his offences;
but, before he arrived at the court, he was met by a warrant for his
capture, and carried back a prisoner to the Tower.

The conspiracy was crushed, and crushed, happily, without bloodshed.
The inquiry into its origin, and the punishment of the guilty, could
be carried out at leisure. There was one matter, however, which
admitted of no delay. Mary's first anxiety, on feeling her crown
secure, was the burial of her dead brother, who, through all these
scenes, was still lying in his bed in his room at Greenwich. In her
first letter to the Imperial ambassadors, the day after the arrival of
Arundel and Paget at the court, she spoke of this as her greatest
care; to their infinite alarm, she announced her intention of
inaugurating her reign with Requiem and Dirige, and a mass for the
repose of his soul.

Their uneasiness requires explanation.

While on matters of religion there was in England almost every variety
of opinion, there was a very general consent that the queen should not
marry a foreigner. The dread that Mary might form a connection with
some continental prince, had formed the strongest element in
Northumberland's cause; all the Catholics, except the insignificant
faction who desired the restoration of the Papal authority,[57] all
the moderate Protestants, {p.024} wished well to her, but wished to
see her married to some English nobleman; and, while her accession was
still uncertain, the general opinion had already fixed upon a husband
for her in the person of her cous