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had made within the last year, to withdraw her from the errors of popery: and in conclusion he conjured the audience, as they prized the pure light of the gospel, to support the cause of the lady Jane, and to oppose the claim of her idolatrous rival. But the torrent of his eloquence was poured in vain. Among his hearers there were many indifferent to either form of worship. Of the rest, the Protestants had not yet learned that religious belief could affect hereditary right; and the Catholics were confirmed by the bishop's arguments, in their adhesion to the interest of Mary.

That princess, to open a communication with the emperor in Flanders, had unexpectedly left Kenninghall; and, riding forty miles without rest, had reached, on the same evening, the castle of Framlingham. There her hopes were hourly cheered with the most gratifying intelligence. The earl of Essex, the lord 'Thomas Howard, the Jerninghams, Bedingfields, Sulyards, Pastons, and most of the neighbouring gentlemen successfully arrived, with their tenants, to fight under her standard. Sir Edward Hastings, Sir Edmund Peckam, and Sir Robert Drury, had levied ten thousand men in the counties of Oxford, Buckingham, Berks, and Middlesex; and purposed to march from Drayton for Westminster and the palace: her more distant friends continued to send her presents of money and offers of service: Henry Jerningham prevailed on a hostile squadron, of six sail, which had reached the harbour of Yarmouth, to acknowledge her authority: and a

timely supply of arms and ammunition from the ships, relieved the more urgent wants of her adherents.

In a few days Mary was surrounded by more than thirty thousand men, all volunteers in her cause, who refused to receive pay, and served through the sole motive of loyalty. In this emergency, doubt and distrust seem to have unnerved the mind of Northumberland, who had marched from Cambridge, in the direction of Framlingham, accompanied by his son, the earl of Warwick, by the marquis of Northampton, the earl of Huntingdon, and the lord Gray. With an army of eight thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry, inferior, indeed, in number to his opponents, but infinitely superior in military appointments and discipline, he might, by a bold and immediate attack, have dispersed the tumultuous force of the royalists; and have driven Mary across the sea, to the court of her imperial cousin. But he saw, as he advanced, the enthusiasm of the people in her cause; he heard that he had been proclaimed a rebel, and that a price had been fixed on his head: and he feared that sir Edward Hastings would, in a few days, cut off his communication with the capital.

At Bury his heart failed him. He ordered a retreat to Cambridge, and wrote to the coun cil for a numerous and immediate reinforcement. The men perceived the irresolution of their leader: their ignorance of his motives, gave birth to the most disheartening reports: and their ranks were hourly thinned by deser

tion. In the council there appeared no diminution of zeal, no want of unanimity. It was resolved to send for a body of mercenaries which had been raised in Picardy; to issue commissions for the levying of troops, in the vicinity of the metropolis; and to offer eight crowns per month, besides provisions to volunteers. But, as such tardy expedients did not meet the urgency of the case, the lords proposed to separate, and hasten to the army, at the head of their respective friends and dependants. Though Suffolk had been instructed to detain them within the walls of the Tower, he either saw not their object, or dared not to oppose their pleasure. The next morning, the ford treasurer and lord privy seal, the earls of Arundel, Shrewsbury, and Pembroke, Sir Thomas Cheney, and Sir John Mason, left the fortress, and separated in different directions, but with a previous understanding to meet again at Baynard's castle. There they were joined by the lord mayor, the recorder, and a deputation of aldermen, who had been summoned by a trusty messenger; and the discussion was opened by the earl of Arundel, who, in a set speech, declaimed against the ambition of Northumberland, and asserted the right of the two daughters of Henry VIII.

The moment he had finished, the earl of Pembroke drew his sword; exclaiming, "If the arguments of my lord of Arundel do not persuade you, this sword shall make Mary queen, or I will die in her quarrel." He was answered with shouts of approbation. The whole bo