ellors, whose compliance, he knew, had been
entirely the result of fear or artifice, he was resolved to keep near
the person of the lady Jane, and send Suffolk to command the army. But
the counsellors, who wished to remove him,[**] working on the filial
tenderness of Jane, magnified to her the danger to which her father
would be exposed; and represented that Northumberland, who had gained
reputation by formerly suppressing a rebellion in those parts, was more
proper to command in that enterprise.

* Heylin, p. 160. Burnet, vol. ii. p. 237.

** Godwin, p. 330. Heylin, p. 159. Burnet vol. ii. p. 239.
Fox, vol. iii. p 15.

The duke himself, who knew the slender capacity of Suffolk, began to
think that none but himself was able to encounter the present danger;
and he agreed to take on him the command of the troops. The counsellors
attended on him at his departure with the highest protestations of
attachment, and none more than Arundel, his mortal enemy.[*] As he went
along, he remarked the disaffection of the people, which foreboded a
fatal issue to his ambitious hopes. "Many," said he to Lord Gray, "come
out to look at us, but I find not one who cries, God speed you!"[**]

The duke had no sooner reached St. Edmondsbury, than he found his
army, which did not exceed six thousand men, too weak to encounter
the queen's,[***] which amounted to double the number. He wrote to the
council, desiring them to send him a reenforcement; and the counsellors
immediately laid hold of the opportunity to free themselves from
confinement. They left the Tower, as if they meant to execute
Northumberland's commands; but being assembled in Baynard's castle, a
house belonging to Pembroke, they deliberated concerning the method
of shaking off his usurped tyranny. Arundel began the conference,
by representing the injustice and cruelty of Northumberland, the
exorbitancy of his ambition, the criminal enterprise which he had
projected, and the guilt in which he had involved the whole council;
and he affirmed, that the only method of making atonement for their past
offences, was by a speedy return to the duty which they owed to their
lawful sovereign.[****] This motion was seconded by Pembroke, who,
clapping his hand to his sword, swore he was ready to fight any man that
expressed himself of a contrary sentiment. The mayor and aldermen of
London were immediately sent for, who discovered great alacrity in
obeying the orders they recei