ved to proclaim Mary. The people expressed
their approbation by shouts of applause. Even Suffolk, who commanded in
the Tower, finding resistance fruitless, opened the gates, and declared
for the queen. The lady Jane, after the vain pageantry of wearing a
crown during ten days, returned to a private life with more satisfaction
than she felt when the royalty was tendered to her:[v] and the
messengers who were sent to Northumberland with orders to lay down his
arms, found that he had despaired of success, was deserted by all his
followers, and had already proclaimed the queen, with exterior marks
of joy and satisfaction.[v*] The people every where, on the queen's
approach to London, gave sensible expressions of their loyalty and
attachment; and the lady Elizabeth met her at the head of a thousand
horse, which that princess had levied in order to support their joint
title against the usurper.[v**]

* Heylin, p. 161. Baker, p. 315. Holingshed, p. 1086.

** Speed, p. 816.

*** Godwin, p. 331.

**** Godwin, p. 331, 332. Thuanus, lib. xiii.

v Godwin, p. 332. Thuanus, lib. xiii. c. 2

v* Stowe, p. 612.

v** Burnet, vol. ii. p. 240. Heylin, p. 19. Stowe, p. 613.

The queen gave orders for taking into custody the duke of
Northumberland, who fell on his knees to the earl of Arundel, that
arrested him, and abjectly begged his life.[*] At the same time were
committed the earl of Warwick, his eldest son, Lord Ambrose and Lord
Henry Dudley, two of his younger sons, Sir Andrew Dudley, his brother,
the marquis of Northampton, the earl of Huntingdon, Sir Thomas Palmer,
and Sir John Gates. The queen afterwards confined the duke of Suffolk,
Lady Jane Gray, and Lord Guildford Dudley. But Mary was desirous, in
the beginning of her reign, to acquire popularity by the appearance of
clemency; and because the counsellors pleaded constraint as an excuse
for their treason, she extended her pardon to most of them. Suffolk
himself recovered his liberty; and he owed this indulgence, in a great
measure, to the contempt entertained of his capacity. But the guilt of
Northumberland was too great, as well as his ambition and courage too
dangerous, to permit him to entertain any reasonable hopes of life. When
brought to his trial, he only desired permission to ask two questions of
the peers appointed to sit on his jury; whether a man could be guilty
of treason that obeyed orders given him by the council und