realm, to [maintain the] most wicked and devilish
enterprise of certain wicked and perverse
councillors, to the utter confusion of this her
Grace's realm, and the perpetual servitude of all
her most loving subjects. In consideration whereof,
we Sir Thos. Wyatt, knight, Sir George Harper,
knight, Anthony Knyvet, esq., with all the faithful
gentlemen of Kent, with the trusty commons of the
same, do pronounce and declare the said Henry Lord
of Abergavenny, Robert Southwell, and George Clarke
to be traitors to God, the Crown, and the
commonwealth."--_MS. Mary, Domestic_, State Paper
Office.]

[Footnote 219: Renard to Charles V.: _Rolls House
MSS._]

The queen, however, applied to the corporation of the city (January
27), and obtained a promise of five hundred men; she gave the command
to the Duke of Norfolk, on whose integrity she knew that she could
rely; and, sending a herald to Rochester with a pardon, if the rebels
would disperse, she despatched Norfolk, Sir Henry Jerningham, and the
young Lord Ormond, to Gravesend, without waiting for an answer. The
city bands were to follow them immediately. Afraid that Elizabeth
would fly before she could be secured, the queen wrote a letter to her
studiously gracious, in which she told her that, in the disturbed
state of the country, she was uneasy for her safety, and recommended
{p.094} her to take shelter with herself in the palace.[220] Had
Elizabeth obeyed, she would have been instantly arrested; but she was
ill, and wrote that she was unable to move. The next day evidence came
into Gardiner's hands which he trusted would consign her at last to
the scaffold.

[Footnote 220: Strype, vol. v. p. 127. Mr. Tytler
appeals to this letter as an evidence of the good
feeling of the queen towards her sister; but many
and genuine as were Mary's good qualities, she may
not be credited with a regard for Elizabeth.
Renard's letters explain her real sentiments, and
account for her outward graciousness. She had
already consulted with Renard and Gardiner on the