ards heretics, was savage at the frustration of his own schemes.
Renard in the closet, Gardiner in the pulpit, alike told her that she
must show no more mercy.[247] On Ash Wednesday evening, after Wyatt's
{p.110} surrender, a proclamation forbade all persons to shelter the
fugitive insurgents under pain of death. The "poor caitiffs" were
brought out of the houses where they had hidden themselves, and were
given up by hundreds. Huntingdon came in on Saturday with Suffolk and
his brothers. Sir James Crofts, Sir Henry Isly, and Sir Gawen Carew
followed. The common prisons overflowed into the churches, where
crowds of wretches were huddled together till the gibbets were ready
for their hanging; the Tower wards were so full that Cranmer, Ridley,
and Latimer were packed into a single cell; and all the living
representatives of the families of Grey and Dudley, except two young
girls, were now within the Tower walls, sentenced, or soon to be
sentenced, to death.

[Footnote 247: "On Sunday, the 11th of February,
the Bishop of Winchester preached in the chapel
before the queen." "The preachers for the seven
years last past, he said, by dividing of words and
other their own additions, had brought in many
errours detestable unto the Church of Christ." "He
axed a boon of the Queen's Highness, that, like as
she had beforetime extended her mercy particularly
and privately, [and] so through her lenity and
gentleness much conspiracy and open rebellion was
grown ... she would now be merciful to the body of
the commonwealth and conservation thereof, which
could not be unless the rotten and hurtful members
thereof were cut off and consumed."--_Chronicle of
Queen Mary_, p. 54.]

The queen's blood is up at last, Renard wrote exultingly to the
emperor on the 8th of February;[248] "the Duke of Suffolk, Lord Thomas
Grey, and Sir James Crofts have written to ask for mercy, but they
will find none; their heads will fall, and so will Courtenay's and
Elizabeth's. I have told the queen that she must be especially prompt
with these two. We have nothing now to hope for except that France
will break the peace, and then all will be well." On the 12th of
February the ambas