r par les
marques qu'il en a et aura encores d'icy a long
temps au col."--Noailles to Montmorency:
_Ambassades_, vol. iii.]

[Footnote 286: Dict on qu'elle veult que l'ung
d'eulx soit sacrifie pour tout le peuple.--Ibid.]

Over Elizabeth, in the meantime, the fatal net appeared to be closing;
Lord Russell had received a letter for her from Wyatt, which, though
the princess declared that it had never been in her hands, he said
that he had forwarded; and Wyatt himself was flattered with hopes of
life if he would extend his confession. Renard carried his ingenuity
farther; he called {p.123} in the assistance of Lady Wyatt, and
promised her that her husband should be spared; he even urged the
queen to gain over, by judicious leniency, a man whose apostasy would
be a fresh disgrace to his cause, and who might be as useful as a
servant as he had been dangerous as a foe.[287] Wyatt, being a man
without solidity of heart, showed signs of yielding to what was
required of him; but his revelations came out slowly, and to quicken
his confession he was brought to his trial on the 15th of March. He
pleaded guilty to the indictment, and he then said that Courtenay had
been the instigator of the conspiracy; he had written to Elizabeth, he
said, to advise her to remove as far as possible from London, and
Elizabeth had returned him a verbal message of thanks. This being not
enough, he was sentenced to death; but he was made to feel that he
might still earn his pardon if he would implicate Elizabeth more
deeply; and though he said nothing definite, he allowed himself to
drop vague hints that he could tell more if he pleased.[288]

[Footnote 287: Ce qui faict juger a beaulcoup de
gens que Wyatt ne mourra point, mais que la dicte
dame le rendra tant son oblige par ceste grace de
luy rendre la vie qu'elle en pourra tirer beaulcoup
de bons et grandes services. Ce qui se faict par le
moyen dudict ambassadeur de l'Empereur par l'advis
duquel se conduisent aujourdhuy toutes les opinions
d'icelle dame, et lequele traice ceste composition
avecques la femme dudict Wyatt a laquelle comme
l'on diet il a asseure la vie de son dict
mari.--Noailles to