th the Marquis of Winchester, they
withdrew their objections, and professed themselves willing to go.
Northumberland, uneasy at their conduct, or requiring a larger force,
issued a proclamation offering tenpence a day to volunteers who would
go to bring in the Lady Mary.[23] The lists were soon filled, but
filled with the retainers and servants of his secret enemies.[24]

[Footnote 23: _Grey Friars' Chronicle._]

[Footnote 24: "Ille impigre quidem, utpote cujus
res agebatur, proponit magna stipendia; conducit
militem partim invitum partim perfidum; constabant
enim majori ex parte satellitia nobilium qui
secreto Mariae favebant."--Julius Terentianus to
John 'ab Ulmis: _Epistolae Tigurinae_, p. 243.]

The men being thus collected, Suffolk was first thought of to lead
them, or else Lord Grey de Wilton;[25] but Suffolk was inefficient,
and his daughter could not bring herself to part with him; Grey was a
good soldier, but he had been a friend of Somerset, and the duke had
tried hard to involve him with Arundel and Paget in Somerset's
ruin.[26] Northampton's truth could have been depended upon, but
Northampton four years before had been defeated by a mob of Norfolk
peasants. Northumberland, the council said, must go himself--"there
was no remedy." No man, on all accounts, could be so fit as he; "he
had achieved the victory in Norfolk once already, and was so feared,
that none durst lift their weapons against him:"[27] Suffolk in his
absence should command the Tower. Had the duke dared, he would have
delayed; but every moment that he remained inactive added to Mary's
strength, and whatever he did he must risk something. He resolved to
go, and as the plot was thickening, he sent Sir Henry Dudley to Paris
to entreat the king to protect Calais against Charles, should the
latter move upon it in his cousin's interest.

[Footnote 25: Renard to Charles V.: _Rolls House
MSS._]

[Footnote 26: Ibid.]

[Footnote 27: _Chronicle of Queen Jane._]

Noailles had assured him that this and larger favours would be granted
without difficulty; while, as neither Renard nor his companions had as
yet acknowledged Lady Jane, and were notoriously in correspondence
with Mary, the French ambassador {p.013} suggested also that he
would do wi