Footnote 31: Ibid.]

The principal conspirator was now out of the way; his own particular
creatures--Sir Thomas and Sir Henry Palmer, and {p.014} Sir John
Gates, who had commanded the Tower guard, had gone with him.
Northampton was gone. The young Dudleys were gone all but Guilford.
Suffolk alone remained of the faction definitely attached to the duke;
and the duke was marching to the destruction which they had prepared
for him. But prudence still warned those who were loyal to Mary to
wait before they declared themselves; the event was still uncertain;
and the disposition of the Earl of Pembroke might not yet, perhaps,
have been perfectly ascertained.

Pembroke, in the black volume of appropriations, was the most deeply
compromised. Pembroke, in Wilts and Somerset, where his new lands lay,
was hated for his oppression of the poor, and had much to fear from a
Catholic sovereign, could a Catholic sovereign obtain the reality as
well as the name of power; Pembroke, so said Northumberland, had been
the first to propose the conspiracy to him, while his eldest son had
married Catherine Grey. But, as Northumberland's designs began to
ripen, he had endeavoured to steal from the court; he was a
distinguished soldier, yet he was never named to command the army
which was to go against Mary; Lord Herbert's marriage was outward and
nominal merely--a form, which had not yet become a reality, and never
did. Although Pembroke was the first of the council to do homage to
Jane, Northumberland evidently doubted him. He was acting and would
continue to act for his own personal interests only. With his vast
estates and vast hereditary influence in South Wales and on the
Border, he could bring a larger force into the field than any other
single nobleman in England; and he could purchase the secure
possession of his acquisitions by a well-timed assistance to Mary as
readily as by lending his strength to buttress the throne of her
rival.

Of the rest of the council, Winchester and Arundel had signed the
letters patent with a deliberate intention of deserting or betraying
Northumberland, whenever a chance should present itself, and of
carrying on their secret measures in Mary's favour[32] {p.015} with
greater security. The other noblemen in the Tower perhaps imperfectly
understood each other. Cranmer had taken part unwillingly with Lady
Jane; but he meant to keep his promise, having once given it. Bedford
had opposed the duke up to the sig