nature, and might be supposed to
adhere to his original opinion; but he was most likely hesitating,
while Lord Russell had been trusted with the command of the garrison
at Windsor. Sir Thomas Cheyne and Shrewsbury might be counted among
Mary's friends; the latter certainly. Of the three secretaries,
Cecil's opposition had put his life in jeopardy; Petre was the friend
and confidant of Paget, and would act as Paget should advise; Cheke, a
feeble enthusiast, was committed to the duke.

[Footnote 32: "Aliqui subscripserunt, id quod
postea compertum est, ut facilius fallerent
Northumbrum, cujus consilio haec omnia videbant
fieri et tegerent conspirationem quam adornabant in
auxilium Mariae."--Julius Terentianus to John ab
Ulmis: _Epistolae Tigurinae_, p. 242. John Knox
allowed his vehemence to carry him too far against
the Marquis of Winchester, who unquestionably was
not one of those who advised the scheme of
Northumberland. In the "aliqui" of Julius
Terentianus, the letters of Renard, of Scheyfne,
enable us to identify both him and Arundel; but
there must have been many more, in the council or
out of it, who were acting in concert with them.]

The task of bringing the council together was undertaken by Cecil.
Cecil and Winchester worked on Bedford; and Bedford made himself
responsible for his son, for the troops at Windsor, and generally for
the western counties. The first important step was to readmit Paget to
the council. Fresh risings were reported in Northamptonshire and
Lincolnshire;[33] Sir John Williams was proclaiming Mary round Oxford;
and on Friday night or Saturday morning (July 15) news came from the
fleet which might be considered decisive as to the duke's prospects.
The vessels, so carefully equipped, which left the Thames on the 12th,
had been driven into Yarmouth Harbour by stress of weather. Sir Henry
Jerningham was in the town raising men for Mary; and knowing that the
crews had been pressed, and that there had been desertions among the
troops before they were embarked,[34] he ventured boldly among the
ships. "Do you want our captains?" some one said to him. "Yea, marry,"
was the answer. "Then they shall go with you," the men shouted, "or
th