ores qu'il entende qu'il degoustera davantage
ceulx du pays pour y amener Francois, si est ce
craignant d'estre reboute de son emprinse, et
d'estre massacre du peuple et sa generation, et que
ma dicte dame Marie ne parvienne a la couronne, il
ne respectera chose quelconque: plustot donnera il
pied aux Francois ou peys: tel est le couraige
d'ung homme tiran, obstine, et resolu, signamment
quant il est question de se demesurer pour
regner.--Renard to Charles V.: _Granvelle Papers_,
vol. iv. p. 38.]

But the council was too quick for Dudley. A secret messenger followed
or attended him to Calais, where he was arrested, the treasure
recovered, and his despatches taken from him.

The counter-revolution could now be accomplished without bloodshed and
without longer delay. On Wednesday the 19th July word came that the
Earl of Oxford had joined Mary. A letter was written to Lord Rich
admonishing him not to follow Oxford's example, but to remain true to
Queen Jane, which the council were required to sign. Had they refused,
they would probably have been massacred.[44] Towards the middle of the
day, Winchester, Arundel, Pembroke, Shrewsbury, Bedford, Cheyne,
Paget, Mason, and Petre found means of passing the gates, and made
their way to Baynard's Castle,[45] where they sent for the mayor, the
aldermen, and other great persons of the city. When they were all
assembled, Arundel was the first to speak.

[Footnote 44: The letter is among the _Lansdowne
MSS._ It is in the hand of Sir John Cheke, and
dated July 19. The signatures are Cranmer,
Goodrich, Winchester, Bedford, Suffolk, Arundel,
Shrewsbury, Pembroke, Darcy, Paget, Cheyne, Cotton,
Petre, Cheke, Baker, Bowes.]

[Footnote 45: Fronting the river, about
three-quarters of a mile above London Bridge. The
original castle of Baynard the Norman had fallen
into ruins at the end of the fifteenth century.
Henry VII. built a palace on the site of it, which
retained the name.]

The country, he said, was on the brink of civil war, and if they
continued to support the pretensi