"No,"
Peckham answered, and gave him his hand with his promise.

"I will tell you more, then," his friend went on; "we shall have that
will take our part, the Earl of Westmoreland, who will not come alone,
and we shall have my Lord Williams."[554]

[Footnote 554: Lord Williams of Thame, who
superintended the executions of Ridley, Latimer,
and Cranmer.]

{p.262} "That cannot be," Peckham said; "he hath served the queen
right well, and by her highness was made lord."

"I can better tell than you," Ashton answered; "the Lord Williams is a
good fellow, and is as unthankfully dealt with as you, Sir Henry. I
tell you that he is sure on our side; and Sir Henry Dudley hath spoken
with all the gentlemen that be soldiers, that be about the town, and
they be all sure ours, so that we have left the queen never a man of
war that is worth a button."[555]

[Footnote 555: Confession of Sir Henry Peckham:
_Mary, Domestic, MS._ vol. viii.]

The scene changes. Readers of the earlier volumes of this history will
remember Arundel's, in Lawrence Poultney Lane, where Lord Surrey and
his friends held their nightly festivities. Times had changed, and so
had Arundel's. It was now the resort of the young liberal members of
parliament, where the opposition tactics in the House of Commons were
discussed and settled upon. Here during the late session had met the
men whose names have been mentioned in the preceding conversation, and
who had crossed the queen's purposes; Kingston, Peckham, Ashton,
Dudley, and with them Sir John Perrot, Sir William Courtenay, Sir Hugh
Pollard, Sir John Chichester, and two young Tremaynes of Colacombe in
Devonshire, one of whom had been concerned with Wyatt and Carew. Here
also came John Daniel, in the service at one time of Lord Northampton,
who, not being in parliament, was excluded from the more private
consultations, but heard much of the general talk; "how they, with
great wilfulness, as might be perceived by their behaviour, did sore
mislike such Catholic proceedings as they saw the queen went about,
and did intend to resist such matters as should be spoken of in the
Parliament House other than liked them."[556]

[Footnote 556: Confession of John Daniel: _MS.
Mary, Domestic_, vol. viii.]

The party broke up with the dissolution. Some of them, however, came
back to London, a