Note 3. The line of Grey de Wilton is the youngest branch of the royal House of York.
Note 4. John Earl of Warwick, eldest son of Northumberland, had married Anne, eldest daughter of Somerset.
Note 5. This ancient English shout is always spelt thus; but there is reason to think that the first word was sounded ah.
Note 6. Convicted. The Duke was acquitted on the first count, of high treason; and the people, hearing the announcement, “Not Guilty,” supposed that the trial was ended, and the Duke completely acquitted.
Chapter Six.
A Crime which was a Blunder.
“We pass: the path that each man trod
Is dim, or shall be dim, with weeds.
What fame is left for human deeds
In endless age? It rests with God.”
Tennyson.
No ill befel Lord Grey de Wilton. There was but little laid to his charge,—only a journey to the North, preceding the Duke of Somerset, to discover who were his friends. Perhaps the Council was ashamed to shed the blood of the man who had but lately put down the rising in Cornwall, and joined in raising the siege of Exeter. Whatever the cause were, he was quietly acquitted on the 19th of December, and suffered to go home.