[106] Lord Hussey to the Mayor of Lincoln: Cotton. MS. Vespasian, F 13.

[107] Rolls House MS. first series, 416. Cutler’s Confessions MS. ibid. 407. Deposition of Robert Sotheby: Ibid. A 2, 29.

[108] Lord Shrewsbury to the King: MS. State Paper Office. Letter to the king and council, Vol. V. Hollinshed tells a foolish story, that Lord Shrewsbury sued out his pardon to the king for moving without orders. As he had done nothing for which to ask pardon, so it is certain, from his correspondence with the king, that he did not ask for any. Let me take this opportunity of saying that neither Hollinshed, nor Stow, nor even Hall, nor any one of the chroniclers, can be trusted in their account of this rebellion.

[109] MS. State Paper Office, first series.

[110] “My lord: Hugh Ascue, this bearer, hath shewed me that this day a servant of Sir William Hussey’s reported how that in manner, in every place by the way as his master and he came, he hath heard as well old people as young pray God to speed the rebellious persons in Lincolnshire, and wish themselves with them; saying, that if they came that way, that they shall lack nothing that they can help them unto. And the said Hugh asked what persons they were which so reported, and he said all; which is a thing as meseemeth greatly to be noted.”—Sir William Fitzwilliam to Lord Cromwell: MS. State Paper Office, second series, Vol. VI.

[111] Richard Cromwell to Lord Cromwell: MS. State Paper Office, second series, Vol. VII.

[112] “Nothing we lament so much as that they thus fly; for our trust was that we should have used them like as they have deserved; and I for my part am as sorry as if I had lost five hundred pounds. For my lord admiral (Sir John Russell), he is so earnest in the matter, that I dare say he would eat them with salt.”—Richard Cromwell to Lord Cromwell: MS. State Paper Office.

[113] Henry VIII. to the Rebels in Lincolnshire: State Papers, Vol. I. p. 463, &c.

[114] Confession of Thos. Mayne: Rolls House MS. first series, 432.

[115] Confession of Thos. Mayne: Rolls House MS. first series, 432.