[136] I believe that I am unnecessarily tender to Lord Darcy’s reputation. Aske, though he afterwards contradicted himself, stated in his examination that Lord Darcy could have defended the castle had he wished.—Rolls House MS., A 2, 29. It was sworn that when he was advised “to victual and store Pomfret,” he said, “there was no need; it would do as it was.” Ibid. And Sir Henry Saville stated that “when Darcy heard of the first rising, he said, ‘Ah! they are up in Lincolnshire. God speed them well. I would they had done this three years ago, for the world should have been the better for it.’”—Ibid.
[137] Aske’s Deposition: Rolls House MS. first series, 414.
[138] Examination of Sir Thomas Percy: Rolls House MS.
[139] Stapleton’s Confession: Ibid. A 2, 28.
[140] Examination of Christopher Aske: Rolls House MS. first series, 840
[141] Ibid.
[142] Henry VIII. to the Duke of Suffolk: Rolls House MS.
[143] Wriothesley to Cromwell: State Papers, Vol. I. p. 472.
[144] The Marquis of Exeter, who was joined in commission with the Duke of Norfolk, never passed Newark. He seems to have been recalled, and sent down into Devonshire, to raise the musters in his own county.
[145] State Papers, Vol. I. p. 493.