Footnote 243: Letter of William Markham: Tanner MSS. Bodleian Library. Compare Stow.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 244: Renard to Charles V., February 8: Rolls House MSS.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 245: Holinshed.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 246: The dress of the Londoners who came with Wyatt being the city uniform, they were distinguished by the dirt upon their legs from their night march. The cry of Pembroke's men in the fight was "Down with the daggle-tails!"[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 247: "On Sunday, the 11th of February, the Bishop of Winchester preached in the chapel before the queen." "The preachers for the seven years last past, he said, by dividing of words and other their own additions, had brought in many errours detestable unto the Church of Christ." "He axed a boon of the Queen's Highness, that, like as she had beforetime extended her mercy particularly and privately, [and] so through her lenity and gentleness much conspiracy and open rebellion was grown ... she would now be merciful to the body of the commonwealth and conservation thereof, which could not be unless the rotten and hurtful members thereof were cut off and consumed."—Chronicle of Queen Mary, p. 54.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 248: Rolls House MSS.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 249: Renard to Charles V., February 12: Rolls House MSS.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 250: Baoardo. The writer of the Chronicle of Queen Mary, says, "She was appointed to have been put to death on Friday, but was stayed—for what cause is not known." Baoardo supplies the explanation.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 251: Vol. vi. pp. 415-417.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 252: The story told by Baoardo, to whom, it would seem, Feckenham related it.[(Back to Main Text)]