In Sir John Hayward's Life and Reign of K. Edward VI., we read,—
"Herewith Sir Thomas Palmer, a man neither loving the Duke of Somerset, nor beloved of him, was brought by the Duke of Northumberland to the King being in his garden. Here he declared on St. George's day last before, the Duke of Somerset being upon a journey towards the north, in case Sir William Herbert, Master of the Horse, had not assured him he should receive no harm, would have raised the people; and that he had sent the Lord Gray before, to know who would be his friends: also that the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquis of Northampton, the Earl of Pembroke, and other lords should be invited to a banquet, and if they came with a bare company, to be set upon by the way; if strongly, their heads should have been cut off at the place of their feasting. He declared further that Sir Ralph Vane, had two thousand men in a readiness; that Sir Thomas Arundell had assured the Tower, that Seymor and Hamond, would wait upon him, and that all the horse of the Gendarmorie should be slain."
This must have been the day on which the boy-king records in his journal,—
"11 Oct., 1551. Sir Thomas Arrondel had ashuerid my Lord that the Towre was sauf."
The "my Lord" here must have related to Somerset, which the King heard of in his conversation with Northumberland.
On the 16 October, 1551, says Grafton,—
"being Fryday, the Duke was again apprehended, and committed to the Tower, on a charge of high treason."
And the King records,—
"This morning none was at Westminster of the conspiratours. The first was the Duke, who came later than he was wont, of himself. After diner he was apprehendid."
Sir John Hayward thus describes it,—