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 1569-] THE RISING OF THE NORTH. r 43 Scots been released his caution would have availed him little ; the war would have rolled south and have left him behind : but it was necessary to risk something, and events worked for him. Money came in at last, though in small quantities and grudgingly given. The soldiers in the city were paid up and grew better tempered. ' The discreet began to mislike the insurrection/ ' the wealthy to be afraid of spoil.' At the first stir < there were few or none of the citizens that were not more ad- dicted to the rebels than to the Queen,' and there was not a cannon or a cartridge in the town. Sussex kept them all quiet, brought guns and powder up from Hull, threw up bulwarks, did everything better than could have been expected from his first fears and his common- place character. Hunsdon was able to say ' that if Sus- sex's diligence and carefulness had not been great, her Majesty had neither had York nor Yorkshire any longer at her devotion : he wished to God her Majesty knew all his doings : she would know how good a subject she had.' l By this time the Court was thoroughly alarmed, and a Southern force was on the move. Lord Pembroke replied to the Earls' manifesto with disclaiming all sym- pathy with them or their object. He had ever been a true subject, he said, and he did not mean in his old age to spot his former life with disloyalty. He declared him- self ready and willing to serve anywhere and against any enemy. 2 With graceful confidence the Queen ac- ' Hunsdon to Cecil, November I 2 Pembroke to the Queen, De- 26 ; MSS. Horde?. I cember 5 : Burghky Papers, vol. i.