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 1569.] THE RISING OF THE NORTH. 145 X came in from him would only say that they must do nothing unless they were certain of success. 1 A proclamation was now sent down and issued at York,, promising a free pardon to all the rebels except the two Earls and ten others, on condition of their im- mediately laying down their arms. Lord Clinton went into Lincolnshire, Lord Warwick and Lord Hereford into the Midland Counties, to collect a force to relieve Sussex ; and by the end of November two bodies of 4000 men each were converging rapidly upon Don- caster. Warwick was crippled with gout and only half re- covered from the wound which he had received at Havre, but ' thinking himself the unhappiest man living if he should not be in place to venture his life against the rebels ; ' 2 while ships left Sheerness, some to cruise in the Channel, some to lie off Hartlepool, in case the Spaniards 'should attempt to cross. On the 26th of November the Earls of Northumber- land and Westmoreland were proclaimed traitors at Windsor. Northumberland was a Knight of the Gar- ter. On Sunday the 27th, a fortnight after the mass in Durham Cathedral, the Heralds and the Knight Marshal went in procession to St George's Chapel. Rouge Cross read the sentence of degradation from a ladder against aguardan a entender si V. Mag d ser. servido de daries favor.' Don Gue- rau to Philip, December 20. 1 ' Mas ban de rairar mucho como lo emprender, pu.es si errasese el hecisteis muy bien en remitirlos al Duque de Alva.' Philip to Don Guerau, November 18. 2 Warwick to Cecil, December 3: MSS. Domestic. hecho eran todos perdidos, y vos VOL. ix. 10