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 MARY THE FIRST. 385 taken in having the Lacly Jane set up as queen, he once more broke out into rebellion, when he found that the queen was bent on wedding Philip of Spain, and so drew on the Lady Jane that violent death from which Mary seemed disposed to save her, by furnishing a pretext to her enemies that the queen rould hope for no security while Jane and her husband lived. ileVen days after the execution of Lady Jane Grey and Lord 1 iuildford Dudley, Suffolk was beheaded ; so that Queen Mary's f some of the noblest blood in her kingdom, and nearly allied ) her own. The rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt, founded, as •as alleged, on his dislike to the queen's marriage with Philip f Spain — a dislike shared by the whole nation — again involved fary in serious troubles. She appointed the Duke of Norfolk eneral of her forces, and prepared to resist her rebellious ubjects. The success that followed Wyatt 's outbreak en- couraged him, and increased his followers, while the defeat sustained by the queen's forces filled her friends with appre- hension. Two privy councillors, Sir Edward Hastings, master f the horse and Sir Thomas Cornwallis, sought an interview ith Wyatt, near Dartford, and demanded, in the queen's ime, "Wherefore he gathered in arms her liege people against r, yet that in his proclamation he called himself a true sub- t, both which cannot stand together?" T am no traitor,' quoth Wyatt ; 'and the cause why I have embled the people is to defend the realm from danger of iarriage takes place.' "Why," said the councillors, "there is no stranger yet come, her for power or number, whom you need to suspect ; there- if.that thing only be the quarrel, will you, that dislike iarriage, come to communication touching the cause, and leen is content you shall be heard?" "o that I yield,' said Sir Thomas Wyatt ; 'but for my ir surety I will rather be trusted than trust,' and there- 1 demanded, as some h^ve written, saith Holinshed, the ody of the Tower, and her grace within it, as also the dis- 'ng of some councillors about her, and to place others in room. which the master of the horse replied, 'Wyatt, before lalt have thy traitorous demand granted, thou shalt die, enty thousand more with thee!' And so these agents
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