James Froude - History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III

Examination of Brian Staines: Rolls House MS. A 2, 29. In the margin of this document, pointing to the last paragraph, is an ominous finger ☞, drawn either by the king or Cromwell.

Compare the Report of Lancaster Herald to Cromwell, MS. State Paper Office , second series, Vol. XIX.: “My especial good lord, so far as I have gone, I have found the most corrupted and malicious spiritualty, inward and partly outward, that any prince of the world hath in his realm; and if the truth be perfectly known, it will be found that they were the greatest corrupters of the temporality, and have given the secret occasion of all this mischief.”

Lord Hussey to the Mayor of Lincoln: Cotton. MS. Vespasian , F 13.

Rolls House MS. first series, 416. Cutler’s Confessions MS. ibid. 407. Deposition of Robert Sotheby: Ibid. A 2, 29.

Lord Shrewsbury to the King: MS. State Paper Office . Letter to the king and council, Vol. V. Hollinshed tells a foolish story, that Lord Shrewsbury sued out his pardon to the king for moving without orders. As he had done nothing for which to ask pardon, so it is certain, from his correspondence with the king, that he did not ask for any. Let me take this opportunity of saying that neither Hollinshed, nor Stow, nor even Hall, nor any one of the chroniclers, can be trusted in their account of this rebellion.

MS. State Paper Office , first series.

“My lord: Hugh Ascue, this bearer, hath shewed me that this day a servant of Sir William Hussey’s reported how that in manner, in every place by the way as his master and he came, he hath heard as well old people as young pray God to speed the rebellious persons in Lincolnshire, and wish themselves with them; saying, that if they came that way, that they shall lack nothing that they can help them unto. And the said Hugh asked what persons they were which so reported, and he said all ; which is a thing as meseemeth greatly to be noted.” – Sir William Fitzwilliam to Lord Cromwell: MS. State Paper Office , second series, Vol. VI.

Richard Cromwell to Lord Cromwell: MS. State Paper Office , second series, Vol. VII.

“Nothing we lament so much as that they thus fly; for our trust was that we should have used them like as they have deserved; and I for my part am as sorry as if I had lost five hundred pounds. For my lord admiral (Sir John Russell), he is so earnest in the matter, that I dare say he would eat them with salt.” – Richard Cromwell to Lord Cromwell: MS. State Paper Office .

Henry VIII. to the Rebels in Lincolnshire: State Papers , Vol. I. p. 463, &c.

Confession of Thos. Mayne: Rolls House MS. first series, 432.

Confession of Thos. Mayne: Rolls House MS. first series, 432.

Henry VIII. to the Duke of Suffolk: Ibid. 480.

Wriothesley to Cromwell: State Papers , Vol. I. p. 471. Examination of the Prisoners: Rolls House MS.

Henry VIII. to the Duke of Suffolk: Rolls House MS. first series, 480.

“The captain and the Earl of Cumberland came of two sisters.” – Lord Darcy to Somerset Herald: Rolls House MS.

State Papers , Vol. I. p. 523.

Manner of the taking of Robert Aske: Rolls House MS. A 2, 28.

“There was a letter forged in my name to certain towns, which I utterly deny to be my deed or consent.” – Narrative of Robert Aske: Rolls House MS. A 2, 28. This is apparently the letter which is printed in the State Papers , Vol. I. p. 467. It was issued on the 7th or 8th of October (see Stapleton’s Confession: Rolls House MS. A 2, 28), the days on which, according to Aske’s own confession, he seems to have been in the West Riding.

The oath varied a little in form. In Yorkshire the usual form was, “Ye shall swear to be true to God, the king, and the commonwealth.” – Aske’s Narrative: Rolls House MS. The tendency of the English to bind themselves with oaths, explains and partly justifies the various oaths required by the government.

Deposition of William Stapleton: Rolls House MS.

Henry VIII. to Lord Darcy, October 8th: Rolls House MS. first series, 282.

Letters to and from Lord Darcy: Rolls House MS. first series, 282.

Henry had written him a second letter on the 9th of October, in which, knowing nothing as yet of the rising in Yorkshire, he had expressed merely a continued confidence in Darcy’s discretion.

Stapleton’s Confession: Rolls House MS. A 2, 28.

Examination of Sir Thomas Percy: Rolls House MS. Demeanour of Sir Thomas and Sir Ingram Percy: MS. ibid. first series, 896.

“The said Aske suffered no foot man to enter the city, for fear of spoils.” – Manner of the taking of Robert Aske: Rolls House MS. A 2, 28.

Earl of Oxford to Cromwell: MS. State Paper Office , second series, Vol. III.

Henry VIII. to Lord Darcy, October 13: Rolls House MS.

Lord Darcy to the King, October 17: Rolls House MS.

Lord Shrewsbury to Lord Darcy: Rolls House MS. first series, 282. Darcy certainly received this letter, since a copy of it is in the collection made by himself.

Manner of the taking of Robert Aske: Rolls House MS. A 2, 28.

I believe that I am unnecessarily tender to Lord Darcy’s reputation. Aske, though he afterwards contradicted himself, stated in his examination that Lord Darcy could have defended the castle had he wished. — Rolls House MS. , A 2, 29. It was sworn that when he was advised “to victual and store Pomfret,” he said, “there was no need; it would do as it was.” Ibid. And Sir Henry Saville stated that “when Darcy heard of the first rising, he said, ‘Ah! they are up in Lincolnshire. God speed them well. I would they had done this three years ago, for the world should have been the better for it.’” – Ibid.

Aske’s Deposition: Rolls House MS. first series, 414.

Examination of Sir Thomas Percy: Rolls House MS.

Stapleton’s Confession: Ibid. A 2, 28.

Examination of Christopher Aske: Rolls House MS. first series, 840

Ibid.

Henry VIII. to the Duke of Suffolk: Rolls House MS.

Wriothesley to Cromwell: State Papers , Vol. I. p. 472.

The Marquis of Exeter, who was joined in commission with the Duke of Norfolk, never passed Newark. He seems to have been recalled, and sent down into Devonshire, to raise the musters in his own county.