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to bid battle to the king, for now the seas went 

 higher than to Morton and Bray, or to take London 

 within his view ; imagining with themselves, there 

 to find no less fear than wealth. 



But to return to the king. When first he heard 

 of this commotion of the Cornish men occasioned by 

 the subsidy, he was much troubled therewith ; not 

 for itself, but in regard of the concurrence of other 

 dangers that did hang over him at that time. For 

 he doubted lest a war from Scotland, a rebellion 

 from Cornwall, and the practices and conspiracies of 

 Perkin and his partakers, would come upon him at 

 once : knowing well, that it was a dangerous tripli- 

 city to a monarchy, to have the arms of a foreigner, 

 the discontents of subjects, and the title of a pre 

 tender to meet. Nevertheless the occasion took him 

 in some part well provided. For as soon as the 

 parliament had broken up, the king had presently 

 raised a puissant army to war upon Scotland. And 

 King James of Scotland likewise, on his part, had 

 made great preparations, either for defence, or for 

 new assailing of England. But as for the king s 

 forces, they were not only in preparation, but in 

 readiness presently to set forth, under the conduct o 

 D Aubigny the lord chamberlain. But as soon as 

 the king understood of the rebellion of Cornwall, he 

 stayed those forces, retaining them for his own 

 service and safety. But therewithal he dispatched 

 the Earl of Surrey into the north, for the defence and 

 strength of those parts, in case the Scots should stir. 

 But for the course he held towards the rebels, it 

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