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might visibly perceive in his face and countenance, 

 and almost moulten with sweat, though without any 

 cause of bodily labour but only by the perplexity 

 and horror of his mind, he came to Smith s house the 

 sheriff, where he refreshed himself a little and 

 shifted him. 



But the mean while it pleased God, that her 

 majesty s directions at court, though in a case so 

 strange and sudden, were judicial and sound. For 

 first there was commandment in the morning given 

 unto the city, that every man should be in a readi 

 ness both in person and armour, but yet to keep 

 within his own door, and to expect commandment ; 

 upon a reasonable and politic consideration, that 

 had they armed suddenly in the streets, if there 

 were any ill disposed persons, they might arm on 

 the one side and turn on the other, or at least, if 

 armed men had been seen to and fro, it would have 

 bred a greater tumult, and more blood-shed ; and 

 the nakedness of Essex s troop would not have so 

 well appeared. 



And soon after, direction was given that the 

 lord Burghley, taking with him the king of heralds, 

 should declare him traitor in the principal parts of 

 the city ; which was performed with good expedition 

 and resolution, and the loss and hurt of some of his 

 company. Besides that, the earl of Cumberland, 

 and Sir Thomas Gerard, knight-marshal, rode into 

 the city, and declared and notified to the people 

 that he was a traitor : from which time divers of his 

 troop withdrawing from him, and none other coming 



