340 DECLARATION OF THE TREASONS 



company of pikemen and other forces, gathered to 

 gether by the wise and diligent care of the bishop 

 of London, and commanded by Sir John Luson, and 

 yet attempting to clear the passage, he was with no 

 great difficulty repulsed. At which encounter Sir 

 Christopher Blunt was sore wounded, and young 

 Tracy slain on his part ; and one Waits on the 

 queen s part, and some others. Upon which repulse 

 he went back and fled towards the water-side, and 

 took boat at Queenhithe, and so was received into 

 Essex-house at the water-gate, which he fortified 

 and barricado d ; but instantly the lord-lieutenant 

 so disposed his companies, as all passage and issue 

 forth was cut off from him both by land and by 

 water, and all succours that he might hope for were 

 discouraged : and leaving the earl of Cumberland, 

 the earl of Lincoln, the lord Thomas Howard, the 

 lord Gray, the lord Burghley, and the lord Comp- 

 ton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas Gerard, with 

 divers others, before the house to landward, my 

 lord-lieutenant himself thought good, taking with 

 him the lord of Effingham, lord Cobham, Sir John 

 Stanhope, Sir Robert Sidney, M. Foulk Grevill, 

 with divers others, to assail the garden and banquet- 

 ing-house on the water-side, and presently forced 

 the garden, and won to the w r alls of the house, and 

 was ready to have assailed the house ; but out of a 

 Christian and honourable consideration, understand 

 ing that there were in the house the countess of 

 Essex, and the lady Rich, with their gentlewomen, 

 let the earl of Essex know by Sir Robert Sidney, 



