A HISTORY OF SURREY 



addressed to the Marquis of Northampton, lieutenant of Surrey, the 

 deputy lieutenants and magistrates, announcing her entry as queen into 

 her Tower of London, and expressing confidence that the marquis will 

 do all in his power to maintain her right against the claim of the ' Lady 

 Mary, bastard daughter to our grete uncle Henry the eight.' The 

 commission of lieutenancy to the marquis granted by King Edward is 

 confirmed and the queen promises to renew the same. 1 



On July 1 6 Jane the queen wrote to admonish the gentry of Surrey 

 to stand fast in their allegiance, and on the same date the lords of the 

 Council who yet remained in London wrote with ill-disguised alarm to 

 the sheriff and justices that reports were daily spread against the queen, 

 and ' falsely also of some of us of her Majesties Privey Counsell.' 

 Wherefore they thought fit to declare the great dangers to the realm 

 and to the ' true preaching of Goddes worde ' if the bastard daughter of 

 the late King Henry were to be allowed to succeed. They significantly 

 ordered the application of the ' punishment of the laws ordeyned for 

 suche as shall attempt anything against their Sovereign lord or lady 

 being in possession of the Imperiall crowne.' The Lady Jane was, they 

 wished to suggest, at all events queen de facto and it was not treason to 

 support her. 8 The lieutenant of Surrey was not among those who wrote 

 this from the Tower. He was in the field against Mary, but already 

 meditating the change of sides, which he always executed in time to 

 save his head though not on this occasion in time to escape revisiting 

 the Tower. 3 Three days later the Earls of Arundel and Pembroke and 

 others who had signed the letter proclaimed Queen Mary. On that day, 

 July 1 9, Queen Jane sent her last warrant perhaps to Sir Thomas Cawarden 

 to provide tents for the troops who had already forsaken her. 4 On July 2 1 

 Arundel ordered Sir Thomas, as keeper of Nonsuch Park, to provide two 

 bucks for the royal household of queen Mary. 6 Cawarden would probably 

 have gladly supported Queen Jane if she had had a chance of success. 

 Sir Thomas Saunders, the sheriff, was of the family to which Nicholas 

 Saunders or Saunder, the well-known Romanist and controversialist, 

 belonged, and more likely inclined throughout to the other side. 



On July 1 9, the day on which the Council in London proclaimed 

 Mary, a letter was written from the Lord Abergavenny and other 

 Kentish gentlemen to Sir Thomas Cawarden announcing their proclama- 

 tion of Mary. 8 T. Wyatt is among the signers. This is pretty certainly 

 Sir Thomas Wyatt. The nation was unmistakably for Queen Mary. 

 The steps towards reconciliation with Rome agitated a comparatively 

 small body of genuine reformers and some of the holders of abbey lands. 

 The scheme for a Spanish marriage alarmed many, especially in the 

 south-east, who knew what Spanish rule meant in the Netherlands. On 

 January 26, 1554, Wyatt was in arms in Kent against Queen Mary's 



1 Loseley MSS. July n, 1553, i. 3. 



* Ibid. July 1 6, 1553. This and other documents at Loseley are among the Cawarden papers not 

 in the volumes of collected letters. 



3 He was attainted but pardoned, and was shortly released from the Tower. 



4 Loseley MSS. July 19, 1553. B Ibid. July 21, 1553. 6 Ibid. July 19, 1553. 



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