Northumberland, having heard that the forces of Mary daily increased by the concourse of the people to her from all quarters, resolved to make war upon her as quickly as possible. Having therefore left the care of the Tower of London to the Lords of the Council, he marched out of London on the 14th of July with an army and a train of artillery. Meantime the nobles of the city, who had hitherto dissembled their sentiments through fear of the Duke, proclaimed on the 19th of July Mary, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, Queen of England. The Duke, readily conjecturing how this game was likely to end, took his counsel according to the time. Turning to his adherents and feigning a grievous sorrow, he said, 'Is this the fidelity of colleagues who were privy to all my transactions? But be it so, we can cast the same sheet-anchor:' and forthwith he commanded Mary to be proclaimed with great pomp Queen of England, first in the camp and afterwards at Cambridge on the 20th of July."
   But this posthumous kind of loyalty, our author proceeds to shew, was paraded before the country in

vain. Being  taken, with his four sons, some nobles, and about twenty servants, he was brought ignominiously to London and imprisoned in the Tower on the 26th of July. After the accession of the Queen and the obsequies of Edward VI, which she ordered to be solemnised immediately, the writer of this remarkable tract, who, as a foreign Protestant, feared naturally that the asylum given to the exiles on account of religion would be inevitably withdrawn, passed over into the Netherlands, the last words of his narrative running thus:—
   "After that, I departed from England; but remaining sometime at Bruges I saw a letter to our resident there, Herrmann Falco, doctor of laws, in which it was stated that the Duke of Northumberland with some of his accomplices had paid the forfeit of their crimes, shewing, in the terrible spectacle of their punishment and by their example, that the avenging eyes of God will not suffer any wickedness to be of long duration or to go unpunished."
   It would appear from the subsequent history that