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| 30 | <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><font size="-1">In the
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| 31 | first journal entry to the right Edward VI records the results of an unsuccessful
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| 32 | war in Scotland, civil disturbances in England and the execution of the
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| 33 | Protector's brother who was also the king's uncle. It ends with the
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| 34 | Protector's fall from power.</font><p><font size="-1">In the second
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| 35 | journal entry Edward discusses a religious dispute with his older
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| 36 | half-sister Princess Mary. She was under renewed pressure to end the
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| 37 | illegal Mass in her household.</font><br>
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| 42 | <p><b>1549</b><p>In the meantime in England rose great stirs, likely to increase much
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| 43 | if it had not been well foreseen. The council, about nineteen of
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| 44 | them, were gathered in London, thinking to meet with the Lord Protector
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| 45 | and to make him amend some of his disorders. He, fearing his position,
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| 46 | caused the secretary in my name to be sent to the lords to know for what
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| 47 | cause they gathered their powers together and, if they meant to talk with
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| 48 | him, to say that they should come in a peaceable manner. The next
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| 49 | morning, being 6 October and Saturday, he commanded the armour to be brought
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| 50 | out of the armoury of Hampton Court, about 500 harnesses, to arm both his
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| 51 | and my men with it, the gates of the house to be fortified, and people
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| 52 | to be raised. People came abundantly to the house. That night
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| 53 | with all the people at nine or ten o'clock at night I went to Windsor,
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| 54 | and there watch and ward was kept every night. The lords sat in the
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| 55 | open places of London, calling gentlemen before them and declaring the
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| 56 | causes of accusing the lord protector, and caused the same to be proclaimed.
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| 57 | <p>After which time few came to Windsor, but only the men of my own guard
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| 58 | who the lords willed, fearing the rage of the people so lately quieted.
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| 59 | Then the protector began to treat by letters, sending Sir Philip Hoby,
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| 60 | lately come from his embassy in Flanders to see his family, who brought
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| 61 | on his return a very gentle letter to the protector which he delivered
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| 62 | to him, another to me, another to my household, to declare his faults,
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| 63 | ambition, vainglory, entering into rash wars in my youth, negligence about
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| 64 | Newhaven, enriching himself from my treasure, following his own opinions,
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| 65 | and doing all by his own authority etc., which letters were openly read,
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| 66 | and immediately the lords came to Windsor, took him and brought him through
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| 67 | Holborn to the Tower. Afterwards I came to Hampton Court where they
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| 68 | appointed by my consent six lords of the council to be attendant on me,
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| 69 | at least two, and four knights. Lords - the marquis of Northampton,
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| 70 | the earls of Warwick and Arundel, lords Russell, Sr John and Wentworth.
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| 71 | Knights - Sir Andrew Dudley, Sir Edward Rogers, Sir Thomas Darcy, Sir Thomas
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| 72 | Wroth. Afterwards I came through London to Westminster. Lord
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| 73 | Warwick was made admiral of England. Sir Thomas Cheney was sent to
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| 74 | the emperor for relief, which he could not obtain. Mr Nicholas Wootton
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| 75 | was made secretary. The lord protector, by his own agreement and
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| 76 | submission, lost his protectorship, treasureship, marshalship, all his
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| 77 | movables and nearly 2,000 pds of lands, by act of Parliament.<p> <hr>
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| 79 | <p><b>1551</b><p>The lady Mary, my sister, came to me to Westminster, where after greetings
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| 80 | she was called with my council into a chamber where it was declared how
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| 81 | long I had suffered her mass, in hope of her reconciliation, and how now,
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| 82 | there being no hope as I saw by her letters, unless I saw some speedy amendment
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| 83 | I could not bear it. She answered that her soul was God's and her
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| 84 | faith she would not change, nor hide her opinion with dissembled doings.
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| 85 | It was said I did not constrain her faith but willed her only as a subject
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| 86 | to obey. And that her example might lead to too much inconvenience.
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| 87 | <p>On 19 March the emperor's ambassador came with a short message from
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| 88 | his master of threatened war, if I would not allow his cousin the princess
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| 89 | to use her mass. No answer was given to this at the time.
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| 90 | <p>The following day the bishops of Canterbury, London and Rochester, Thomas
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| 91 | Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley and John Scory, concluded that to give licence
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| 92 | to sin was sin; to allow and wink at it for a time might be born as long
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| 93 | as all possible haste was used.<p align="center"> <p align="center"><a href="primary.html">
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