the Rebels. The Earl of Sussex (now Lieutenant-general of the army in the north) directed Sir George Bowes, in the event of their proceeding southwards, to join him immediately with the northern horsemen.

Quenes Majesty will deale playnly with her, too hyr dysgrace, then seurly she wyll attempt and practyse too skape away; and from thys howse she myght passe into Skotland, and nevyr come yn towne nor vyllage; and as for the cuntrey, we looke for no dylygent reskew at theyr hands, but rather we feare they would lawhe (laugh) yn theyr sleves at us, yf she should escape.".... "I doo see no way how her Majestie can reconsyle thys Quene and her subjects too her Majesties comodytie and safety, and too preserve my Lord of Murray from hys overthrow, and suche as be hyr Majesties frends yn Skotland, and too avoyd the marryage of the Hambletons with thys Quene, and therby to avoyd the cumyng yn hethar of the Frenche, too whom the Hambletons ar utterly dedycate, unless yt be by an Englyshe maryage." He then hints at the possibility of the marriage of the Scottish Queen with "my cosyn George Cary" (Hunsdon's son), but desires this letter to be kept secret, until it may be seen whether her Majesty wyll deale favorably with her, or whyther she wyll disgrace her.-Copy, S. P.

On the 9th Aug. 1569, Hunsdon writes to Cecil from Berwick: "I trust the comon speche in Skotland and that dayly cums from London and the court ys untrewe, which ys, that my Lord of Norfolke shall marry the Skottyshe Queene; and yt ys now the rather belevyd, by cawse she hathe sent yntoo Skotland too be dyvorcyd from Bothewel; yff ytt be trew, I am sory for ytt."-S. P.

And again on the 30th Aug., he writes, "I think you ar nott ignorant of my epynyon of that maryage. I love and honor the one so well, as I wold be right sorry ytt should sake place for any matter or reason I can ytt conceve. I know nott what speche ys of ytt theane, but seurly yt ys comonly spoken and beleivyd both yn Scotland and yn all thys part of the Northe; and as I can lerne, proceeds from the faction, eyther for that they woold have ytt so, or els too put sume dowghts yn the heds of thyr contrarys."-S. P.

After the rebellion, he writes on the 13th January, 1569-70, in relation to the Queen's continued suspicious distrust of Sussex, "no servys that he hath dune att any tyme, can be acceptable to her Majestie, thohe with travell and payne he hath consumyd the better halfe of his lyfe: he wyll seke with quyetnes to end the rest of hys dayse and gyve place to othars, and that wyll be th' end." From Berwick.

In reference to the Queen of Scotts, he says in another letter, which would tend to shew that obedience was more powerful than principle. "The practysys are grete for theyr quene, and therfor the Quenes Majestie had nede too looke well unto ytt."

Ytt ys playnly gyven owt, that my L. of Lecester was sent to her, and that she shall returne to Tudberry, and so shortly be returnyd home. These and such lyke, makes men yn some manneryng not knowing whatt way too take; but yf her Majestie wyll make a full resolucyon what she wyll doo, so as they may know what too trust untoo hyr Majestie may doo, and have dune what she wyl."-S. P. The cruel policy which Elizabeth pursued towards the Queen of Scotts, requires no additional testimony here-yet, so early as 1565, she encouraged the Lords of the congregation; and the Earl of Bedford writes to the Queen from Berwick (28th Sept. 1565,) that he has sent them, "according to your Majesties direction, £1000,"-S. P.; and to the most inveterate of Mary's enemies, (the Earl of Murray) she writes, after she hears of his being wounded,-"There is nothing in my powre earthly, wherwith we might helpe to recover you, that shuld be over deare to us to yeld for your comfort.”—29th Jan. 1569-70.—Orig. S. P.

Lord Hunsdon writes in regard to Sussex, 24th March 1559-70, "I am sorry too see my Ld. Lieut. cum downe with no cowntenance, for hys lyvetenancy, it is for hyr servyce. 1 assure you ytt rather hynders hyr servys then furthers yt, for I knowe the world lookyd for hys beyng of the pryvey councel at the lest, whych had been more benefycyall too hyr servys (than) any comodyte too hym, more then the honor of hytt ....God send her many so well able to serve hyr yn all respects, whereof seurly she hathe small store."-S. P.

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From whatever cause-whether from "mistrusting themselves," according to Holinshed; from "disagreement amongst themselves," according to Lady Northumberland; or, more probably, from perceiving that no response was made to their movements by the great body of the Catholics of England-the rebels suddenly retreated, and returned to the county of Durham; where, instead of pursuing vigorous measures to restore their "moral force," and increase their numbers, they wasted their time and strength in laying siege to Barnard Castle; during whose prolonged and gallant resistance, the army of the south, commanded by the Lords Warwick and Clinton, arrived at Doncaster; when Sussex, thus powerfully supported, advanced rapidly towards the county of Durham, and on his approach the Earls, without waiting for an attack, suddenly dismissed their infantry, and flying with their cavalry towards Hexham, afterwards took refuge in Scotland.

With respect to the Catholics, he writes, 6th July, 1570-" I dare not wryght what I wold, but the Lord deffend her Majestie from the practysys of all papysts, for nott one of them loves her." S. P.-When he was desired to reconcile parties, he writes from Berwick, 29th Dec. 1571, "I have wrytten too hyr Majesty, that the only way too accorde the matters of Skotland by fayre meanes, ys too deale harder wythe the Scotishe Quene; for so long as she remayne yn thys sorte, hyr party lyves styll yn hope of hyr delyverance by one practyse or uther, which ys the pryncypall cawse of theyr obstynacy."-S. P.

On the 20th of March, 1571-2, he writes, aparently on the subject of the Duke's trial which took place on the 16th of January, and who was then in the tower, waiting the execution of his sentence: "God forbyd that any body showld advyse or counsell her too be blody, yf hyr seurty may be without blude, butt yf matters fall owt so, and appeare manyfest that she cannot be seure without ytt, better for sum members too be cutt of then the hole boddy too perryshe. Let hyr remember the wyse and pollytyke government of all hyr predecessors, and of all the prynces of the world, whyche ys, too spare none that shall dare towche Gods holy anoyntyd, no nott theyr owne suns, yf any be so unnaturall, and by ambycyon so trayterus; for the more wayse that any ys bownd too theyr soveren and forgets the same, the grevesor punyshment he deserves."-S. P.

On the 9th August, 1572, from Berwick, respecting the attainted Earl of Northumberland, then in his custody, he writes, "Yf hys brothers affectyon towards the Scots quene and hys uther dealyng towards the quenes majestie be suche as ys comonly spoken, hyr majestie shall doo herself a worse turne by settyng the one up, then by keeping the uther alyve, besyds, her majestie shall lose the benefyt of his lyvynge; and as many as hathe any gyfte of her majestye, of any thyng of his, may pyk a sallett.-S. P.

On the 28th Dec. 1572, he writes to Burghley, "I cannot forget how your Lordship dyd wyll me to holde yt for a principle, that popery and treason went always together." -S P. Thus shewing very clearly the motive which influenced the conduct of Cecil.

Thus terminated an enterprise, begun without foresight -conducted without energy, and ending in dastardly and inglorious flight: entailing on the families of those concerned, lasting misery; and inflicting on the leaders, attainder, proscription, and death.

Lord Scrope, brother-in-law to the Duke of Norfolk, when he heard from Cecil, "declaring the manner of the dukes going to Kenninghall," writes, that he hopes the duke "will continew and stande her highness true, faithful, aud obedient servant and subject, as by God he is naturally appointed, and by her majesties goodness moste firmly bound; and for that he hath doune, if the same have growen upon feere of her highness dyspleasure, as is advertised, I trust her Majestie shall fynde him to the end, as he before hathe ben reported; for that feare is a greate token and perfecte signe of obedi ence. 5 Oct. 69, Carlisle.-S. P.

Perhaps fear had some influence on the mind of Elizabeth, for the Bishop of Ross writes to the duke, 11 Oct. 1570, that Cecil, speaking of his proposed marriage with the Queen of Scotts, said "the Queen of England fears that the Queen of Scotts and Norfolke wold waxe over great in that case."-S. P.

The duke's memory has been ably vindicated by his worthy descendant, Henry Howard, of Corby Castle, Esq. He was betrayed by Leicester, misled by the Bishop of Ross, and his motives were maligned by Ridolphi, whom even the Duke of Alva could not credit; who calls him un gran parlanchin, (a great chatterer); and Sadler, who was with the Queen of Scotts at Sheffield, writes to Lord Burghley (9th Jan., 1571-2) that Mary says, "The Bishop of Ross is a feareful priest, who will say whatever you will have him to say;" and of Ridolphi, that he is a man "to her unknown: she never saw him, ne hathe had to do with him."-S, P.

A letter from Dean Nowell to Lord Burghley, 25th March, 1572, may be quoted to shew the humility of his mind under the daily expectation of death-when the first noble of the land, was reduced to the necessity of mending his own stockings :-"I have heard the late Duke of Norfolk say, that he, having no more paires of hosen, that he will wear, saving only one pair (for such as have any velvet upon them he will not wear, being a condemned person) hath been driven sundry times to mend and patch the same, for that he feareth if he should procure a new pair, it would be misconstrued of some, as a sign of his hope and desire of longer life."-S. P.

Lord Burghley directs Lord Shrewsbury to inform Mary of the duke's death, and Mary in return (10th June) writes, "We have heard by the Erle of Shrewsbury the unpleasant newes, which, he sayd, you had requyred him to imparte unto mee;" and signs herself, "Your veri good frind.”—S. P.

Lord Shrewsbury writes, (11th June, 1572) " She fell by grefe of the Dukes dethe into a passion of sycknes, as I last wrytt; and so hath she evir cynse contynewed, and kepeth hur bedd. Hur pepul seemes to doute her escape, Saturday next, and if she be so syke indeed as aparans she seemeth, and her pepull make report off, she is lyk hardly to escape." -Sheffield Castle.-S. P.

PLATES, &c.

P. xx.The remains of a tattered banner, or perhaps tabard, still suspended over the Bowes vault at Barnard Castle. THE portrait of Sir George Bowes is from an original picture at Streatham.

The portrait of the Earl of Northumberland is from an original

picture at Petworth, carefully copied by direction of the late Earl of Egremont, expressly for this work. The portrait of the Earl of Westmorland, is from an original picture in the possession of the Earl of Abergavenny. When William, Lord Abergavenny, grandfather of the present Earl, removed from the ancient family seat, Comfort Park, in the manor of Birling, in the County of Kent, to Kidbrook, in Sussex, where he built a new mansion, he brought this picture with him. When the present Earl sold Kidbrook, in 1803, to the late Lord Colchester, he removed this portrait to Eridge Castle, where it now remains.

The portrait of the Countess of Westmorland, is taken from the tomb of her father, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, at Framlingham, and was presented by Henry Howard, of Corby Castle, Esq.

P. 87--The arms and crest of Neville, formerly on the battlements of Raby Castle, now built into the wall of a house in the Park.

P. 228-The inner lid of a chest in the Chancery at Durham. The first coat, gules, a cinquefoil ermine, with a bordure sable bezantée, is D'Aungerville, or rather Bishop Bury, who held the see from 1333 to 1345. It was not uncommon for ecclesiastics to assume the name of the place where they were born, and the bishop took the name of [Edmonds] bury, although he was the son of Sir Richard Aungerville,