was done by Somerset's direction yet he seemed offended when it was told him and sent for Latimer and ordered him to retract that which he had said concerning his Brother But Latimer reply'd boldly that he knew the Admiral had layd a design against the Kings Life which he thought himself bound to discover upon this the Duke of Somerset ordered the Iudges to take his deposition yet he threatned to proceed against him with the utmost severity if he were found to be a false Accuser Latimer had his Witnesses laid and the Conspiracy was proved upon which Somerset seemed to be very much troubled yet he said he must prefer the King's safety to all Considerations whatsoever so he signed a Warrant for his Brothers Imprisonment his process upon that was made and he was found guilty of High Treason and condemned to be quartered which was accordingly executed the 20. of March 1549. I do not know how it comes that in such a series of Falsehoods our Author has hit the date right but it is the only circumstance of this whole Recital that is true For 1. It is true Latimer in a Sermon at Court reflecting on the Atheism of some about the King described the Admiral who was a man that laughed at Religion but this had nothing to do with the State and nothing followed upon it 2. The Admiral had broke out the former year and thought to have made a Rent in the Parliament yet that had been made up and Somerset had made him a very considerable grant out of the Lands of the Crown but he laid his design next year deeper he bought Magasins of Arms and listed many men he intended to have carried away the King and had ordered much False Money to be coined so that all this being discovered he was clapt in the Tower yet a moneth past before the matters against him were brought in to the Parliament and during that time Somerset tryed if it was possible to bring him to a better mind but all was in vain 3. He was not tryed by a Common Court of Peers but was condemned by Act of Parliament 4. There was not a word said in the whole Process of any Design on the Kings Life on the contrary he had gained so much upon the young King that this gave the greatest jealousy of all 5. He was not quartered but only beheaded for the Original warrant for his Execution is yet extant in the Books of Council signed by all the Privy Councellours that mentions expresly that he should be beheaded and that his Head and Body should be buried in the Tower And now is not Mr. Varillas a very Credible Author LIV. Our Author sets down the Agony into which the Admiral 's Death threw his Wife and after he had turned this as Romantically as he could he makes her to dye so soon after her Husband that She was buried at the same time with him But if Mr. Varillas had seen the Articles upon which the Admiral was condemned he would have found that the Queen Dowager was dead long before for she died in the September preceding and as was suspected of poison and that after her death he had renewed his pretensions to the Kings second Sister Elisabeth which is reckoned among his Crimes as it was certainly a very great one and is it not now a great pity to see so tender a stroke in the Romance spoiled LV. Mr. Varillas tells us a long story of the Earl of Warwick's Designs to dismount Somerset for doing which the two occasions that presented themselves were First the taking of several Forts in the Bolognese and that as the English had often failed in observing the Law of Nations so the French treated them in the same manner and put all that they took Prisoners to the edge of the Sword that the English Souldiers who came over complained that the Forts that were lost could not be longer desended for want of Provisions that upon this Warwick advised some Malecontents to demand the calling of a Parliament and perswaded Somerset likewise to agree to it The other was a general Insurrection that was among the Commons of England against the Nobility upon which Warwick likewise pressed Somerset to call a Parliament So the Members were all chosen by the Earl of Warwicks Means There appeared before them more Accusers and Witnesses against the Duke of Somerset than was needful for destroying him upon which he was put in prison the 14. of October 1549. How it comes that Mr. Varillas has thus given two Dates one after another true amidst so much falsehood is that which amases me But the rest of this Section is writ in his ordinary strain Yet before I open that I will take the liberty to set down a passage relating to King Henry the Seconds invading the Bolognese which I have found in an Original Letter of the Councils writ to Sr. Philip Hobby tho Mr. Varillas will perhaps tell me upon it that I have done an irreparable Injury to the Memory of that King In that Letter that bears date the seventh of September 1549. and is signed by the Duke of Somerset and seven other Councellors they write That the King of France had corrupted two that had the Charge of one of the Forts which was by that means lost and this occasioned the loss of the other Forts they were surprised with this Invasion for on the 20. of July last the French King had promised to their Ambassadour par la foy d'un Gentilhomme that he would not make War without giving warning first and yet he having heard of the Progress of the Insurrections that were in the several parts of England broke his word four days after he made it That was indeed thought strange in those dayes but in our days it would not appear extraordinary since we have seen promises publickly made and broken in the very time in which they were made But now to return to Mr. Varillas 1. He forgot to mention the Western Rebellion that hapned a little before that rising of the Commons against the Gentry tho this was not kindly done of him since it was by his Friends the Zealous Catholicks who declared openly that the change made in Religion was the reason of their rising 2. There was no demand made of a Parliament nor was there any need of calling or choosing one for there was one then on foot running in a Prorogation 3. Those Insurrections were all quieted before there was any opposition made to the Duke of Somerset's Government 4. He was not at all questioned in Parliament but in Council for the greatest part of the Councellors went to London and joyned with the City to demand the King out of his hands whom he had carried to Windsor and he finding that he was not able to stand against so strong a party submitted himself to them upon which he was not only turned out of his Protectorship but was also sent to the
is as exactly writ as the former for 1. Northumberland had no old Troops and he marched from London with 2000. Horse and 6000. Foot such as could be brought together of the sudden 2. Iean Gray was never Crowned she was only proclaimed Queen 3. Northumberland never marched back to London but seeing the Queen's forces encrease and that none came in to him he came into Cambridge and proclaimed Queen Mary 4. It was not so much the City of London as the whole Privy Council that declared for Queen Mary 5. There was no Fleet then to change sides for Mr. Varillas knowing nothing of the past Age and only hearing that at present the English Fleet is the greatest in the world he has this ever in his head and fancies that it was so at all times 6. Nothumberland did not render himself but was apprehended as a Criminal by the Earl of Arundel who was sent to seise on him LXX He tells us that Northumberland was presently put in Irons but he retained so great a presence of Spirit when he came to be examined before the Council that Mr. Varillas thought fit to set this out with all the Pomp that his Sublime could furnish he puts Harangues in his mouth by which he confounded the Privy Councillours among whom he names the Earl of Chieresberi but his crimes being so notorious he with his four Sons were condemned to dye as Traitors The Queen pardoned three but was inexorable to the fourth and when Northumberland saw there was no hope of life he declared that he had been only a Calvinist out of Interest and expressed a great detestation of that Religion and of thâ— Preachers of it and suffered with a constancy that was admired by 〈◊〉 that saw it those who suffered with him imitating his conversion this had a great effect on peoples spirits 1. Men of the Duke of Northumberlands quality are never put in Irons in England 2. He shewed so little courage that he threw himself at the Earl of Arundel's feet abjectly to beg his Favour 3. Our Author confounds his being brought to his Tryal before a Lord Steward and the Peers of England with an Examination before the Council and his making the Council condemn him shews that he does not know the commonest points of form in the Government of England 4. All this Constancy and arguing that he puts in Northumberlands mouth is taken from two points in Law that he proposed to the Peers that were his Judges The one was whether a man acting by Order of Council and by Warrants under the Great Seal could be esteemed a Criminal the other was whether one that had acted so could be judged by Peers that had given him those Orders and that were as guilty as himself 5. Tho these were points in Law that 〈◊〉 have some colour in them yet they were far from confounding any for a Council or a Great Seal flowing from an Vsurper is nothing so this Authority could not justify him and as for those who were as guilty as himself and yet were now his Iudges they were not convicted of the guilt and no Peer can be â—et aâ—ide in a Tryal upon general surmises how true soever they may be 6. I confess it was some time before I could find out who this Earl of Chieresberi was At last I saw it must be Shrewsbury who should have been a little better known to Mr. Varillus unless he has read the French Story as carelesly as he has done the English for the Illustrious Ancestors of that Family left such marks of their valour behind them in France that one should think that Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury should be the Family of all England in which a French Writer should be the least apt to mistake And this confirms me in my opinion that Mr. Varillas has never read History 7. There were none of Northumberlands Sons tryed at that time but his eldest Son the Earl of Warwick for he had been called by writ to the House of Lords and so was to be tried as a Peer but the rest were Commoners and were tryed some moneths after this 8. He makes Queen Mary less merciful than she was for it was believed she would have pardoned both Iean of Suffolk and her Husband if upon the Rebellion that was raised six moneths after this it had not been then thought necessary to take to severer Councils 9. It was believed at that time that Northumberland declared himself a Roman Catholick in hope to save his life by the means 10. His constancy was not very extraordinary for there passed some severe expostulations between Sr. Iohn Gates and him who as they had been complices in the Rebellion so now being brought to suffer together they died reproaching one another 11. It does not appear that any other of those who suffered changed their Religion Nor 12. Is it likely that such a Declaration of men who were so odious to the Nation and who in the making of it did likewise shew that they had made a small account of Religion could have any great effect on those who saw it LXXI Mr. Varillas will never give over his bold Quotations for here he tells us that Charles the fifth advised Queen Mary not to proceed so hastily in the change of Religion and that he believed She would find before long that it would not be safe to her to break her promise And to confirm this he cites on the margin Charles the fifths Letters to Q. Mary â— This would make one that does not know the man fancy that there was some Register or Collection of those Letters which he had seen I have indeed seen those Letters for the Originals of them are extant and I shewed them once to the Spanish Ambassadour at London Don Pedro de Ronquillas who did me the honour to desire me to accompany him to the Cotton Library where I not only shewed him these Letters but as many of the other Original Papers out of which I had drawn my History as could be examined at one time but for Charles the fifths Letters they are so little legible and the Queen of Hungary's hand is so little better than his that I could not copy them out nor print them some little hints I took from them but that was all 2. It seems Mr. Varillas was not much concerned in Queen Mary's breaking her word for in those Letters that he makes up for Charles all that he makes him set before her is the danger of it and that she could not do it long safe Impunement if she had a vast Army in any strong places a great Fleet and a huge Revenue then the breaking of her word would have troubled Mr. Varillas so little that it would not have hindred him from making her Panegyrick tho the violation of her Faith was so much the more scandalous that those to whom she gave it had setled her upon her Throne and perhaps he will find somewhat parallel
Memoirs when he writ his first Volum therefore his Reader must forgive him if there is any disorder in the recital that he gives and now from all this one would he disposed to believe that there is some truth in this matter and that he has really such a Book of Memoirs in his hands but I need give no other proof to shew that all this is Imposture save that Bulloign was not taken before the 18. of September 1544. so that all this Negotiation of Richers in 1542. must have been by the spirit of Prophesy 2. The state of Denmark at that time must make this project appear very ridiculous since they were far from being in a condition to set out great fleets and make Conquests 3. At this time Francis did indeed engage the King of Scotland to make an Invasion into the North of England which was a more reasonable project and that which our Author might have more justly guess't at tho he had known nothing of it for it was an easy thing to engage the Scots to fall into England but that was too true and too natural therefore our Author who loves to elevate and surprise his Reader would needs despise the Project in Scotland and so would carry it over to Denmark 4. It is also no less clear that Francis was at that time in no condition to make a descent upon England otherwise he used the Scots very ungratefully for tho he had engaged them in the war yet he left them to be overrun by the English without giving K. Henry any considerable diversion 5. But our Authors setting on the King of Denmark to renew pretensions of five hundred year old is of a piece with the Law at Metz and when England will examin its Ancient pretensions to some Provinces in a neighbouring Kingdom as it needs not go so far back so it will not be put to found them on hostile descents and depredations which was all the pretension that the Crown of Denmark could ever claim but on clear and undisputed Rights tho I confess they have been both discontinued and renounced but I build on the modern Law that neither Prescriptions Treaties nor Oaths can cut off the Rights of a Crown which are sacred and Inalienable Thus I have gone over his third Tome and I think I have missed nothing that relates to English affairs I confess I may have passed over some particulars that may perhaps lie Involved in other Relations as this of Richers had almost escaped me I have turned all his leaves over and over again to see for any thing that might relate to England But I could not prevail with my self to read him all for I am now past the Age of reading Romances XXXIV Mr. Varillas begins his discourse concerning English Affairs in his fourth Tome with a Character of K. Henry's cruelty that deserves indeed to be put in Capitals he says that during his Sickness his Conscience had time to reproach him with the 2. Cardinals the 3. Archbishops the 18. Bishops the 14. Arch deacons the 500. Priests Abbots and Priors the 60. Canons and 50. Doctors 12. Dukes Earles or Barons 29. Knights 336. Gentlemen and almost an Infinite number of people whom he had put to death for establishing his Primacy over the Church of England And because all this was so remarkable he would not put the numbers in Ciphers but in words at large and by the exactness of his small numbers a man that is not aquainted with his Talent would be tempted to think this might be true but what will he say if of all those ten Items besides the great Et cetera of the Infinit number there is not one that is either true or near truth 1. Fisher was the only person that can be called a Cardinal that was put to death 2. There was not one Archbishop that suffered and tho the Archbishop of York concurred in the Yorkshire Rebellion yet the King included him in the Indemnity 3. There was not one Bishop that suffered unless he subdivides Fisher as he did Charles the fifth and makes both a Cardinal and a Bishop out of him 4. There is not an Archdeacon to be found among all that died in this Reign 5. For the 500 Priests Abbots and Priors there were only 9. Abbots 3. Priors 18. Priests and 9. Monks that suffered which according to my Arithmetick makes only 39 but an Imagination that multiplies as Mr. Varillas's does can swell this up to 500. 6. There is but one among all that suffered that can be thought a Canon Crofts that is designed in the Record Chancellor of Exeter 7. There is but one Doctor unless Fisher comes into the account again 8. All of the Nobility that were executed during this reign were one Duke a Marquis 3. Earls and 3. Lords which make 8. but this comes the nearest his number yet since the Marquis that suffered was K. Henry's Cosen german he might have put Marquises among the degrees of the Peers that he reckons up as well as the rest 9. There were only ten Knights that were put to death so the 19. more are of his creating 10. There are ouly 33. others that suffered of which some were only Yeomen to make up his 336. Gentlemen and now I have set down the list exactly of all that died by the hand of justice in this Reign so that there is not a man left for his c. of almost an Infinite number of people But besides this all these except only 12. persons suffered either for being in actual Rebellion or for entring into Conspiracies for the raising of one so small was the number of those who suffered for denying the Kings Supremacy and even of these a distinction is to be considered which I must explain because some have fancied that I had contradicted my self in different parts of my History having said in some places that none suffered for not acknowledging the Kings Supremacy and having set forth in other places that men died for denying it But the refusing to swear the Oath of supremacy was only punishable at first with a Premunire that is loss of liberty and Goods so that those who suffered were not condemned for refusing to swear that Oath but for their having spoken against the Supremacy now the refusing to swear it and the speaking against it are two different things which some have confounded It is true afterwards a Law was made declaring it to be High Treason to refuse to swear the Supremacy But no man ever suffered upon that Law for no man ever refused it after that Law was made And thus we see what we may expect from our Author after such a beginning XXXV He says King Henry seemed to repent of what he had done when he was near death and that he spake with Gardiner concerning it who upon that advised him to call a Parliament But the Falsehood of this is too visible for there was a Parliament then sitting which
Posterities are yet remaining these were the Earl of Huntington's Family and that of the Baringtones in Essex 4. Cardinal Pool who died five year after this was but 59. when he died 5. Courtney's Mother was not of the House of York but his Grandmother who was Edward the Fourth's Daughter A Mother for a Grandmother is as great a fault as a Grandmother for a Great-grandmother with which he reproaches me so severely in his Answer to my Reflections 6. Courtney was so far from having any advantages of breeding that he had been kept a Prisoner thirteen years in the Tower of London ever since his Father was attainted 7. His Mother was likewise all that while a Prisoner and so had not those opportunities of being with the Queen 8. Cardinal Pool was of the House of York his Mother being Daughter to the Duke of Clarence that was Edward the Fourths Brother 9. Courtney was so far from being vicious and lewd that he was rather too sullen which was imputed to his Imprisonment in his youth that had made him Melancholy and studious 10. The pretence of a promise that Queen Mary gave to Courtney's Mother to marry her Son is by all other Authors put upon Cardinal Pool but I believe both are alike true 11. Courtney was not Grand-child but Great-grandchild to Edward the Fourth 12. It was believed at that time that the Queen had really such Inclinations to Courtney that if he had not by a strange coldness neglected her applying himself more to her Sister Elisabeth she would have married him and that her hatred of her Sister was encreased when she saw to which of the two Courtney gave the Preference 13. The Queen had only insinuated to Commendon her inclinations for Card Pool LXXIV Mr. Varillas tells us of one Sr. Thomas Haviet a zealous Calvinist one of a great Family and highly esteemed both by the Nobility and the People which he sets out in his Romantical way very elegantly as he thinks no doubt and in a word one that had all the Qualities necessary for the Head of a Party except that of being of the Blood Royal. This Haviet then resolved to hinder the Match with Spain and in order to the doing of it he found it necessary to set up the Princess Elisabeth and Courtney being set on by Rage and Iealousy since he saw the Queen disappointed him and was treating for the Spanish Match joined likewise into Haviets Conspiracy Most men besides our Author know the names of those of whom they undertake to write but who would think that this Haviet that has so large a part of this story assigned him was no other then Sr. Thomas Wiat that as is pretended owned that he had corrupted Anne Bullen and yet now he is made a Rebel to advance the Daughter who certainly could never forgive so publick an injury as he had done her Mother if our Author 's former Story of him is true Perhaps Mr. Varillas perceived this and therefore resolved to give him here a new Name for tho all the printed Histories make him Sr. Thomas Wiat yet he will make him Haviet tho this name is not so much as known in England But Haviet may pass for Wiat as well as Millethon for Maidston and Camdavart for Southwark and Quincethon for Kingston It is true there is some sort of affinity between Millethon and Maidston for they begin and end with a Letter and even that is much for Mr. Varillas Quincethon and Kingston are more remote yet an ill pronounciation might make a man mistake the one for the other for I have often taken notice of this that Mr. Varillas has heard a great deal but has read very little History yet how Camdavart could pass for Southwark is that which I cannot comprehend and as little how Haviet was put for Wiat if this last was not an Artifice of Mr. Varillas's But instead of following Mr. Varillas thro all his Impertinences I fancy it will please my Reader better if I mention some particulars of that business which I drew from a Relation of the matter writ by Sr. Thomas Wiat's own Son of which I give an account in my Reply to Mr. Varillas Sir Thomas Wiat tho the Duke of Northumberland's Kinsman would not join with him in the business of L. Iean Gray but proclaimed Queen Mary at Maidston before he knew that any others had done it yet he did not run to her for thanks as many others did but she was so sensible of this service that she sent the Earl of Arundel with her thanks to him to which he appealed in his Trial. But he quickly saw how matters were like to go so he had obtained a pass to go beyond Sea which he had put in Execution if his Wife 's being big with Child had not stayed him till she was brought to bed He had observed so much of the temper of the Spanish Ministers when he was Ambassador in Charles the fifths Court that his love to his Countrey made him extream apprehensive of the Misery of the Nation if it should fall under that yoke He never so much as pretended that Religion was his motive and Papists as well as Protestants joined with him and if he had designed any mischief to the Queen it was in his power to have executed it for when he passed by Charingcross Whitehal was ill defended and many of the Earl of Pembrokes men came over to him but he marcht on to the City of London having no other intentions but to concur with them in opposing the Match and the Queen her self was so fully assured that he designed no hurt to her that she was resolved to pardon him if a Message had not come from Brussels upon which his Head was cut off He never accused the Queen's Sister tho he was once so entangled by Questions that were put to him that he answered somewhat that reflected on the Earl of Devonshire for which he afterwards beg'd his pardon and to shew that he had alwayes vindicated Queen Elisabeth he not only did it in very plain words on the Scaffold but said likewise that she was not privy to his Matters as he had delivered in his Declaration made before the Privy Council This account of that matters as it supplys some defects that are in my History so it shews that Mr. Varillas had told both the name of the person and the History it self alike true LXXV He tells us that this Haviet having made himself sure of the town of Millethon put off the Mask and came up to Rochester at the head of 1200. Horse and 8000. Foot and was received into it the 22. of Ianuary 1554. He intended to go on in great marches to London but all this did not disorder the Queen who put the Troops that She had about her under the Command of the Duke of Norfolk and of his Brother that was Admiral of England and ordered them to march in the
very minute in which She received the news of the Insurrection tho it was just at midnight on the 22. of Ianuary The two Brothers marched but four of their Companies revolting and the rest being disheartned by that the Brothers found it convenient to return back to London where the Queen left nothing undone that was necessary to animate or encrease her Army yet She fearing lest the Citizens of London should open to Haviet the Rochester Port sent some to treat with him and to assure him that if the Spanish Match displeased the English She would never think on it any more But he asked such extravagant high terms that all treaty was broke off But 1. this Haviet when he was strongest and advanced to Mr. Varillas's Camdavart was but 4000. strong in all but Mr. Varillas is generous and would bestow a good Army on him 2. Those who have been in Maidston will not find it a great matter to be sure of such a place 3. Mr. Varillas comes pretty near the true Date here but yet does not hit it for it was on the 25. of Ianuary and not on the 22. that Wyat came to Rochester 4. His Ignorance of the Map of England must be suteable to the rest of his learning since it is but a very short day's Journey from Rochester to London and even his hearsay which next to Florimond is his chief Garand might have helped him here since this is the part of the whole road of England that is best known to Strangers 5. Notwithstanding all the expedition that he makes the Queen use some dayes past before She sent out any Troops and so the Midnight March is spoiled which no doubt he thought a beautiful stroke and for which he has somewhat in parallel perhaps to enrich the Panegyrick 6. The Queen had no Troops about her and all she could get together was two Troops of Horse and six Companys of Foot with which the City of London furnished her so she sent first a Herald to Rochester to try if Wiat alias Haviet could be persuaded to return to his duty 7. The Duke of Norfolk's Brother was never Admiral of England nor did he go along with him at this time 8. The Queen made no such abject Propositions to Wiat as he pretends for she only sent some to see what it was that he demanded and when he proposed very high Terms they gave over all treaty with him here the Heroine sinks a little perhaps this must be to hide some feeble stroak that must appear in the Panegyrick 9. The Queen went indeed into London and gave the Citizens very tender Assurances of the love she bare to her People and that she did nothing in the Treaty for the Spanish Match but by the Advice of her whole Council but she never said that she would not think on it any more 10. For his Rochester Port to the City of London he will find it in the same Map in which the Suburb at the end of the Bridg on the other side of the River is called Camdavart for he has given us all these marks of it and perhaps he found it so in some of those Manuscripts that were communicated to him under the confidences of Friendship and I dare answer for him that he will keep this Secret most Religiously LXXVI He goes on and says that Haviet stopt a little either to see what answer the Queen would send to his Propositions or perhaps it was because his Troops were weary with a long march in the mean while the Queen put matters in a most wonderful order She sent away the Spanish Ambassadours who were an Eye-sore to her People She called the Nobility and chief Citizens about her and promised to them in a most pathetical Harangue to call a Parliament and not to take a Husband but by its Advice by this She prevailed so far that the Citizens were contented to let all the Locks of the City Gates be changed and to deliver the Keys to the Duke of Norfolk which was the critical thing that saved all so small a matter serves to preserve or to overturn Monarchies where Heresy has once got in So the Queen having by the efficacy of her Harangue gained many brave men to come to encrease her Troops She placed some on the Banks of the River to hinder the Rebels who were now at Camdavart from passing and She drew up the rest at St. James's which was the place where probably they would endeavour to enter the City but Haviet finding the Bridg at Camdavart was cut by the Duke of Norfolk left his foot that were heavily armed and marched with his light Horse to Quincethan where he passed the River having defeated 500. men that the Q. had sent thither to dispute the passage Every tittle here is Fiction and the Fiction is very ill contrived 1. Wiat could expect no Answer from the Queen to his extravagant Demands for those whom she had sent to him broke with him in very ill terms 2. That Treaty was at Deptford and instead of a long March from that to his Camdavart it is but a short walk of an hour or two at most 3. The Spanish Ambassadours were never sent away here again the Heroine sinks 4. She made no Promise to call a Parliament but said only that she would do nothing but by the advice of her Council 5. It seems there is some Mystery in this that Mr. Varillas makes the Queen as ready at all times to make Promises as she was resolved to break them now since Mr. Varillas writes History not as he finds it but as he thinks fit to dress it there is some reason to believe that in his representing Queen Mary so little a Slave to her Word he had still his Panegyrick in his Eye 5. If one apprehended any had Pick-locks to his House the changing of Locks and the looking after the Keys were a very proper method but this is I believe the first time that ever the security of a great City was thought to turn upon such a matter and Mr. Varillas may pretend to the Monopoly of this Secret in Foâ—tification since it is most certainly his own Invention 7. If Mr. Varillas is so ignorant as not to know that Gunpowder was in use at that time yet Hatchets and Hammers were always in use and these are good enough against Gates and Locks 8. The Queen's Troops could not well stand over against his Camdavart to hinder Haviets passage unless they stood to the midle in water for there is no Key there the Buildings being continued to the Rivers side 9. The Bridg of London was not cut but only defended 10. Haviet had no Foot heavily armed but a Company of Countrey People brought together and he marched with them all 11. As our Author describes S. Iames's it seems he fancies there is another Bridg upon the Thames there but since Haviet had not Boats enough for passing he could not cross the