Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 But now to returne vnto sir Thomas Wiat. Af|ter that the Londoners were reuolted to him, as be|fore ye haue heard; the next daie being tuesdaie the thirtith of Ianuarie, he marched foorth with his bands, and six péeces of ordinance (which they had gotten of the quéenes) besides their owne. And first they came to Cowling castell,Cowling ca|stell. an hold of the lord Cobhams, foure miles distant from Rochester, and not much out of the waie towards London, whither they were now fullie determined to go, in hope of friends which they trusted to find within and about the citie. At their comming to Cowling, knowing that the lord Cobham was within the castell, they bent their ordinance against the gate, breaking it with sundrie shots, and burning it vp with [...]er, made a waie through it.The lord Cobham. The said lord Cobham defended the place as stoutlie as he might, hauing but a few against so great a number, and so little store of mu|nition for his defense: he himselfe yet discharged his gun at such as approched the gate right hardilie, and in that assault two of his men were slaine. After this assault, and talke had with the lord Cobham, sir Thomas Wiat marched to Grauesend, where he rested that night.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The next daie he came to Dartford with his bands, and laie there that night, whither came to him sir Edward Hastings maister of the quéenes horsse, and sir Thomas Cornwallis knights, both being of the quéenes priuie councell, and now sent from hir vn|to sir Thomas Wiat, to vnderstand the cause of his commotion. When he vnderstood they were come, he tooke with him certeine of his band to the west end of the towne, where he had lodged his ordinance. And at the lighting downe of sir Edward Hastings and his associat, sir Thomas Wiat hauing a parti|san in his hand, aduancing himselfe somewhat afore such gentlemen as were with him, traced neere them: EEBO page image 1096 to whome the maister of the horsse spake in substance as followeth.

The quéenes maiestie requireth to vn|derstand the verie cause wherefore you haue thus ga|thered togither in armes hir liege people, which is the part of a traitor, and yet in your proclamations and persuasions, you call your selfe a true subiect, which can not stand togither I am no traitor quoth Wi|at, and the cause wherefore I haue gathered the peo|ple, is to defend the realme from danger of being ouerrun with strangers, which must follow, this ma|riage taking place.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Why, quoth the quéenes agents, there be no stran|sters yet come, who either for power or number ye néed to suspect. But if this be your onelie quarrell, because ye mislike the mariage; will ye come to com|munication touching that case, and the queene of hir gratious goodnesse is content ye shall be heard. I yéeld thereto, quoth sir Thomas Wiat: but for my suertie I will rather be trusted than trust, and therefore demanded, as some haue written, the cu|stodie of the tower, [...] re|quests. and hir grace within it; also the displacing of some councellors about hir, and to haue other placed in their roomes. There was long & stout conference betwéene them, in so much that the mai|ster of the horsse said: Wiat, before thou shalt haue thy traitorous demand granted, thou shalt die, and twentie thousand with thée. And so the said maister of the horsse, and sir Thomas Cornewallis, percei|uing they could not bring him to that point they wished, returned to the court, aduertising the quéene what they had heard of him. The same daie being the first of Februarie,Proclamation that the duke of Suffolke and others were fled. proclamation was made in London by an herald, to signifie that the duke of Suffolkes companie of horssemen were scattered, and that he himselfe and his brethren were fled. Also that sir Peter Carew, and sir Gawen Carew knights, and William Gibs esquire, which being parties to the conspiracie of the said duke, with sir Thomas Wiat & others, were likewise fled. True it was that sir Peter Carew, perceiuing himselfe in danger to be apprehended, about the thrée and twen|tith of Ianuarie last past fled out of the realme, and escaped into France: but the other taried behind and were taken.