[1] [2] [3] The lords being informed hereof, were marue|louslie mooued, and sware that they would not depart till they had spoken with him face to face, and foorth|with they sent part of their companies to watch the Thames, for feare the king should scape their hands, and then laugh them to scorne. When the king then perceiued himselfe to be inclosed on ech side, he tal|ked eftsoones with the archbishop and his associats that were messengers betwixt him and the lords, wil|ling them to declare to the lords that he would be contented to treat with them in reasonable order; wherevpon they required that he should on the mo|row next insuing come vnto Westminster, where he should vnderstand their demands. When the king heard that, he refused to come vnto Westminster, but willed that they should come to him there in the Tower. The lords sent him word againe,The lords re|fuse to come into ye Tower but after search made they come thi|ther to the kings pre|sence. that the Tower was a place to be suspected, for that they might there be surprised by some guilefull practise deuised to intrap them. The king herevnto made answer, that they might send some two hundred men, or so manie as they should thinke good, to make a through search, whether they néeded to feare anie such thing; and this accordinglie was doone: they ha|uing the keies of the gates and of all the strong chambers, turrets, and places within the Tower sent vnto them.