[1] But now to the purpose. The next day after his comming to London,The king cõ|mitted to the tower. the king from Westminster was had to the Tower, and there committed to safe custodie. Manie euill disposed persons, assembling themselues togither in great numbers, intended to haue met with him, and to haue taken him from such as had the conueieng of him, that they might haue slaine him. But the maior and aldermen gathered to them the worshipfull commoners and graue citi|zens, by whose policie, and not without much adoo, the other were reuoked from their euill purpose: albeit, before they might be pacified, they cõming to West|minster, [page 502] tooke maister Iohn Sclake deane of the kings chappell, and from thence brought him to New|gate, and there laid him fast in irons.