[1] Now as they passed through Kent, Whethamsted there came to them the lord Cobham, Iohn Gilford, William Pech, Robert Horne, and manie other gentlemen; so that before they approched to London, their num|ber [page 654] was esteemed aboue fourtie thousand figh|ting men, for the fame of their landing being once knowen, gentlemen and yeomen resorted to them out of all the south parts of the relme. Upon which ru|mor, Thomas lord Scales, a man in great fauour with the king & quéene, accompanied with the earle of Kendall a Gascoigne, and the lord Louell, resorted to London with a great companie of armed men, de|claring to the maior, that their repaire onelie was to defend and kéepe the citie from spoile of such traitors as the king was crediblie informed were thither comming. To whom the maior answered, that he nee|ded no fellow helper, either to defend or gouerne the citie to him committed in charge. With which answer the lord Scales and his associats nothing contented, entred into the Tower, dailie deuising waies how to grieue the citizens, whom he perceiued to fauour ra|ther the duke of Yorks part, than the kings.