[1] [2] In this meane while, the duke of Suffolke being persuaded to ioine with other in this quarell, as he that doubted (as no small number of true English|men then did) least the pretended mariage with the Spanish king should bring the whole nobilitie and people of this realme into bondage and thraldome of strangers,The duke of Suffolke go|eth downe in|to Leicester|shire. after he was once aduertised that sir Thomas Wiat had preuented the time of their pur|posed enterprise, he secretlie one euening departed from Sheene, and rode with all spéed into Leice|stershire where in the towne of Leicester and o|ther places, hée caused proclamation to be made in semblable wise, as sir Thomas Wiat had doone, against the quéenes match which she meant to make with the said king of Spaine: but few there were that would willinglie hearken thereto. But now ye must vnderstand, that before his comming downe, he was persuaded that the citie of Couentrie would be opened vnto him,The citie of Couentrie. the more part of the citizens be|ing throughlie bent in his fauour, in so necessarie a quarell, for defense of the realme against strangers, as they were then persuaded.