[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.