And thus the tide and time passed awaie for that season, they priuilie appointing all things readie that she should go the next tide which fell about midnight: but for feare she should be taken by the waie, they durst not. So they staied till the next daie, being Palmesundaie, when about nine of the clocke these two returned againe, declaring that it was time for hir grace to depart; she answering: If there be no re|medie, I must be content, willing the lords to go be|fore. Being come foorth into the garden, she did cast vp hir eies toward the window, thinking to haue séene the queene, which she could not. Whereat she said she maruelled much what the nobilitie of the realme meant, which in that sort would suffer hir to be led into captiuitie, the Lord knew whither, for she did not. In the meane time commandement was giuen in all London, that euerie one should keepe the church and carie their palmes, while in the meane sea|son she might be conueied without all recourse of people into the tower.

After all this, she tooke hir barge with the two fore|said lords, thrée of the quéenes gentlewomen,Ladie Eliza|beth sent to the tower. and thrée of hir owne, hir gentleman vsher, and two of hir groomes, lieng & houering vpon the water a cer|teine space, for that they could not shoot the bridge, the bargemen being verie vnwilling to shoot the same so soone as they bad, bicause of the danger ther|of: for the sterne of the boat stroke vpon the ground, the fall was so big, and the water was so shallow, that the boat being vnder the bridge, there staied a|gaine a while. At landing, she first staied, and denied to land at those staires where all traitors and offen|dors customablie vsed to land, neither well could she vnlesse she should go ouer hir shoo. The lords were gone out of the boat before, and asked why she came not. One of the lords went backe againe to hir, and brought word she would not come. Then said one of the lords which shall be namelesse, that she should not choose: and bicause it did then raine, he offered to hir his cloke, which she (putting it backe with hir hand with a good dash) refused. So she comming out, ha|uing one foot vpon the staire, said;The words of ladie Eliza|beth entring the tower. Here landeth as true a subiect being prisoner, as euer landed at these staires: and before thée O God I speake it, hauing none other fréends but thee alone.

To whome the same lord answered againe, that if it were so, it was the better for hir. At hir landing there was a great multitude of their seruants and warders standing in their order; What néeded all this said she? It is the vse (said some) so to be when a|nie prisoner came thither. And if it be (quoth she) for my cause, I beséech you that they may be dismissed. Wherat the poore men kneeled downe, and with one voice desired God to preserue hir grace, who the next daie were released of their cold coats. After this pas|sing a little further, she sat downe vpon a cold stone, and there rested hir selfe. To whom the lieute|nant then being, said; Madame, you were best to come out of the raine, for you sit vnwholesomelie. She then replieng, answered againe: Better sitting here thanin a worse place, for God knoweth, I know not whither you will bring me. With that hir gen|tleman vsher wept: she demanding of him what he meant so vncomfortablie to vse hir, seeing she tooke him to be hir comforter, and not to dismaie hir, espe|ciallie for that she knew hir truth to be such, that no man should haue cause to wéepe for hir. But forth she went into the prison.