On this day…3rd February


The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat
p. 41 & 42-3

‘On sattersdaye in the mornynge, being the thirde of Februarye, ther came fourthe a proclamation, sett further by the queens counsel, wherin was declared that that traytour Wyat deduced simple people against the quene. Wherefore, she willed all her loving subjects to endeavour themselves to withstande him; and that the duke of Suffolke, with his ij. Brethren, were dyscomfeted by the erle of Huntingdon, and certain of his horsemen taken, and the duke and his ij. brethren fledde in servingman’s cottes…’

‘This day, about iij. of the clockem sir Thomas Wyat and the Kentyshemen marched forwarde from Debtford towardes Loneon with v. auncientes, being by estimation about ij. thousand men…After the knowledge therof once had in London, forthwith the draybridge was cut downe and the bridge gates shut.’



6th February 1554


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