[110] "My lord: Hugh Ascue, this bearer, hath shewed me that this day a servant of Sir William Hussey's reported how that in manner, in every place by the way as his master and he came, he hath heard as well old people as young pray God to speed the rebellious persons in Lincolnshire, and wish themselves with them; saying, that if they came that way, that they shall lack nothing that they can help them unto. And the said Hugh asked what persons they were which so reported, and he said _all_; which is a thing as meseemeth greatly to be noted."--Sir William Fitzwilliam to Lord Cromwell: _MS. State Paper Office_, second series, Vol. VI. [111] Richard Cromwell to Lord Cromwell: _MS. State Paper Office_, second series, Vol. VII. [112] "Nothing we lament so much as that they thus fly; for our trust was that we should have used them like as they have deserved; and I for my part am as sorry as if I had lost five hundred pounds. For my lord admiral (Sir John Russell), he is so earnest in the matter, that I dare say he would eat them with salt."--Richard Cromwell to Lord Cromwell: _MS. State Paper Office_. [113] Henry VIII. to the Rebels in Lincolnshire: _State Papers_, Vol. I. p. 463, &c. [114] Confession of Thos. Mayne: _Rolls House MS._ first series, 432. [115] Confession of Thos. Mayne: _Rolls House MS._ first series, 432. [116] Henry VIII. to the Duke of Suffolk: Ibid. 480. [117] Wriothesley to Cromwell: _State Papers_, Vol. I. p. 471. Examination of the Prisoners: _Rolls House MS._ [118] Henry VIII. to the Duke of Suffolk: _Rolls House MS._ first series, 480. [119] "The captain and the Earl of Cumberland came of two sisters."--Lord Darcy to Somerset Herald: _Rolls House MS._ [120] _State Papers_, Vol. I. p. 523. [121] Manner of the taking of Robert Aske: _Rolls House MS._ A 2, 28. [122] "There was a letter forged in my name to certain towns, which I utterly deny to be my deed or consent."--Narrative of Robert Aske: _Rolls House MS._ A 2, 28. This is apparently the letter which is printed in the _State Papers_, Vol. I. p. 467. It was issued on the 7th or 8th of October (see Stapleton's Confession: _Rolls House MS._ A 2, 28), the days on which, according to Aske's own confession, he seems to have been in the West Riding. [123] The oath varied a little in form. In Yorkshire the usual form was, "Ye shall swear to be true to God, the king, and the commonwealth."--Aske's Narrative: _Rolls House MS._ The tendency of the English to bind themselves with oaths, explains and partly justifies the various oaths required by the government. [124] Deposition of William Stapleton: _Rolls House MS._ [125] Henry VIII. to Lord Darcy, October 8th: _Rolls House MS._ first series, 282. [126] Letters to and from Lord Darcy: _Rolls House MS._ first series, 282.