[180] It is to be remembered that Darcy still _professed_ that he had been forced into the insurrection by Aske. This is an excuse for Norfolk's request, though it would have been no excuse for Darcy had he consented. [181] Deposition of Percival Cresswell: _Rolls House MS._ A 2, 29. [182] _MS. State Paper Office_, first series. Autograph letter of Lord Darcy to the Duke of Norfolk. It is unfortunately much injured. [183] One of these is printed in the _State Papers_, Vol. I. p. 506. The editor of these Papers does not seem to have known that neither this nor any _written_ answer was actually sent. Amidst the confusion of the MSS. of this reign, scattered between the State Paper Office, the Rolls House, and the British Museum, some smothered in dirt and mildew, others in so frail a state that they can be scarcely handled or deciphered, far greater errors would be pardonable. The thanks of all students of English history are due to Sir John Romilly for the exertions which he has made and is still making to preserve the remnants of these most curious documents. [184] Henry VIII. to the Earl of Rutland: _Rolls House MS._ first series, 454 [185] Aske's Narrative: _Rolls House MS._ [186] _Rolls House MS._ first series, 1805; and see _State Papers_, Vol. I. p. 558. [187] Deposition of John Selbury: _Rolls House MS._ A 2. 29. [188] Sir Anthony Wingfield to the Duke of Norfolk: _Rolls House MS._ first series, 692. [189] The Duke of Norfolk, Sir William Fitzwilliam, Sir John Russell, and Sir Anthony Brown. [190] The Duke of Suffolk feared an even larger gathering: where heretofore they took one man, he warned Norfolk, they now take six or seven. _State Paper Office MS._ first series, Vol. III. Lord Darcy assured Somerset Herald that they had a reserve of eighty thousand men in Northumberland and Durham--which, however, the herald did not believe. _Rolls House MS._ [191] The King to the Duke of Norfolk: _Rolls House MS._ first series, 278. [192] _MS. State Paper Office._ [193] The names of the thirty-four were,--Lords Darcy, Neville, Scrope, Conyers, Latimer, and Lumley; Sir Robert Constable, Sir John Danvers, Sir Robert Chaloner, Sir James Strangways, Sir Christopher Danby, Sir Thomas Hilton, Sir William Constable, Sir John Constable, Sir William Vaughan, Sir Ralph Ellerkar, Sir Christopher Heliyarde, Sir Robert Neville, Sir Oswald Wolstrop, Sir Edward Gower, Sir George Darcy, Sir William Fairfax, Sir Nicholas Fairfax, Sir William Mallore, Sir Ralph Bulmer, Sir Stephen Hamarton, Sir John Dauncy, Sir George Lawson, Sir Richard Tempest, Sir Thomas Evers, Sir Henry Garrowe, and Sir William Babthorpe. [194] Examination of John Dakyn: _Rolls House MS._ first series, p. 402. [195] They have been printed by Strype (_Memorials_, Vol. II. p. 266). Strype however, knew nothing of the circumstances which gave them birth.