[Footnote 434: Elizabeth herself had no such scruple at the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, who was convicted on evidence obtained from letters written in cypher, and which she persistently declared to be forgeries.] [Footnote 435: Thomas Heywood.] [Footnote 436: Griffet, p. 39.] [Footnote 437: Renard, _Ses Ambassades et ses Négociations_, par M. Tridon, p. 198 note.] [Footnote 438: _Grey Friars’ Chronicle_, p. 88. “A dead cat having a cloth like a vestment of the priest at Mass with a cross on it afore, and another behind put on it; the crown of the cat shorn, a piece of paper like a singing-cake put between the forefeet of the said cat, bound together, which cat was hanged on the post of the gallows in Cheap, beyond the Cross, in the parish of St. Matthew, and a bottle hanged by it; which cat was taken down at 6 of the clock in the morning, and carried to the Bishop of London, and he caused it to be showed openly in the sermon time at Paul’s Cross, in the sight of all the audience there present. The Lord Mayor with his brethren, the aldermen of the city of London, caused a proclamation to be made that afternoon, that whosoever could utter, or show the author of the said fact, should have £6 13s. 4d. for his pains, and a better reward with hearty thanks. But at that time after much enquiry and search made, it could not be known, but divers persons were had to prison for suspicions of it” (Wriothesley, _Chronicle_, vol. ii., p. 114).] [Footnote 439: Machyn, _Diary_, p. 64.] [Footnote 440: Record Office, Belgian Transcripts, vol. ii.] [Footnote 441: Machyn, _Diary_, p. 64.] [Footnote 442: “The xii day of April was Sir Thomas Wyatt set upon the gallows on Hay Hill, beside Hyde Park, where did hang three men in chains, where the Queen’s men and Wyatt’s men did skirmish, where he and his captains were overcome, thank be to God” (Machyn, _Diary_, p. 60). According to Wriothesley, Wyatt was beheaded on Tower Hill “at 6 o’clock in the forenoon, and his body after quartered on the scaffold” (_Chronicle_, vol. ii., p. 115). Wriothesley gives the date of his execution as the 11th April. It is probable that one of his quarters was set on the gallows on Hay Hill.] [Footnote 443: Lingard remarks, that as for Elizabeth and Courtenay not being “privy” to Wyatt’s rising, “it may certainly be true, for he rose unexpectedly six weeks before the time originally fixed upon” (_History of England_, vol. v., p. 434 note). Holinshed says that Wyatt protested against being pressed to say anything more in his wretched condition; that he declared it went against him to accuse any one by name, but that having confessed everything to her Grace, he begged that he might be tormented with no more questions (_Chronicle_, 1103, 1104, 1111).] [Footnote 444: Mgr. Namèche, _Le Règne de Philippe II_, etc., vol. i., p. 43. Tytler, _Edward VI. and Mary_, vol. ii., p. 414.] CHAPTER XII. PHILIP AND MARY. _July_ 1554-_August_ 1555.