Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England, episode 264D, Rebel Queen, number

5, Resistance. Yesterday we left Northumberland riding out from London at the head of a 1500

men northwards to the town of Weir. Since Mary wrote her letter of defiance on the 10th

of July, what had been happening to her cause? In fact, Mary's magnificent household had

swung into action earlier than Northumberlands had. From the 8th of July, letters had started

to be sent from Kenning Hall to the network that Rochester had built up. Let us the Gontusa

George Somerset, Sir William Druury, Sir William Waldergrave, telling them to ignore the

council in London, to come and join Mary. The following day letters kept pouring from Rochester's

pen to be signed, hurriedly taken to the waiting hands of Loyal Horseman, whose clattering

on the cobbles as they rode from the courtyard to their distant destination. On the 9th,

a letter to Sir Edward Hastings, would gather support in the Ten's Valley, letters written

to town such as Great Yarmouth and Far Away's Chester. Often these letters assumed that

Mary was queen rather than the Lawless Rebel. Lord Stouten was appointed Lord Lieutenant.

Joining Mary required the subject to break their basic instincts of self-preservation and

the carefully taught obedience to the state, built up over a thousand years, but there were

reasons that you might go and join her. One of those was religion. Mary had bravely and

proudly stood out for traditional religion. She had done so not just that she could continue

to practice the religion of her forefathers, but to consciously encourage those who, like

her, could not adjust to the innovations of the Reformers. Some therefore rushed to Mary's

side for that reason. The lawyer Richard Morgan made his way from London. Lord Morden's

son came from Bedfordshire, so Leonard Chamberlain tried to raise Oxfordshire and Barkshire for

Mary. But there were plenty of Protestants who were for Mary. London was the most religiously

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