Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England, episode 270, Wyatt's Doom.

We left a bunch of conspirators muttering angrily in a booze somewhere in the city of London

near St Paul's Cathedral.

Maythering about the iniquities of the Spanish and what having a Spanish king would do to their country.

Now some bright spark somewhere sometime said something about never fighting at battle

unless you know you're going to win.

So our terrible trio of Thomas Wyatt, Peter Caru and James Croft did a bit of skulking,

a bit of sounding out a bit of whispering behind hands and corridors.

They had a couple of targets to join them.

One of them was Edward Courtney and Edward was attractive because his nose was distinctly

out of joint with a level of want to it that would attract any self-respecting conspirator.

Another target was Henry Gray, the Duke of Suffolk, father of Jane Gray of course, who

Mary had rather generously released on the pleading of her friend the Duchess.

Then flosing around in the background is a man called Nicholas Throck Morton.

Throckers, as he was almost never known by his friends, had been a supporter of Jane Gray

and was a dedicated Protestant.

And I know how much you like names, so I introduce him for you now.

And surely Throck Morton is a name anyone can remember.

I do have a purpose in introducing the name other than to confuse and bamboozle, which

is to make a point.

The royale is that this event is often known as Wyatt's Rebellion.

It's not a talk that he was the prime mover initially, not obvious at all.

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