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ANNUAL REGISTER
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kept her confined, and without company, for a fortnight; after which Bishop Gardiner, with nineteen others of the council, attended to examine her concerning the rebellion of which she was accused.  She positively denied the accusation. - However, they acquainted her it was the queen's resolution she should be committed to the Tower till further enquiries could be made.  The princess immediately wrote to the queen, earnestly intreating that she might not be imprisoned in the Tower, and concluding her letter thus: 'As for that traitor Wyat, he might, peradventure, write me a letter; but on my faithe I never received any from him.  And, as for the copie of my letter sent to the Frenche Kinge, I pray God confound me eternally, if ever I sent him word, message, token, or letter, by any menes.'  Her repeated protestations of innocence were all ineffectual.  She was conveyed to the Tower, and ignominiously conducted through the traitor's gate.  At her first commitment only three men and three women of the queen's servants were appointed for her attendants; but even these were forbidden to bring her meat, and she was waited on, for this purpose, by the lieutenant's servants, or even by the common soldiers. But afterwards two yeomen of her chamber, one of her robes, two of her pantry and ewry, one of her buttery, one of her cellar, another of her larder, and two of her kitchen were allowed, by permission of the privy-council, to serve at her table.  No stranger, or visitor, was admitted into her presence.  The constable of the Tower, Sir John Gage, treated her very severely, 

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and watched her with the utmost vigilance.  Many of the other prisoners, committed to the fame place on account of the rebellion, were often examined about her concern in the conspiracy, and some of them were put to the rack, by way of extorting an accusation.  Her innocence, however, was unquestionable; for, although Wyat himself had accused her, in hopes to have saved his own life, by means of so base and scandalous an artifice, yet he afterwards denied that she had the least knowledge of his designs; and, left those denials which he made at his examinations might be insidiously suppressed, and his former depositions alleged against her adopted in their stead, he continued to make the same declarations openly on the scaffold at the time of his execution.
The princess Elizabeth, after Wyat's rebellion, was removed from the Tower to Woodstock, where she continued some time in the custody of Sir Henry Bedingfield, who, with great difficulty, permitted her to write to the queen; on which King Philip did not arise from any regular principle of real generosity, by partly from an affectation of popularity, and partly from a refined sentiment of policy, which made him foresee, that, if Elizabeth was put to death, the next lawful heir would be Mary Queen of Scots, already betrothed to the Dauphin of France, whose succession would for ever join the sceptres  of England and France, and consequently crush the growing interests of Spain.  In her first day's journey from the manor of Woodstock

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For the YEAR 1772.
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stock to Lord Williams's, at Ricot, a violent storm of wind happened, insomuch that her hood and the attire of her head were twice or thrice blown off.  On this she begged to retire to a gentleman's house then at hand; but Bedingfield's absurd and superabundant circumspection refused even this insignificant request, and constrained her, with much indecorum, to replace her head-dress under a hedge near the road.  The next night they came to Mr. Dormer's, at Winge, in Buckinghamshire, and from thence to an inn at Colnebrook, where she lay. At length she arrived at Hampton-Court, where the court then resided, but was still kept in the condition of a prisoner.  Here Bishop Gardiner, with others of the council, frequently persuaded her to make a confession, and submit to the queen's mercy.  One night, when it was late, the princess was unexpectedly sent for, and conducted by torch-light to the queen's bed-chamber, where she kneeled down before the queen, declaring herself to be a most faithful and true subject.  The queen seemed still to suspect her, but they parted on good terms.  During this critical interview, Philip had concealed himself behind the tapestry, that he might have seasonably interposed to prevent the violence of the queen's passionate temper from proceeding to any extremities.  One week after she was released from the formidable parade of guards and keepers. - A happy change was permitted to retire with Sir Thomas Pope to Hatfield-house, in Hertfordshire.
At parting, the queen began to shew some symptoms of reconcili

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ation: she recommended to her Sir Thomas Pope, as a person with whom the princess was well acquainted, and whose humanity, prudence, and other valuable qualifications, were all calculated to render her new situation perfectly agreeable; and at the same time she gave the princess a ring worth seven hundred crowns.
But, before I proceed further in this part of my narrative, says Mr. Warton, I stop to mention a circumstance unnoticed by our historians, which is, that Sir Thomas Pope, in conjunction with others, had some concern about the person of the princess Elizabeth, even when she first retired from the court in disgrace, to her house at Ashridge: and before her troubles commenced, occasioned by Wyat's rebellion.  When that rebellion broke out, Mary wrote to the princess, the sick at Ashridge, artfully requesting her immediate attendance at the court.  Elizabeth's governors at this time, whose names are no where particularly mentioned, waiting every day for her recovery, very compassionately declared it unsafe yet to remove her; and the princess herself, in the meantime, signified by letter her indisposition to the queen, begging that her journey to the court might be deferred for a few days, and protesting her abhorrence of Wyat's feditious practices; her governors likewise, on their parts, apprehending that this tenderness towards their mistreats might be interpreted in a bad sense, dispatched a letter to Bishop Gardiner, Lord Chancellor, acquainting him with her condition, and avowing their readiness to receive the queen's commands.  And original draught or 
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