Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . exposed tothe Charity of his Friends for a subsistence ; andspending the remainder of his life in Visits amongstthem, was commonly called the Lord Quondam. Another proof of Dudleys increasing unpopularity,in some circles at all events, may be found in his quarrelwith John Knox, the great Scottish Reformer. He hadbeen a good friend to that truculent pulpiteer, and hadeven tried to get him a bishopric. But on December7th, 1552, we find him writing that he thinks Knoxneither grateful nor pleasable, and we also find Knoxreturning
Warwick castle and its earls : from Saxon times to the present day . exposed tothe Charity of his Friends for a subsistence ; andspending the remainder of his life in Visits amongstthem, was commonly called the Lord Quondam. Another proof of Dudleys increasing unpopularity,in some circles at all events, may be found in his quarrelwith John Knox, the great Scottish Reformer. He hadbeen a good friend to that truculent pulpiteer, and hadeven tried to get him a bishopric. But on December7th, 1552, we find him writing that he thinks Knoxneither grateful nor pleasable, and we also find Knoxreturning the compliment with interest. The languageis vigorous, though the sentences are involved; andthe general tenor of the discourse is clear enough :—? But yet ceassed not the Devell to blowe hyswynde, but by his wicked instrumentes founde themeanes, how, against nature, the one broder should 242 The House of Dudley assent to the death of the other ^ and fynding thesame instrumentes apt enough whose labours he hadused before, he blewe suche mortal hatred betweene. Fr07n an old print,THE LADY MARY DUDLEY, AFTERWARDS THE WIFE OF SIR HENRY SIDNEY,AND THE MOTHER OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. two which appeared to have bene pillers underthe Kinge : for that wretched (alas!) and miserableNorthumberlande could not be satisfied tyl such tyme assymple Somerset most unjustlye was bereft of his lyfe. Alluding to the sacrifice of Lord Seymour of Sudeley by the Dukeof Somerset. 243 Warwick Castle ?- And who, I pray you, ruled the rooste in thecourte all this tyme by stoute corage and proudnes ofstomack but Northumberland ? But who, I pray you,under Kynge Edwarde, ruled all by counsel and wyt ?shall I name the man ? I wil wryte no more plainlynow then my tongue sjDake the last sermon that itpleased God that I should make before that innocentand most godly Kynge Edward the Syxte and beforehis counsell at Westminster, and even to the faces ofsuch as of whom I ment. Entreatynge this place ofsc
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