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UNDECEIVED.
Parliament, which had not for a long time now ventured to offer any further opposition to the king's will--Parliament had acquiesced in his decree.

It had accused Earl Surrey of high treason; and, on the sole testimony of his mother and his sister, he had been declared guilty of lese majeste and high treason.

A few words of discontent at his removal from office, some complaining remarks about the numerous executions that drenched England's soil with blood--that was all that the Duchess of Richmond had been able to bring against him.

That he, like his father, bore the arms of the Kings of England--that was the only evidence of high treason of which his mother the Duchess of Norfolk could charge him.