44/61 The queen filled the Tower and all the prisons with nobility and gentry, whom their interest with the nation, rather than any appearance of guilt, had made the objects of her suspicion; and finding that she was universally hated, she determined to disable the people from resistance, by ordering general musters, and directing the commissioners to seize their arms, and lay them up in forts and castles.[***] * Heylin, p.167.Fox, vol iii.p.36, 37. Holingshed, p. 99. Stowe, p.624.Baker, p. 320. |