But the counsellors, who wished to remove him,[**] working on the filial tenderness of Jane, magnified to her the danger to which her father would be exposed; and represented that Northumberland, who had gained reputation by formerly suppressing a rebellion in those parts, was more proper to command in that enterprise.
* Heylin, p.160.Burnet, vol.ii.p.

237.
** Godwin, p.330.Heylin, p.159.Burnet vol.ii.p.

239.
Fox, vol.iii.p 15.
The duke himself, who knew the slender capacity of Suffolk, began to think that none but himself was able to encounter the present danger; and he agreed to take on him the command of the troops.

The counsellors attended on him at his departure with the highest protestations of attachment, and none more than Arundel, his mortal enemy.[*] As he went along, he remarked the disaffection of the people, which foreboded a fatal issue to his ambitious hopes.

"Many," said he to Lord Gray, "come out to look at us, but I find not one who cries, God speed you!"[**] The duke had no sooner reached St.Edmondsbury, than he found his army, which did not exceed six thousand men, too weak to encounter the queen's,[***] which amounted to double the number.