They rose in a tumult and destroyed all the mass-houses.

They even attacked and rifled the houses of the Florentine envoy and Spanish ambassador, where many of the Catholics had lodged their most valuable effects.

Jefferies, the chancellor, who had disguised himself in order to fly the kingdom, was discovered by them, and so abused, that he died a little after.

Even the army, which should have suppressed those tumults, would, it was apprehended, serve rather to increase the general disorder.

Feversham had no sooner heard of the king's flight, than he disbanded the troops in the neighborhood, and without either disarming or paying them, let them loose to prey upon the country.
In this extremity, the bishops and peers who were in town, being the only remaining authority of the state, (for the privy council, composed of the king's creatures, was totally disregarded,) thought proper to assemble, and to interpose for the preservation of the community.