The name of rebellion, it was said, was a bugbear which could frighten no reasonable man.

Was it rebellion to defend those laws and that religion which every King of England bound himself by oath to maintain?
How that oath had lately been observed was a question on which, it was to be hoped, a free Parliament would soon pronounce.

In the meantime, the insurgents declared that they held it to be not rebellion, but legitimate self defence, to resist a tyrant who knew no law but his own will.

The Northern rising became every day more formidable.

Four powerful and wealthy Earls, Manchester, Stamford, Rutland, and Chesterfield, repaired to Nottingham, and were joined there by Lord Cholmondley and by Lord Grey de Ruthyn.