Note 233 — Chapter XIV

“This night I will send two or three hundred horse to them, and have commanded them to set fire in many places of the rebels’ dwellings, thinking thereby to make them to steal away, and every man to draw near to his own for the safeguard of his house and goods. I have also commanded them that if the traitors so sparkle they shall not spare shedding of blood; for execution whereof I will send such as I am sure will not spare to fulfil my commandment.”—Norfolk to Cromwell: MS. ibid.