"Herewith Sir _Thomas Palmer_, a man neither loving the Duke of
_Somerset_, nor beloved of him, was brought by the Duke of
_Northumberland_ to the King being in his garden. Here he
declared on St. George's day last before, the Duke of _Somerset_
being upon a journey towards the north, in case Sir _William
Herbert_, Master of the Horse, had not assured him he should
receive no harm, would have raised the people; and that he had
sent the Lord _Gray_ before, to know who would be his friends:
also that the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquis of Northampton,
the Earl of Pembroke, and other lords should be invited to a
banquet, and if they came with a bare company, to be set upon by
the way; if strongly, their heads should have been cut off at the
place of their feasting. He declared further that Sir _Ralph
Vane_, had two thousand men in a readiness; that Sir _Thomas
Arundell_ had assured the _Tower_, that _Seymor_ and _Hamond_,
would wait upon him, and that all the horse of the _Gendarmorie_
should be slain."
This must have been the day on which the boy-king records in his
journal,--
"11 Oct., 1551. Sir Thomas Arrondel had ashuerid my Lord that the
Towre was sauf."
The "my Lord" here must have related to Somerset, which the King heard
of in his conversation with Northumberland.