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THE RISING OF THE NORTH. leisure, intending to make first for Tutbury and release the Queen of Scots, and then either advance to Lon- don or wait for a corresponding movement in the South. To make the ground sure and to open a port through which the expected succours could reach them from Alva, by a side movement they secured Hartlepool. They sent letters to every person of rank whom they expected to find on their side. Misinterpreting the inaction of Sussex, they supposed that he was waiting only for the plea of constraint to join their part}^ They had avoided York on their advance, to prevent a collision, and they wrote to beg him to make common cause with them. 1 To Lord Derby they wrote saying that, ' because he was wise they needed not persuade with him ' of the neces- sity of their rising ; they knew l his zeal for God's true religion ' they knew ' his care for conserving the ancient nobility ; ' they trusted that he would lose no time in joining his forces to theirs : 2 while to commit before the world the other noblemen whom they believed to be with them in heart, they set out a manifesto, relating as much as suited their purpose of the proceedings of the council during the past year. 'The succession to the crown was dangerousty and uncertainly depending through the many pretended titles/ * For the avoiding of bloodshed and other subversions of the commonwealth/ the Duke of Norfolk, the Earls of Arundel and Pembroke, witlj divers others of the old nobility, had determined to make 1 Sussex to the Queen, Novem- ber 26 : MSS. Border. ~ The Earls of Northumberland and "Westmoreland to the Earl of Derby, November 27 : Burghley Papers, vol. i.