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I 5 6 9 .] THE RISING OF THE NORTH. 149 were wearied with marching in armour/ and could move only five or six miles a day. On the loth of December Clinton was at Doncaster. He too was short of money, and was disappointed in his expectations of finding supplies waiting for him there. 1 But the soldiers were loyal and were contented with promises. He pushed on, leaving accounts to be settled afterwards, and on the 1 3th met Warwick at Wetherby. Together they had now 11,000 men, all well ap- pointed, in high spirits, 'and eager to encounter the rebels if they would abide/ This however it seemed now unlikely that the rebels would venture to do. The object was rather to prevent their flight ; and Scrope, reassured by the ap- parent loyalty of Leonard Dacres, moved out from Car- lisle to intercept them on their way to the Borders. To have allowed such a proceeding without obstruction, in the heart of his own country, would have ruined Dacres' s popularity. He did not interfere himself, but 1 Elizabeth was in such a humour about expenses that every penny for the regular service had been doled out reluctantly. Every despatch for the different commanders contained a statement of their necessities. Cecil had to write in return that they must spend as little as possible. 'There was much ado to procure money. Her Majesty was much grieved at her charges.' Cecil's po- sition made him write with reserve. Sir H. Radcliffe, another brother of Sussex, who was with the Queen at Windsor, expressed himself in plainer language. ' If your Lordship,' he wrote to the President, ' lack there the sup- plies promised, you must bear them and do what you may otherwise ; and if some here with us bear glances or overthrusts we must not understand them. Neither shall your Lordship receive this supply, though but small, which might have either ended, or at least mitigated, the matter by this time.' Sir II. Ead- cliffe to Sussex, December 10 : Cot- ton. MSS. CALIG. B. ix.