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that kingdom; On which the Duke of Somerset invaded Scotland and routed the scots armies at Pinkey and at Musselborough. The great power of the Duke of Somerset raised him many enemies, the chief of whom was his Brother Lord Thomas Seymour the Admiral, who was an ambitious-- and a turbulent man. The Brothers divided the whole court, and Kingdom by their opposite interests; The Admiral had married the Queen Dowager, and after her death made his address to the Princess Elizabeth, but articles of accusation being exhibited against him he was attained in-- parliament condemned, and beheaded, without being brought to an open trial. However the Duke of Somerset himself was some time after impeached & charged with a design to seize the king, and to imprison the Earl of Warwich: for this he was condemned and the young king being in a manner forced to sign the sentence, he was executed. The Earl of Warwick now Duke of Northumberland succeeded to the Duke of Somerset's power, and at length, on the kings being taken ill of the Measles married Lord Guildford Duddley his fourth son to the Lady
