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had had the precaution to engage the council before Edward's death and wrote to them in the Prince's name desiring their attendance on pretence that his state of health required the assistance of their counsel, and the consolation of their company--Edward escpired before their arrival, but Northumberland in order to make the Pss's fall into the snare, kept the King's death still secret--Happily the Earl of Arundel sent the Lady Mary private intelligence both of her Brothers death and of the conspiracy formed against her, in consequence Mary wrote letters to the Nobility and most considerable gentry in every county in England commanding
