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SIR THOMAS WYAT (d. 1554)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 863 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:THOMAS See also:WYAT (d. 1554)  , See also:English conspirator, son of the preceding, was over twenty-one in 1543, but the date of his See also:birth is uncertain . He is said to have accompanied his See also:father on his See also:mission to See also:Spain, and to have been turned into an enemy of the 1 Ed . J . Haslewood, See also:Ancient See also:Critical Essays, i . 48 (1811) . 2 One of the most musical of the pieces printed in his See also:works, however, " The See also:Lover complayneth the unkindnes of his Love," beginning " My See also:lute, awake," is sometimes attributed to See also:George See also:Boleyn, See also:Lord See also:Rochford (see E . Bapst, Deux Gentilshommes poetes de la tour de See also:Henri VIII, p . 142) . Spaniards by the menaces of the See also:Inquisition . In 1537 he married Jane, daughter of See also:Sir See also:William Hawte of Bishopsbourne in See also:Kent, by whom he had ten See also:children . See also:Wyat was noted in his youth as dissipated, and even as disorderly . He is known to have had a natural son, whose See also:mother See also:Elizabeth was a daughter of Sir See also:Edward Darrell of Littiecote .

In 1542 he inherited the See also:

family See also:property of Allington See also:Castle and Boxley See also:Abbey on the See also:death of his father . From 1543 to 1550 he saw service abroad as a soldier . In 1554 he joined with the conspirators who combined to prevent the See also:marriage of See also:Queen See also:Mary with See also:Philip the See also:prince of Spain, afterwards See also:King Philip II . A See also:general See also:movement was planned; but his See also:fellow-conspirators were timid and inept, the rising was serious only in Kent, and Wyat became a formidable See also:rebel mostly by See also:accident . On the 22nd of See also:January 1554 he summoned a See also:meeting of his See also:friends at his castle of Allington, and the 25th was fixed for the rising . On the 26th Wyat occupied See also:Rochester, and issued a See also:proclamation to the See also:county . The See also:country See also:people and See also:local gentry collected, but at first the queen's supporters, led by Lord See also:Abergavenny and Sir See also:Robert See also:Southwell, the See also:sheriff, appeared to be able to suppress the rising with ease, gaining some successes against isolated bands of the insurgents . But the See also:Spanish marriage was unpopular, and Kent was more affected by the See also:preaching of the reformers than most of the country districts of See also:England . Abergavenny and Southwell were deserted by their men, who either disbanded or went over to Wyat . A detachment of the See also:London See also:train-bands sent against him by Queen Mary, under the command of the See also:duke of See also:Norfolk, followed their example . The rising now seemed so formidable that a deputation was sent to Wyat by the queen and See also:council to ask for his terms . He insisted that the See also:Tower should be surrendered to him, and the queen put under his See also:charge .

The insolence of these demands caused a reaction in London, where the reformers were strong and were at first in sympathy with him . When he reached See also:

Southwark on the 3rd of See also:February he found London See also:Bridge occupied in force, and was unable to penetrate into the See also:city . He was driven from Southwark by the threats of Sir See also:John See also:Brydges (or See also:Bruges), afterwards Lord See also:Chandos, who was prepared to See also:fire on the suburb with the guns of the Tower . Wyat now marched up the See also:river to See also:Kingston, where he crossed the See also:Thames, and made his way to Ludgate with a See also:part of his following . Some of his men were cut off . Others lost See also:heart and deserted . His only See also:hope was that a rising would take See also:place, but the loyal forces kept See also:order, and after a futile See also:attempt to force the See also:gate Wyat surrendered . He was brought to trial on the 15th of See also:March, and could make no See also:defence . See also:Execution was for a See also:time delayed, no doubt in the hope that, in order to See also:save his See also:life he would say enough to See also:compromise the queen's See also:sister Elizabeth, afterwards Queen Elizabeth, in whose interests the rising was supposed to have been made . But he would not confess enough to render her liable to a trial for See also:treason . He was executed on the rlth of See also:April, and on the See also:scaffold expressly cleared the princess of all complicity in the rising . His estates were afterwards partly restored to his son ' George, the father of the Sir See also:Francis Wyat (d .

1644) who was See also:

governor of See also:Virginia in 1621–26 and 1639–1642 . A fragment of the castle of Allington is still inhabited as a See also:farm-See also:house, near See also:Maidstone, on the See also:bank of the See also:Medway . See G . F . See also:Nott, Works of See also:Surrey and of Sir See also:Thomas Wyat (1815) ; and See also:Froude, See also:History of England .

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