ABSTRACT
The rising was planned to take place on Palm Sunday, 18 March 1554, just before Philip was due to start for England. The French (who had already dabbled unsuccessfully in supporting Queen Jane, back in the previous summer) were now to provide naval support in the Channel and secure the south-western ports against the Spaniards. Wyatt would hold the south-east against imperialist intervention from the Netherlands. A fourfold rising led by Croft from Herefordshire, Carew from Devon, Wyatt from Kent and Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk from Leicestershire would converge on London.
