27th January 1554

The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat
p.36

‘The same day ther was made redy, by vj. of the clock at nyght, about V of harnassed men, and came together at Leaden hall; and the sonday following they went towards Gravesende against the Kentyshe men.’

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Diary of Henry Machyn
p. 52

‘(The xxvij day of January the city sent into Kent a great number of men in white coats. The captains to command them, and the rest of their forces, were the duke of Norfolk, earl of Ormond, sir George Howard, and divers others. But many of the guards, and of the white-coats deserted) them, and captaynes cam hom a-gayn. (Wyatt had gotten some of the late king’s) ordenanse; and so, after their removing, cam towards Dartford with ys army towards London.’