Fighting spirit

They are a couple reason why the rebellion didn't last too long. The rebel had a fairly simple objective which was to take out Mary Stuart of captivity, though that was taken care of fairly quickly by moving her more south, where her partisan had less support.  While the rebel had number in the thousands, when England had properly gathered up its strenght it could bring a much bigger fighting force (source), but the problem was that it needed to be gather up which took time, luckily for them the Northern rebels had little support.  I'd love to say that our dear baron was behind all this, but really its earl of Sussex (Although apparently Elizabeth wasn't sure he was loyal). The queen had asked him to stay at berwick when thing started to flare up (November 16 entry),.

Though the reason why Hunsdon involvement is important, is essentially because he saw the most fighting in the war and that because he was in a numerical disadvantage (and it was in the last moments of the rebellion). Sir Leonard Dacre was essentially a noble that covertly supporting the Marian partisan while declaring he was a supporter of the crowd, which enable him to gather up his force at his fortress. So it was now up to Henry Carey to smash it up.

Here a pretty good resume of the events.

Rebellion

So here some more general context to the rising of the North. We have essentially a mix of reason as to why thing happen, most of them having to do with protestantism of the crown while the local lord are catholic, but it also goes along with a centralising government against more feudal lord. At the same time you have the duke of northfolk seeking to get wed to Mary Stuart. Henry effectively an agent of that centralisation (he himself having no ties whatsoever to the region, but he is getting appointee to the matters by the central authority in London). I very much doubt that Henry had any sort of conflicting loyalty here, in fact the suppressing of the rebellion pretty much get brutal. Though most account actually put his force at numerical disadvantage.

Second half

(First of all thank for the additional +1, those are always liked)

Well no point in doing the first half of the year without doing the second half later.

(Cecil paper)

1329. You can sorta that Hundon actually defending the duke of Northfolk here (well that didn't help him a lot in the end), but clearly has little support for the idea of marrying to Mary Stuart. You can also instruction  

1330. Not quite sure that the Henry Carew refer to his our lord Hunsdon since I've seen Carew being use as a distinct family name several time.

Thing will go pretty dark for Henry up until the rebellion in November at 1405. Interesting it help up identify the second man who later join in with cecil to help him as Ralph Sadler .

Calendar

326, I'm suprise that Mary stuart sent a letter doing some request at Hunsdon, but I guess  he made a good intermediary. Most of the other entry are not very interesting at least.Overall you can see what are effectively the main duties of Lord Hunsdon, Bandits, raids, maintaining Berwick and havig to deal with the disease and sorta having to deal with issues stemming from the queen of scotland.

Father of King..well sorta...not really

Ok sorry for that somewhat overly dramatic title, but today we are talking about plans to make the first born son of Henry Carey. While at first I thought it was only an idea that Francis Knollys had suggested for unclear reason (Personally, I think that he saw it as a win-win for everybody, but no one else wanted at the time). The idea actually resurface not so long after, but was suggested not by knollys but by William Cecil. 

I first saw the matter in french book. (source) around the 25th of september 1570, mention the plans suggest to Mary Stuart (though they got the name of George wrong). The french also had that should proven successful the future James I wouldn't get on the throne and that it pretty much mean a clear domination of England over Scotland. Though it seem it didn't go much further than some inner consideration on the matter and Mary herself was kept out of the dealing.

While it seem most book don't deal with this, Agnes Strickland dwelves considerably into both Knolly and Cecil plot starting at page 139-140, but dwelves further more at Chapter XI at page 1954 (Sorta funny how his own father never seem the initiator, but it is fairly in character). 

What amusing is that in the year prior George carey seem to have been involved in investigating the duke of Northfolk attempt to marry the Queen. (entry 467,477, 478) At page 155 of Agnes Strickland test, he apparently told Nortfolk about it before hunsdon and Mary Stuart. At page 159 you can see that she relate that apparently Mary would have not greatly dislike it. Though Elizabeth was very displease with the idea and Henry dismissing it because of his lack of clout.(I think its the first time I've seen a high level renaissance noble demonstrating any sort of humility)

So let us skip forward to the time of Cecil at page 267 where it said that due to the risk of her Marrying other European monarch, which made Elizabeth more open to it, but this time it was Mary that didn't want it.

Needless to say that the fact George spent his time going against the pro-mary rebellion probably made sure it wouldn't work (Plus you know the last guy who cheated on Mary didn't do so well, so you know)

The way to the storm

Well you the rising of the North happen in November and well that mean we got many months of logs before the fighting actually started. Let us look into the first half of the year. In which thing seem to have been rather godawful.

Here two link for cecil papers and the foreign Calendar for the part  in question. 

At Cecil 1248, you can see that Hunsdon divert the letter by the Queen of Scott sending them to Cecil. Otherwise most of what he is going through his instruction and report of his daily activities. At 1259 and 1260 the regent put give him the good word. Though he complain about how the defensense are piss poor (1269). He also complain that they are too Scotsmen in his territory, with his solution to the issue being to alllow those that work for the crown to stay, while the rest be banish, this going at the same time as proclamation that made it quite illegal to criticise the queen.  he seem to have some legal trouble . At 1282, you can see he's actually showing concern toward his niece and nephews now that their mother is dead.

in the foreing calendar at 116, you can see he's talking about some disease he calls the Hyves and how the smallpox is submerging the place and at 262 ( may 19), talk about how the treasurer and the marshall are missing and now everything  on him and the very next month think he won't see them again (292)