When was Mary Is speech at Guildhall in response to Wyatts rebellion (1554)?
That famous speech was given on 1 February 1554. From Alison Weir’s “Children of England”: On 30 January Wyatt’s army arrived at Gravesend, where Edward Hastings failed to halt it. … Hastings then rode at speed to London to warn Mary of Wyatt’s intentions, which the Queen interpreted as a declaration of war. The next day she sent for Renard, who found her very agitated because the Council had still not provided her with a bodyguard. … even as she spoke the gates of London were being carefully guarded, the drawbridge on London Bridge had been raised … and great guns had been positioned next to it. On the morning of 1 February, a deputation from the Commons waited on the Queen. … She had already determined to make a personal appeal to the Londoners and – ignoring pleas from the councillors to consider her safety – went in the afternoon, wearing her crown and robes of state, to the Guildhall, where the Lord Mayor and aldermen and a huge crowd gathered to hear her address them from
