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Howbeit , I did persuade them to try at Newgate ; and there found we my friend Newman to be constable of the watch , which saith , ` Mr Underhill ! what news , that you walk so late ? ' So he let us through the gate with a good will , and at long last we reached each man to his lodging . '' At four o'clock on the morning of Ash Wednesday , London was awoke by drums beating all through the streets of the city . John and Robin rose hastily , and went out to ascertain the cause . They came in shortly , saying that the drums beat for all soldiers to arm and repair to Charing Cross , for that Wyatt was seeking to come in by Westminster , and had reached as far as Brentford . About one or two o'clock , Wyatt came , and marched past Charing Cross , without hindrance -LRB- except that as he passed Saint James 's the Earl of Pembroke fell upon his rear -RRB- , and so marched along the Strand , and up Fleet Street , until he came before Ludgate .