When was Mary I's speech at Guildhall in response to Wyatt's 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 ... more.

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