On 17 July 1553, two days before her proclamation in London, Mary's Council at Framlingham received the submission of Gilbert Grice, the captain of the Greyhound, committed the ship to his keeping, and authorised him to ‘bring away’ several pieces of ordnance. The chronicles therefore seem to be accurate in substance, although not necessarily in the order of events. Two days later Sir Richard Cavendish was appointed ‘to take the government of the Queen's ships’, and given instructions which no longer survive. This was a reflection of the uncertainty of the times, because Cavendish, although an experienced sea captain, held no Admiralty office, either then or later. He had, however, been one of the first to declare for Mary, and for that reason she trusted him, not at that time knowing what the attitude of the Admiralty officers in post was likely to be. In the event his responsibility lasted less than a week, and he probably did nothing to discharge it. On 25 July he was replaced by Sir William Tyrell, another notable Catholic loyalist. Tyrell was appointed as Vice Admiral, Lord Clinton, in spite of his close connection with Northumberland, having apparently made his submission and received a pardon. Tyrell's instructions are interesting, and show an immediate awareness on the part of Mary's Council of the need to deploy the navy in support of the new regime. He was instructed to proceed at once to the Narrow Seas with two of the ships already at Yarmouth, the Greyhound and the Jennet, and to ‘ply along the coast as far as Beachy [Head] and so half seas over the channel toward the coast of Normandy’. His main brief was to pursue and arrest pirates, but he was also ordered to arrest any ‘suspect persons passing forth of this realm’ and to keep a wary eye on any ‘ships of power’ being sent out by the French. The Council knew perfectly well that Northumberland had been angling for French support in the crisis which had just passed, and that fugitives from his abortive coup may well have been heading in that direction. On 24 September Gonson was paid £867 to be passed on to Edward Baeshe for the victualling of this squadron.