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A DECLARATION TO THE KINGDOME OF ENGLAND, CONCERNING The poy&s;oning of King JAMES of happy memory, KING OF GREAT BRITTAIN.</P>
<P>Wherein is contained, Severall remarkable Pa&s;&s;ages, touching the Kings Maje&s;ty, and the Duke of <HI>Buckingham;</HI> With the manner, how the old Counte&s;&s;e of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> and the Duke her Son, applyed a Plai&s;ter to the KINGS heart &amp; brea&s;t, &amp; admini&s;tred a white Powder in a cup of Wine, which cau&s;ed the KINGS body and head to &s;well above mea|&s;ure, his hair with the skin of his head &s;tuck to the pillow, and his nailes became loo&s;e upon his fingers and toes.</P>
<P>Together with King JAMES His Prote&s;tation concer|ning our Soveraign Lord the King that now is. And His Maje&s;ties la&s;t Speech upon His Death-bed.</P>
<P><HI>Written by</HI> George Egli&s;ham, <HI>Dector of Phy&s;icke, and one of the Phy+&s;itians to King</HI> JAMES <HI>of happy memory, for His Majesties Per&s;on above ten yeares &s;pace.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, Printed for GEO; HORTON., 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>A DECLARATION To the Kingdome of ENGLAND
Concerning The poy&s;oning of King <HI>Iames</HI> (of happy memory) <HI>King of Great Brittain.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHereas the chief human care of Kings, and Courts of Parliament, is, the pre&s;ervation and protection of the &s;ubjects lives, liberties, &amp; e&s;tates, from private and pub|like injuries; to the end, that all things may be carryed in the equal balance of Ju&s;tice, without which, no Monarchy, no Common-wealth, no Society, no Family, yea no mans life or e&s;tate can con&s;i&s;t, albeit never &s;o little: It cannot be thought unju&s;t to demand of Kings, the cen&s;ure of wrongs; the con|&s;ideration whereof was &s;o great in our Monarch of happy memory King <HI>Iames,</HI> That He hath often publikly prote&s;ted even in the pre&s;ence of his apparent Heire, <HI>That if His owne</HI>
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<HI>&s;onne &s;houl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> commit Murther, or any &s;uch execrable act of in|j<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ry, he would not &s;pare him, but would have him dye for it, and would have him more &s;everely puni&s;hed then any other:</HI> For he very well ob&s;erved, no greater inju&s;tice, no injury more in|tolerable can be done to man by man, then murther. And therefore, for a more further di&s;covery of the Actors and Con&s;pirators, in the late bu&s;ine&s;&s;e touching the death of the mo&s;t high and mighty Monarch King JAMES; this par|ticular di&s;cour&s;e doth fully remon&s;trate, and herein is ex|actly &s;et down both the actors and their actions in this en&s;u|ing <HI>Declaration</HI></P>
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<P>THE Duke of <HI>Buckingham</HI> being in Spain, adverti&s;ed by Letters, how that the King began to cen&s;ure him in his ab&s;ence freely, and that many &s;pake boldly to the King again&s;t him, and how the King had intelligence from Spain, of his unworchy carriage in Spain; and (how the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Hamilton</HI> (upon the &s;udden newes of the Princes departure) had nobly reprehended the King for &s;ending the Prince with &s;uch a young man without experi|ence, and in &s;uch a private and &s;udden manner, without ac|quainting the Nobility or Councel therewith, wrote a very bitter letter to the Marquis of <HI>Hamilton,</HI> conceived new am|bitious cour&s;es of his own, and u&s;ed all the devi&s;es he could to di&s;gu&s;t the Princes mind of the match with Spain, &s;o far intended by the King, made ha&s;t home; where&punc; when he came, he &s;o carryed him&s;elf, that what the King commanded in his Bed-Chamber, he controlled in the next: yea, received Packets to the King from forraign Princes, and di&s;patched an&s;wers, without acquainting the King therewith in a long time after.</P>
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Whereat, perceiving the King highly offended, and that the Kings mind was beginning to alter towards him, &s;uffering him to be quarrelled and affronted in his Maje&s;ties pre&s;ence; and ob&s;erving, that the King re&s;erved my Lord of <HI>Bristoll</HI> to be a rod for him, urging dayly his di&s;patch for <HI>France,</HI> and expecting the Earl of <HI>Gondomor,</HI> who as it &s;eemed, was great|ly e&s;teemed, and wonderfully credited by the King, &amp; would &s;econd my Lord of <HI>Bristol</HI> his accu&s;ations again&s;t him. He knew al&s;o that the King had vowed, <HI>that in de&s;pite of all the Divels in Hell, he would bring the Spani&s;h match about again, and that the Marque&s;se of</HI> Inico&s;a <HI>had given the King bad impre&s;&s;ions of him, by who&s;e</HI> Articles of Accu&s;ation, <HI>the King him&s;elf had examined &s;ome of the Nobility and Privy Councell, and found out in the examination, that</HI> Buckingham <HI>had &s;aid after his comming from</HI> Spain, <HI>That the King was now an old man, it was now time for him to be at rest, and to be confined to &s;ome Park, and to pa&s;&s;e the re&s;t of his time in hunting, and the Prince to be crowned.</HI></P>
<P>The more the King urged him to be gone to France, the more &s;hifts he made to &s;tay, for he did evidently &s;ee that the King was fully re&s;olved to rid him&s;elfe of the oppre&s;|&s;ion wherein he held him.</P>
<P>The King b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing &s;ick of a certain ague, and that in the &s;pring was of it &s;elf never found deadly; the Duke tooke opportu|nity when all the Kings Doctors of phy&s;ick were at dinner upon the munday before the King dyed, without their knowledge or con&s;ent offred to him a white powder to take the which he a long time re&s;u&s;ed, but overcome with his flattering importunity, at length took it in wine, and imme|diately became wor&s;e and wor&s;e, falling into many &s;woun|ings and pains, and violent fluxes of the belly; and was &s;o grievou&s;ly tormented, that His Maje&s;tie cried out aloud of this white powder, &s;aying; <HI>Would to God I had never taken</HI>
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<HI>it, it will co&s;t me my life:</HI> with divers other &s;peeches to that effect.</P>
<P>In like manner al&s;o the Counte&s;&s;e of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> my Lord of Buckingham's mother, upon the Friday after, the Phi&s;itians being al&s;o ab&s;ent, and at dinner, and not made ac|quainted with her doings, applied a plai&s;ter to the Kings heart and brea&s;t; whereupon he grew faint, &s;hort breathed, and in a great agony. Some of the Phi&s;itians after dinner returning to &s;ee the King, by the offen&s;ive &s;mell of the plai|&s;ter, perceived &s;omething to be about him hurtfull unto him, and &s;earching what it &s;hould be, found it out, and ex|claimed that the King was poi&s;oned.</P>
<P>Then Buckingham entering, commanded the Phi&s;itians out of the room, cau&s;ed one of them to be committed pri|&s;oner to his own chamber, and another to be removed from Court; quarrelling with others of the Kings &s;ervants in his Maje&s;ties own pre&s;ence, &s;o farre that he offered to draw his &s;word again&s;t them in His Maje&s;ties pre&s;ence. And Buc|kinghams mother kneeling down before His Maje&s;tie, cried out with a brazen face, ju&s;tice, ju&s;tice; Sir, I demand ju|&s;tice of your Maje&s;tie. His Maje&s;tie asked her for what? For that which their lives are no wayes &s;ufficient to &s;ati&s;|fie; <HI>for &s;aying that my &s;onne and I have poy&s;oned your Maje|&s;tie.</HI> Poy&s;oned me! &s;aid he; with that turning him&s;elf &s;wouned, and &s;he was removed.</P>
<P>The Sunday after, His Maje&s;tie died; and Buckingham de&s;ired the Phi&s;itians who attended His Maje&s;tie, to &s;igne with their hands a writ of te&s;timony, that the powder which he gave him was a good and &s;afe medicine; which they re|fu&s;ed.</P>
<P>Buckinghams creatures did &s;pread abroad a rumour in London, that Buckingham was &s;o &s;orry for His Maje&s;ties death, that he would have died, that he would have killed
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him&s;elf if they had not hindred him; concerning which, I purpo&s;ely enquired after it, of them that were neare him at that time, who &s;aid; <HI>That neither in the time of His Maje&s;ties &s;ickne&s;&s;e, nor after His death, he was more moved, then if there had never happened either &s;ickne&s;&s;e or death to His Maje&s;tie.</HI></P>
<P>One day when his Maje&s;ty was in great extremity, he rod po&s;t to London to pur&s;ue his &s;i&s;ter in law to have her &s;tand in &s;ack-cloath in S. Pauls for adultery. And another time in his Maje&s;ties agony he was bu&s;ie in contriving and conclu|ding a marriage for one of his co&s;ens.</P>
<P>Immediatly after his Maje&s;ties death, the Phy&s;itian who was commanded to his chamber was &s;et at liberty with a Caveat to hold his peace, the others threatned if they kept not good tongues in their heads.</P>
<P>But in the mean time the Kings body and head &s;welled a|bove mea&s;ure, his hair with th the skin of his head &s;tuck to the pillow, his nailes became loo&s;e upon his fingers, and toes.</P>
<TRAILER>Thus endeth the <HI>Declaration,</HI> concerning the most potent Monarch, <HI>JAMES </HI> King of Great Brittain.</TRAILER>
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<HEAD>Concerning the poy&s;oning of the Lord Marque&s;&s; <HI>Hamelton.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Marquis of <HI>Hamilton</HI> being al&s;o poy&s;oned, he was no &s;ooner dead, but the force of the poy&s;on overcame the force of his body, and it began to &s;well in &s;uch &s;ort, That his Thighes were &s;wolne &s;ix times as big as their naturall pro|portion: his belly became as big as the belly of an Oxe, his armes as the naturall quantity of his Thighes his neck &s;o broad as his &s;houlders, his Cheeks over the top of his No&s;e, that his No&s;e could not be &s;eene or di&s;tinqui&s;hed, the skin of his fore-head, two fingers high &s;welled, the haire of his beard eye-browes and Head, &s;o farre di&s;tant one from mother, as if an hundred had been taken out betweene each one, and when one did touch the hair it came away with the skin as ea&s;ily, as if one had pulled hay out of an heap of hay he was all over his neck, brea&s;t, &s;houlders, armes, and brows I &s;ay of divers colours full of water of the &s;ame colour, &s;ome white, &s;ome black, &s;ome red, &s;ome yellow, &s;ome green &s;ome blew, and that as well within his body as without.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the concavities of his liver green, his &s;tomack in &s;ome places, a little purpvrated with a blew clammy water adhering to the &s;ides of it, his mouth &amp; no&s;e foming bloud mixt with froth mightly, of divers colours a yard high.</P>
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