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<P><HI>Aulicus Coquinariae:</HI> OR A VINDICATION IN ANSWER TO A PAMPHLET, <HI>ENTITVLED The Court and Character of KING JAMES.</HI></P>
<P>Pretended to be penned by Sir <HI>A. W.</HI> and publi&s;hed &s;ince his death, 1650.</P>
<Q><L>&mdash; Auribus oculi&s;&abque; recepta.</L>
<L>Neme&s;is &agrave; tergo.</L></Q>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Henry Seile,</HI> over again&s;t St. <HI>Dun&s;tans</HI> Church in <HI>Fleet&s;treet,</HI> 1650.</P>
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<HEAD>ERRATA.</HEAD>
<P>PAge 5. line 20. <HI>which</HI> read <HI>with.</HI> p. 7. l. 24. <HI>Chim&s;try</HI> r. <HI>Chimi&s;try.</HI> p. 11. l. 15. <HI>Turnpike.</HI> p. 36. l. 24. <HI>&s;ore.</HI> p. 39. l. 10. <HI>Tercera's.</HI> p. 45. l. 1. <HI>de&s;erve.</HI> p. 52. l. 14. <HI>A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inations.</HI> p. 54. l. 5. <HI>to.</HI> p. 54. l. 7. <HI>Exception.</HI> p. 67. l. 15. <HI>the.</HI> p. 82. l. 2. <HI>leave.</HI> p. 97. l. 6. <HI>of.</HI> p. 105. l. 24 <HI>was.</HI> p. 120. l. 11. <HI>her.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Preface.</HEAD>
<P>_THere are &s;ome <HI>Men</HI> &s;o <HI>delight</HI> in <HI>&s;inne,</HI> who rather than be <HI>idle</HI> from doing <HI>evil,</HI> will take much pains to <HI>&s;candall</HI> the <HI>Dead.</HI></P>
<P>My fear to <HI>offend,</HI> hath <HI>with|held</HI> my hand a convenient time, le&s;t I &s;hould <HI>fall</HI> into the like <HI>error</HI> with <HI>Him</HI> that <HI>publi&s;hed</HI> the <HI>Pamphlet,</HI> Entituled, <HI>The Court &amp; Character of King
<PB REF="3">James,</HI> and <HI>Father's</HI> the <HI>Brat</HI> up|on Sir <HI>A. VV;</HI> And if <HI>common fame</HI> mi&s;take not the <HI>meaning, His Parent</HI> took <HI>ri&s;e</HI> from Q. <HI>E|lizabeths</HI> Kitchin, and left it a <HI>Legacy</HI> for preferment of his <HI>I&s;&s;ue.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Man</HI> went the &s;ame way, and by <HI>grace</HI> of the <HI>Court</HI> got up to the <HI>Green-cloth.</HI> Jn which place attending <HI>King James</HI> into <HI>Scotland,</HI> he <HI>practi&s;ed</HI> there to <HI>libell</HI> that <HI>Nation,</HI> which at his return home was found wrapt up in a <HI>Record</HI> of that <HI>Board,</HI> and by the hand being known to be <HI>his, he</HI> was de&s;ervedly <HI>removed out,</HI>
<PB REF="3">as <HI>unworthy to eat of his bread, who&s;e Birth-right he had &s;o vilely defamed.</HI> Yet by <HI>favour</HI> of the <HI>King,</HI> with a piece of <HI>money</HI> in his <HI>Pur&s;e,</HI> and <HI>a pen&s;ion</HI> to boot, to <HI>pre&s;erve</HI> him <HI>loyall</HI> during his <HI>life,</HI> though as a bad <HI>creditor,</HI> he took this <HI>cour&s;e</HI> to <HI>repay him</HI> to the <HI>purpo&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>And I have heard, that in his <HI>life,</HI> he <HI>di&s;covered</HI> a <HI>part</HI> of this <HI>Peece</HI> to his fellow <HI>Courtier,</HI> who earne&s;tly di&s;waded him not to publi&s;h &s;o <HI>defective</HI> and <HI>fal&s;e</HI> a <HI>&s;candall,</HI> which as it &s;eems in <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> he &s;o <HI>declin'd.</HI></P>
<P>And therefore my <HI>Exception</HI>
<PB REF="4">willingly <HI>falls</HI> upon the practice of the <HI>Publi&s;her,</HI> who by his <HI>Addi|tions</HI> may <HI>abu&s;e</HI> us with this fal&s;e Story, which he di&s;covers to the <HI>Reader</HI> in <HI>5 Remarkable Pa&s;&s;ages,</HI> and gives me the oc|ca&s;ion to &s;pare my <HI>cen&s;ure</HI> on the <HI>decea&s;ed per&s;on:</HI> but to bestow my <HI>unkindne&s;s</HI> (which nece&s;&s;a|rily <HI>intervenes</HI> in this <HI>Vindi|cation)</HI> on him who yet <HI>lives,</HI> to make out his <HI>bad act</HI> with a <HI>Reply</HI> (if he plea&s;e) more <HI>Pe|&s;tilent,</HI> upon Me.</P>
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<HEAD>THE CONTENTS.</HEAD>
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<ITEM><HI>QUeen</HI> Elizabeth pag. 1</ITEM>
<ITEM>1. Remark. Gowryes <HI>Con&s;piracy, of the name</HI> Ruthens, <HI>and Family, the manner of the Trea&s;on, and effects af<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">erwards</HI> 5</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Sprott, <HI>Confederate with</HI> Gowry, <HI>his confe&s;&s;ions, arraignment, execution, and te&s;ti|mony hereof</HI> 16</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>E. of</HI> E&s;&s;ex <HI>his Character, undertakings, Trea&s;on and execution,</HI> 36</ITEM>
<ITEM>Caecils. <HI>Sir</HI> Rob. Caecil <HI>his &s;ervices, &s;ickne&s;&s;e, and death</HI> 49</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Howard, <HI>E. of</HI> Northampton, <HI>his character and death</HI> 64</ITEM>
<ITEM>James <HI>L.</HI> Hay, <HI>E.</HI> Carli&s;le <HI>his character, Em|ba&s;&s;ies, and Interest</HI> 67</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Remark. <HI>Sir</HI> Walter Raleigh <HI>his character, trea&s;on, tryall, and reprieve; ob&s;ervations upon him, and his former voyage to</HI> Guiana, <HI>&s;entence, and execution</HI> 74</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Tho. Lake <HI>his character, ri&s;ing, &amp; ruine, with his Wife and Daughter</HI> 98</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Remark. <HI>Sir</HI> Tho. Overbury, <HI>and Sir</HI> Rob. Carr 110</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Nullity of</HI> E&s;&s;ex <HI>Marriage with</HI> Suffolk's <HI>daughter, with the Legall proceedings</HI> 113</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Of Archbi&s;hop</HI> Abbot 130</ITEM>
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<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Rob. Carr, <HI>E. of</HI> Somer&s;et <HI>his Marriage with</HI> E&s;&s;ex's <HI>Relict</HI> 133</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Remark. <HI>Sir</HI> Tho. Overbury, <HI>his impri&s;on|ment, and poy&s;oned</HI> 135</ITEM>
<ITEM>Somer&s;et <HI>and his Wifes tryall, and Sir</HI> Thomas Mon&s;on 138</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Remark. <HI>Pr.</HI> Henry <HI>his character, &s;ickne&s;s, di|&s;ea&s;e, and death, not by poy&s;on</HI> 143</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Arthur Ingram <HI>his condition</HI> 158</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Lionel Cranfield, <HI>E. of</HI> Middle&s;ex, <HI>his birth breeding, and advance</HI> 160</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Villiers <HI>his di&s;cent and advance, a Fa|vorite, and Duke of</HI> Buckingham, <HI>occa&s;ioning &s;e|verall narrations, &amp;c.</HI> 164</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>E. of</HI> Nottingham <HI>Admirall</HI> 169</ITEM>
<ITEM>Egerton <HI>Lord Chancellor</HI> 171</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bacon <HI>Lord Chancellor</HI> 171</ITEM>
<ITEM>Buckinghams <HI>Kinred.</HI> 174</ITEM>
<ITEM>Williams <HI>Lord Keeper.</HI> 178</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. Remark. Spani&s;h <HI>Match, the Princes journey into</HI> Spaine, <HI>and return</HI> 179</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bri&s;tolls <HI>concern'd</HI> 180</ITEM>
<ITEM>Inico&s;&s;a, <HI>Spani&s;h Amba&s;&s;ador</HI> 182</ITEM>
<ITEM>Yelverton <HI>Attorney Generall</HI> 186</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>King</HI> James <HI>&s;ickne&s;&s;e, the play&s;ter, and death,</HI> not by poy&s;on 192</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Conclu&s;ion</HI> 197</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Character</HI> 200</ITEM>
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<HEAD><HI>Aulicus Coquinariae:</HI> OR THE CHARECTER <HI>Of Him who</HI> SATARIZ'D KING JAMES AND HIS COURT.</HEAD>
<P>_QUeen <HI>Elizabeth</HI> died,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Queen E|lizabeth.</NOTE> <HI>Anno Domini</HI> 1602. having bin long <HI>&s;ick;</HI> and indeed <HI>de&s;pe|rate;</HI> which gave this <HI>State,</HI> time enough to conclude for his reception, the undoubted
<PB N="2" REF="6"><HI>Heir</HI> to the&s;e <HI>Crownes; JAMES</HI> then King of <HI>Scotland;</HI> She hath been <HI>highly valued,</HI> &s;ince Her <HI>death;</HI> the be&s;t of any former <HI>Soveraigne</HI> over us. She was fitted for for|tunes <HI>Darling,</HI> but with &s;ome <HI>Im|pri&s;onment,</HI> the better to mould Her, for the <HI>Rule</HI> and <HI>Soveraignty</HI> of a Kingdome; and for the cu|&s;tody of a <HI>Scepter.</HI> She &s;hewed Her <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> and <HI>Piety</HI> as a <HI>Pre&s;ident</HI> to po&s;terity. She was a <HI>Prince&s;&s;e</HI> learned, even then, when Letters had e&s;timation, and began them into <HI>fa&s;hion;</HI> which brought forth many rare and excellent <HI>Men,</HI> both of the <HI>Gowne,</HI> and of the <HI>Sword.</HI> Some &s;ay, She had many <HI>Favorites,</HI> but in truth She had none. They were neer, and dear to Her, and to Her affaires, as <HI>Partners</HI> of her care; not <HI>Minions</HI> of phan&s;ey. And yet &s;uch as they were, &s;he ever <HI>ma&s;tered,</HI> by her own <HI>Rules;</HI> not they Her, by their
<PB N="3" REF="6">own <HI>Wills.</HI> And &s;he wanted not <HI>many</HI> of them at need, or plea&s;ure. She was <HI>Magnificent,</HI> (<HI>compara|tiv&egrave;</HI> with other <HI>Princes;</HI>) which yet &s;he di&s;po&s;ed frugally; Having alwaies <HI>much</HI> to do with <HI>little</HI> mo|ney: for truly, tho&s;e either Wi&s;e or Gallant Men, were never cloied with her <HI>Bounty,</HI> more then in her <HI>Grace;</HI> which with her <HI>Mannage,</HI> pa&s;&s;ed for good <HI>payment.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> affaires was to her <HI>Maligne,</HI> which drew her <HI>Trea|&s;ure</HI> almo&s;t dry; the only cau&s;e of di&s;temper in the State, and end|ed not, but with her life. At which time, &s;he left her Cofers <HI>empty,</HI> and yet her Enemies <HI>potent;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 34.</NOTE> And therefore it could be no <HI>Trea|&s;on</HI> in them, that afterwards <HI>coun|celled</HI> the <HI>Peace,</HI> but rather in &s;uch who indeavoured then, and after, the re-e&s;tabli&s;hing a <HI>New War.</HI></P>
<P>Among&s;t Her <HI>Favourites</HI> of the <HI>Sword,</HI> none could <HI>boast</HI> more of
<PB N="4" REF="7">her <HI>Bounty</HI> and <HI>Grace,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;&s;ex. Pamp. 10.</NOTE> then the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex;</HI> who&s;e <HI>ingrate</HI> di&s;|po&s;ition, <HI>blown</HI> beyond the Com|pa&s;&s;e of his <HI>steere,</HI> by too much <HI>Popularity</HI> and <HI>Pride,</HI> co&s;ened him into that ab&s;olute <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> again&s;t his <HI>Soveraigne,</HI> that notwith&s;tand|ing many <HI>forewarnings</HI> of his neer|e&s;t friends, and unwilling Re&s;ent|ments of his deere&s;t <HI>Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e,</HI> his open <HI>Rebellion</HI> at la&s;t brought him to <HI>publique tryall,</HI> condemned and executed as the mo&s;t <HI>ingrate</HI> that former times could produce. (Of which we &s;hall take occa&s;ion here|after in &s;ome particular.) Where|in Sir <HI>Robert Cecill</HI> acted no more, then a dutiful <HI>Subject, Councelour</HI> and <HI>Judge</HI> ought to have done a|gain&s;t him, and &s;uch like of her time, evermore attempting by <HI>A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ination</HI> or <HI>Poy&s;on</HI> to take a|way her life. As were al&s;o the like attempts, by others in <HI>Scotland,</HI> (witne&s;&s;e the forewarning of the
<PB N="5" REF="7">Duke of <HI>Florence,</HI> by expre&s;&s;e Me&s;&s;age of Sir <HI>Henry Wootton,</HI> to King <HI>James,</HI> a year before his comming to the&s;e <HI>Kingdomes</HI>) a|gain&s;t Her <HI>beloved</HI> and undoubted <HI>Heir;</HI> and in Them to de&s;troy the Prote&s;tant Religion.</P>
<P>The mo&s;t remarkeable, was,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gowries Con&s;pira|cie.</NOTE> that of <HI>Gowries Con&s;piracy,</HI> in <HI>Scot|land.</HI> And I never read or hear'd (till our <HI>Pamphlet</HI>) <HI>That Sir</HI> George Hewms <HI>his gravity and Wi&s;dome u&s;hered him into the Secrets of the KING [therefore] and chiefly to make good that &s;tory</HI>].
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 8.</NOTE>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t pa&s;&s;age of the Pre|face Re|markable.</NOTE> For of that <HI>Nation,</HI> both the wi&s;e&s;t and mo&s;t hone&s;t, gave great <HI>Credit</HI> thereto; And the commemoration, was advi&s;edly &s;ettled, by <HI>Acts</HI> of their <HI>Parliament;</HI> which <HI>Anathematize</HI> upon <HI>Gowries</HI> Hou&s;e and Name. And <HI>Solemnized</HI> there and here, with <HI>Narratives</HI> in print, of each particular <HI>Circum&s;tance,</HI> and the ground the cau&s;e inviting that <HI>Trea&s;on.</HI></P>
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<P>And truely, the <HI>Anniver&s;ary fea&s;t-day</HI> in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> was u&s;ually &s;o|lemnized to God's Glory, by the mo&s;t <HI>Reverend Preachers:</HI> witne&s;&s;e tho&s;e rare Divine <HI>Sermons</HI> of our Bi&s;hop <HI>Andrew's</HI> and others, who&s;e <HI>Con&s;ciences</HI> no doubt were not &s;o large, to cozen God Almighty with a <HI>fained tale.</HI> Indeed there might have been more <HI>additionall truths,</HI> annexed to the relation, which I have heard, to make it more <HI>apprehen&s;ive</HI> to our <HI>Pamph|leter;</HI> who&s;e <HI>Speculations,</HI> in this as in other his &s;tories of <HI>Court</HI> and <HI>State,</HI> took Information (belike) but in his <HI>Office, Below-&s;taires; And which makes his</HI> faith <HI>drawe downe the effects of tho&s;e Sermons for the Father,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 10.</NOTE> as a Cau&s;e of the &s;ad Events, and &s;ufferings of the Son, and us all to this pre&s;ent.</HI></P>
<P>The Name of <HI>Ruthen</HI> in <HI>Scot|land</HI> was not notorious, until <HI>Anno</HI> 1568, when <HI>Ruthen</HI> a|mong&s;t
<PB N="7" REF="8">others, <HI>confederates,</HI> in tho&s;e divided times of trouble, laboured, much, for the <HI>Impri|&s;oning</HI> Queene <HI>Mary</HI> Mother to King <HI>James.</HI> In 1582. his &s;onne <HI>William</HI> was created Earle <HI>Gowry,</HI> in the time of that <HI>King's minority.</HI> Though the father bore deadly hatred to the King's pro&s;perity. And in 1584. him&s;elfe was in actuall <HI>Rebellion,</HI> in which he &s;uf|fered at <HI>Dondee.</HI> His elde&s;t &s;on <HI>John,</HI> then in travell in <HI>Italy,</HI> returns home to inherit his lands and ho|nours; But not one jot changed in di&s;po&s;ition, from the <HI>traiterous</HI> wayes of his <HI>Predece&s;&s;ors:</HI> For not long after, he falls into this <HI>Con|&s;piracy.</HI> Which is not &s;o <HI>antient,</HI> but that many then and now li|ving can relate, and my &s;elf, have often heard the repetition.</P>
<P>The Hou&s;e of <HI>Gowry,</HI> were all of them, much addicted to <HI>Chi|mi&s;try.</HI> And the&s;e more, to the
<PB N="8" REF="9"><HI>Practi&s;e;</HI> often publi&s;hing (as &s;uch profe&s;&s;ors u&s;ually do) more <HI>rare experiments</HI> then ever could be <HI>performed;</HI> wherein the King (a general &s;cholar) had little faith. But to <HI>infu&s;e</HI> more <HI>credit</HI> to the practi&s;e, <HI>Alexander Ruthen</HI> the &s;econd Brother takes this occa&s;i|on; and withall <HI>con&s;pires</HI> with <HI>Gowry</HI> to <HI>a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inate</HI> the King; and taking <HI>opportunity</HI> in his <HI>hunting,</HI> not far from his hou&s;e, St. <HI>John|&s;tone;</HI> invites the King, to be an eye-witne&s;&s;e, of his <HI>producti|ons.</HI> In their way, Sir <HI>Thomas Er|skin</HI> (after Lord <HI>Kelly</HI>), overtakes them and others, Demanding of the Duke of <HI>Lenox,</HI> then pre&s;ent; why <HI>Alexander</HI> had <HI>ingro&s;&s;ed</HI> the King's eare, to carry him from his <HI>&s;ports? Peace man,</HI> &s;aid the Duke, <HI>Wee's all be turned into gold.</HI> Not far they rid, but that the Earle <HI>Gowry,</HI> made good by <HI>pro|testation</HI> his Brother's <HI>&s;tory.</HI> And
<PB N="9" REF="9">thus was the King brought to <HI>Gue&s;t.</HI> Neere the end of <HI>Dinner,</HI> at his <HI>fruit,</HI> and the <HI>Lords</HI> and <HI>Wai|ters</HI> gone to eate: <HI>Alexander</HI> begs of the King, at this opportunity, to <HI>withdraw,</HI> and to be partaker of his <HI>Production;</HI> to the <HI>view</HI> of that, which yet he could not be|leeve.</P>
<P>And up he leades the King, into by-lodgings, locking each door behind them, till they came into a <HI>back-Roome:</HI> Where no &s;ooner entered, but that <HI>Alexan|der</HI> claps on his <HI>Bonnet,</HI> and with <HI>&s;terne Countenance</HI> faces the King; and &s;aies: <HI>Now, Sir, you mu&s;t know, I had a father, who&s;e bloud calls for revenge, &s;hed for your &s;ake.</HI> The King <HI>amazed,</HI> deales gently with his <HI>fury,</HI> excu&s;es the <HI>guilt</HI> of his <HI>death,</HI> by his then <HI>Infancy.</HI> Ad|vi&s;ing him, not to lay <HI>violent hands</HI> on the &s;acred <HI>Per&s;on</HI> of his <HI>Anoint|ed</HI> Soveraigne; E&s;pecially, in a
<PB N="10" REF="10">cau&s;e of his <HI>Innocency.</HI> Pleading the <HI>laws</HI> of God and Man: which &s;o much wrought upon him, that he &s;aid: well, I will &s;peak with my <HI>Brother;</HI> And &s;o put the King into a <HI>Lobby Room,</HI> next the <HI>Cham|ber,</HI> where no &s;ooner <HI>entered,</HI> but that there appeared a fellow, <HI>weaponed,</HI> ready for <HI>execution;</HI> to who&s;e <HI>cu&s;tody</HI> the King is commit|ted till his <HI>return.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Alexander</HI> gone downe; the fellow trembles with <HI>Reverence,</HI> puts down his <HI>&s;word,</HI> and craves pardon; which gave the King oc|ca&s;ion to worke upon that pa&s;&s;i|on; and to aske him whether he re&s;olved to <HI>murther him?</HI> Being a&s;&s;ured to the contrary, the King gets leave, to open a <HI>window,</HI> that looked into a back <HI>Court.</HI> When pre&s;ently <HI>Alexander</HI> returnes, and tells the King, that he mu&s;t <HI>dy.</HI> But much <HI>affrighted,</HI> at the fellowes <HI>countenance,</HI> with his &s;word, offers
<PB N="11" REF="10"><HI>violence</HI> to the King. Which the <HI>fellow &s;eemingly oppo&s;es;</HI> and be|tweene them began a <HI>&s;cuffle;</HI> which gave advantage to the King, to cry <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> at the <HI>Win|dow,</HI> which looked into a <HI>back Court;</HI> where Sir <HI>Thomas Erskin,</HI> and one <HI>Herries,</HI> were come, In <HI>pur&s;uite</HI> of the King, who was ru|mored, to be gone out, the back way to his <HI>hunting.</HI></P>
<P>At the cry of <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> and known to be the King's <HI>voice;</HI> they both ha&s;tened up a back &s;taire, called the <HI>Turnepike;</HI> being <HI>directed</HI> by a &s;ervant of the hou&s;e, who &s;aw <HI>Alexander</HI> a&s;cend that way. And &s;o forcing &s;ome doores, they found them above panting with the <HI>fray;</HI> And up comes al&s;o, at heeles of them, <HI>John Ram&s;ey</HI> (af|ter Earle of <HI>Holderne&s;&s;e</HI>) by them <HI>Alexander</HI> was &s;oon <HI>di&s;patched.</HI></P>
<P>Not long after, came the Earle <HI>Gowry</HI> (by his double key) the <HI>first
<PB N="12" REF="11">way,</HI> with a ca&s;e of <HI>Rapiers,</HI> his u&s;u|all <HI>weapons;</HI> and ready drawn. To whom, <HI>Erskin</HI> &s;aid, as to di|vert his <HI>purpo&s;e;</HI> what do you meane my Lord, the King is kil|led? (for the King was <HI>&s;hadowed,</HI> having ca&s;t him&s;elfe, upon a <HI>Bed,</HI> from his &s;ight: and his cloak was thrown upon the Body of <HI>Alex|ander,</HI> bleeding on the ground.) At which <HI>Gowry</HI> &s;tops, &s;incking the points of his <HI>weapons;</HI> when &s;uddainly <HI>Herries</HI> &s;trickes at him, with a hunting <HI>fawchion.</HI> And <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> having his Hawke on his fi&s;t, ca&s;ts her off, and &s;teps into <HI>Gowry,</HI> and <HI>&s;tabs</HI> him to the <HI>heart;</HI> and forthwith, more <HI>Com|pany</HI> came up.</P>
<P>And the truth, very notorious, then, to every eye and eare-wit|ne&s;&s;e, not a few.</P>
<P>There remained but one <HI>young|er</HI> &s;onne of that Hou&s;e, who though a <HI>childe,</HI> was from that
<PB N="13" REF="11">time <HI>Impri&s;oned,</HI> by Act of their <HI>Parliament.</HI> And &s;o continued afterwards, here in the <HI>Tower</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> until that King's death; and the grace of the late King <HI>Charles,</HI> re&s;tored him to liberty; with a <HI>&s;mall pen&s;ion, which kept him</HI> like a Gentleman, to the&s;e times. But now failing, he walks the &s;treets, poore, but well experi|enced, al&s;o, in <HI>Chimicall Phy&s;ick,</HI> and in other parts of Learning.</P>
<P>Not long after this Con&s;piracy, <HI>Herries</HI> dies well rewarded. <HI>John Ram&s;ey</HI> hath the Honor of <HI>Knight|hood,</HI> with an additional bearing to his Cote of Armes, <HI>A Hand hold|ing forth a Dagger, rever&s;ed proper, piercing a bloudy heart, The point crowned Empcriall;</HI> with this Di|&s;tick, <HI>Haec Dextra Vindex Principis &amp; Patriae.</HI> Afterward he was cre|ated Lord <HI>Haddington,</HI> and <HI>Earle</HI> of <HI>Holderne&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>And our <HI>Pamphlet,</HI> be&s;towes
<PB N="14" REF="12">on him this Character, <HI>A very good Gentleman by nature, but (in this Story) a Lier by practi&s;e:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 9.</NOTE> for which all the&s;e favours were too little Re|ward.</HI></P>
<P>Sir <HI>Thomas Erskin</HI> was after. wards created <HI>Earl</HI> of <HI>Kelly, Knight</HI> of the <HI>Garter, Captain</HI> of the King's <HI>Guard,</HI> and <HI>Groome</HI> of the Stoole. And the <HI>Fellow,</HI> de&s;igned for the Murtherer, had a large <HI>Pen&s;ion</HI> confirm'd, by <HI>Act</HI> of their Parlia|ment.</P>
<P>And all the&s;e men <HI>(but Herries)</HI> were living, with other witne&s;&s;es at King <HI>JAME'S</HI> journy, when he went from hence to vi&s;it <HI>Scot|land;</HI> and met together by dire|ction at the &s;ame Hou&s;e, with <HI>Ce|remony;</HI> and all of them with a number of <HI>Courtiers,</HI> a&s;cended in|to the &s;ame <HI>Roome,</HI> the bloud yet remaining, where the King rela|ted the <HI>Story;</HI> and <HI>confirmed</HI> by them. And afterwards kneeling
<PB N="15" REF="12">down, with tears of Contrition for his <HI>Sinnes</HI> to God, and thank|fulne&s;&s;e for this <HI>Mercy;</HI> u&s;ing ma|ny pious Ejaculations, embraced all the&s;e <HI>Actors</HI> in the former <HI>Tra|gedy;</HI> when the poor <HI>fellow,</HI> al&s;o ki&s;t the King's hand.</P>
<P>The&s;e circum&s;tances gave oc|ca&s;ion then, that this whole &s;tory was fre&s;hly revived, to the com|mon <HI>Satisfaction</HI> of the whole <HI>Countrey,</HI> and our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Cour|tiers. And in e&s;peciall, unto the very Reverend Bi&s;hop, and No|bly borne, <HI>James Mountegue,</HI> then pre&s;ent; to whom the King ad|dre&s;&s;ed him&s;elf, in this <HI>Relation,</HI> and from who&s;e <HI>Mouth,</HI> I recei|ved the&s;e <HI>particulars,</HI> at his return into <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>And thus much we have by word of mouth: &s;omewhat I &s;hall add out of writings for more &s;atis|faction.</P>
<P>This Trea&s;on was attempted
<PB N="16" REF="13">the 4. of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1600. And though there followed &s;undry Su&s;pitions and Examination of &s;everal other Per&s;ons &s;uppo&s;ed <HI>Abbetters</HI> &amp; <HI>Con|trivers;</HI> yet it lay undi&s;covered, <HI>tanquam&egrave; po&s;tliminio</HI> untill 8. years after, by the circum&s;pection principally of the Earle of <HI>Dun|bar,</HI> a man of as great wi&s;dome as tho&s;e times and that Kingdome could boa&s;t of. Upon the per|&s;on of one <HI>George Sprot,</HI> Notary|publick of <HI>Ayemouth</HI> in <HI>Scotland.</HI> From &s;ome words which at fir&s;t he &s;paringly or <HI>unawares expre&s;&s;ed,</HI> and al&s;o by &s;ome papers, which were found in his Hou&s;e; whereof being examin'd, with a little adoe he confe&s;&s;ed, and was condemned and executed at <HI>Edenburgh</HI> the 12. of <HI>Aug.</HI> 1608.</P>
<P>A <HI>Relation</HI> I conceive not com|mon, but in my hands to be pro|duced, and written by that lear|ned Gentleman Sir <HI>William Hart,</HI>
<PB N="17" REF="13">then Lord <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Principall</HI> in all the Acts of Judi|cature herein.</P>
<P>And fir&s;t <HI>George Sprot</HI> confe&s;|&s;eth, That he knew perfectly that <HI>Robert Logane</HI> late of <HI>Re&s;tal|rig,</HI> was privy and upon <HI>foreknow|ledge</HI> of <HI>John</HI> late Earl of <HI>Gowrie's</HI> Trea&s;onable Con&s;piracy: That he knew, there were divers Let|ters interchanged betwixt them, anent their Trea&s;onable put po&s;e <HI>July</HI> 1600. which Letters <HI>James Bour,</HI> called <HI>Laird Bour, Servitor</HI> to <HI>Re&s;talrig</HI> (imployed betwixt <HI>them,</HI> and privy to all that arrand) had in keeping, and &s;hewed the &s;ame to <HI>Sprot</HI> in <HI>Fast-Ca&s;tle.</HI> That <HI>Sprot</HI> was pre&s;ent, when <HI>Bour,</HI> after 5. daies ab&s;ence, returned with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n|&s;wers by letter from <HI>Gowry,</HI> and &s;taid all night with <HI>Restalrig</HI> at his hou&s;e <HI>Gunue&s;green,</HI> &amp; rode the next morne to <HI>Lothiane,</HI> where he &s;taid &s;ix daies, then to <HI>Fa&s;t-Ca&s;tle,</HI>
<PB N="18" REF="14">where he abode a &s;hort &s;pace.</P>
<P>That he &s;aw and heard <HI>Restal|rig</HI> read the&s;e letters, which <HI>Bour</HI> brought back from <HI>Gowry,</HI> and all their Conference there anent. And that <HI>Bour</HI> &s;aid, <HI>Sir,</HI> if you think to get <HI>Commodity</HI> by this dealing, lay your hand on your heart: and that <HI>Re&s;talrig</HI> an&s;wered, though he &s;hould lo&s;e all in the world; yet he would pa&s;&s;e through with <HI>Gowry:</HI> for that matter would as well content him as the <HI>Kingdome.</HI> To whom <HI>Bour</HI> &s;aid, you may do as you plea&s;e <HI>Sir;</HI> but it is not my Councell that you &s;hould be &s;o &s;uddain in that other matter. But for the Condition of <HI>Darlton,</HI> I would like very well of it. To this <HI>Re&s;talrig</HI> an&s;wered, content your &s;elf, I am not at my <HI>wits end.</HI></P>
<P>That <HI>Sprot</HI> him&s;elf entered in|to conference with <HI>Bour,</HI> demand|ing what was to be done between
<PB N="19" REF="14">the Earle and the Laird? <HI>Bour</HI> an&s;wered, that he beleeved, that the Laird would get <HI>Darlton</HI> with|out gold or &s;ilver: but he fear'd it would be deerer to him.</P>
<P>That <HI>Sprot</HI> inquiring further, how that &s;hould be <HI>done? Bour</HI> &s;aid they have another pie in hand then buying and &s;elling of land: But prayed <HI>Sprot</HI> for God's &s;ake, that he would let be, and not be troubled with the Lairds bu&s;ine&s;s: for he <HI>fear'd,</HI> that within few daies the Laird would be landle&s;&s;e and livele&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>And <HI>Sprot</HI> being demanded af|terwards, if all the&s;e <HI>Confe&s;&s;ions</HI> were true, as he would an&s;wer upon the &s;alvation of his <HI>&s;oul,</HI> &s;ee|ing his death was neer approach|ing? <HI>Sprot</HI> &s;aid,</P>
<P>That he had no de&s;ire to live, and had care only of cleer|ing his Con&s;cience in the truth. And that all the former points
<PB N="20" REF="15">and circum&s;tances were true, with the depo&s;itions made by him the 5. of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t, and the whole con|fe&s;&s;ion made by him &s;ince, as he hoped to be &s;aved, and which he would &s;eale with his bloud.</P>
<P>And further being depo&s;ed; where was now the letter of <HI>Re|&s;talrig</HI> to <HI>Gowry?</HI> He an&s;wered, That he had this letter among&s;t other of <HI>Re&s;talrig's</HI> papers which <HI>Bour</HI> had in keeping, and which <HI>Sprot</HI> copied out, and that he left the principall letter in his Che&s;t among&s;t his writings when he was taken and brought away, and that it is clo&s;ed and folded in a &s;heet of paper.</P>
<P>The&s;e depo&s;itions made by <HI>George Sprot</HI> the to of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1608. and <HI>others</HI> before (being all inclu|ded in his Indictment following, to which for brevity I &s;hall remit the Reader) and written by <HI>James <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rimro&s;e, Clerk</HI> of the King's Coun|cell,
<PB N="21" REF="15">and &s;ub&s;cribed <HI>Georg&egrave; Sprot.</HI></P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Pre&s;ent</HEAD>
<P>Earl of <HI>Dunbar,</HI> Earl <HI>Lothiane,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> Lord <HI>Schone,</HI> Lord <HI>Hallo-rod-hou&s;e,</HI> Lord <HI>Blautire,</HI> Sir <HI>William Hart</HI> Lord Ju&s;tice, Mr. <HI>John Hall,</HI> Mr. <HI>Patrick Gahoway,</HI> Mr. <HI>Peter Hewet,</HI> Mini&s;ters of <HI>Edenburgh;</HI> and &s;ub&s;cribed with all their hands.</P>
<P>The next day 11. of <HI>Augu&s;t, Sprot</HI> was re-examined, and to him de|clared the a&s;&s;urance of his death, and was advis'd not to abu&s;e his Con&s;cience to witne&s;&s;e untruths, and upon the Innocency of the dead or living. To which he de|po&s;eth, That being re&s;olved to die, and as he wi&s;hes to be parti|cipant of <HI>Heaven,</HI> upon the &s;al|vation or damnation of his Soul, that all that he had depo&s;ed were true in every point and circum|&s;tance, and no untruth in them.</P>
<P>The next day being the 12. of
<PB N="22" REF="16"><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1608. <HI>Sprot</HI> was pre&s;ented in Judgement upon <HI>Pannell</HI> with|in the <HI>Talboth</HI> of <HI>Edenburgh;</HI> before <HI>Sir</HI> William Hart, <HI>Knight Lord Ju&s;tice of</HI> Scotland <HI>a&s;&s;isted with the&s;e Per&s;ons, viz.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Alexander,</HI> Earle of <HI>Dunferling,</HI> Lord Chancelour. <HI>George, Earle</HI> of <HI>Dunbar,</HI> Lord Trea&s;urer. <HI>John,</HI> Arch-bi&s;hop of <HI>Gla&s;coe. David,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Ro&s;&s;e. Gawen,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Galloway. Andrew,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Brechine. David, Earl</HI> of <HI>Craw|ford. Mark, Earl</HI> of <HI>Lotharine. James, Lord Abernethie</HI> of <HI>Saltonne. James, Lord</HI> of <HI>Balmerinoth Senita|pie. Walter, Lord Blautire. John, Lord Burley. Sir Richard Coburn, Knight. Ma&s;ter John Preston, Col|lector Generall. Sir John Skewe, Knight, Regi&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>And he was declared, accu&s;ed and pur&s;ued by Sir <HI>Thomas Hamil|ton,</HI> Knight, Advocate to the King, for his Highne&s;&s;e entries of the
<PB N="23" REF="16">Crimes contained in his Indict|ment; whereof the tenure follows <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P><HI>George Sprot,</HI> Notary in <HI>Aye|mouth,</HI> You are indicted and ac|cu&s;ed, fora&s;much as <HI>John</HI> &s;ome|time Earle of <HI>Gowry,</HI> having mo&s;t cruelly, dete&s;tably and trea&s;ona|bly con&s;pired in the moneth of <HI>July</HI> the year of God 1600. to murther our deere and mo&s;t gracious Soveraigne the King's mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty. And having imparted that diveli&s;h purpo&s;e to <HI>Robert Logaine</HI> of <HI>Re|&s;talrig,</HI> who allowed of the &s;ame, and mo&s;t willingly and readily undertook to be partaker thereof. The &s;ame comming to your knowledge, at the times and in the <HI>manner</HI> particularly after &s;pe|cified. You mo&s;t unnaturally, maliciou&s;ly and trea&s;onably con|cealed the &s;ame, and was art and part thereof in manner follow|ing.
<PB N="24" REF="17">And fir&s;t, In the &s;aid moneth of <HI>July</HI> 1600. after you had per|ceived and known, that divers let|ters &amp; me&s;&s;ages had pa&s;t betwixt the &s;aid <HI>John</HI> &s;omtimes Earl of <HI>Gowry</HI> and the &s;aid <HI>Robert Logane</HI> of <HI>Restalrig,</HI> you being in the hou&s;e of <HI>Fa&s;t-Ca&s;tle,</HI> you &s;aw and read a letter written by the &s;aid <HI>Re&s;talrig</HI> with his own hand to the &s;aid Earle of <HI>Gowry.</HI> viz.</P>
<P>My <HI>Lord,</HI> &amp;c. At the receipt of your letter I am &s;o confuted, that I can neither utter my joy, nor find my &s;elfe &s;ufficiently able to requite your Lord&s;hip with due thanks. And per&s;wade your <HI>Lord&s;hip,</HI> in that matter I &s;hall be as forward for your honour as if it were my own cau&s;e. And I think there is no Chri&s;tian, that would not be content to revenge, that <HI>Machiavilian Ma&s;&s;acring</HI> of our deer Friends: yea howbeit it &s;hould be to venture and hazard
<PB N="25" REF="17">life, lands and all things el&s;e. My heart can bind me to take part in that matter, as your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> &s;hall find proof thereof. But one thing would be done; namely, that your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> &s;hould be circum|&s;pect and earne&s;t with your <HI>Bro|ther,</HI> that he be not ra&s;h in any &s;peeches touching the purpo&s;e of <HI>Padua.</HI></P>
<P>And a <HI>certain &s;pace</HI> after the exe|cution of the afore&s;aid <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Robert Logane</HI> having de&s;ired the <HI>Laird</HI> of <HI>Bour</HI> to deliver to <HI>him</HI> the &s;aid <HI>letter</HI> or el&s;e to burn it; and <HI>Bour</HI> having given to you all tic|kets and letters, which he then had either concerning <HI>Re&s;talrig</HI> or others to &s;ee the &s;ame, becau&s;e he could not reade him&s;elf, you ab&s;tracted the above-written let|ter, and retained the &s;ame in your own hands, and divers times read it, containing further, to wit,</P>
<P>My <HI>Lord</HI> you may ea&s;ily under|&s;tand,
<PB N="26" REF="18">that &s;uch a purpo&s;e as your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> intendeth, can not be done ra&s;hly, but with delibera|tion. And I think for my &s;elf, that it were mo&s;t meet, to have the men your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> &s;pake of, ready in a <HI>bote</HI> or <HI>bark,</HI> and ad|dre&s;&s;e them as if they were taking pa&s;time on the Sea in &s;uch faire <HI>Summer-time.</HI> And if your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> could think good, either your &s;elf to come to my hou&s;e <HI>Fa&s;t-ca&s;tle</HI> by &s;ea, or to &s;end your <HI>Brother;</HI> I &s;hould have the <HI>hou&s;e</HI> ve|ry quiet, and well provided after your <HI>Lord&s;hips</HI> adverti&s;ement. And no others &s;hall have acce&s;&s;e to haunt the place, during your being here. And if your <HI>Lord|&s;hip</HI> doubt of &s;afe landing, I &s;hall provide all &s;uch nece&s;&s;aries, as may &s;erve for your arrival, with|in a flight-&s;hot of the hou&s;e. And per&s;wade your <HI>Lord&s;hip,</HI> you &s;hall be as &s;ure and quiet here, while
<PB N="27" REF="18">we have &s;etled our <HI>Plot,</HI> as if you were in your own <HI>Chamber.</HI> For I tru&s;t, and am a&s;&s;ured, we &s;hall have word within few daies from them your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> knowes of. For I have care to &s;ee what &s;hips come home by. Your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> knows, I have kept the Lord <HI>Both|well</HI> quietly in this hou&s;e in his greate&s;t extremity, in &s;pite of <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Councell.</HI> I hope if all things come to pa&s;s (as I tru&s;t they &s;hall) to have both your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> &amp; his <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> at a good <HI>Dinner</HI> ere I dy. <HI>Haec joco&s;e.</HI> To animate your <HI>Lord|&s;hip,</HI> I doubt not but all things will be well: and I am re&s;olved there|of, your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> &s;hall not doubt of any thing, on my part: Peril of life, lands, honor and goods; yea, the hazard of hell &s;hall not affray me from that; yea, though the <HI>Scaffold</HI> were already &s;et up. The &s;ooner the <HI>Matter</HI> were done, it were the better. For the King's
<PB N="28" REF="19"><HI>Buck-hunting</HI> will be &s;hortly, and I hope it will prepare &s;ome dain|tier cheer for us to live the next year. I remember well my <HI>Lord,</HI> that <HI>merry &s;port</HI> which your <HI>Lord|&s;hip's Brother</HI> told me, of a <HI>Noble-Man</HI> at <HI>Padua:</HI> for I think that a <HI>Para&s;ceve</HI> to this purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>My <HI>Lord,</HI> think nothing that I commit the &s;ecret hereof to this bearer: for I dare not onely ven|ture my life, lands, honour, and all I have el&s;e on his credit; but I dur&s;t hazard my &s;oule in his keeping: I am &s;o per&s;waded of his fidelity. And I trow (as your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> may ask <HI>him</HI> if it be <HI>true</HI>) he would go to <HI>Hell-gates</HI> for me, and he is not beguiled of my part to him. And therefore I doubt not, but this will per&s;wade your <HI>Lord&s;hip,</HI> to give him tru&s;t in this matter as to my &s;elf. But I pray you direct him home again with all &s;peed po&s;&s;ible; and give
<PB N="29" REF="19">him &s;trait command, that he take not a winck &s;leep, till he &s;ee me again after he comes from you. And as your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> de&s;ireth in your letter to me, either rive or burn this letter, or &s;end it back a|gain with the bearer: for &s;o is the fa&s;hion I grant.</P>
<P><HI>Restalrig.</HI></P>
<P>Which letter writ every word with the &s;aid <HI>Robert Logane</HI>'s own hand, was al&s;o &s;o &s;ub&s;cribed with this word, <HI>Re&s;talrig.</HI></P>
<P>And albeit by the contents of the afore&s;aid letter, you know per|fectly the truth of the &s;aid mo&s;t trea&s;onable con&s;piracy, and the &s;aid <HI>Logane</HI> his foreknowledge, allowance and guilt thereof, like as you were a&s;&s;ured of the &s;ame by his receiving divers letters &s;ent by <HI>Gowry</HI> to him, and by his re|turning letters to <HI>Gowry</HI> for the &s;ame purpo&s;e, and by &s;undry con|ferences
<PB N="30" REF="20">ferences betwixt <HI>Logane</HI> and <HI>Bour,</HI> in <HI>your</HI> pre&s;ence and hearing, con|cerning the &s;aid <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> as well in <HI>July</HI> preceding the attempt there|of, as at divers other times &s;hort|ly thereafter: as likewi&s;e by <HI>Bour</HI> his revealing thereof to you; who was upon the knowledge and de|vi&s;e of the <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> and was im|ployed as ordinary Me&s;&s;enger by <HI>Logane</HI> to <HI>Gowry;</HI> whereby your knowledge, concealing and guilt of the &s;ame was undenia|ble.</P>
<P>Ye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> for further manife&s;tation thereof, about <HI>July</HI> 1602. the &s;aid <HI>Logane</HI> &s;hewed unto you, that <HI>Bour</HI> had told him, that he had been &s;omewhat ra&s;h, to let you &s;ee a let|ter which came from <HI>Gowry</HI> to <HI>Lo|gane,</HI> who then urged you to tell what <HI>you</HI> under&s;tood by the <HI>&s;ame.</HI> To whom you an&s;wered, That you took the meaning thereof to be, that he had been upon the <HI>coun|cell</HI>
<PB N="31" REF="20">and purpo&s;e of <HI>Gowrie's</HI> Con|&s;piracy: And that he an&s;wered you, what e're he had done, the wor&s;t was his own: But if you would &s;wear to him, that you &s;hould never reveale any thing of that matter to any per&s;on, it &s;hould be the be&s;t &s;ight that ever you &s;aw. And in token of fur|ther recompence, he gave you twelve pounds of Silver. Ne|verthele&s;&s;e, albeit you know per|fectly the whole practi&s;e and pro|gre&s;&s;e of all the &s;aid <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> from the beginning to the end; as al&s;o by your Conference with <HI>Bour</HI> and <HI>Logane,</HI> during all the daies of their lives, who lived till the year 1606. or therabouts: and &s;o by the &s;pace of 6. years you concealed the &s;ame, and &s;o you was and is art and part of the &s;aid Trea&s;on, and of the concealing, and &s;o you ought to &s;uffer under the pain of <HI>High Trea&s;on.</HI> To the token, that
<PB N="32" REF="21">you have not only by your depo|&s;itions &s;ub&s;cribed by you, and &s;o|lemnly made in pre&s;ence of many of the <HI>Lords</HI> of his <HI>Majestie's Privy Councell,</HI> and the Mini&s;ters of the <HI>Borough</HI> of <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> of the dates of the 5.15. and 16. daies of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, and 10. and 11. of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> in&s;tant, confe&s;&s;ed every head, point and article of the Indict|ment above&s;aid, but al&s;o by di|vers other depo&s;itions &s;ub&s;cribed by you; you have ratifyed the &s;ame, and &s;worn con&s;tantly to a|bide thereat, and to &s;eal the &s;ame with your bloud, Which Indict|ment being read openly, before <HI>Sprot</HI> was put to the knowledge of Inque&s;t, he confe&s;s'd the &s;ame and every point to be true; And therefore the Indictment was put to the Inque&s;t of the hone&s;t, fa|mous and di&s;creet Per&s;ons, that is to &s;ay,</P>
<P><HI>William Trumball</HI> of <HI>Ardre. Wil|liam
<PB N="33" REF="21">Fi&s;her</HI> Merchant and Burge&s;&s;e of <HI>Edenburgh, Rob. Short</HI> there, <HI>Ed. John&s;tone</HI> Merchant Burge&s;s there, <HI>Harb. Maxwel</HI> of <HI>Cavens, Ja. Tennent</HI> of <HI>Linchou&s;e, Wil. Trumbill</HI> Burg, of <HI>Edenburgh, Geor. Brown</HI> in <HI>Gorgy Mill, Joh. Huche&s;on</HI> and <HI>John Lewes</HI> Merch. Burg. of <HI>Edenburgh, Ja. So|mervill,</HI> &amp; <HI>Wil. Swinton</HI> of the &s;ame, <HI>John Cruni&s;on</HI> of <HI>Dirlton, Th. Smith</HI> &amp; <HI>John Cowtis</HI> Burg. of <HI>Edenburgh.</HI></P>
<P>Which <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> of <HI>Inquest</HI> &s;worn and admitted, and reading over the &s;ame Indictment again in his and their pre&s;ence, the &s;aid <HI>George Sprot</HI> confe&s;&s;ed the <HI>&s;ame</HI> to be <HI>true.</HI> Whereupon the &s;aid Sir <HI>Thomas Hamilton,</HI> his Maje&s;ties Advocate, a&s;ked act and In&s;trument; and therefore the <HI>Inque&s;t</HI> removed to the <HI>Inque&s;t-Hou&s;e,</HI> and elected <HI>Har|bert Maxwell</HI> to be their <HI>Chancelour</HI> or <HI>Foreman.</HI> And after mature deliberation, they all re-entred againe in Court, where the &s;aid
<PB N="34" REF="22"><HI>Foreman</HI> declared the &s;aid <HI>George Sprot</HI> to be guilty, filed and con|vict of <HI>Art</HI> and <HI>Part</HI> of the &s;aid Trea&s;on; for which cau&s;e the &s;aid Ju&s;tice by the mouth of the Dem&s;ter of Court, by &s;entence and Doom ordained, the &s;aid <HI>George Sprot</HI> to be taken to the <HI>Market. Cro&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> and there to be hanged upon a <HI>Gibbet</HI> till he be dead, and thereafter his head to be &s;tricken off, and his <HI>bo|dy</HI> to be quartered and demeaned as a Traytor, and his head to be &s;et up upon a prick of <HI>Iron</HI> upon the highe&s;t part of the <HI>Talboth</HI> of <HI>Edenburgh,</HI> where the <HI>Traytor Gow|rie</HI> and other <HI>Con&s;piratours</HI> heads &s;tand, and his lands and goods for|feited and e&s;cheat to our <HI>Soveraign Lord</HI> the <HI>King</HI>'s u&s;e.</P>
<Q>Extractum de Libro Actorum Ad|jornalis S. D. N. Regis per me D. Johannem Coburne de Ormeston Milifem, Cle|ricum
<PB N="35" REF="22">In&s;titiarii eju&s;dem gene|ralem. Sub meis &s;igno &amp; &s;ub|&s;criptione manualibus.</Q>
<P>And &s;o was <HI>George Sprot</HI> con|veyed to a private hou&s;e, remain|ing at his <HI>Meditations;</HI> and after|wards conferred with the Mini|&s;ters, confe&s;&s;ing all afore&s;aid with extreame humiliation and pray|er. Afterwards ganging up the ladder, with his hands loo&s;e and untyed, he was again put in mind of the truth of his <HI>Confe&s;&s;ions.</HI> He for the greater a&s;&s;urance thereof, perform'd an act marvelous; pro|mi&s;ing by God's a&s;&s;i&s;tance to give them an evident <HI>Token</HI> before the yielding up of his <HI>Spirit;</HI> which was, when he had <HI>hung</HI> a very <HI>good</HI> while, he left up both his hands a good height, and clapped them together three &s;everall times, to the wonder of thou&s;and Specta|tors, and &s;o dyed.</P>
<P>For more <HI>Confirmation</HI> of the
<PB N="36" REF="23">afore Narration, there was pre&s;ent <HI>George Abbot,</HI> then Doctor in <HI>Divi|nity,</HI> and <HI>Dean</HI> of <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> after <HI>Arch-Ri&s;hop</HI> of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> who was pre&s;ent both at his <HI>Examination</HI> &amp; <HI>Execution,</HI> &amp; hath made the &s;ame writing and ob&s;ervance even al|mo&s;t <HI>verbatim,</HI> as all the afore &s;pe|cified Relation intends; which I can produce al&s;o.</P>
<P>And more one&mdash;Dr. of <HI>Divi|nity</HI> pre&s;ent al&s;o, &s;aies as much; which no doubt is &s;ufficient &s;a|tisfaction to all rea&s;onable Men, that there was &s;uch a Con&s;piracy and not fained.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Earle of E&s;&s;ex his Trea&s;on.</NOTE></P>
<P>And now we come to remem|ber the Earl of <HI>E&s;&s;ex;</HI> the univer|&s;al <HI>Love</HI> of who&s;e memory, was but of &s;uch whom he formerly <HI>caught,</HI> by his affected <HI>Popularity;</HI> or of others, that followed his <HI>Trea&s;onable</HI> practi&s;es, which were gro&s;&s;e enough to be <HI>&s;ore appre|hended,</HI> by every faithful <HI>Subject,</HI>
<PB N="37" REF="23">e&s;pecially, being pro&s;ecuted a|gain&s;t the <HI>Per&s;on</HI> of that glorious <HI>Sunne,</HI> his obliging <HI>Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 10</NOTE> whom</HI> a little before, our <HI>Pamphlet</HI> com|memorates with much <HI>Pa&s;&s;ion,</HI> till now, that he comes to <HI>Irea&s;on;</HI> a <HI>&s;mall fault,</HI> belike, and <HI>pardon|able</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI> For he &s;aith, <HI>that King</HI> James <HI>hated Sir</HI> Robert Ce|cill: <HI>it &s;eemes,</HI> for but <HI>pro&s;ecuting amongst other Councelours and Peers a Traytor's death.</HI> Intimating no doubt the King's impatient de|&s;ire to inherit the&s;e <HI>Crownes</HI> by a|ny <HI>Trea&s;on.</HI> But he &s;pares no <HI>In|vectives</HI> again&s;t any of worth or honor, that comes in his way.</P>
<P>This Earle was elde&s;t Sonne to <HI>Walter Devoreux,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Robert E. of E&s;&s;ex.</NOTE> (of a <HI>Norman</HI> family) <HI>Vi&s;count Hereford,</HI> and <HI>Bowrchier;</HI> Lord <HI>Eerrers</HI> of <HI>Chart|ley:</HI> and by Queen <HI>Elizabeth</HI> created Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and Ewe; <HI>Anno</HI> 1572. and Knight of the <HI>Gar|ter.</HI></P>
<PB N="38" REF="24">
<P>He was &s;ent into <HI>Ireland,</HI> Lord <HI>Mar&s;hall</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Rebells;</HI> and as if but &s;ent of an <HI>arrand,</HI> he pre&s;ently falls &s;ick, and dies at <HI>Dublin,</HI> 1576. His body brought over, and intomb'd at <HI>Carmarthen</HI> in <HI>Wales.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Robert</HI> &s;ucceeded his Father's <HI>Honours;</HI> and was looked upon in <HI>Court,</HI> by all with <HI>pitty,</HI> through the <HI>Sacrifice</HI> of his Father: But by the Queen with great affecti|on; whome &s;he advanced (his fortunes being lowe), with ma|ny gifts of grace and bounty. At his <HI>Arraignment,</HI> accounted to the Lord <HI>Trea&s;urer Dor&s;et</HI> to be 300000. l. &s;terling, in pure <HI>gift</HI> for his only u&s;e; be&s;ides the <HI>fees</HI> of his offices and the di&s;po&s;ition of the trea&s;urein his <HI>Armies.</HI> Of all which he &s;oon became a bold <HI>ingro&s;&s;er</HI> both of <HI>fame</HI> and <HI>favour.</HI></P>
<P>And fir&s;t in <HI>Anno</HI> 1585. he re|ceaves Knighthood. In 1588.
<PB N="39" REF="24">Knight of the <HI>Garter.</HI> In 1589. he had command in chief; in an Expedition into <HI>Portingal</HI> again&s;t <HI>Lisbone.</HI> In 1595. &s;worn <HI>Counce|lour</HI> of <HI>State.</HI> In 1596. he was &s;ent with a <HI>Navy</HI> to the I&s;le <HI>Cadiz</HI> in <HI>Spain;</HI> and pre&s;ently after made Lord <HI>Mar&s;hall</HI> of <HI>England.</HI> In 1597. he commanded in another Fleet, to the I&s;lands <HI>Sercera's;</HI> his <HI>Con|temporaries</HI> who &s;tood in <HI>Competi|tion</HI> with him for fame, were, Sir <HI>Charles Blunt,</HI> afterwards <HI>Earle</HI> of of <HI>Devon&s;hire,</HI> and <HI>Generall Norris,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Blunt late E. of Dev.</NOTE> his neer friends; and yet whom he envied, the la&s;t to his ruine; <HI>Men,</HI> of greater merit and truer value. And after the de&s;tructi|on of <HI>Norris;</HI> He takes upon him the <HI>Expedition</HI> into <HI>Ireland;</HI> the place of <HI>Exerci&s;e</HI> for the <HI>be&s;t</HI> of the <HI>Militia.</HI></P>
<P>And who dur&s;t oppo&s;e <HI>him?</HI> Though the <HI>Queen</HI> had an eye of favour upon <HI>Blunt,</HI> often <HI>&s;aying,</HI>
<PB N="40" REF="25">That <HI>She</HI> pre&s;aged him, the <HI>Man,</HI> to end <HI>Her</HI> cares in that <HI>Kingdome.</HI> And <HI>She</HI> was a true <HI>Prophete&s;&s;e,</HI> though not in <HI>Her</HI> time, but in <HI>Her Succe&s;&s;or, King James.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Blunt</HI> was a <HI>Gallant Gen|tleman,</HI> and learned, on whom <HI>She</HI> be&s;towed a <HI>Jewell</HI> for his beha|viour at a <HI>Tilting,</HI> which he wore after, tackt with a <HI>Scarlet Riband,</HI> upon his <HI>Arme;</HI> and for no other cau&s;e, <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> mu&s;t needs fight with him, and was runne through the <HI>Arme,</HI> for his labour.</P>
<P>But <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> got <HI>Imployments</HI> from them all; offering the Service evermore, at le&s;&s;e charge of <HI>Men</HI> and <HI>Money,</HI> then others his <HI>Com|petitors.</HI></P>
<P>And over he goes,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deputy of Ireland and Ge|nerall.</NOTE> <HI>Deputy</HI> of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and <HI>Generall</HI> of all the forces there: with <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> &s;trickt enough, to <HI>imbound</HI> his <HI>Popularity</HI> with the Souldiery, and his own <HI>family,</HI> which followed
<PB N="41" REF="25">him in <HI>Troops,</HI> either to devour or undo him.</P>
<P>No &s;ooner landed, but ere he drew &s;word on the <HI>Enemy,</HI> he dubbs <HI>Knighthood</HI> upon &s;even <HI>Gentlemen, Volunteers;</HI> which honour, he had very lavi&s;hly be|&s;towed at <HI>Cadiz;</HI> and was there|fore &s;oundly chidden by the <HI>Queen.</HI></P>
<P>And now re&s;trained by his <HI>Com|mi&s;&s;ion,</HI> with much a do, unle&s;&s;e to <HI>Men</HI> of known <HI>Merit,</HI> and <HI>tho&s;e</HI> after <HI>Battaile.</HI></P>
<P>For this fir&s;t Act, the <HI>Queene &s;wore</HI> he began his <HI>Rant:</HI> Of which he had pre&s;ent Intelligence from his deere&s;t Friend and Uncle, Sir <HI>Francis Knowls,</HI> a <HI>Councelor</HI> of <HI>State,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sr. Francis Knowles his Cor|re&s;pon|dent.</NOTE> and <HI>Controwler</HI> of <HI>Her Hou&s;hold,</HI> and after <HI>Earl</HI> of <HI>Banbury:</HI> Who &s;pa|red not his advi&s;e and Councel at all times. And between them there pa&s;&s;ed <HI>Intelligence,</HI> with e|very <HI>di&s;patch;</HI> who&s;e letters and
<PB N="42" REF="26">papers, <HI>Principall</HI> from <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and <HI>Copies</HI> to <HI>him</HI> I have &s;een; by which there appears, even from the beginning of that <HI>Imployment,</HI> a very plaine and Intentional <HI>re|&s;olution</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> to make him&s;elf <HI>Master</HI> of his own <HI>Ambition,</HI> and by this way and meanes to <HI>effect it; grounding</HI> all <HI>his di&s;contents</HI> and <HI>di&s;likes,</HI> that the <HI>Queens eare</HI> was o|pen to his <HI>Enemies</HI> at Court. And therefore it behooved him, to <HI>guard</HI> him&s;elf; which he re&s;olv'd to do, by help of his <HI>Friends</HI> and <HI>fate;</HI> And indeed having fallen into <HI>remarkeable offences,</HI> together with the <HI>Treaties</HI> with <HI>Tyrone</HI> the <HI>Arch-Rebell,</HI> without Order from <HI>England,</HI> and without acquaint|ing his <HI>Councell of Warre,</HI> with <HI>who&s;e</HI> advi&s;e <HI>he was</HI> limitted to act.</P>
<P>'Tis true,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Treats with Ty|rone.</NOTE> he advanced again&s;t the <HI>Enemy,</HI> and &s;oon accepts an <HI>In|vitation</HI> to a <HI>Treaty</HI> accompanied with his <HI>Councell of Warre.</HI> But
<PB N="43" REF="26">comming to the <HI>brinck</HI> of a <HI>River;</HI> the place a&s;&s;igned, he plunges his <HI>Hor&s;e</HI> to the <HI>Midde &s;tream,</HI> a|lone; and there meets him <HI>Ty|rone</HI> on <HI>Hor&s;eback;</HI> where their private di&s;cour&s;e gave &s;ufficient <HI>Caution,</HI> to all that looked on a-loof-off, that <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> meant no fair play for his <HI>Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e.</HI> For which fact, and no blow &s;troock in all this time, <HI>Men</HI> and <HI>Money</HI> wa&s;ted; He was &s;oundly blamed by the <HI>Councell</HI> at home; and no more letters from the <HI>Queens own hand,</HI> which he u&s;ually received afore.</P>
<P>In great <HI>choler,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Returns home.</NOTE> as to <HI>Di&s;pute</HI> or <HI>Revenge;</HI> and without leave from hence, he leaves his <HI>Command</HI> to a <HI>Lieutenant;</HI> and comes over with a hundred <HI>Gentlemen,</HI> his be&s;t <HI>Confidents;</HI> ha&s;tens to <HI>Court,</HI> ere it was known to any, but to his deer <HI>&V;ncle,</HI> to <HI>whom</HI> he writes, <HI>Deer &V;ncle, Receiving your la&s;t, at my entring on Ship-board, Ireturn
<PB N="44" REF="27">the accounts thereof, at my Landing; being re&s;olved with all &s;peed, (and your Silence) to appear, in the face of my Enemies; not tru&s;ting afarre off to my own Innocency, or to the Queens favour, with whom they have got &s;o much power &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>At &s;ight of him, with amaze to the <HI>Queen, She</HI> &s;wore, <HI>God's death</HI> my <HI>Lord,</HI> what do you here? <HI>Your</HI> pre&s;ence is mo&s;t <HI>unwelcome,</HI> with|out <HI>Tyrone's head</HI> in your <HI>Portman|tle.</HI> But he, falling more to a <HI>Di&s;pute,</HI> then any <HI>Excu&s;e: She,</HI> in <HI>di&s;daine to be taught, but what She plea&s;ed to do: Bid him begone, his bootes &s;tunck.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o was he pre&s;ently com|manded,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">is com|mitted &amp; cen&s;ured.</NOTE> and <HI>committed</HI> to the <HI>Arch-Bi&s;hop of Canterbury to Lam|beth;</HI> where not long after, he was convented before a <HI>Commit|tee</HI> of the <HI>Councel, and Correctio|nem, not ad de&s;tructionem.</HI> The <HI>Queen</HI> very gracious, hoping his
<PB N="45" REF="27">offences might di&s;cerne favour. for according to his <HI>Examinati|ons then,</HI> and the <HI>merit</HI> of his <HI>cau&s;e.</HI> I have &s;een his <HI>&V;ncles papers, breviates,</HI> (who was one of his <HI>Judges</HI>) intended as his <HI>Cen&s;ure, to condemnation,</HI> and &s;o fitted for fur|ther <HI>Tryall.</HI> But the day before, they had other <HI>direction</HI> from the <HI>Queen, &s;aying, he was young enough to mend, and make amends for all.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o their <HI>Cen&s;ures,</HI> &s;hew'd him his <HI>Errors,</HI> and left him to <HI>Her grace</HI> and <HI>mercy;</HI> only <HI>re&s;train|ing</HI> him to his own <HI>Hou&s;e,</HI> again&s;t Saint <HI>Clements.</HI> Not without dayly letters from <HI>Knowles;</HI> with advice to be rid of his <HI>ranting fol|lowers; Captaines</HI> and <HI>Sword-men</HI> of the <HI>Town flocking,</HI> and <HI>Incou|raging</HI> him, to a <HI>Revenge</HI> on his <HI>E|nemies.</HI></P>
<P>It was not long that he could contain; <HI>Saying,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His rebel|lious ri|&s;ing</NOTE> he was engaged to go on.</HI> And on a Sunday morn|ing,
<PB N="46" REF="28">the <HI>Councell &s;at; (which was u&s;uall, untill the late Arch-Bi&s;hop Lawd in honour of the Morning Sa|crifice, altered that cour&s;e, to the Afternoon.</HI> Then the fir&s;t flame brake out.</P>
<P>To him,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Impri&s;ons the Clerk of the Councell,</NOTE> they &s;ent their <HI>Clerke</HI> of the <HI>Councell,</HI> to know the rea|&s;on from his <HI>Lord&s;hip,</HI> of the meet|ing of &s;o many <HI>weaponed Men</HI> at his hou&s;e; But the <HI>Me&s;&s;enger</HI> not returning, being kept <HI>Pri&s;oner,</HI> the chiefe&s;t <HI>Councelours</HI> com|manded by the <HI>Queen,</HI> came to him; and no &s;ooner entered <HI>E&s;&s;ex hou&s;e,</HI> but the <HI>Gates</HI> were clapp'd too, all their <HI>Train</HI> kept out, the <HI>Court-yard full of Gallants.</HI> Some cryed <HI>kill them; Impri&s;on them;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">and the Lords of the Coun|cell.</NOTE> To the Court; &s;ei&s;e the Queen, and be our own Carvers. E&s;&s;ex</HI> comes down with all reverence, u&s;hers them up, re&s;olving to <HI>de|tain them Pri&s;oners,</HI> and <HI>pledges</HI> for his <HI>Succe&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<PB N="47" REF="28">
<P>Indeed in this hurly burly of advice he took the wor&s;t. For leaving them in &s;afety with <HI>Sir Ferdinando Gorges;</HI> He with the <HI>Earle</HI> of <HI>Southampton,</HI> in one boat; and &s;ome others in other boats, took water at his <HI>Garden &s;taires;</HI> and landing neer the <HI>Bridge,</HI> went on foot, up the &s;treets, with &s;uch <HI>stragling company</HI> as came in their way; To <HI>whom he prote&s;ted, that the Queen &s;hould have been murther|ed, and his, and other good Coun|cellors lives, in perill, by enemies of the State, that forced a power from the Queene, to the emiment de&s;tructi|on of the Kingdome.</HI> The&s;e <HI>&s;peeches</HI> with their <HI>&s;words drawne,</HI> took little effect with the <HI>people,</HI> who came running out of the <HI>Churches,</HI> being <HI>Sermon-time;</HI> without wea|pons, or any offen&s;able a&s;&s;i&s;tance, contrary to his <HI>expectation.</HI></P>
<P>But on he goes to <HI>Sir Thomas Smith's,</HI> where he kept his <HI>Shreeve|alty</HI>
<PB N="48" REF="29">neere <HI>Fan-church,</HI> his confi|ding friend; by who&s;e counte|nance he hoped to worke with the <HI>Multitude.</HI> He being ab&s;ent, at <HI>Paul's Cro&s;&s;e Sermon, E&s;&s;ex</HI> &s;taid no longer, then to &s;hift his &s;hirt; and &s;o pa&s;&s;ed through <HI>Cheape-&s;ide</HI> to <HI>Paul's we&s;t-end;</HI> where he found his fir&s;t <HI>oppo&s;ition</HI> by &s;ome forces got together, by the <HI>Bi&s;hop</HI> of <HI>Lon|don,</HI> and the <HI>trained band.</HI> And after <HI>Proclametion,</HI> That <HI>E&s;&s;ex and Southampton were Traitors,</HI> &amp; all tho&s;e that followed their faction: Many dropping from the <HI>Crowd,</HI> there was little defence by his party, though &s;ome were killed; and <HI>him&s;elfe for&s;aken</HI> of the wi|&s;e&s;t. He retires back to <HI>Queen|hithe,</HI> and &s;o to <HI>E&s;&s;ex-hou&s;e</HI> by wat|er; where finding the <HI>Birds flow|en,</HI> the <HI>Councellors</HI> relea&s;ed, by their <HI>Keeper;</HI> who in hope of par|don, accompained them to the <HI>Queenes</HI> pre&s;ence; di&s;covering
<PB N="49" REF="29">&s;o much as he knew, concerning his <HI>Lord;</HI> who finding him&s;elfe too <HI>weake,</HI> to with&s;tand the <HI>force</HI> of a peece of <HI>Cannon,</HI> mounted up|on the <HI>Church,</HI> to batter his <HI>Hou&s;e; He</HI> and <HI>Southampton</HI> yeelded them&s;elves <HI>Pri&s;oners</HI> to the <HI>Tow|er;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Arraigned and exe|cuted.</NOTE> where being <HI>arraigned</HI> and <HI>con|demned, Southamton</HI> had <HI>repreeve,</HI> and after <HI>pardon;</HI> But <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> the reward of his merits, and <HI>Execu|ted in March</HI> 1601. upon the <HI>Inner Hill</HI> in the <HI>Tower;</HI> to the regret of <HI>None</HI> either wi&s;e or hone&s;t: <HI>Leaving behind him one onely Son, the la&s;t of his Line.</HI></P>
<P><HI>William Cecill,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cecils. Pamp. 10.</NOTE> illu&s;trate from the <HI>family</HI> of <HI>Cecils</HI> (who &s;uffered per&s;ecution in the times <HI>of Henry</HI> 8. <HI>Edward</HI> 6. and <HI>Queen Mary</HI>) he was knighted by <HI>Queen Elizabeth,</HI> &s;o &s;oone as &s;he was &s;etled in her <HI>Crowne,</HI> then <HI>Secretary</HI> and <HI>Coun|cellor of State.</HI> Afterwards crea|ted <HI>Baron</HI> of <HI>Burligh.</HI> Then made
<PB N="50" REF="30"><HI>Lord Trea&s;urer of England,</HI> and <HI>Knight</HI> of the <HI>Garter:</HI> and died <HI>Chauncellor</HI> of the <HI>&V;niver&s;ity</HI> of <HI>Cambridge,</HI> Anno 1598. Intomb'd at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> leaving two <HI>Sons.</HI> The elder <HI>Thomas,</HI> was then <HI>Lord Pre&s;ident</HI> of the <HI>North;</HI> And after|wards created <HI>Earle</HI> of <HI>Exeter</HI> by <HI>King James,</HI> and privy <HI>Councellor of State.</HI> He died Anno di&s;|creet and honourable, whom the world could never tax with any taint.</P>
<P>The other &s;on <HI>Robert,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sr. Robert Cecill.</NOTE> was the &s;econd; But a true <HI>Inheriter</HI> of his <HI>Fathers wi&s;dome,</HI> and by <HI>him</HI> train|ed up to future perfections, of a <HI>Judicious States-man:</HI> after his <HI>Knighthood,</HI> the fir&s;t imployment from <HI>Court (for he was not at all bred out of it)</HI> &s;ent him <HI>A&s;&s;i&s;tant</HI> with the <HI>Earle</HI> of <HI>Darby Emba&s;&s;a|dour</HI> to the <HI>French King.</HI> At his returne, the <HI>Queen</HI> took him <HI>&s;e|cond Secretary</HI> with Sir <HI>Fr. Wal&s;ing|ham,</HI>
<PB N="51" REF="30">after who&s;e <HI>decea&s;e,</HI> he con|tinued <HI>Paincipal,</HI> and &s;o kept it to his death; <HI>Not relinqui&s;hing any Preferment, for the Addition of a Creater. A remarkeable Note; which few men of the Gowne can boast of.</HI> His <HI>Father</HI> liv'd to &s;ee him &s;etled in the&s;e <HI>preferments,</HI> and after <HI>Master of the Wards</HI> and <HI>Liveries.</HI> The&s;e he held to the <HI>Queenes death:</HI> Being in all Her time u&s;ed among&s;t the <HI>Men</HI> of <HI>weight,</HI> as <HI>ha|ving great &s;ufficiencies from his In|&s;truction who begat him.</HI> Tho&s;e <HI>offi|ces</HI> here in public, with perpetual Corre&s;pondence by <HI>Emi&s;&s;aries</HI> of his own into <HI>Scotland,</HI> might no doubt make him capable of <HI>Re|ception</HI> with <HI>King James,</HI> who was to be advi&s;ed by him, how to be received here of <HI>his people.</HI> Without any nece&s;&s;ity, then, to make u&s;e of Sir <HI>George Hewmes or his Initiatiation afterwards, with any juggling trickes,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp 13.</NOTE> his <HI>merrits</HI> cer|tainly
<PB N="52" REF="31">appeared to the <HI>King,</HI> who not onely not <HI>dimini&s;hed</HI> his for|former <HI>preferments;</HI> But often <HI>added</HI> to them, even to the day of his death.</P>
<P>As fir&s;t <HI>Baron</HI> of <HI>E&s;&s;enden;</HI> then <HI>Vi&s;count Cranborne;</HI> after <HI>Earle of Salisbury,</HI> and <HI>Knight of the Gar|ter;</HI> and la&s;tly <HI>Lord Trea&s;urer of England.</HI></P>
<P>He was a <HI>Councellor</HI> of &s;ingular merit. A very great <HI>di&s;coverer</HI> of the late <HI>Queens</HI> enemies <HI>abroad,</HI> and of private <HI>A&s;&s;inations</HI> at home: For which <HI>She</HI> valued him, and the <HI>Papists</HI> hated him; which they publi&s;hed by &s;everal <HI>Manu&s;cripts,</HI> (which I have &s;een,) and printed <HI>Libels;</HI> and that mo&s;t pe&s;tilent again&s;t his birth and honour, threatning to kill him, which him&s;elfe an&s;wered wi&s;ely, learnedly and religiou&s;ly, Extant in <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Latine Ad|ver&s;us Perduelles.</HI></P>
<PB N="53" REF="31">
<P>Indeed, It behoved the <HI>King</HI> to be&s;tow upon him the waight of the <HI>Trea&s;urers Staffe.</HI> The <HI>Cofers</HI> then in &s;ome want; which the <HI>King</HI> was not likely &s;oon to <HI>Reco|ver,</HI> but rather to <HI>increa&s;e</HI> in <HI>debt:</HI> having the addition of <HI>wife</HI> and <HI>children</HI> to boot. And being now come, with common opinion in|to the <HI>Capacity, (by his additional Crownes</HI>) to <HI>reward his old &s;er|vants;</HI> and to appear obliging unto <HI>new Ones.</HI></P>
<P>The world wondering at the <HI>worth</HI> of this <HI>great Councellor,</HI> I know not upon what &s;core, our <HI>Pamphleter</HI> &s;hould endeavour to <HI>&s;candal</HI> his <HI>memory.</HI></P>
<P>Which he rancks into <HI>Numbers of ill Offices to his Nation;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 12.</NOTE> as the burning of a whole cart-load of Par|liaments Pre&s;idents;</HI> which no man can be &s;o <HI>&s;otti&s;h</HI> as to <HI>beleeve,</HI> that knowes the &s;trict <HI>concer|ving</HI> of tho&s;e <HI>Records</HI> by &s;worne <HI>Officers.</HI></P>
<PB N="54" REF="32">
<P>As for the <HI>Baronets,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Baronets.</NOTE> It was the earne&s;t &s;uite of two hundred prime <HI>Gentlemen</HI> of <HI>Birth and e|states</HI> to my knowledge; <HI>for I co|pied the li&s;t before ever it came this Lord.</HI> And as true it is, That this <HI>Lord's Reception</HI> thereto, was in the &s;ame <HI>words</HI> which our <HI>Pamph|let</HI> puts upon the <HI>King, That it would di&s;content the Gentry;</HI> to which them&s;elves replyed, <HI>Nay my Lord, It will rather &s;atisfie them, in advance of Dignity, before others; who now, come behind tho&s;e Meaner Men,</HI> whom the <HI>King</HI> was for|ced to <HI>Knight</HI> for his own honor, and &s;ome <HI>merits</HI> of <HI>theirs,</HI> ha|ving no other <HI>Reward,</HI> or <HI>money</HI> to &s;pare: and therein not much to blame, to <HI>oblige</HI> them that way.</P>
<P>As for that <HI>&s;uppo&s;ed jugling,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 13.</NOTE> which the Duke of Bullion &s;hould di&s;|cover:</HI> As it was never known to wi&s;er men; So we may take it, a devi&s;e of his, who in the&s;e, as in
<PB N="55" REF="32">other &s;uch like, of his own, may truly merit that Character which he be&s;towes before <HI>[On the good Gentleman.]</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 9.</NOTE></P>
<P>I de&s;ire pardon, if I &s;peake <HI>much</HI> and <HI>truth,</HI> in the <HI>memory</HI> of this <HI>Noble Lord;</HI> being &s;omewhat concerned, to &s;peak my owne knowledge.</P>
<P>I know, that this <HI>Earle</HI> of <HI>Sale&s;|bury,</HI> declining his health, with continuall <HI>labour</HI> for the good of this <HI>Nation,</HI> both in the former, and in this his <HI>Soveraign's Service;</HI> And am willing to give &s;ome <HI>light</HI> thereof, to &s;uch as are plea|&s;ed to read the&s;e particulars, be|ing an <HI>Account of his concernments.</HI></P>
<P>For fir&s;t,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Salisbury his &s;ervice to the State. Mannors, Lands.</NOTE> he found the <HI>King's Mannors,</HI> and faire&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, mo&s;t <HI>un&s;urveyed,</HI> and uncertain, rather by <HI>report,</HI> then by <HI>Mea&s;ure.</HI> Not more known, then by <HI>anci|ent Rents;</HI> the <HI>Estate</HI> granted ra|ther <HI>by chance,</HI> then upon know|ledge.</P>
<PB N="56" REF="33">
<P>The <HI>Custody-Lands,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cu&s;tody-hands.</NOTE> (antiently termed <HI>Crown-Lands</HI>) much <HI>char|ged</HI> upon the <HI>Sheriffs;</HI> yearly <HI>di&s;charged</HI> by annual <HI>pen&s;ions.</HI> A <HI>Revenue</HI> which &s;eemed <HI>decayed,</HI> by de&s;cent of times, and worne out of all remembrance: the&s;e he evermore <HI>revived,</HI> by <HI>Commi&s;&s;ioners</HI> of <HI>A&s;&s;erts.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Woods,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Woods.</NOTE> were more uncer|tain then the re&s;t. No man knew the <HI>Copices, Number</HI> of <HI>acres, growth</HI> or <HI>value;</HI> nor of <HI>Timber-Trees,</HI> ei|ther <HI>Number</HI> or <HI>worth.</HI> So as tru|ly he might well find him&s;elf in a <HI>Wood,</HI> indeed. The <HI>Trees</HI> wa&s;ted without controwle, becau&s;e no <HI>Record</HI> kept thereof. The&s;e he cau&s;ed to be <HI>numbred, marked</HI> and <HI>valued,</HI> ea&s;ily to be que&s;tioned, when thereafter <HI>mi&s;&s;ing.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Copy-hold Lands,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Copy|holds.</NOTE> where the arbitrary &s;ines cea&s;ed, by the di&s;cretion of the Stewards; and did &s;eldome yeeld the Par&s;ons
<PB N="57" REF="33">part; and that al&s;o vani&s;h'd, in fees and charges. The State was then after like to rai&s;e of the&s;e Natures, the true values; and to receive equal benefit, with the re&s;t of the Subjects; if the Book had bin &s;ince ob&s;erved, which <HI>he</HI> cau&s;ed in print.</P>
<P>And for the Copy-holders of Inheritance, who by many Re|cords, prove their fines certain; they did hereupon, offer for their freedome 20.30.40. and 50. years purcha&s;e, where they could &s;hew probable Records, without &s;ine; to free them&s;elves. The Wa&s;tes and Commons, were ten|der Titles;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wa&s;tes &amp; Commons.</NOTE> full of murmering and Commotion; which truly he never dur&s;t offer to inclo&s;e; Nor to urge the Tenants to be|come Suitors them&s;elves; with whom Commi&s;&s;ioners were to be appointed, to compound for a part; and &s;o he made a good Pre|&s;ident for the re&s;t.</P>
<PB N="58" REF="34">
<P>The Ca&s;ual fines,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ca&s;ual fines.</NOTE> due to the King, out of the private po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i|ons, (as other <HI>Lords</HI> have by their Courts of <HI>Leets,</HI> Court <HI>Barons</HI> and &s;uch like) and out of publique of|fences, as the King was Parent of the Common-Wealth; unto whom belong'd <HI>&amp; praemium &amp; poena.</HI> The&s;e being natures, left for the King's bounty, he com|mended them al&s;o to Commi&s;&s;i|oners, for a better Revenue, to be rai&s;ed; being till his time ut|terly neglected and almo&s;t lo&s;t.</P>
<P>As for the extended Lands; where the <HI>Officers</HI> became indebt|ed to the Crown; and made it an Art, to have their Lands ex|tended, at ea&s;y rates; He cau&s;ed the mo&s;t of the&s;e to be &s;urveyed; commended the Improvement to Commi&s;&s;ioners, and command|ed the Tenants to appear before them.</P>
<P>The Improvements of the Cu|&s;tomes,
<PB N="59" REF="34">he advanced from 86000. l. to 120000. l. and from that to 135000. l. by the year.</P>
<P>He bargained, for the River|water to be brought to <HI>London,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">River wa|ter.</NOTE> and &s;o to the drie&s;t parts, which brought a great yearly value.</P>
<P>He alwaies incouraged all In|du&s;try of <HI>Manufactures.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Manufa|ctures.</NOTE> Such In|ventions as the Statutes admit and countenance. As home-making of <HI>Allome;</HI> Salt by the Sunne; Bu&s;&s;es for fi&s;hing; Salt upon Salt, by new fires and In|ventions; <HI>Copper</HI> and <HI>Coperas</HI> of <HI>Iron,</HI> and of <HI>Steele;</HI> That the Sub|jects at home, might be &s;et on work; and the &s;mall Trea&s;ure of the Nation kept within.</P>
<P>It concerned him as <HI>Secretary</HI> to have <HI>Intelligence</HI> from all parts of the World;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Intelli|gence.</NOTE> and Corre&s;pon|dence with all Em ba&s;&s;adours and Forreigne States; not to be neg|lected at any hand; which he did
<PB N="60" REF="35">at his own co&s;t. So did all parts grow confident of &s;uch a Coun|celour. And &s;o he kept Rules with the united Provinces who&s;e Friend&s;hips he would &s;ay, much concerned this State.</P>
<P>I may not forget his Chri&s;tian care,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ireland improved.</NOTE> for poor <HI>Ireland;</HI> Planta|tions there, and tran&s;plantations of the Natives; to advance the Cu&s;tomes there, and to abate the charges of the Gari&s;ons. And he did endeavour, and in manner did effect an univer&s;all cour&s;e of Law and Ju&s;tice, in the mo&s;t bar|barous and remote parts of that Nation.</P>
<P>And now concerning the Court of Wards and Liveries;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wards &amp; Liveries.</NOTE> By con|&s;titution of this State, all the lands of this Nation, are holden by two Tenures: By Soccage or by Knights Service. By the Plough to feed us; or by the Sword to defend us. And who &s;o died,
<PB N="61" REF="35">leaving an Heir within age, un|able to do this &s;ervice, his Heir and Lands, fell both to the Pro|tection of the Soveraign. And this in antient time, was promi&s;|cuou&s;ly carryed, in the Court of Chancery; until the middle time of <HI>Hon.</HI> the 8. when this Court of Wards, was fir&s;t erected. Since which time the Ma&s;ters thereof, by favour of the Soveraign, did accu&s;tome (as a bounty of State) to grant unto Noble Men; the King's Servants and their owne followers, both the marriag of the body, and the lea&s;e of the Lands for a third peny, of their true worth.</P>
<P>But in all humility, his Lord|&s;hip finding the e&s;tate in a Retro|grade Con&s;umption, did with all obedience pre&s;ent his Patent, at the Kings feet: and &s;o the whole benefit became the profit of the Crown.</P>
<PB N="62" REF="36">
<P>Thus, he wrought in the Mine of the State-affaires, and wa&s;ted his Carka&s;&s;e with de&s;ire, to have done better Service, in the&s;e his offices of <HI>Trea&s;urer, Secretary</HI> and <HI>Master</HI> of the <HI>Wards:</HI> And yet the&s;e were &s;ufficient, ju&s;t and true merits; Without Friends, Wit, or Wealth, to rai&s;e him &s;o much, in his Ma&s;ter's e&s;teem: Or with|out ill offices done by him, to this Nation, as our <HI>Pamphlet</HI> will make us believe, in many ab&s;urd parti|culars.</P>
<P>And truly,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pam. 11.12.</NOTE> his &s;tudious labours in the State, brought him the &s;ooner to &s;ickne&s;&s;e, a Con&s;um|ption of the Lungs; wherein he wa&s;ted &s;ome years, and at la&s;t, by advi&s;e for cure at the <HI>Bath;</HI> he took leave of the King, who came to vi&s;it him at <HI>Salisbury-Hou&s;e;</HI> and with tears, at his parting, pro|te&s;ted to the Lords attending, his great lo&s;&s;e of the wi&s;e&s;t <HI>Councelour</HI>
<PB N="63" REF="36">and be&s;t Servant, that any <HI>Prince</HI> in <HI>Chri&s;tendome</HI> could Paralel. Of whom one &s;aies,</P>
<P><HI>Tu Pater &amp; Patriae Princeps, Pru|dentia cujus Extulit immen&s;um Re|ges, Popul&oacute;&s;que Britannos.</HI></P>
<P>His time at the <HI>Bath</HI> was &s;hort; being &s;pent to extreamity, ere he came thither; and returning back by the way, he was taken out of his Litter, and put him&s;elf in his Coach, and died afterwards at St. <HI>Margarets,</HI> in the Hou&s;e of that worthy Gentleman Mr. <HI>Da|niel,</HI> in <HI>May</HI> 1612. My Lord <HI>Vi&s;|count Cramborne,</HI> now Earle of <HI>Salisbury,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Clifford,</HI> Sir <HI>Robert Manton</HI> and many <HI>more Gentlemen</HI> of quality then pre|&s;ent, whom I &s;aw there: He was Imbalmed, and after Intomb'd, at his Princely <HI>Mannor</HI> of <HI>Hart|field.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 14.</NOTE> A fairer Corps then any bra&s;en face, that belies his di&s;|ea&s;e. His death was extreame
<PB N="64" REF="37">&s;adne&s;&s;e to the King, and to all his friends, and others of worth and honour. For in &s;pite of the <HI>Pamphleter,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 14.</NOTE> he will be valued, as he does confe&s;&s;e</P>
<P>Never came a Better.</P>
<P>The next we meet with is <HI>Hen|ry</HI> Earle of <HI>Northampton.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Henry Howard Earle of Northam|pton.</NOTE></P>
<P>The <HI>Antient</HI> and <HI>Illu&s;trous fa|mily</HI> of the <HI>Howards,</HI> were here more <HI>Eminent,</HI> then any other, that u&s;hered the King to his <HI>Ad|ditionall Crownes.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Henry Howard</HI> was Brother unto <HI>Thomas Duke of Norfolke;</HI> who &s;uffered <HI>for his attempt of marriage</HI> with the <HI>Queen</HI> of <HI>Scots,</HI> whil&s;t &s;he was <HI>Pri&s;oner</HI> here in <HI>England.</HI> Which might be &s;ome <HI>Motive</HI> to induce the <HI>King</HI> to con&s;ider the advance of that <HI>family,</HI> though they were indued, with large <HI>po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions</HI> from their <HI>Ance&s;tors.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Duke</HI> left two Sons <HI>Philip Earl of Arundell</HI> &amp; <HI>Thomas Howard
<PB N="65" REF="37">Earle of Suffolk</HI> afterwards <HI>Lord Trea&s;urer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Henry Howard</HI> their Uncle,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 15</NOTE> was more wedded to his <HI>Book,</HI> then to the <HI>Bed:</HI> for he died a <HI>Bacheler;</HI> and <HI>&s;o</HI> had the <HI>le&s;&s;e</HI> occa&s;ion, <HI>to advance his fortune, by Court-flattery, or State-Imployment:</HI> nor indeed was he ever any <HI>Suitor</HI> for <HI>either.</HI></P>
<P>He was accounted both <HI>wi&s;e</HI> and <HI>learned;</HI> and therefore out of the Kings great affection to <HI>Letters,</HI> e&s;pecially when they are met in a <HI>Noble Per&s;on,</HI> he was ad|vanced, in his Creation of Baron of <HI>Marnhill</HI> and Earle of <HI>Southam|pton;</HI> then <HI>Pryvy Councelor, Lord Privy Seale,</HI> and <HI>Lord Warden</HI> of the <HI>Cinque Ports,</HI> and Knight of the <HI>Garter.</HI> He had very <HI>plentifull</HI> for his &s;ingle life, and to &s;pare for his friends.</P>
<P>In his expence not over <HI>frugal;</HI> maintaining his <HI>Port,</HI> the mo&s;t <HI>remarkeable (like the Ancient NO|BLE
<PB N="66" REF="38">MAN)</HI> in his <HI>family</HI> and <HI>Dependants;</HI> of any other <HI>Lord</HI> then, or &s;ince his time. He a&s;|&s;i&s;ted his <HI>Nephew</HI> the <HI>Earl of Suffolk</HI> by his de&s;igning and large contri|bution, to that excellent <HI>Fabrick Awdley-end.</HI> He built the <HI>Noble &s;tructure</HI> at <HI>Charing-Cro&s;&s;e,</HI> from, the Ground, <HI>Northampton Hou&s;e</HI> and pre&s;ented it a New-years-gift to the <HI>Lord Walden, Suffolkes</HI> eld|e&s;t Sonne, and now called <HI>Suffolk-Hou&s;e:</HI> and yet left his other <HI>Ne|phew,</HI> the <HI>Earl</HI> of <HI>Arundell,</HI> the re&s;t of his e&s;tate; &s;o to appear to the world, his <HI>equall di&s;tribution</HI> to &s;uch <HI>even kinred.</HI> He was <HI>Re|ligious,</HI> and gave good te&s;timony thereof in his life, built that <HI>hand|&s;ome Covent</HI> at <HI>Greenwich,</HI> and in|dued it with <HI>Revenue</HI> for ever, for maintenance of decaied <HI>Gentle|men</HI> a &s;ufficient number; and for <HI>women</HI> al&s;o con&s;iderable. He died in <HI>Anno</HI> 1613. full of years and
<PB N="67" REF="38"><HI>Honourable fame:</HI> though Our <HI>Pamphleter</HI> wil not know &s;o <HI>much;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 16.</NOTE> and yet no doubt mu&s;t needs be <HI>Iutimate</HI> with his <HI>Per&s;on:</HI> for he tells us his <HI>thoughts;</HI> That he had a&s;&s;uredly promi&s;ed to him&s;elf the <HI>Trea&s;urers &s;taff.</HI> Although we can produce this <HI>Lord's Letters,</HI> and other te&s;timonies, imploying all <HI>his own</HI> and his <HI>Friends Intere&s;t,</HI> for that preferment, upon his <HI>Nephew Suffolke,</HI> and excu&s;ing him&s;elf, of the burthen and weight of that <HI>Office,</HI> by his known <HI>Infirmity</HI> of <HI>Stone</HI> of the which he died.</P>
<P>Indeed;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">James Hay Earle of Carlile. Pamp. 18.</NOTE> It is no matter upon what <HI>Score,</HI> that the <HI>King</HI> gave his affection, to this <HI>Favorite James Hay.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Scots</HI> were never very e|minent, with <HI>Neighbour-Princes;</HI> what credit they had, came by the <HI>French,</HI> to keep ballance with <HI>England and them.</HI> The begin|ning might then be hoped, when
<PB N="68" REF="39">their <HI>&V;nion</HI> with the&s;e <HI>Crownes,</HI> &s;hould afford the meanes, to &s;et them forth.</P>
<P>And it was <HI>prudentiall</HI> in the King, to pick out one of his own to <HI>&s;plendour</HI> that Nation, in our way of peace and Court-&s;hip: E&s;pecially when all was done at the Ma&s;ter's co&s;t. For <HI>Hay</HI> was poor, unle&s;&s;e what he got by his fir&s;t Match, with the Lord <HI>Dennis heir,</HI> for by his la&s;t <HI>he</HI> had nothing; the great &s;pirit of <HI>Pearcy</HI> Earle of <HI>Northumberland,</HI> di&s;daining the Marriage, and refu&s;ed to afford <HI>a Groat, to a beggerly Scot, as he call'd him.</HI></P>
<P>And now this Lord (for &s;o was he &s;oon made <HI>Lord Hay,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His vaine <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> spences.</NOTE> then <HI>Vi&s;|count Donca&s;ter,</HI> and <HI>Earl of Carlile</HI>) did mo&s;t vainely prodigallize, what he often begg'd. And in truth, he had it granted for no o|ther purpo&s;e; to put down the <HI>Engl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h Courtier</HI> at that vanity.
<PB N="69" REF="39">And which, both abroad and at home, was often paid for, by the <HI>King's Privy Pur&s;e.</HI> As that fea&s;t at <HI>E&s;&s;ex-Hou&s;e,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 19.</NOTE> and many his <HI>Ma&s;que|radoes</HI> at <HI>Court</HI> (for he medled not with the <HI>Tilt-staff,</HI> as being no <HI>Sword-man</HI>) but in the other, and &s;uch like, he never e&s;caped, to act <HI>One part.</HI></P>
<P>And the&s;e expences, fam'd him with little credit; how erche appears to our <HI>Pamphleters Judge|ment;</HI> who cries up,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 21.</NOTE> the bounty of his <HI>Mind,</HI> beyond the <HI>Moon</HI> at lea&s;t; who in truth, was never <HI>good,</HI> to <HI>Man</HI> or <HI>bea&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>His <HI>Emba&s;&s;ies,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Em|ba&s;&s;ies to Germany.</NOTE> were not &s;o <HI>weighty</HI> when he po&s;ted &s;o long through <HI>Germany,</HI> to find out the <HI>Emperor;</HI> who afforded him the <HI>Wild-Goo&s;e-Cha&s;e,</HI> as knowing his <HI>Arrand,</HI> before he came at him. Which in truth was pur|po&s;ely &s;o de&s;igned by the <HI>King;</HI> only to &s;pend time, and to amu&s;e
<PB N="70" REF="40">mens <HI>expectations (who were wild after a Warre)</HI> to beget a Treaty, concerning the lo&s;t <HI>Palatine.</HI> The effects wherof, (as the King wi&s;e|ly prophe&s;yed,) would produce <HI>di&s;temper,</HI> through all <HI>Christen|dome,</HI> if not de&s;tructive to his <HI>Son in law.</HI></P>
<P>He went into <HI>France Extraordi|nary;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">France.</NOTE> it was to treate with that King, in favour of the <HI>Hugenots (the Religion as they account it)</HI> be|ing ri&s;en to a <HI>Civill Warre,</HI> by management of the <HI>Duke d'Ro|hau, Count Sobeeze,</HI> and others; to a dangerous con&s;equence, in &s;e|verall places, almo&s;t over <HI>France:</HI> which to allay, that King had rai&s;ed a great Army; re&s;olving with countenance of his own Per|&s;on, to give end thereto: But <HI>King James,</HI> being invited by &s;e|veral trouble&s;ome <HI>Commi&s;&s;ioners,</HI> their <HI>Agents,</HI> to implore for their cau&s;e, and take upon him their
<PB N="71" REF="40">protection, which he (a wi&s;e Prince in that) declined, yet not to neglect them; and the rather to &s;atisfy &s;ome of our People, of the like <HI>Gang,</HI> medled thus farre to <HI>mediate</HI> by <HI>Emba&s;&s;y</HI> of <HI>Hay;</HI> who as in that of <HI>Germany,</HI> did no|thing with effect, but went up to <HI>Montaban,</HI> and &s;o come home again.</P>
<P>'Tis true, he went into <HI>Spain,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spaine.</NOTE> with a <HI>me&s;&s;age</HI> to our Prince; with no <HI>more</HI> matter, then others that came after, to waite on him in that Court&s;hip. For there as in other Kingdomes, his <HI>Scots va|nity</HI> mu&s;t al&s;o be blazon'd.</P>
<P>And for his la&s;t <HI>Emba&s;&s;y</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> about <HI>Our Match with that Daughter,</HI> and our <HI>Queen;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Again in|to France.</NOTE> he came not into <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion,</HI> till the <HI>Trea|ty</HI> was confirmed, and the <HI>Mar|riage</HI> concluded, by <HI>Emba&s;&s;y,</HI> only of the <HI>Earle of Holland;</HI> and <HI>Car|lile</HI> put in afterwards, to <HI>dance</HI>
<PB N="72" REF="41">out the <HI>Mea&s;ures;</HI> His <HI>name,</HI> being u&s;ed in the <HI>Proxie,</HI> for that <HI>Ceremo|ny;</HI> and at this time, the <HI>Earl of Holland,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Earle of Holland.</NOTE> had &s;ome colour for his <HI>expence</HI> which he <HI>lavi&s;hed</HI> without <HI>rea&s;on,</HI> to the weakening of his un&s;ettled fortunes; being forced to <HI>follow</HI> the other then, in all his <HI>fa&s;hions.</HI> And which <HI>Infection,</HI> by after-Cu&s;tome, became his <HI>di&s;|ea&s;e</HI> al&s;o, and almo&s;t if not <HI>over|ma&s;tering,</HI> yet <HI>over-&s;hadowing</HI> his Natural, eminent parts, with which his in&s;ide was <HI>habited,</HI> and per&s;picuous to &s;uch as knew him.</P>
<P>But I am not delighted, to <HI>urge</HI> out this <HI>&s;tory</HI> of the <HI>Earl of Carlile:</HI> as not willing to &s;peak ill of any; unlike our <HI>Pamphlet</HI> that <HI>&s;pares</HI> none, but <HI>Him.</HI> For I &s;hould know; that vertue and vice, are <HI>Inherent</HI> in <HI>Man.</HI> And as it be|comes us to tell <HI>truth,</HI> when we &s;peak their <HI>vertue:</HI> yet with mo|de&s;ty and compa&s;&s;ion to <HI>di&s;cover</HI>
<PB N="73" REF="41">their <HI>vices:</HI> either being <HI>Examples</HI> for the future; that, to <HI>imitate; this,</HI> to <HI>&s;hun.</HI> And I cannot but with <HI>Compunction</HI> remind, That the mon&s;trous <HI>exce&s;&s;e</HI> of the <HI>belly,</HI> and the <HI>back,</HI> by his fir&s;t <HI>Pre&s;ident,</HI> became then the <HI>Mode</HI> of tho&s;e times, for <HI>great Per&s;ons</HI> (the mo&s;t part) to <HI>follow,</HI> and for the <HI>Com|mon People</HI> to this hour to <HI>practi&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>And truly, a <HI>wi&s;e</HI> and a good <HI>Man,</HI> ought ju&s;tly to have hated his <HI>condition</HI> in this without &s;u&s;pi|tion of <HI>malice</HI> or <HI>envy;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 21.</NOTE> as it is &s;aid <HI>Northampton</HI> did, who yet, as may be remembred, took leave of this <HI>life,</HI> ere <HI>Hay</HI> was &s;etled <HI>on horsback.</HI></P>
<P>And that other marke of <HI>Re|proach</HI> al&s;o, may without partial|lity be taken oft the <HI>Score</HI> from that Noble <HI>Northampton;</HI> who on my con&s;cience (for I knew him well) di&s;dained the <HI>Guilt</HI> in that frivolous <HI>&s;tory</HI> of Sir <HI>Robert Man|&s;ell.</HI> Nor is it material, to credit
<PB N="74" REF="42">the re&s;t of that <HI>Rant,</HI> in his <HI>Vice-Admirall voyage.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Second Remark</HI> of the <HI>Pre|face,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Second Remarke. Pamp. 30.</NOTE> falls upon the <HI>Trea&s;on of</HI> Sir <HI>Walter Ralegh,</HI> which the <HI>Pamphlet</HI> calls <HI>an arrant trick of State; and Cecil the Imenire facias thereof.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sir Walter Ralegh</HI> was a Gentle|man of good alliance,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sr. Walter Ralegh.</NOTE> in the <HI>west</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> and very <HI>well</HI> de&s;cend|ed. He began his <HI>Improvements,</HI> by the <HI>&V;niver&s;ity,</HI> and <HI>Inns of Court;</HI> the latter was alwaies the place of e&s;teem with the <HI>Queen</HI> which, &s;he &s;aid, fitted <HI>youth</HI> for the <HI>future.</HI> But he &s;taid not there. And as his fate would have him, of the <HI>Sword</HI> fir&s;t; &s;o his <HI>de&s;tinie</HI> drew him on, to have a <HI>mixt reputation,</HI> with the <HI>Gown:</HI> For he was often called to <HI>Councell</HI> but never <HI>&s;worn.</HI> He was twice in <HI>Expeditions</HI> of Land-&s;ervice into <HI>Ireland,</HI> under <HI>Generall Norris and Grey,</HI> a Volun|teer in either, as al&s;o in the <HI>Low-Countries,</HI>
<PB N="75" REF="42">and a voiage at <HI>Sea</HI> ere he was known at <HI>Court.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;uch waies as the&s;e, were his <HI>Introductions</HI> (the be&s;t hopes of his ri&s;ing:) &s;ome <HI>Naturall parts</HI> he had, a good <HI>wit</HI> and <HI>judgement;</HI> but his be&s;t <HI>weapon</HI> was his <HI>tongue,</HI> which gave him repute to be lear|ned then; but after he improved to a great <HI>value,</HI> in his future <HI>trou|bles;</HI> the be&s;t <HI>School</HI> to a <HI>wi&s;e man.</HI></P>
<P>He had a quarrel with <HI>Grey</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> which being referred to a <HI>Councell of Warre,</HI> it had like to co&s;t him his <HI>life:</HI> But by reference came afterwards to repetition, at home before the <HI>Lords. Grey</HI> had the better cau&s;e, but <HI>Ralegh</HI> the advantage in pleading; who &s;o took them, e&s;pecially <HI>Lester,</HI> that the <HI>Queen</HI> was told the <HI>tale;</HI> and &s;omewhat more of him. And no &s;ooner he came to be known to <HI>Her,</HI> but <HI>She</HI> took him, to <HI>grace.</HI> In whom (as in other of the like
<PB N="78" REF="43">form) their alwaies meet opo&s;ites, Enemies of greater ranck, and they kept him under, &s;ometimes in, &s;ometimes out, which when it fell out to be &s;o, he would wi&s;e|ly decline him&s;elfe, out of the <HI>Court-rode.</HI> And then you found him not but by fame. In <HI>voyages</HI> to the <HI>West Indies, Gueana,</HI> New <HI>Plantations, Virginia,</HI> or in &s;ome <HI>Expeditions</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Spaniard:</HI> Again&s;t whom, his and other the like &s;ucce&s;&s;e, of <HI>Drake, Candi&s;h, Forli&s;her, Hawkins,</HI> with other <HI>I&s;land-voyages,</HI> neer home, con|firm'd <HI>Ralegh,</HI> a grand <HI>Oppo&s;er</HI> of the generall <HI>peace</HI> which <HI>King James brought</HI> in with him; and that <HI>brought Ralegh to his ruin.</HI></P>
<P>And for all the&s;e his good <HI>parts,</HI> he ro&s;e to no more, then <HI>Governor</HI> of <HI>Jer&s;ey, Lord Warden</HI> of the <HI>Stan|naries</HI> in the We&s;t, and <HI>Captain</HI> of the <HI>Guard</HI> to the <HI>Queens per&s;on;</HI> which la&s;t place, brought him to
<PB N="79" REF="43"><HI>e&s;teem</HI> in the <HI>Court,</HI> but not in the <HI>State</HI> at all.</P>
<P>Yet bu&s;ie he had been hereto|fore, to &s;peak his mind, of the <HI>Generall affaires;</HI> and therein he plea&s;ed his late <HI>Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e.</HI> For then his <HI>inclination</HI> went with the <HI>hu|mour</HI> of tho&s;e times of <HI>War;</HI> But now, his <HI>Councell</HI> came out of <HI>&s;ea|&s;on.</HI> For at the entrance of the <HI>King;</HI> He was pre&s;ented by <HI>Ra|legh</HI> with a <HI>Manu&s;cript</HI> of his own, again&s;t the <HI>peace</HI> with <HI>Spain.</HI> It was alwaies his table talk, to be|get the more e&s;teem, which took accordingly. And the way to make him the contrary, was the work of the <HI>Spani&s;h faction.</HI> Either to <HI>buy</HI> him out of that humour, or to <HI>abu&s;e</HI> him into a <HI>wor&s;e condition</HI> which was thus effected.</P>
<P>And indeed to mould this <HI>Trea|&s;on,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Trea|&s;on.</NOTE> there was a medly of divers <HI>conditions;</HI> but the <HI>contrivers</HI> were two <HI>Priests, Wat&s;on</HI> and <HI>Clarke</HI> and
<PB N="77" REF="44"><HI>count Arembergh, Emba&s;&s;edor Extra|ordinary</HI> for the <HI>Arch-Duke,</HI> who brought in the <HI>Lord Cobham;</HI> and he, his brother <HI>George Brooke;</HI> and he, <HI>Parham;</HI> and the&s;e, the <HI>Lord Grey of Wilton.</HI> Then came in Sir <HI>Walter Ralegh,</HI> the wi&s;e&s;t of them all; who dallied like the <HI>flie</HI> with the <HI>flame,</HI> till it con&s;umed him. Willing he was (it &s;eemes) to know it, and thought by his <HI>wit,</HI> to over-reach the <HI>confederates;</HI> whom he <HI>knew</HI> well enough; though none but <HI>Cobham,</HI> for a good while, <HI>dealt</HI> with him. And with him, <HI>Ralegh</HI> plaid <HI>fa&s;t and loo&s;e,</HI> till him&s;elfe was caught in the <HI>Gin.</HI></P>
<P>There was one <HI>Mathew De Law|rencie,</HI> here at <HI>London</HI> a <HI>Merchant</HI> of <HI>Antwerpe;</HI> with whom <HI>Cobham</HI> held <HI>Intelligence,</HI> for <HI>many years</HI> be|fore; &amp; for &s;ome <HI>rea&s;ons</HI> of State, connived at, by the late <HI>Queen</HI> and <HI>her Councel.</HI> This Man, was the
<PB N="78" REF="44"><HI>property,</HI> whom <HI>Arenbergh</HI> made u&s;e of, to <HI>Cobham;</HI> who now was much <HI>di&s;contented.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e 3. made the fir&s;t &s;tep to the <HI>contrivement:</HI> And it hath bin my <HI>jealou&s;ie,</HI> that <HI>Lawrency</HI> betrayed it, to this <HI>State:</HI> for I never, could be <HI>a&s;&s;ured,</HI> how it was <HI>di&s;covered;</HI> though I have bin often <HI>pre&s;ent with Sir Walter,</HI> in his <HI>Impri&s;onment,</HI> when he pri|vately <HI>di&s;cour&s;ed</HI> hereof.</P>
<P>But being ripe, they were &s;e|verally <HI>examined,</HI> &amp; <HI>re&s;irained;</HI> fir&s;t to their <HI>owne homes,</HI> not without <HI>watchful eyes,</HI> on either of them; then to <HI>Impri&s;onment,</HI> and la&s;tly, to their <HI>Tryals</HI> at <HI>Winchester;</HI> whi|ther the <HI>Terme</HI> removed, out of this evermore <HI>Pe&s;tilentiall City.</HI></P>
<P>And on the 17. <HI>November</HI> 1602.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His ar|raignment</NOTE> the day of <HI>Arraignment</HI> for <HI>Ralegh,</HI> and the <HI>Jury</HI> called to the <HI>Bar.</HI> A|gain&s;t who&s;e <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> he did not <HI>except;</HI> nor could: for they were
<PB N="80" REF="45">the mo&s;t able <HI>&s;ufficient,</HI> in <HI>Middle|&s;ex, (where the fact had its &s;cene.)</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hall <HI>name</HI> them. <HI>Sir Ralphe Conisby, Sir Thomas Fowler,</HI> Sir <HI>Ed|ward Peacock,</HI> Sir <HI>William Roe, Knights. Henry Godwin, Bobert Wood, Thomas Walker, Thomas Whitley, Thomas Highgate, Robert Kempton, John Chalke</HI> and <HI>Robert Bromley E&s;quries.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Indictment</HI> was managed, by the <HI>King's Atturney</HI> Sir <HI>Edward Cook, Serjeant Heal,</HI> and Ser. <HI>Philips;</HI> and drawne from the 9. Iun. 1603. The <HI>accu&s;ation</HI> was <HI>double,</HI> again&s;t the King, and the State. The <HI>per&s;o|nall,</HI> had 2. <HI>parts,</HI> fir&s;t again&s;t <HI>his life.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Secondly</HI> to di&s;able his <HI>title</HI> to this <HI>Crowne.</HI></P>
<P>To the <HI>fir&s;t,</HI> was read <HI>Brookes confe&s;&s;ion;</HI> That his <HI>Brother Cob|ham</HI> u&s;ed the&s;e &s;peeches, <HI>That it would never be well, till the King and his cubs were taken away,</HI> and
<PB N="81" REF="45">&s;aid, that he thought it proceeded from <HI>Ralegh.</HI></P>
<P>To this <HI>Ralegh</HI> an&s;wered, That <HI>Brookes</HI> was his <HI>enemy.</HI> It was replyed, but <HI>Cobham</HI> was ever your <HI>friend;</HI> and it would &s;eeme, a &s;trange <HI>malice</HI> in <HI>Brooks,</HI> to <HI>ruin</HI> his <HI>brother,</HI> to undo <HI>you.</HI></P>
<P>To the <HI>&s;econd part,</HI> there was produced a <HI>Booke,</HI> (which I have read) <HI>a defence of the Queens pro|ceedings, again&s;t</HI> Mary <HI>Queen of Scots;</HI> which <HI>Cobham</HI> confe&s;&s;ed <HI>Ralegh</HI> had delivered to him, and he to <HI>Brookes,</HI> and <HI>Brookes</HI> to <HI>Gray,</HI> upon <HI>Cobhams di&s;content.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ralegh</HI> acknowledged, that it contained matter of &s;candal to the <HI>Kings title.</HI> And that he had leave of Sir <HI>Robert Ceill,</HI> after his <HI>Fathers</HI> death, to &s;earch his <HI>&s;tudy,</HI> for <HI>Co&s;mographicall Manu&s;cripts,</HI> of the <HI>We&s;ts-Indies,</HI> and &s;o lighted on this <HI>Book.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sir Robert Cecill</HI> then pre&s;ent
<PB N="82" REF="46">upon the Bench acknowledged this lea&s;e: and &s;aid, <HI>He would then as really have trusted him, as any man;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir Ro|bert Ce|cils words.</NOTE> though &s;ince for &s;ome Infir|mities of Sir Walter the bonds of af|fection were crackt; and yet, re&s;er|ving his duty to the King, which may not be di&s;pen&s;ed withall, in this his Masters &s;ervice, he &s;wore by God, he loved him; and had a great conflict in him&s;elf, that &s;o compleat a mem|ber was fallen from this State.</HI></P>
<P>And this <HI>pa&s;&s;age, needs no &s;ooth|ing,</HI> to excu&s;e <HI>Cecill</HI> either for the <HI>Father</HI> or the <HI>Son.</HI> For I have heard <HI>Sir Robert Cecil,</HI> when he was <HI>Sali&s;|bury,</HI> &s;ay publickly at his own ta|ble, That he had intercepted and kept all the con&s;iderable <HI>Libells,</HI> again&s;t the late <HI>Queen</HI> and this <HI>King.</HI> But though <HI>Ju&s;tifiable</HI> in them as <HI>Councelours</HI> of <HI>State;</HI> yet it was a <HI>crime</HI> in <HI>Ralegh,</HI> who never was any. And this <HI>Book,</HI> as I re|member, was of <HI>one Bragg</HI> or <HI>Stagg</HI>
<PB N="83" REF="46">a <HI>Je&s;uite.</HI> But Sir <HI>Walter</HI> excu&s;ed it; That there was nothing acted thereby, to the <HI>Kings</HI> prejudice; for the <HI>Book</HI> was <HI>burnt.</HI></P>
<P>But to in&s;i&s;t hereupon; <HI>Cobham</HI> had confe&s;&s;ed, That <HI>Rale g</HI> had a|greed; That <HI>Cobham</HI> &s;hould treate with <HI>Aremburgh</HI> for 600. <HI>thou&s;and Crownes,</HI> to the intent, to advance the title of the Lady <HI>Arabella,</HI> to this <HI>Crown.</HI> That <HI>Cobham</HI> under pretence of travelling &s;hould pro|&s;ecute this <HI>de&s;igne,</HI> in the <HI>Lowe|countries, France</HI> and <HI>Spaine;</HI> and to carry 3. letters from her, to the <HI>Arch-Duke, Duke of Savoy,</HI> and to the <HI>King of Spaine,</HI> and to promi&s;e toleration of <HI>Religion,</HI> and her <HI>Marriage</HI> to be di&s;po&s;ed of, by them. That at his returne, he &s;hould meete <HI>Ralegh</HI> at <HI>Jer&s;ey</HI> the place of his <HI>command;</HI> and there a|gree, to di&s;po&s;e the <HI>money</HI> to <HI>di&s;|contents.</HI> And <HI>Ralegh</HI> &s;hould have 7. <HI>thou&s;and crownes</HI> from <HI>Arenberge,</HI> for him&s;elfe.</P>
<PB N="84" REF="47">
<P>And further confe&s;&s;ed, that Ralegh <HI>had In&s;tigated him to all the&s;e Trea&s;ons.</HI></P>
<P>And that <HI>Ralegh</HI> &s;hould &s;ay; that he thought the be&s;t way to trouble <HI>England,</HI> was to cau&s;e di|vi&s;ion in <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>To this, onely of <HI>Scotland,</HI> he an&s;wered &amp; confe&s;&s;ed the <HI>words;</HI> and that he had &s;o thought, the&s;e 20. yeares. <HI>It &s;eemes by the &s;e|quell &s;ince he was not in &s;taken.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Lawrencie</HI> confe&s;&s;ed that <HI>he</HI> and <HI>Cobham</HI> and <HI>Ralegh</HI> being together, he delivered a letter to <HI>Cobhane,</HI> from <HI>Arembergh;</HI> and pre&s;ently <HI>Ralegh</HI> went with <HI>Cobham</HI> in pri|vate, to conferre thereof.</P>
<P>To all the&s;e <HI>confe&s;&s;ions, Ralegh</HI> craved that <HI>Cobham</HI> might ap|peare, to accu&s;e him <HI>face to face.</HI></P>
<P>I may not omit one pa&s;&s;age acted <HI>heretofore,</HI> which comes in properly <HI>here</HI> to be con&s;idered. When the <HI>confederates</HI> had &s;uffer|ed
<PB N="85" REF="47">under &s;ome <HI>Examinations,</HI> and were <HI>re&s;trained</HI> to their &s;everal hou&s;es: And <HI>Ralegh</HI> knew well that <HI>Lawreney</HI> was then <HI>&s;u&s;pected,</HI> but not <HI>examined;</HI> then did <HI>Ralegh</HI> di&s;cover in a letter to Sir <HI>Robert Cecil,</HI> where <HI>Cobham</HI> was with <HI>Lawrency;</HI> and that then was the time, to <HI>apprehend Lawrency,</HI> and &s;o to intercept their <HI>Intelli|gence,</HI> ere matters were ripe.</P>
<P>What <HI>Ralegh's</HI> de&s;igne was here|in, I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e, my conceipt is very blunt. But this u&s;e was made of it to <HI>Raleghs ruine.</HI> For after that <HI>Cobham,</HI> had denied much of the former <HI>&s;tuffe,</HI> upon his fir&s;t <HI>Examinations;</HI> this letter was &s;hewed <HI>him,</HI> under <HI>Ralegh's</HI> hand, &amp; upon mature &amp; often delibera|tion, to be a&s;&s;ured, that it was his hand: Then <HI>Cobham</HI> in an <HI>Exta&s;ie,</HI> calling <HI>Ralegh Villain, Traitor;</HI> deli|vered his po&s;itive <HI>Accu&s;ation</HI> of <HI>Ralegh,</HI> as afore&s;aid: and added,
<PB N="86" REF="48">That <HI>Ralegh,</HI> after his fir&s;t <HI>Exa|minations,</HI> before the <HI>Lords,</HI> had writ to <HI>Cobham, that although he had bin examined of many things, yet that he had cleered</HI> Cobham <HI>of all, when (as the Lords prote&s;ted)</HI> he had not at all, been <HI>examined</HI> concerning <HI>Cobham.</HI> And there|by this was inferred by the <HI>Coun|cell</HI>) to confirm <HI>Cobham</HI> to deny all, when he &s;hould be <HI>examined;</HI> Sir <HI>Walter</HI> &s;aid, That <HI>Cobham</HI> had not <HI>&s;igned</HI> his <HI>accu&s;ation,</HI> and that he was at the wor&s;t but <HI>&s;ingularis Te&s;tis.</HI> To which my Lord <HI>Chief Justice</HI> gave it for <HI>law,</HI> that it was not nece&s;&s;ary, to <HI>&s;igne,</HI> nor to have more then <HI>One witne&s;&s;e:</HI> after much pleading herein; and <HI>Ra|legh</HI> alledging <HI>law and Scripture,</HI> for not admitting a <HI>&s;ingle witne&s;&s;e,</HI> to condemn one, yet the <HI>Court</HI> was &s;atisfyed therein, by the <HI>Judges</HI> to the contrary.</P>
<P><HI>Ralegh</HI> &s;aid, Then prove it by
<PB N="87" REF="48"><HI>One witne&s;&s;e face to face, and I will confe&s;&s;e my &s;elf guilty:</HI> but the <HI>Judges</HI> were of opinion, that it was not to be permitted by law: yet <HI>Ra|legh</HI> in&s;i&s;ted hereupon, with many <HI>stories</HI> which took up <HI>much time:</HI> Then being asked, if he would be <HI>concluded</HI> thereby if <HI>Cobham</HI> would now ju&s;tify his <HI>accu&s;ation, under his</HI> hand. To this it may be ob&s;erved that <HI>Ralegh</HI> made no an&s;wer at all but con&s;ented that the <HI>Jury</HI> &s;hould go together.</P>
<P>Then was produced <HI>Cobham's</HI> letter to the Lords, writ but the day before, in effect thus.</P>
<P><HI>That Sir Walter, had writ a letter to him wrapt in an apple, and ca&s;t in at his window ten daies &s;ince, in the Tower, to intreate him for God's &s;ake to write to him, under his own hand, that he had wronged him in his accu&s;atious: and odvi&s;ed him to be con&s;tant in denialls, rather then to appeale to the King.</HI> And now
<PB N="88" REF="49">(writes <HI>Cobham</HI>) <HI>It is no time to di&s;&s;emble; and therefore prote&s;ted before God and his Angells, that all and every part of his accu&s;ation, of Sir</HI> Walter Ralegh, <HI>was &s;ubstvntially true.</HI> And added; <HI>That</HI> Ralegh <HI>had dealt with him, &s;ince the King's comming to procure him a pen&s;ion from</HI> Spain, <HI>for Intelligence &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Then <HI>Ralegh,</HI> rayling again&s;t <HI>Cobham,</HI> confe&s;&s;ed this letter was in an <HI>Apple,</HI> to which <HI>Cobham</HI> re|turned an an&s;wer; which <HI>Ralegh</HI> produced, and de&s;ired that it might be read. But the <HI>Atturney</HI> oppo&s;ed Sir <HI>Robert Cecil's</HI> con&s;ent thereto. To whom <HI>Cecil</HI> replied: <HI>Sir, you are more preremptory then honest, come you hither to direct us?</HI> And &s;o read it. Which in effect was a <HI>confe&s;&s;ion that he had wronged Sir Walter, and that he was Innocent.</HI> This bore date 10. dayes before. And here <HI>Ralegh</HI> confe&s;&s;ed, That <HI>Cobham</HI> had of|fered
<PB N="89" REF="49">to him a <HI>Pen&s;ion,</HI> from <HI>Spain,</HI> to the effect before confe&s;&s;ed: And that he had <HI>concealed</HI> it, as loath to ruine <HI>Cobham.</HI></P>
<P>Then the <HI>Jury</HI> went out, and re|turned in halfe an houre, with their <HI>Verdict; Guilty.</HI> So was <HI>Sen|tence,</HI> as in <HI>Ca&s;e of Trea&s;on.</HI> And he was returned, to the <HI>Tower</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> and there lay upon <HI>Re|prieve</HI> 2. yeares, and 3. years af|ter was <HI>executed</HI> in <HI>October</HI> 1618.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;erva|tions up|on this Tryall.</NOTE></P>
<P>And becau&s;e this <HI>Second Remarke</HI> in the Pamphleter and this <HI>Prefa|cer,</HI> &s;tickes in their <HI>&s;tomacks,</HI> with which they indeavour to <HI>choke</HI> the <HI>Readers;</HI> I have there&s;ore bin the more <HI>prolix;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pam p. 35.</NOTE> that thereby the whole world may judge, with the <HI>Jury,</HI> of his <HI>guilt</HI> or <HI>Innocency. Vide</HI> page 35.</P>
<P><HI>Ralegh's</HI> ri&s;e of preferment, was occa&s;ioned upon a conte&s;t with the <HI>Lord Grey</HI> in the <HI>Queenes time,</HI> which they were to plead <HI>face to
<PB N="90" REF="50">face:</HI> Where indeed, but not in <HI>truth,</HI> Sir <HI>Walter</HI> had the better by the <HI>tongue,</HI> telling his tale to ad|vantage; which tooke the Queen, who tooke him from that in&s;tant into favour as before remembred. Belike he expected the &s;ame pro|vidence at this time, when &s;o oft he de&s;ired to plead <HI>face to face,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 35.</NOTE> with <HI>Cobham.</HI></P>
<P>How could <HI>Wade</HI> the <HI>Lieutenant</HI> of the <HI>Tower</HI> (as is &s;urmized) <HI>tamper with</HI> Cobham, <HI>to write his name to a blanck, to which</HI> Wade <HI>framed the accu&s;ation again&s;t</HI> Ra|legh. When it appeares, <HI>Cobham</HI> never <HI>&s;igned at all,</HI> to his <HI>Exami|nations;</HI> which therefore was &s;o much in&s;i&s;ted upon, at his <HI>tryall,</HI> for his advantage.</P>
<P><HI>But in truth; be&s;ides the confe&s;&s;ion of</HI> Cobham, <HI>the fatal evidence was</HI> Cobham's <HI>own voluntary last letter of accu&s;ation, or confe&s;&s;ion over night, writ every whit with his own hand.</HI></P>
<PB N="91" REF="50">
<P>The <HI>King</HI> commanded (as the COURT was a&s;&s;ured at the triall) that upon any <HI>examination,</HI> there &s;hould none be rackt, which made Captaine <HI>Kemi&s;h</HI> (who was the <HI>In&s;trument</HI> of me&s;&s;ages and letters betweene <HI>Ralegh</HI> and <HI>Cob|ham</HI>) often to prote&s;t, in my hear|ing, That in truth, he was threat|ned with the <HI>Rack,</HI> which was &s;hewed to him, but had he ta&s;ted therof, he &s;aid, that he &s;hould have bin inforced, to tell an odd tale, <HI>meaning of di&s;covery.</HI></P>
<P>Sr. <HI>Walter</HI> was admitted a <HI>chair, pen, Inck</HI> and <HI>paper</HI> for his <HI>memory.</HI> And truly he rather ty<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed the <HI>Court and Jury,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Repree<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">. ed.</NOTE> with <HI>Impertinences.</HI></P>
<P>And thus was Sr. <HI>Walter Ralegh</HI> reprieved to the <HI>Tower,</HI> and many years of <HI>Impri&s;onment</HI> in that li|berty, till his future <HI>merits,</HI> and fame of <HI>learning,</HI> begat many to <HI>pitty</HI> his <HI>&s;ufferings;</HI> So that at la&s;t, by meanes of the <HI>French Emba&s;&s;a|dour,</HI> with others of <HI>our own Lords,</HI>
<PB N="92" REF="51">he had freedome, to <HI>repair</HI> for his health, to his <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> at <HI>Saint James,</HI> and after a year or two, he pro|cured a Commi&s;&s;ion, to make a <HI>Voyage</HI> to <HI>Gueana</HI> in the <HI>We&s;t-Indies</HI> for the return of <HI>Gold Oare or Mine.</HI> But was expre&s;ly limitted, not to <HI>trench</HI> upon the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> to the breach of <HI>Peace.</HI></P>
<P>His landing was at St. <HI>Tomaz,</HI> a <HI>Town</HI> of the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> upon the opening of the <HI>Great River Oreno|que,</HI> in <HI>America.</HI> Where he kil|led many of them, and there <HI>lo&s;t</HI> his elde&s;t &s;on <HI>Walter,</HI> under the <HI>Walls.</HI> Then &s;ends he Captain <HI>Kemi&s;h,</HI> his old Servant, <HI>(upon who&s;e confidence it appears this voy|age was re&s;olved)</HI> up this River, to the <HI>foot</HI> of a <HI>Mountain,</HI> where here|tofore, and al&s;o during <HI>Ralegh's Impri&s;onment,</HI> he had been &s;ent, and returned, with wonderfull <HI>Remarks</HI> of a rich <HI>Mine,</HI> or rather <HI>Madre-del-Ore.</HI> But now comes
<PB N="93" REF="51">from thence. And all the account came to no more, but that the <HI>Mountain</HI> was fled away, he could <HI>not find it.</HI></P>
<P>Upon this, the whole <HI>&s;leet</HI> 4. or 5. &s;aile, <HI>mutiny</HI> forces him home again as a <HI>Pri&s;oner:</HI> in the return, <HI>Kemi&s;h</HI> kills him&s;elf, in his own <HI>Cabin,</HI> &amp; &s;o no tales could be <HI>told.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ralegh's &s;hips</HI> were fir&s;t, ca&s;t up|on the &s;outh of <HI>Ireland:</HI> then they land in the We&s;t of <HI>England;</HI> where warrants were ready to apprehend him <HI>Pri&s;oner</HI> to the <HI>Tower.</HI> In the <HI>West,</HI> he is di&s;co|vered to deal with a <HI>French Ma&s;ter</HI> of a &s;hip, to &s;teal <HI>away</HI> into <HI>France.</HI> Then in his journy to <HI>London,</HI> he combines, with a <HI>French Mounte|banck,</HI> who a&s;&s;i&s;ted him with <HI>In|gredients,</HI> (which he de&s;ired) that would without danger of life, bring him to breake forth into <HI>Blanes:</HI> Purpo&s;ely done, by this meanes to get <HI>longer time,</HI> to work
<PB N="94" REF="52"><HI>opportunities</HI> to &s;ave <HI>his life;</HI> which he knew he had &s;o <HI>deeply forfeited.</HI></P>
<P>Then being delivered into the <HI>hands</HI> of Sir <HI>John Stukely, Lieute|nant</HI> of the <HI>Tower</HI> he deales with him for a &s;um of <HI>Money,</HI> part in hand being paid, to join with him in <HI>E&s;capeboth</HI> of them, into <HI>France. Stukely</HI> yields to all, and accom|panies him by water, in the way to <HI>Grave&s;end;</HI> where <HI>(by de&s;igne of Stukelie's treachery, in that, and &s;o it pro&s;pered with him, being hang'd afterwards, for clipping of Gold)</HI> they were &s;eized and brought back to the <HI>Tower.</HI> From whence, very &s;peedily, <HI>Ralegh</HI> was com|manded to the King's-Bench-bar at <HI>Westmin&s;ter,</HI> before the <HI>Lord chief Ju&s;tice Mountegue;</HI> where the <HI>Records</HI> of his former <HI>Sentence</HI> only were read; &amp; hedemanded, why <HI>Execution &s;hould</HI> not be done?</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Walter</HI> acknowledged that <HI>Sentence,</HI> and the <HI>King's</HI> Mercy for
<PB N="95" REF="52">his life thus long: And that he hoped, &s;eeing he had bin imploy|ed by Commi&s;&s;ion, with power of life and death, over the King's <HI>Lie ge People,</HI> it did make void that former &s;entence.</P>
<P>He was told to the <HI>contrary,</HI> and that his time of <HI>Execution</HI> was the next morning: and &s;o the <HI>Sheriff</HI> of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> took him into cu&s;to|dy to the <HI>Gate-Hou&s;e,</HI> and to <HI>Exe|cution</HI> the next day, in the old <HI>Palace yard,</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter;</HI> where he had the favor of the <HI>Ax.</HI> which he &s;aid (&s;milingly touching it) was a &s;harp <HI>Medioine,</HI> but a true <HI>Phy&s;itian,</HI> to cure all di&s;ea&s;es: and &s;o it proved to him, at this very <HI>time</HI> in his <HI>Ague. &s;it.</HI></P>
<P>At his death, him&s;elfe endea|voured; to <HI>cleere</HI> &s;ome <HI>points,</HI> (which it &s;eemes our <HI>Pamphleter</HI> knew not of otherwi&s;e he would have done it for him.)</P>
<P>To have had often plots with
<PB N="96" REF="53"><HI>France,</HI> which he denied, but confe&s;&s;ed, that he had bin &s;olici|ted thence; and indeavoured to <HI>e&s;cape</HI> thither at twice. That the <HI>French Agent,</HI> came oft to him, with <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> from that <HI>King</HI> to him; But he returned the <HI>Com|mi&s;&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P>That he &s;hould &s;peake di&s;loy|ally of the King: his accu&s;er, he &s;aid, was a ba&s;e runagate, <HI>French|man,</HI> and perfideous, whom he tru&s;ted; being &s;worne to &s;ecrecie, which he betrayed; much he &s;aid in the&s;e particulars, which he did not deny, but <HI>traver&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P>So then there were, other bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e of charge, to which he was liable to a new <HI>Tryall.</HI> But the <HI>prudence</HI> of the King <HI>would</HI> not ha|zard further proceedings, having a &s;ufficient upon the <HI>old &s;core.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 38.</NOTE> And now for that additional tale of the <HI>Pamphleter</HI> concerning Sir <HI>Walters</HI> recovery of <HI>Queen Anne; for which
<PB N="97" REF="53">he begg'd the boone, viz. for the Ex|amination of the Lord</HI> Cobham <HI>by</HI> 4. <HI>Earles and</HI> 2. <HI>Councelors.</HI></P>
<P>I never <HI>heard</HI> nor <HI>read</HI> thereof before, nor can beleeve it. For this I know by &s;everall <HI>relations</HI> of tho&s;e great <HI>Ladies</HI> of her <HI>Bedcham|ber;</HI> and of her <HI>Chirurgians</HI> and <HI>Phy&s;itians</HI> now living, <HI>That She was never cured of her di&s;ea&s;e, but by death,</HI> that ends all <HI>Maladies.</HI> It followes in the <HI>Pamphlet,</HI> That after he hath ranted his Stories of <HI>Man&s;ell</HI> and <HI>Mon&s;on,</HI> and of the peace, ratifyed and &s;worne; He makes <HI>Cecill</HI> the chief <HI>Ringleader</HI> of the King by the <HI>No&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>But to &s;ay truth, The King was alwaies brought up to his ea&s;e, though the fore-part of his <HI>Raigne</HI> in <HI>Scotland,</HI> proved <HI>trouble&s;ome</HI> enough to his Councell. And therefore now, he was to follow his affaires, in peace, and his own <HI>Inclination,</HI> in a <HI>Sportfull</HI> life. The
<PB N="98" REF="54">rather; <HI>He</HI> being much Subject to <HI>unwildines or weaknes</HI> in his <HI>Limbs,</HI> and which becau&s;e of his extream di&s;-affection to <HI>Phy&s;ick,</HI> he was ad|vi&s;ed to the be&s;t <HI>Aire,</HI> mo&s;t <HI>agreable to the Nature of Scotland, fre&s;h</HI> and <HI>bleak:</HI> and for that end, he cho&s;e <HI>Roy&s;tan,</HI> and <HI>Newmarket.</HI></P>
<P>Without, that Scandalous In|timation, <HI>of leaving his Queen, without any love or liking.</HI></P>
<P>We are forced to fall upon <HI>One Lake,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir Tho. Lake. Pamp. 54.</NOTE> whom we find to be that learned Gentleman Sir <HI>Thomas Lake,</HI> apted in his youth with ru|diments of the <HI>Book,</HI> to attend Sir <HI>Francis Wal&s;ingham</HI> (that &s;ub|tile <HI>Secretary of State</HI> to Queen <HI>E|lizebeth</HI>) as <HI>Amanuen&s;is</HI> to him: And after good experience of his <HI>de&s;arts,</HI> he was recommended to the <HI>Queen,</HI> and read to her <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Latine.</HI> In which tongues, &s;he would &s;ay, that he <HI>&s;urpa&s;&s;ed</HI> her <HI>Secretaries,</HI> and was &s;o im|ployed
<PB N="99" REF="54">to her death; for he was reading to her, when the COUNTESSE <HI>of</HI> WAR|WICK <HI>told him, that the Queen was departed.</HI></P>
<P>But not long before;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">&amp; merits</NOTE> &s;he recei|ved him <HI>Clarke</HI> of her <HI>Signet.</HI> And he was cho&s;en, by this State in that place to attend the <HI>King</HI> from BARWICK. And &s;o &s;ufficient he was, that the <HI>King</HI> made u&s;e of his pre&s;ent <HI>&s;er|vice,</HI> in &s;ome <HI>French affaires,</HI> af|ter he came into <HI>England.</HI> Which indeed <HI>Secretary Cecil</HI> had rea&s;on to re&s;ent, as too much trenching on <HI>his Office.</HI> And therefore cra|ved leave of the <HI>King,</HI> that he might not attend beyond his <HI>Moneth</HI> to prejudice the other Clarks Which was excu&s;ed, and he kept &s;till at Court.</P>
<P>The&s;e <HI>Sufficiencies</HI> of his, enabled him in tho&s;e times of gaining, with much repute, and direct
<PB N="100" REF="55">hone&s;ty, to purcha&s;e large <HI>po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ions.</HI></P>
<P>After <HI>Ccils</HI> death, the <HI>Place</HI> of <HI>Secretary,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">as &s;ecreta|ry.</NOTE> was joyned in two <HI>Prin|cipals.</HI> And not long after he was one of them, &amp; &s;o continued, with <HI>Honourably esteem</HI> of all men; un|til that <HI>Malice</HI> and <HI>Revenge,</HI> two violent <HI>pa&s;&s;ions,</HI> over-ruling the <HI>Weaker Sexe,</HI> concerning his <HI>wife</HI> and <HI>daughter,</HI> involved him into their <HI>quarrel,</HI> the chiefe and onely cau&s;e of his <HI>ruine.</HI> He had by his <HI>Wife,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His In|gagement with his wife and daughter.</NOTE> &s;ons and daughters. His <HI>elde&s;t</HI> married unto the <HI>Lord Ba|ron Ro&s;&s;e</HI> (in right of a <HI>Grand-mo|ther</HI>) the &s;on of <HI>Thomas Earle of Ex|eter</HI> by a former venter. And up|on the credit of Sir <HI>Thomas Lake,</HI> he was &s;ent <HI>Emba&s;&s;adour Extraor|dinary into Spaine,</HI> in a very <HI>gal|lant Equipage,</HI> with &s;ome hopes of his own, to continue <HI>Leiger,</HI> to &s;ave charges of tran&s;mitting any other.</P>
<PB N="101" REF="55">
<P>In his ab&s;ence there fell out an extreame <HI>deadly</HI> fewd (tis no matter for what) betweene the <HI>Lady Lake</HI> and the <HI>Counte&s;&s;e of Ex|eter.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Again&s;t the Coun|te&s;&s;e of Exeter.</NOTE> A youthful widow &s;he had bin and <HI>vertuous;</HI> and &s;o became <HI>Bedfellow</HI> to this <HI>aged, gowty, di&s;ea&s;|ed</HI> but <HI>noble Earle.</HI> And, that <HI>preferment</HI> had made her &s;ubject to <HI>Envy</HI> and <HI>Malice.</HI></P>
<P>Home comes the <HI>Lord Ro&s;&s;e</HI> from his Emba&s;&s;y, when being fallen into &s;ome neglect of his <HI>wife and his kindred;</HI> I conceive, upon refu&s;al of an increa&s;e of <HI>al|lowance</HI> to her <HI>&s;ettlement</HI> of <HI>joyn|ture,</HI> which was promi&s;ed to be compleated at his returne.</P>
<P>Not long he &s;taies in <HI>England,</HI> but away he gets into Italy, turnes a profe&s;&s;ed <HI>Romane Catho|lick,</HI> being cou&s;ened into that <HI>Re|ligion,</HI> by his publick <HI>confident, Gondamore.</HI></P>
<P>In this his la&s;t ab&s;ence (<HI>never</HI>
<PB N="102" REF="56">to <HI>returne</HI>) the <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>daugh|ter,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">the accu|&s;ation.</NOTE> accu&s;e the <HI>Counte&s;&s;e,</HI> of for|mer <HI>Incontinencie</HI> with the Lord <HI>Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> whil&s;t he was here, and that therefore, upon his <HI>wives di&s;cove|ry,</HI> he was fled from hence, and from her <HI>Marriage. Bed,</HI> with o|ther devi&s;ed <HI>Calumnies</HI> by &s;eve|ral de&s;ignes and contrivements, to have <HI>poi&s;oned</HI> the <HI>Mother and daughter.</HI></P>
<P>This quarrel, was &s;oone bla|zon'd at Court, to the <HI>King's eare,</HI> who as privately as could be, &s;ingly, <HI>examines</HI> each party. The <HI>Counte&s;&s;e,</HI> with teares and Impre|cations, profe&s;&s;eth her <HI>Innocency,</HI> which to oppo&s;e the <HI>Mother Lake and her daughter,</HI> counterfeit her hand, to a whole &s;heet of paper; wherein they make the <HI>Counte&s;&s;e,</HI> with much <HI>contrition,</HI> to <HI>acknow|ledge</HI> her &s;elfe <HI>guilty,</HI> craves par|don for <HI>attempting</HI> to <HI>poi&s;on</HI>them, &amp; de&s;ires <HI>friend&s;lsip</HI> with them all.</P>
<PB N="103" REF="56">
<P>The <HI>King</HI> gets &s;ight of this, as in favour to them, and demands, the <HI>place, time,</HI> and <HI>occa&s;ion,</HI> when this &s;hould be writ. They tell him, that all the parties met, in a vi&s;it at <HI>Wimbleton, (the hou&s;e of the Lord of Exeter)</HI> where, in di&s;pute of their <HI>differences,</HI> &s;he <HI>confe&s;&s;es</HI> her guilt of attempting their poi&s;on. And being de&s;i|rous of ab&s;olution and friend|&s;hip, (being required thereto) con&s;ents, to &s;et down all <HI>Circum|&s;tances</HI> therein, under her own <HI>hand,</HI> which pre&s;ently &s;he writ, at the <HI>Window,</HI> in the upper end of the great <HI>Chamber,</HI> at <HI>Whimble|ton,</HI> in pre&s;ence of the <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Daughter,</HI> the <HI>Lord Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> and one <HI>Diego</HI> a <HI>Spaniard</HI> his confiding <HI>Servant.</HI> But now they being gone, &amp; at <HI>Rome,</HI> the King forth|with &s;ends Mr. <HI>Dendy</HI> (one of his <HI>Serjeants</HI> at <HI>Armes</HI> &s;ometime a dome&s;tick of the <HI>Earl of Exeters,</HI>
<PB N="104" REF="57">an <HI>honest</HI> and worthy <HI>Gentleman</HI>) po&s;t to <HI>Rome,</HI> who &s;peedily re|turnes with <HI>Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Diego's hand,</HI> and other te&s;timonialls, confirm|ing, That all the &s;aid <HI>accu&s;ation,</HI> and <HI>confe&s;&s;ion, Su&s;pitions</HI> and <HI>pa|pers,</HI> concerning the <HI>Counte&s;&s;e,</HI> were notorious <HI>fal&s;e</HI> and <HI>Scanda|lous,</HI> and confirmes it by recei|ving the <HI>Hoa&s;t,</HI> in a&s;&s;urance of her <HI>Honour</HI> and his <HI>Innocency.</HI> The <HI>King</HI> well &s;atisfyed, &s;ends to the <HI>Counte&s;&s;e friends and tru&s;ties,</HI> for her <HI>Jointure</HI> and <HI>E&s;tate;</HI> who com|paring many of her <HI>letters,</HI> with this writing, do conclude it <HI>coun|terfeit.</HI></P>
<P>Then, <HI>He</HI> tells the <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Daughter,</HI> that this writing, being denied by her, and their te&s;timo|nies being parties, would not pre|vaile, with any belief. But any other <HI>Additionall Witne&s;&s;e,</HI> would give it &s;ufficient credit. To which they a&s;&s;ure <HI>him,</HI> That one <HI>Sarah Swarton,</HI> their <HI>Chambere&s;&s;e</HI> &s;tood
<PB N="105" REF="57">behind the hanging, at the en|trance of the <HI>Room,</HI> and heard the <HI>Counte&s;&s;e</HI> reade over, what &s;he had <HI>writ:</HI> and her al&s;o they procure, to <HI>&s;wear</HI> unto this, <HI>before</HI> the <HI>King.</HI></P>
<P>To make further <HI>tryal,</HI> the <HI>King</HI> in a hunting journy, at <HI>New Park</HI> neer <HI>Wimbleton,</HI> gallops thither, viewes the <HI>Room;</HI> ob&s;erving the great di&s;tance of the <HI>Window,</HI> from the lower end of the Room, and placing him&s;elf, behind the <HI>hanging,</HI> and &s;o other <HI>Lords</HI> in turn; they could not <HI>hear</HI> one <HI>&s;peak a loud,</HI> from the <HI>window.</HI></P>
<P>Then the <HI>Hou&s;e-Keeper</HI> was call'd, who prote&s;ted tho&s;e hangings had con&s;tantly furni&s;ht that <HI>room,</HI> for 20. years; which the <HI>King</HI> ob|&s;erved, to be two foot <HI>&s;hort</HI> of the <HI>ground,</HI> and might di&s;cover the <HI>woman,</HI> if hidden behind them. I may pre&s;ent al&s;o, the King &s;aying, <HI>Oaths cannot confound my &s;ight.</HI></P>
<P>Be&s;ides all this, the <HI>Mother</HI> and
<PB N="106" REF="58"><HI>Daughter,</HI> counterfeit another writing, a <HI>Confe&s;&s;ion</HI> of one <HI>Luke Hutton,</HI> acknowledging for 40. l. annuity, the <HI>Counte&s;&s;e</HI> hired him to poi&s;on them; which <HI>Man,</HI> with wonderful providence, was <HI>found</HI> out privately; and denies it to the <HI>King.</HI></P>
<P>And thus prepared, the <HI>King</HI> &s;ends for Sr. <HI>Thomas Lake,</HI> whom in truth he very much valued; tells him, the danger to imbark him&s;elf, in this quarrel; advi&s;ing him, to leave them to the <HI>law,</HI> be|ing now ready for the <HI>Star-cham|ber.</HI> He humbly thanked his Ma|je&s;tie, <HI>but could not refu&s;e: to be a Father and a Husband,</HI> and &s;o puts his <HI>Name</HI> with theirs,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">comes to Hearing in Stur; chamber.</NOTE> in a <HI>cro&s;&s;e Bill.</HI> Which at the hearing, took up 5. &s;everal daies, the <HI>King</HI> &s;it|ting in <HI>Judgement.</HI> But the for|mer te&s;timonies, and &s;ome private <HI>confe&s;&s;ions,</HI> of the <HI>Lady Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Sarah Wharton;</HI> which the King
<PB N="107" REF="58">kept in private, from publick proceedings, made the cau&s;e, for &s;ome of the daies of triall, appear|ed doubtful to the Court, untill the <HI>King's</HI> di&s;covery, which con|cluded the <HI>Sentence;</HI> and was pro|nounced upon &s;everall <HI>Cen&s;ures.</HI> Sr. <HI>Thomas Lake</HI> and his <HI>Lady</HI> fined 10000. l. <HI>to the King; five thou&s;and pounds to the Counte&s;&s;e;</HI> 50. l. <HI>to</HI> Hutton, Sara Wharton <HI>to be whipt, at a Carts taile, about the &s;treets, and to do penance at Saint</HI> Martin's Church; The <HI>Lady Ro&s;&s;e</HI> for confe&s;&s;ing the truth and plot in the mid&s;t of the triall, was <HI>par|doned by the Major Voices, from pe|nall Sentence.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">and &s;en|tenced.</NOTE></P>
<P>The King, I remember, compa|red their <HI>crimes,</HI> to the fir&s;t plot of the fir&s;t <HI>&s;in in Paradi&s;e: the Lady Lake</HI> to the <HI>Serpent,</HI> her <HI>daughter</HI> unto <HI>Eve,</HI> &amp; Sir <HI>Thomas</HI> to poor <HI>A|dam;</HI> whom he thought in his <HI>con|&s;cience,</HI> that his <HI>love to</HI> his <HI>wife</HI> had
<PB N="108" REF="59">beguiled him. I am &s;ure, he paid for all, which as he told me, co&s;t him <HI>thirty thou&s;and pounds;</HI> and the lo&s;&s;e of his <HI>Ma&s;ters</HI> favour, and offices of <HI>gaine</HI> and <HI>honour;</HI> but truly with much pitty and com|pa&s;&s;ion of the Court.</P>
<P>Our <HI>Pamphleter.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 57. concern|ing the Scots.</NOTE> enters upon the <HI>Scots,</HI> pa. 57. and would cou&s;en us, to credit their <HI>Story,</HI> where he begins a divi&s;ion, between the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and them at Court, &amp; goes &s;moothly on, to the middle of the&s;e <HI>la&s;t times,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 58.</NOTE> when it &s;eemes he writ this: And, as he &s;aies, <HI>&s;aw all our happine&s;&s;e derivative, from their favours, by their own valour, and bravery of &s;pirit.</HI> Good <HI>Man!</HI> He <HI>beleeves,</HI> what he thought he <HI>&s;aw;</HI> But wanting the eye of faith to for&s;ee this great <HI>Alteration,</HI> which he lived not to <HI>find;</HI> but <HI>We,</HI> now to <HI>feele:</HI> Our late <HI>gude Presbyterian Brethren, turne fal&s;e Loones, and become the traiterous
<PB N="109" REF="59">Rebells to that reformation, which not long ago they profe&s;&s;ed, &amp; he, &amp; others beleeved, and &s;o di&s;united the union of all our quiet, and happines.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 60. Scandal. upon E. of Salis|bury.</NOTE></P>
<P>He tells us of a trick, that the <HI>Earle of Salisbury</HI> had, to com|pound with the <HI>Scots Courtiers,</HI> for their <HI>Books</HI> of <HI>Fee-farmes,</HI> which they bought at 100. l. <HI>per annum</HI> for a <HI>thou&s;and pound.</HI> Then would he fill up the&s;e <HI>bookes</HI> with prime land, worth 20. <HI>thou&s;and pounds.</HI></P>
<P>A pretty trick indeed to make him&s;elfe Lord <HI>Para-Mount,</HI> of the be&s;t lands in <HI>England;</HI> but it had bin a gainful <HI>trade</HI> of our <HI>Author,</HI> to have turn'd <HI>Informer</HI> to the <HI>State,</HI> in the <HI>particulars</HI> of the&s;e <HI>Tricks;</HI> and &s;o the <HI>return</HI> of the&s;e <HI>lands</HI> &s;o <HI>deceitfully got, would prove</HI> now as <HI>hard a bargain to his &s;on</HI> (as the <HI>Lord-like purcha&s;ers</HI> of <HI>Deben|turs have done</HI> latly) &amp; to his &s;on, that may &s;ucceed him.</P>
<PB N="110" REF="60">
<P><HI>We are come to the con&s;ideration of the third</HI> Remark <HI>in the</HI> Preface;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Remar. 3.</NOTE>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 61. Robert Carre and Sir Tho. Overbury.</NOTE> <HI>and &s;o we fall into the</HI> Hi&s;tory <HI>of</HI> Rob. Car, <HI>after</HI> E. <HI>of</HI> Summer&s;et, <HI>and intermixed with that of Sir</HI> Thomas Overbury.</P>
<P><HI>Ro. Car,</HI> was a <HI>Scotti&s;hman,</HI> of no eminent <HI>birth,</HI> but a <HI>Gent.</HI> and had bin a <HI>Page</HI> of <HI>honor,</HI> to the King in <HI>Scotland.</HI> And in <HI>truth,</HI> he became the fir&s;t <HI>Favorite</HI> that we find; that is, <HI>one whom</HI> the <HI>Ki. fancied, meerly</HI> for his <HI>fa&s;hion:</HI> upon no <HI>other &s;core,</HI> nor <HI>plot</HI> of <HI>de&s;ign.</HI> His <HI>Confident,</HI> was <HI>one</HI> Sr. <HI>Tho. Overbury,</HI> a <HI>man</HI> of <HI>good parts, whom our Author,</HI> hath well <HI>characterized;</HI> and his <HI>policy,</HI> was to <HI>plea&s;e</HI> the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> by <HI>intertaining</HI> them his <HI>Domestiques.</HI></P>
<P>There was <HI>amongst other per&s;ons</HI> of <HI>honor</HI> &amp; <HI>quality</HI> in <HI>Court, a young L.</HI> of <HI>great birth and beauty, Fra.</HI> the <HI>daughter</HI> of <HI>Tho. Howard,</HI> then E. of <HI>Suffolk,</HI> &amp; L. <HI>Trea&s;urer</HI> of <HI>Eng.</HI> mar|ried in under-<HI>age,</HI> unto the <HI>late</HI> and <HI>la&s;t</HI> E. of <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI></P>
<PB N="111" REF="60">
<P>Of him, <HI>co~mon fame</HI> had an <HI>opinion (grounded upon his own &s;u&s;pition)</HI> of his <HI>in&s;ufficiency,</HI> to <HI>content</HI> a <HI>wife.</HI> And the <HI>effects of this Narration,</HI> with the <HI>&s;equell</HI> of <HI>his life and con|ver&s;ation</HI> with <HI>his &s;econd wife,</HI> is &s;o <HI>notorious,</HI> as <HI>might &s;pare me and the Reader our &s;ever all labours, for any other convincing arguments.</HI> But with <HI>his first,</HI> when <HI>both were of years, to expect</HI> the <HI>event</HI> and <HI>ble&s;|&s;ing</HI> of their <HI>Marriage-bed;</HI> He was <HI>alwaies ob&s;erved, to avoid the com|pany</HI> of <HI>Ladies,</HI> and &s;o much <HI>to neg|lect his own,</HI> that to <HI>wi&s;h</HI> a <HI>Maid</HI> into a <HI>Mi&s;chief, was</HI> to <HI>commend her to my Lord</HI> of <HI>E&s;&s;ex:</HI> Which <HI>in|crea&s;ed</HI> the <HI>jealou&s;ie</HI> of &s;uch <HI>Men, who&s;e interests were, to ob&s;erve him;</HI> That he <HI>preferred the occa&s;ion him|&s;elf, to a &s;eparation.</HI> And which indeed from <HI>publique fame,</HI> begat private <HI>di&s;putation,</HI> among&s;t <HI>Ci|vilians</HI> of the <HI>legality</HI> thereof, wherein tho&s;e <HI>Lawyers are bound|le&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<PB N="112" REF="61">
<P>This Ca&s;e followed the <HI>heeles</HI> of a former <HI>Nullity,</HI> fre&s;h in me|mory, between the L. <HI>Rich,</HI> and his <HI>fair Lady,</HI> by <HI>mutual con&s;ent.</HI> But becau&s;e the E. of <HI>Dev. married</HI> her, <HI>whil&s;t her Husband lived,</HI> the King was &s;o much <HI>di&s;plea&s;ed</HI> thereat, as it broke the E. heart: for his <HI>Ma|je&s;ty</HI> told him, That he had pur|cha&s;ed a <HI>fair woman with a black &s;oul.</HI> And this is a known truth, That before <HI>Vi&s;count Rochford</HI> (for &s;o was <HI>Carre</HI> lately created) had made any <HI>addre&s;&s;e</HI> to this Lady, her own <HI>friends</HI> in <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> and <HI>ho|nor</HI> to her <HI>birth, expo&s;ed</HI> her to the <HI>plaint</HI> of <HI>her Husba~d,</HI> &amp; to the <HI>&s;eve|re&s;t triall</HI> in a <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> of <HI>judicature.</HI></P>
<P>And 'tis as true, that the King <HI>knew</HI> hereof, our <HI>Pamphlet</HI> &s;aies: [<HI>A party in this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">udy bu&s;ine&s;&s;e</HI>] for, what was <HI>le|gall</HI> for the <HI>meane&s;t Subject,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 77.</NOTE> could not in <HI>ju&s;tice</HI> be <HI>denied</HI> unto Her: Which in fine, <HI>&s;entenced them both,</HI> by <HI>Divine</HI> and <HI>Civil</HI> Canon, loo&s;e from their <HI>Matri|moniall bands.</HI></P>
<PB N="113" REF="61">
<P>And, becau&s;e the <HI>Nullity</HI> gave freedome to either, and &s;o the means to the Counte&s;&s;es after-<HI>Mariage,</HI> with the &s;ad occa&s;ions of all the &s;equell mi&s;haps, and &s;u&s;pected &s;candalls, &s;o untruly expre&s;&s;ed by the <HI>Pamphlet;</HI> I have with &s;ome diligence, laboured out the truth, preci&s;ely and punctu|ally, as it was acted, and procee|ded by Commi&s;&s;ion <HI>Delegative;</HI> not ea&s;ily now otherwayes to be brought to light.</P>
<Q>Upon Petition of the Earl of <HI>Suf|folke</HI> and his Daughter <HI>Francis</HI> to the King.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Procee|dings of <HI>Nullity.</HI></NOTE></Q>
<P>That Whereas his Daughter <HI>Francis,</HI> Counte&s;&s;e of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> had been <HI>Married</HI> many years, unto <HI>Robert</HI> Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> in hope of comfortable effects to them, which contrarywi&s;e, by rea&s;on of certaine latent, and &s;ecretem|perfections,
<PB N="114" REF="62">and impediments of the &s;aid <HI>Earl,</HI> di&s;abling him in the rights of <HI>Marriage,</HI> and mo&s;t unwillingly di&s;covered to him by his daughter; which longer by him to conceale, without remedy of Law, and the practice of all Chri&s;tian policy, in like ca|&s;es, might prove very prejudici|all.</P>
<P><HI>And therefore pray the King,</HI></P>
<P>To commit this cau&s;e of <HI>Nullity</HI> of <HI>Matrimony,</HI> which &s;he is forced to pro&s;ecute again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Earl,</HI> to &s;ome grave and worthy per|&s;ons, by Commi&s;&s;ion under the great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> as is u&s;uall, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Which accordingly was gran|ted unto foure Bi&s;hops, two Privy Coun&s;ellers learned in the Law, and to foure other Civill Law|yers; with Clau&s;e to proceed <HI>Cum omni, qua poterint, celeritate, &amp;
<PB N="115" REF="62">expeditione, Summarie, ac de plano, &s;ine &s;trepitu, ac figura Judicii, &s;ola rei &amp; facti veritate in&s;pecta, &amp; me|ra aequitate attenta.</HI> And with this Clau&s;e al&s;o, <HI>Quorum vos praefat. Reverendi&s;&s;imu~ patrem Cant. Archi|epi&s;copum, Reverendi&s;&s;mum patrem Lond. Epi&s;cop. &amp; Iul. Cae&s;ar. Mil. Aut duos ve&s;trorum, in fe|renda &s;ententia, intere&s;&s;e volumus.</HI> But for &s;ome exceptions concer|ning the <HI>Quorum</HI> by the Commi&s;|&s;ioners in the words <HI>&s;ententia e&s;&s;e,</HI> not <HI>intere&s;&s;e,</HI> A &s;econd Commi&s;|&s;ion was granted and adjoyned two Bi&s;hops more, with this <HI>Quo|rum. Quorum ex vobis praefat. Re. Pa. Georg. Cant. Archiepi&s;. Ioh. Lond. Epi&s;c. Tho. Winton Epi&s;c. Launcelot Elien&s;. Epi&s;c. Richard Covent. &amp; Lich&s;. Epi&s;c. Ioh. Ro&s;&s;. Epi&s;c. Iulio Cae&s;are, Tho. Parry Mil. in ferenda &s;ententia, tres e&s;&s;e volumus.</HI></P>
<P>Upon this the <HI>Lady</HI> procures
<PB N="116" REF="63">Proce&s;&s;e again&s;t the <HI>Earl</HI> to An|&s;wer her in a cau&s;e of <HI>Nullity</HI> of <HI>Matrimony.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The La|dies Li|bell.</NOTE></P>
<P>The <HI>Earle</HI> appears before the Commi&s;sioners, by his Proctor, And She gives in her <HI>Libell, viz.</HI></P>
<P>That the <HI>Earl</HI> and the <HI>Lady,</HI> &s;ix years &s;ince, in <HI>Ianuary Anno Dom.</HI> 1606. were <HI>Married,</HI> her age then thirteen, and his four|teen, and now &s;he is 22. and he 23 years old.</P>
<P>That for three years &s;ince the <HI>Marriage,</HI> and he 18. years old, they both did cohabit as <HI>Married</HI> folke, in one bed naked and alone, indeavouring to have carnall knowledge each of others Bo|dy.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding, the <HI>Earl</HI> neither did, nor could ever know her Carnally; he being before, and &s;ince, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with perpetu|all incurable Impediment, and
<PB N="117" REF="63">Impotency, at lea&s;t in re&s;pect of her.</P>
<P>That the <HI>Lady</HI> was, and is apt, &amp; fit, without any defect, &amp; is yet a Virgin, and Carnally unknown by any man.</P>
<P>That the <HI>Earl</HI> hath confe&s;&s;ed often times to per&s;ons of great credit, and his neere&s;t friends, that he was never able Carnally to know her, though he had often attempted, and u&s;ed his utmo&s;t in|deavour.</P>
<P>And therefore prayeth the Commi&s;sioners upon due proof hereof, to pronounce for the <HI>Invalidity</HI> &amp; <HI>Nullity</HI> of the <HI>Mar|riage.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Earl</HI> by his Proctor, denies the &s;aid Contents, <HI>Conte&s;tatio Li|tis negativ&egrave;.</HI></P>
<P>His An&s;wer is required by Oath, by &s;econd Proce&s;s, where,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His An|&s;wer u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Oath.</NOTE> in open Court his Oath was admini&s;tred, with &s;o great care,
<PB N="118" REF="64">and effectuall words, to minde him of all Circum&s;tances, as the like hath been &s;eldome ob&s;er|ved.</P>
<P>The <HI>Earl</HI> confe&s;&s;eth the <HI>Mar|riage,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Viva voce.</HI></NOTE> and Circum&s;tance, (as in the Libell.) And were not ab|&s;ent above three moneths, the one from the other, in any of the &s;aid 3. years.</P>
<P>That, for one whole yeare of the three, He did attempt divers times, carnally to know Her. But the other two years, he lay in bed with her nightly, but found no motion to copulation with Her.</P>
<P>That in the fir&s;t year, She &s;hew|ed willingne&s;s, and readine&s;s thereto.</P>
<P>That he did never carnally know Her, but did not find any impediment in him&s;elf, but was not able to penetrat or injoy Her.</P>
<P>And beleeveth, That before and
<PB N="119" REF="64">after the <HI>Marriage,</HI> he found in him&s;elf ability to other Women; and hath &s;ometimes felt motions that way.</P>
<P>But being asked, Whether he found in him&s;elf a perpetuall, &amp; incurable Impediment towards Her? He an&s;wered, that in 2. or 3 years la&s;t, He hath had no motion to Her; and beleeveth, He never &s;hall, nor that She is apt as other women: And that She is <HI>Virgo integra &amp; incorrupta.</HI></P>
<P>And confe&s;&s;eth, That He hath often, before Per&s;ons of credit, confe&s;&s;ed thus much.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding this his Oath, She produced &s;undry Witne&s;&s;es of the <HI>Marriage,</HI> Time, Age, Cohabitation at Bed and at Board; as before in the <HI>Libell, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>So then that period of time, limited by the Civill and Canon Law, proved his Cohabitation,
<PB N="120" REF="65">and Condormition, for con&s;um|mation.</P>
<P>The next was, That notwith|&s;tanding, She remained <HI>Virgo in|tegra, incorrupta.</HI> But, becau&s;e the <HI>Earl</HI> beleeved not the <HI>Lady</HI> to be fit and apt for copulation, Therefore her Councell de&s;ired, <HI>Matronas aliquas probas &amp; hone|stas, fide dignas, &amp; in ea parte peritas, per dominos a&s;&s;ignari, ad inspiciendum Corpus dictae domi|nae.</HI></P>
<P>Whereupon it was decreed,</P>
<P>That &s;ix Midwives of the be&s;t Note, and ten other Noble Ma|trons, fearing God, and Mothers of Children, out of which them|&s;elves would choo&s;e 2 Midwives and 3 Matrons; and out of which the Delegates did &s;elect 5. <HI>ut &s;e|quitur.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Tune Domini viz. Arch. Cant. London: Elien&s;: Coventry &amp; Lichf: Cae&s;er, Parry, Dun, Bennet, Ed|wards,
<PB N="121" REF="65">habita inter eos privata de|liberatione, ex numero Matronarum praedict. eligerunt,</HI> The Lady <HI>Martha Terwhite,</HI> wife of Sir <HI>Ph: Terwhite,</HI> Baronet; the Lady <HI>Alice Carew,</HI> wife of Sir <HI>Mathew,</HI> the Lady <HI>Dali&s;on,</HI> wife of Sir <HI>Roger. Et in &s;upplimentum Ca&s;u earum impedire.</HI> The Lady <HI>Anne Waller</HI> Widdow, <HI>&amp; ex ob&s;tetri|cum numero, &amp;c. Margaretam Mercer, &amp; Chri&s;tianam Che&s;t. Et a&s;&s;ignarunt procuratorem dictae do|minae Franci&s;. ad &s;i&s;tendum cuju&s;|modi Inspectatrices, coram Reve|rendi&s;&s;imo patre Lond. Epi&s;c. Iulio Cae&s;ar, &amp; Daniele Dun, &amp;c. Inter caeteros nominat. i&s;lo die, inter hor as quintam &amp; &s;extam po&s;t meridiem, juramentu~ in hac parte &s;ubdituras, at&abque; inspectione facta fideliter rela|turas; earu~ judiciu~ juxta earu~ &s;ci|entia~ et experientia~, &amp;c. Cora~ dictis dominis, delegatis, &s;ic ut praefertur, a&s;&s;ignatis, quam cito fieri po&s;sit,
<PB N="122" REF="66">ante horam quartam, po&s;t meridiem diei Iovis prox. alioquin, ad com|parendum, hoc in loco coram Comi&s;|&s;ariis, dicto die lovis, inter horas quartam et &s;extam po&s;t meridiem eju&s;dem dici earum Iudicium in hac parte, tunc relaturas, et inter|e&s;&s;endum diebus, hora &amp; loco, re|spective praedict, ad videndum In|spectatrices praedictas, Iuramento in hac parte enerari. Necnon quibu&s;|cun&abque; aliis diebus, hora &amp; loco per dictos Dominos Commi&s;&s;arios nominat, dictis inspectatricibus ad referend, earum Iudicium a&s;&s;igna|tum.</HI></P>
<P>Accordingly, between the hours of five and &s;ix in the after|noon that day, were pre&s;ented be|fore the &s;aid Delegates, <HI>London, Cae&s;ar, et Dun;</HI> the &s;aid Lady <HI>Ter|white,</HI> Lady <HI>Carew,</HI> Lady <HI>Anne Waller, Margare<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Mercer,</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;tian Che&s;t</HI> Midwives, &s;worn <HI>ad Inquirend. &amp; In&s;pect.</HI></P>
<PB N="123" REF="66">
<P N="1">1. Whether the Lady <HI>Francis</HI> were a Woman, apt and fit for carnall Copulation, without any defect that might di&s;able Her to that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether &s;he were a Virgin, unknown carnally by any man.</P>
<P>Whereupon, they went from the pre&s;ence of the Commi&s;sio|ners, into the next room, where the <HI>Lady</HI> was, accompanied then with the Councell of both &s;ides; into which room was no entrance but at one dore, whereout the Councell came forth, and only the <HI>Lady</HI> left with the &s;aid women, who after &s;ome convenient time returned their report under their hands; the Commi&s;sioners having fir&s;t &s;eque&s;tred from their pre|&s;ence, the Councell of the <HI>Earle</HI> and <HI>Lady,</HI> who had been pre&s;ent in all the&s;e pa&s;&s;ages, and all other per&s;ons except the Regi&s;ter, that &s;o the Ladies and Midwives might
<PB N="124" REF="67">more freely deliver their &s;ecret rea&s;ons, &amp;c. though it was not fit to in&s;ert them in the Re|cord.</P>
<P>And this is their &s;um of their re|lation, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. That they believed the &s;aid <HI>Lady</HI> fitted with abilities to have Carnall copulation, and apt to have Children.</P>
<P N="2">2. That &s;he is a Virgin incor|rupted.</P>
<P>And to coroborate all this, the <HI>Lady</HI> in open Court produced 7 women of her Con&s;anguini|ty;</P>
<P>That, in as much as the truth of all was be&s;t known to her &s;elfe, She might by vertue of Her Oath &s;hould be no further regarded, than it was confirmed by the oathes of the&s;e her kin&s;women.</P>
<P>The Law pre&s;uming that &s;uch kindred &s;hould be be&s;t acquainted
<PB N="125" REF="67">with the inward &s;ecrets of their kin&s;woman.</P>
<P>In order hereto, the <HI>Lady Francis,</HI> in open Court, had an Oath admini&s;tred to her, with all the like grave admonition, as before to the <HI>Earl.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o She affirmed;</P>
<P>That, &s;ince the <HI>Earl</HI> was 18-years old, for three years, He and She had divers times layn naked in bed all night; And &s;undry times there, the <HI>Earl</HI> had attempted, and indevoured to con&s;ummate <HI>Mar|riage</HI> with her, &amp; She accordingly yielded, and willing thereto, and yet he never had Copulation with Her.</P>
<P>And then the&s;e &s;even Noble Women, <HI>viz. Katherine</HI> Coun|te&s;&s;e of <HI>Suffolke, Francis</HI> Coun|te&s;&s;e of <HI>Kildare, Elizabeth</HI> Lady <HI>Walden, Elizabeth</HI> Lady <HI>Knevet,</HI> Lady <HI>Katherin Thinn,</HI> Mi&s;tris <HI>Katherine Fines,</HI> Mi&s;tris <HI>Dorothy
<PB N="126" REF="68">Neal,</HI> her Kin&s;women, being char|ged by the Court to &s;peak with|out partiality what they beleeved as to the <HI>Ladies</HI> depo&s;ition, they did all depo&s;e, that they believed the &s;ame to be true.</P>
<P N="1">1 And in particular. That <HI>po&s;t plenam pubertatem utriu&s;&abque;,</HI> they both endeavoured Copulation.</P>
<P N="2">2 That notwith&s;tanding this Cohabitation, and ability on his part <HI>per In&s;pectatrices,</HI> &s;he remained a Virgin incorrupted.</P>
<P N="3">3 That the <HI>Earl</HI> had Judicially &s;worne, that he never had, nor could, nor &s;hould ever know her carnally.</P>
<P>And this the Law being, That <HI>Impotentia coeundi in viro,</HI> how&s;o|ever, whether by naturall defect, or accidentall means, and whether ab&s;olute towards all, or re&s;pe|ctive to his wife alone; If it pre|cede <HI>Matrimony,</HI> and be perpe|tuall, as by Law is pre&s;umed,
<PB N="127" REF="68">when by 3 yeares continuance, after the Mans age of 18 years, there having been <HI>nil ad copulam,</HI> the <HI>Marriage</HI> not con&s;ummated. the Law allowing the &s;aid proofs, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> was abundantly &s;ufficient to convince the &s;aid <HI>Earle</HI> of Im|potency.</P>
<P>Becau&s;e, <HI>Canonum Statuta cu&s;to|diri debent ab omnibus; &amp; nemo in actionibus, vel judiciis Eccle&s;ia&s;ticis, &s;uo &s;en&s;u, &s;ed eorum authoritate duci debet.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;aid Reverend, and grave Judges <HI>Delegates,</HI> gave this &s;en|tence unanimou&s;ly, as follow|eth.</P>
<P><HI>Idcirco nos Epi&s;copi,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>in dicta cau&s;a Iudices, Delegati, &amp; Commi&s;|&s;arii, Chri&s;ti Nomine (primit&ugrave;s) in|vocato, &amp; ip&s;um &s;elum Deum, oculis no&s;tris praeponentes, et habentes, de&abque; et cum con&s;ilio Iuri&s;peritor cum quibus in hac parte communicavimus; ma|tur&eacute;q, deliberavimus, praefatum Domi.
<PB N="128" REF="69">num Comitem E&s;&s;ex, dictam dominam Franci&s;cam, ob aliq uod latens, &amp; incurabile impedimentum perpetu|um; praedictum contractum, &amp; &s;olem|nizationem, praecedens, citra &s;olemni|zationem, et contractum praedictum, nunquam carnaliter cognovi&s;&s;e, aut carnaliter eandem, cogno&s;cere potui&s;&s;e, aut po&s;&s;e, et eundem dominum Comi|tem qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ad carnale copulam, cum ca|dem domina Franci&s;ca, exercend omnino inhabilem, et impotentem fu|i&s;&s;e, et e&s;&s;e: Pronunciamus, decerni|mus et declaramus praefatum praeten|&s;um Matrimonium, &s;ic inter praedict|um virum Robertum Devoreaux, Comitem E&s;&s;ex, Et praedictam praenobitem faeminam, Franci&s;cam Howard, de facto contractum, et &s;o|lemnizatum, Omniaque exinde &s;e|quentia, ratione praemi&s;&s;orum, om|nino invalidum, ac nullum, nulla fui&s;&s;e, et e&s;&s;e, viribu&s;que juris caru|i&s;&s;e, et carere debere; atque nullo et aullis; et invalido et invalidis;
<PB N="129" REF="69">ad omnem Iuris effectum, ettamque pronunciamus, decernimus et declara|mus, dictum matrimoniumpraeten&s;um, omnia&abque; ex inde &s;equentia, ca&s;&s;amus, anullamus, &amp; irritamus; Memora|tamque</HI> Dominam Franci&s;cam Howard, <HI>ab aliquo vinculo, huiu&s;modi praeten&s;i Matrimonii, inter</HI> Eam, <HI>&amp;</HI> dictum dominum Robertum Comitem <HI>(ut praefatur) de facto contracti, &amp; &s;olemnizati,</HI> liberam, <HI>&amp;</HI> &s;olutam <HI>fui&s;&s;e, &amp; e&s;&s;e. Et &s;ic tam</HI> liberam, <HI>&amp;</HI> &s;olutam <HI>in&s;uper pronun|ciamus, decernimus &amp; declaramus. Eademque</HI> dominam Franci&s;cam, <HI>ab eodem</HI> domino Comite E&s;&s;ex, <HI>quoad vinculum Matrimonii prae|ten&s;i praedicti, omnia&abque; ex inde &s;e|quentia,</HI> liberandam &amp; divortian|dam <HI>fore debere, pronunciamus, &amp; &s;ic liberamus, &amp; divortiamus; eo&s;dem quo ad tran&s;itum ad alias nuptias, con&s;cientiis &s;uis, in domino relinquere per hanc no&s;tram</HI> &s;ententiam de&s;i|nitam, <HI>&s;ive hoc no&s;trum</HI> finale
<PB N="130" REF="70">decretum, <HI>quam &s;i ve, quod</HI> &s;ecimus, <HI>&amp;</HI> promulgamus <HI>in his &s;criptis.</HI></P>
<P>And the&s;e <HI>Records</HI> extant, doe mention the proceedings (you &s;ee) mode&s;t and legall; parallell with any former of the like kind, though our <HI>Pamphleter</HI> with his baudy tale, plea&s;eth him&s;elf to de|fame tho&s;e <HI>Reverend Bi&s;hops,</HI> who&s;e dignities gave them place of Judges; acting no more, or otherwayes, than the Eccle&s;ia|&s;ticall Canons in &s;uch ca&s;es pre&s;cribe. <HI>Nemine contradicen|te.</HI></P>
<P>Yes &s;ayes He <HI>[Archi&s;hop Abbot,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 78.</NOTE> who was therefore excluded the Councell Table, and &s;o dyed in di&s;grace of that King, though in favour with the King of Kings.]</HI></P>
<P>The truth is otherwi&s;e. For the <HI>Archbi&s;hop</HI> (providence permit|ting) ayming with a Cro&s;&s;ebow to &s;trike a <HI>Deere,</HI> kill'd his Game keeper; for which Act, having
<PB N="131" REF="70">His hand in blood, by the <HI>Canons</HI> of the <HI>Church,</HI> he cannot be ad|mitted to officiate at the Altar; and &s;o, He not being admitted to the full u&s;e of his &s;piritual <HI>calling;</HI> Him&s;elf forbore the <HI>Councell Table,</HI> as He told me in the&s;e words. <HI>[Since they will have it &s;o, that I am uncapable of the one, I &s;hall &s;pare my &s;elf the trouble of the other.]</HI></P>
<P>But he enjoyed the benefit of that <HI>See,</HI> whil&s;t he lived, and retyred in that time (mo&s;t con|&s;tant) to his <HI>Palace at Lambeth.</HI></P>
<P>Much di&s;plea&s;ed he was (as I well remember) with the <HI>Court</HI> and <HI>Clergy;</HI> and upon that <HI>Score.</HI> And, for&s;ooth, to ju&s;tifie, that his <HI>Function</HI> was not weakned, by his <HI>Mi&s;chance,</HI> quarrelling with the <HI>Canons,</HI> he fell upon down-right <HI>Puritan Tenents;</HI> which gave occa&s;ion to many <HI>Di&s;contents</HI> of our <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>State,</HI> to vi&s;it him
<PB N="132" REF="71">&s;o frequent, that they called them|&s;elves, <HI>Nicodemites,</HI> and his <HI>Di&s;ci|ples.</HI></P>
<P>And I ob&s;erved very often, perhaps therefore, (for I could not meet with a better rea&s;on) that the <HI>Archbi&s;hop,</HI> con&s;tantly with <HI>Candell light</HI> in his Chamber and Study, made it <HI>Midnight</HI> at <HI>Noon day.</HI></P>
<P>And here he began to be the <HI>fir&s;t Man</HI> of Eminency in Our <HI>Church,</HI> a <HI>Ringleader</HI> of that <HI>Faction,</HI> for I can name tho&s;e, then his private <HI>Di&s;ciples,</HI> which lately appear de&s;perate <HI>Pro&s;elites.</HI> And thus He lived,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">5.</NOTE> but <HI>[died not in di&s;plea&s;ure of King James]</HI> for the <HI>Phamphlet</HI> per&s;wades us after|wards to believe <HI>[him to be the Kings confe&s;&s;or]</HI> living long after in the late Kings time, from whom no evill <HI>Re&s;entment</HI> could pa&s;&s;e in relation to this former <HI>Story;</HI> it being buried in Oblivion
<PB N="133" REF="71">to <HI>Him</HI> and all good Men, till that Our <HI>Pamphletter,</HI> rakes in the <HI>Embers,</HI> to light His owne <HI>Can|del.</HI></P>
<P>And thus, after all the former <HI>proceedings,</HI> and the <HI>Nullity</HI> pro|nounced, a <HI>Marriage</HI> was &s;o|lemnized, with Vi&s;count <HI>Roch|ford</HI> then <HI>Earl</HI> of <HI>Somer&s;et.</HI></P>
<P>And truly, here I &s;hould be unwilling to pro&s;ecute this <HI>Story;</HI> but our <HI>Pamphletters</HI> foule mouth leads me back to Ma&s;ter <HI>Copinger,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 6<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Mr. <HI>Cop|pinger.</HI></NOTE> who&s;e birth, breeding and beha|viour de&s;erves no le&s;&s;e of fame, than to leave him quiet in the &s;ilent Grave. <HI>[But He knew Him otherwi&s;e de&s;erving.]</HI> I am &s;ure many men now living know, that Our <HI>Author</HI> may give him&s;elfe <HI>Copingers Character;</HI> faces about, and in truth you have Him to a haires bredth.</P>
<P>Ma&s;ter <HI>Copinger</HI> had been here|tofore, Ma&s;ter of a larger fortune,
<PB N="134" REF="72">which yet, fell not &s;o low, <HI>[as to turne Baud for want of better maintenance]</HI> Indeed he was entertained a <HI>Dependent</HI> on <HI>Roch|ford,</HI> a <HI>favourite,</HI> and <HI>Lord Cham|berlaine,</HI> and &s;o no di&s;honour, for Him, or other Men, of better Ranke, and Birth, than Our Authors family, to be near atten|ding &s;o great a <HI>Per&s;on,</HI> as Gen|tleman of his Bed Chamber; and thereby, the more proper to be tru&s;ted, with the Secrets and Civilities of his <HI>Ma&s;ters lawfull Affection,</HI> and addre&s;&s;e to &s;o <HI>great a Lady;</HI> which might then, well become Him, or any other hone&s;t Man to <HI>advance;</HI> and I may believe, he afforded the con|veniency <HI>[of His own hou&s;e for their meeting and con&s;ent of Mar|riage]</HI> which was not long after &s;olemnized with much honour and magnificence.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir <HI>The|mas O|verbury.</HI></NOTE> And Sr. <HI>Thomas Overbury,</HI> congratulating the
<PB N="135" REF="72">Ceremony, with as publique profe&s;&s;ion as others in Court ex|pre&s;&s;ed. And it concerned this great <HI>Favourite,</HI> to look upon <HI>Him</HI> with re&s;pect of preferment; and as he failed not the <HI>meane&s;t,</HI> &s;o it became Him, to advance his <HI>Confident Overbury,</HI> mo&s;t e|minent.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 65.</NOTE> (Who&s;e <HI>Character</HI> Our <HI>Pamphletter hath more de&s;ervedly hit upon, than any other.</HI>)</P>
<P>And therefore, it was his own <HI>&s;eeking,</HI> as be&s;t fitting his excel|lent parts,
<MILESTONE N="69"> to pre&s;ent the <HI>Kings Per&s;on</HI> in <HI>Emba&s;&s;ie</HI> to <HI>France,</HI> which to my knowledge he ac|cepted and &s;eemingly prepared to advance.</P>
<P>Conceiting, perhaps, that the power which he u&s;urped over <HI>Somer&s;et;</HI> and the <HI>Intere&s;ts of ei|thers affection,</HI> (which <HI>Overbury</HI> knew be&s;t how to <HI>Ma&s;ter</HI>) could not endure <HI>ab&s;ence,</HI> without much <HI>regret,</HI> which accordingly had for
<PB N="136" REF="73">&s;ome time, the true <HI>effects,</HI> as <HI>Overbury</HI> intended.</P>
<P>But when <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> had wi&s;ely con&s;idered, that there would be no great lo&s;s of &s;o loo&s;e a friend; Then <HI>Overbury would not goe;</HI> no, though I know his <HI>In&s;tructions were drawn, and Additionalls thereto, by his own con&s;ent.</HI></P>
<P>And this was a <HI>just,</HI> and true <HI>ground,</HI> for the <HI>King and Councell,</HI> to puni&s;h &s;o great In&s;olency, with <HI>Impri&s;onment</HI> in the <HI>Tower,</HI> which <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> heartily endeavoured in due time to <HI>relea&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>But <HI>Overbury</HI> (to &s;hadow his own demerits,) devi&s;ed the <HI>rea&s;on and cau&s;e,</HI> from his di&s;affection of the former <HI>Marriage,</HI> and which he publi&s;hed, with much <HI>di&s;honor, though not the tythe which is &s;tudied in our Pamphleters Libell.</HI> For which, the <HI>Malice of Women,</HI> (as it often meets) &s;ought <HI>Revenge</HI> by <HI>Poy&s;on,</HI> to puni&s;h him, to the
<PB N="137" REF="73"><HI>death.</HI> And for which <HI>Fact, they</HI> were <HI>arraigned,</HI> and &s;ome &s;uffe|red <HI>death.</HI></P>
<P>In pro&s;ecution of which, it be|hoved the Kings <HI>Piety</HI> and <HI>Iu&s;tice,</HI> to be <HI>&s;evere</HI> and <HI>&s;erious,</HI> without [any <HI>King-craft.</HI>] And therefore needed not &s;uch an additionall fal&s;ehood [<HI>as to kneel down to the Iudges]</HI> when then, as u&s;uall he gave them their <HI>Charge,</HI> upon their <HI>Itinerate Circuits.</HI></P>
<P>For then, the truth of <HI>Over|buries poy&s;oning</HI> was but <HI>&s;u&s;pected;</HI> And therefore it was not <HI>unnaturall</HI> nor <HI>wonderous [for the King to take his leave of his Favorite and friend, with expre&s;sions of great kindne&s;s]</HI> who yet in <HI>Iu&s;tice</HI> he expo&s;ed to <HI>Per&s;ecution.</HI></P>
<P>And truly, in this much <HI>forced story</HI> of our Author, take him at his own <HI>dimen&s;ion,</HI> an ingenious good Nature, may find out much <HI>strugling</HI> in the <HI>King,</HI> to make
<PB N="138" REF="74"><HI>Iu&s;tice</HI> and <HI>Mercy, ki&s;s each other.</HI></P>
<P>I was pre&s;ent at their <HI>Arraign|ments,</HI> and the <HI>[Pictures, Puppets, for Magick &s;pells]</HI> were no other, but &s;everall French Babies, &s;ome Naked, others Clothed; which were u&s;uall then, and &s;o are now a dayes, to teach us the fa&s;hions, for dre&s;&s;e of Ladies <HI>tyring</HI> and <HI>apparrell.</HI></P>
<P>And indeed <HI>[Foremans Book was brought forth]</HI> wherein the <HI>Moun|tebanck</HI> had formerly for his own advantage and credit, &s;awcily <HI>[in&s;erted the Counte&s;&s;es name, &s;o of many others that came to &s;eek For|tunes]</HI> which &s;he cleared by her own <HI>Protestation,</HI> and <HI>Foremans confe&s;sion,</HI> that &s;he was never with him.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Thomas Mon&s;on</HI> was brought to the Bar,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir <HI>Tho|mas Mon|&s;on.</HI></NOTE> and began his <HI>Tryall,</HI> but was remitted to the <HI>Tower,</HI> with as much <HI>Civility,</HI> as is u&s;uall to other <HI>Pri&s;oners.</HI></P>
<PB N="139" REF="74">
<P>And Sir <HI>Geo. More</HI> then <HI>Lieute|nant</HI> of the <HI>Tower,</HI> took him from the <HI>Bar,</HI> and both together were carried in his <HI>Coach</HI> to the <HI>Tower.</HI> I &s;ay the truth, for I &s;aw it.</P>
<P>But I cannot pick out the mea|ning, why <HI>[&s;o much pains is taken to tell out Mon&s;ons tale]</HI> was he Guilty, or No? By the &s;tory, he had hard mea&s;ure. So perhaps had &s;ome of the others; for <HI>He</HI> was a <HI>Creature</HI> of that <HI>Family.</HI> And yet for &s;ome (no doubt) pri|vate re&s;pects of our <HI>Author</HI> (for he was his Companion) He is in, and out, and out, and in, and in, and out again.</P>
<P>And now comes <HI>Somer&s;et,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 115.</NOTE> who he &s;ayes <HI>[being warned to his tryal, ab&s;olutely refu&s;ed, and was a&s;&s;ured by the King, never to come to any]</HI> when was this a&s;&s;urance? For he tells us, <HI>[At their parting at Roy|&s;ton, they never met after]</HI> but we mu&s;t conceive it by <HI>Me&s;&s;age.</HI></P>
<PB N="140" REF="75">
<P>And why for this, mu&s;t <HI>[More a wi&s;e man be at his wits end?]</HI></P>
<P>The warrant for <HI>Tryall</HI> came o|ver night late; and it is &s;o <HI>u&s;ual</HI> as it never <HI>failes,</HI> that the <HI>Lieute|nant of the Tower</HI> hath freedome of acce&s;&s;e <HI>[to waken his Soveraign]</HI> at any hour.</P>
<P>The importance of his <HI>Place</HI> and <HI>Tru&s;t,</HI> having that con&s;equence annexed. And in &s;peciall to give <HI>Knowledge</HI> of <HI>Warrants,</HI> either of <HI>Tryalls,</HI> or of <HI>Execution</HI> of <HI>Pri&s;oners.</HI> And this, of <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> he did. <HI>[When the King in tears, is told a tale in his Eares]</HI> that none knew, but he that was furthe&s;t off.</P>
<P><HI>[A trick of wit brings him to the Barre, and a de&s;perate plot by two men placed at his Elbow, with Clokes to clap over him, made him calm at his Tryall]</HI> And thus it was, that the <HI>Lieutenant</HI> on his right, and the <HI>Gentleman Iaylor</HI>
<PB N="141" REF="75">on his left hand, with <HI>Clokes</HI> on their backs, <HI>[but not on their armes]</HI> might colour our Authors conceipt.</P>
<P>It had appeared a mad <HI>Pre&s;i|dent,</HI> when a <HI>Pri&s;oner</HI> at his <HI>tryall,</HI> upon Life and Death, hath Freedome to &s;peak for him&s;elf, in publique Cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice, <HI>[to be &s;natch'd from the Bar, and from the power of the Iudge, at the plea&s;ure of a Iaylor.]</HI> But to make out this Monument,] <HI>the King rewards him with</HI> 1500 l.]
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 119.</NOTE> And for a truth [<HI>More tells all this to the Author, of whom</HI> (him|&s;elfe confe&s;&s;es) <HI>he had no a&s;&s;u|rance of his honesty</HI>] nor I be&s;eeve any body el&s;e.</P>
<P>The Conclu&s;ion of all is, That due execution was done upon Sir <HI>Iervice Ellowayes,</HI> Mrs. <HI>Turner, Weston</HI> and <HI>Franklyn. Mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;on</HI> cleared, the <HI>Counte&s;&s;e</HI> and
<PB N="142" REF="76"><HI>Earl reprieved, [our Author and mo&s;t men cleer him of the Poy&s;on, and condemn him only in the high point of friend&s;hip, for &s;uffering his impri&s;on|ment]</HI> which he could not relea&s;e, And the Counte&s;&s;e only guilty of connivance.</P>
<P>And now comes this.</P>
<P>Our <HI>Prefacers</HI> 3. <HI>Remarke</HI> to the <HI>Iudgment Seat</HI> for &s;entence. Let him pick out a greater <HI>Pre&s;i|dent</HI> in any <HI>Hi&s;tory,</HI> more <HI>Remarke,</HI> than this of the King, to make good this His former <HI>Prote&s;tation,</HI> wherein by the way He may take leave, to be allowed, His <HI>owne</HI> even <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> for <HI>Iu&s;tice</HI> and <HI>Mercy</HI> both.</P>
<P>Which no doubt, hath found acceptance at <HI>Gods Tribunall,</HI> in behalfe of <HI>Him and His, His</HI> own death being <HI>Ordinary,</HI> not forced by any <HI>Poy&s;on.</HI> And <HI>His po&s;terity in due time, by our Saviours merits, &s;hall be gathered up in the my&s;tery of
<PB N="143" REF="76">everla&s;ting &s;alvation.</HI></P>
<P>But by the way how &s;moothly we are told a Story of the <HI>Pittifull Pal&s;grave [how He Married a Kings Daughter, with much joy,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 82 <HI>Pal&s;grave</HI></NOTE> and great mi&s;fortune to all the Princes of Chri&s;tendom; but fayling of that, and all the rest, how He was ca&s;t out, He and His, to beg their bread,</HI> But <HI>had His Father-in-law been half &s;o wi&s;e,</HI> (with our Authors good Coun&s;ell to boot) and had He bought &s;words, with a quarter ex|pence of words, <HI>He had bin</HI> &mdash;] What? As his Sonne that &s;uc|ceeds him; <HI>Pal&s;grave.</HI></P>
<P>But we ha&s;ten;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prince <HI>Henry.</HI></NOTE> having much matter to meddle with, confu&s;edly put together in our <HI>Pamphlet;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The 4th. Remarke in the Preface.</NOTE> which wee mu&s;t take leave to <HI>&s;eparate, for each &s;ingle &s;tory:</HI> and Re-mind back, the death of that <HI>Heroick Prince</HI> HENRY (in the mid&s;t of <HI>Somer&s;et's Greatnes) [Who had he liv'd to have bin King
<PB N="144" REF="77">would no doubt</HI> (with our Authors leave) <HI>have been &s;o gracious as to leave alive,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 85</NOTE> one</HI> HOWARD, <HI>to pi&s;&s;e again&s;t the Wall.</HI>] When as with reverence to His <HI>Memory,</HI> it was a notorious truth, that He made Court to the <HI>Counte&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> before any other <HI>Lady</HI> then li|ving.</P>
<P>But He is dead, <HI>[and poy&s;oned too, as we &s;hall have it in his following di&s;cour&s;e]</HI> and yet &s;peaks not one word more of Him after|wards.</P>
<P><HI>Prince Henry</HI> was borne in <HI>Scotland,</HI> at <HI>Striveling Ca&s;tle,</HI> in <HI>February</HI> 1594. the fir&s;t &s;onne unto <HI>King</HI> JAMES and <HI>Queene</HI> ANNE.</P>
<P>His breeding, apted his excel|lent <HI>Inclination,</HI> to all <HI>Exerci&s;es</HI> of <HI>Honor,</HI> and <HI>Arts</HI> of <HI>Knowledge,</HI> which gave him <HI>fame,</HI> the mo&s;t exqui&s;ite, hopefull <HI>Prince</HI> in <HI>Chri&s;tendome.</HI></P>
<PB N="145" REF="77">
<P>In the nineteenth yeare of his <HI>Age,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Sick|ne&s;&s;e.</NOTE> appeared the fir&s;t <HI>Symptome</HI> of <HI>change;</HI> from a full round face, and plea&s;ant di&s;po&s;ition, to be <HI>paler</HI> and <HI>&s;harpe,</HI> more &s;ad and retired; often complaining of a <HI>giddy heavine&s;&s;e</HI> in his <HI>for-head.</HI> Which was &s;omewhat ea&s;ed, by <HI>bleeding</HI> at the No&s;e; and that &s;uddenly &s;topping, was the fir&s;t of his <HI>di&s;temper,</HI> and brought him to extraordinary qualms, which his Phy&s;icians recovered, with Strong waters.</P>
<P>About this time, &s;everall <HI>Amba&s;&s;adors Extraordinary,</HI> being di&s;patched home, He retired to his Hou&s;e at <HI>Richmond;</HI> plea&s;antly &s;ea|ted by the <HI>Thames River;</HI> which in|vited him to learn to &s;wim, in the <HI>Evenings</HI> after a ful <HI>&s;upper:</HI> the fir&s;t immediate pernicious <HI>cau&s;e</HI> of &s;topping that gentle <HI>flux of blood,</HI> which thereby putrifying, might ingender that fatall <HI>Feaver</HI> that
<PB N="146" REF="78">accompanied Him to his Grave. His active Body, u&s;ed violent <HI>Exerci&s;es;</HI> for at this time, being to meet the <HI>King</HI> at <HI>Bever,</HI> in <HI>Nottingham&s;hire,</HI> he rode it in two dayes, neer a hundred miles, in the extremity of heat in Sum|mer. For he &s;et out early, and came to Sir <HI>Oliver Cromwells</HI> neer <HI>Huntingde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> by ten a clock before Noon, neer 60 Miles, and the next day bet mes to <HI>Bever,</HI> 40 Miles.</P>
<P>There, and at other places, all that <HI>Progre&s;s,</HI> He accu&s;tomed to <HI>Fea&s;ting, Hunting</HI> and other <HI>sports</HI> of <HI>Balloon</HI> and <HI>Tennis,</HI> with too much <HI>violence.</HI></P>
<P>And now returned to <HI>Richmond,</HI> in the Fall of the Leaf, He com|plained afre&s;h of His <HI>pain</HI> in the <HI>Head,</HI> with increa&s;e of a meager complexion, inclining to <HI>Feveri&s;h;</HI> And then for the rarene&s;s thereof called the <HI>New di&s;ea&s;e.</HI></P>
<PB N="147" REF="78">
<P>Which increa&s;ing;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Takes His Chamber,</NOTE> the 10th of <HI>Octob.</HI> He took His Camber, and began Councel with His <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> Doctor <HI>Hammond,</HI> an hone&s;t and worthily learned Man. Three dayes after He fell into a loo&s;ne&s;s (by cold) 15 times a day.</P>
<P>Then removes to <HI>London,</HI> to St. <HI>Iame's</HI> contrary to all advi&s;e. And (with a &s;pirit above his Indi&s;po&s;i|tion) gives leave to His <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> to go to his own home.</P>
<P>And &s;o allowes Him&s;elfe too much liberty, in accompanying the <HI>Pal&s;grave,</HI> and Count <HI>Henry</HI> of <HI>Na&s;&s;aw,</HI> (who was come hither up|on <HI>Fame</HI> to &s;ee him) in a great Match at <HI>Tennis</HI> in His <HI>Shirt,</HI> that winter &s;ea&s;on, his looks then pre&s;aging <HI>&s;ickne&s;s.</HI> And on <HI>Sunday</HI> the 25 of <HI>Octob.</HI> He heard a <HI>Ser|mon,</HI> The text in <HI>Iob; Man that is born of a Woman, is of &s;hort continu|ance, and is full of trouble.</HI> After that, He pre&s;ently went to <HI>White-Hall,</HI>
<PB N="148" REF="79">and heard another <HI>Sermon</HI> before the King, and after dinner being ill, craves leave to retire to his own <HI>Court,</HI> where in&s;tantly he fell into &s;udden &s;icknes, faintings; and after that a &s;haking, with great heat and <HI>Head<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ach,</HI> that left Him not,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">And His Bed.</NOTE> whil&s;t He had <HI>Life.</HI></P>
<P>In&s;tantly He takes His <HI>Bed,</HI> continuing all that night in great <HI>drought</HI> and little re&s;t; The next day <HI>Head ache</HI> increa|&s;ing, his Body co&s;tive, pul&s;e high His water thyn and whiti&s;h.</P>
<P>Doctor <HI>Mayern</HI> pre&s;cribes Him a <HI>Gli&s;ter;</HI> After which he ro&s;e, playd at Cards, that, and the next day: But looked pale, &s;pake hol|low, dead &s;unk eyes, with great drought.</P>
<P>And therefore Mr. <HI>Na&s;mith</HI> &s;hould have let him blood by <HI>Mayerns</HI> Coun&s;ell. But the other <HI>Phy&s;icians</HI> di&s;agreeing it was de|ferr'd; yet He ro&s;e all this day,
<PB N="149" REF="79">had His fit, fir&s;t cold, then a dry greatheat.</P>
<P>On his 4th. day comes Doctor <HI>Butler,</HI> (that famous Man of <HI>Cam|bridge</HI>) who approved what had bin mini&s;tred, gave hopes of re|very, and allowed of what &s;hould be given Him.</P>
<P><HI>Mayern, Hammond</HI> and <HI>Butler,</HI> de&s;ired the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of more <HI>Doctors;</HI> but the <HI>Prince</HI> would not, to avoid <HI>confu&s;ion</HI> in <HI>Coun&s;ell.</HI> His Head-ache, drought, and other ac|cidents increa&s;ed.</P>
<P>This <HI>Evening</HI> there appeared 2. hours after Sun &s;et, <HI>A Lunar Rainbow, directly cro&s;s over the Hou&s;e, very ominous.</HI></P>
<P>The 6.7. increa&s;ing His di|&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P>The 8th. His <HI>Phy&s;icians bleed the Median of his right arm,</HI> 8. <HI>ounces,</HI> thin and putride: After which He found ea&s;e, with great hopes; and was vi&s;ited by <HI>King, Queen,
<PB N="150" REF="80">Duke, Pal&s;grave,</HI> and <HI>Si&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>The 9th. wor&s;e than before;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His di&s;ea&s;e</NOTE> and therefore, Doctor <HI>Atkins,</HI> a&s;|&s;i&s;ted their <HI>opinions, That his Di|&s;ea&s;e was, a corrupt putrid Feaver; &s;eated under the Liver, in the fir&s;t pa&s;&s;age. The Malignity, by rea&s;on of the Putrefaction, (in the highe&s;t degree) was venemous.</HI></P>
<P>The 10th. increa&s;ing Convul&s;i|ons, greater ravings, and Fea|ver violent. And therefore <HI>May|ern</HI> advi&s;ed more <HI>bleeding:</HI> But the re&s;t would not; but applyed <HI>Pigeons</HI> and <HI>Cupping gla&s;&s;es,</HI> to draw away the pain.</P>
<P>The 11th. &s;mall hopes, All accidents violently increa&s;ing, no applications giving ea&s;e. His <HI>Chaplains</HI> continuing their daily <HI>Devotions</HI> by His Bed &s;ide. The <HI>Archbi&s;hop</HI> of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> and Doctor <HI>Melborn,</HI> Dean of <HI>Roche|&s;ter,</HI> and others, with whom He daily prayed.</P>
<PB N="151" REF="80">
<P>The 12. No hope. The King with exce&s;&s;ive grief, removes to <HI>Ken&s;ington Hou&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>There were added Doctor <HI>Palmer,</HI> and Doctor <HI>Guifford,</HI> all imaginable helps, <HI>Cordialls, Dia. phoretick and Quinte&s;&s;entiall &s;pirits;</HI> &amp; a <HI>water</HI> from Sir <HI>Walter Raleigh</HI> Pri&s;oner in the Tower: all the&s;e were by <HI>Con&s;ent admini&s;tred;</HI> with|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ut any effect.</P>
<P>And &s;o He died at 8 a Clock at night, Friday the 6.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His death.</NOTE> of <HI>November</HI> 1612.</P>
<P>The Corps laid upon a Table,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Corps laid out,</NOTE> the faire&s;t, cleere&s;t and be&s;t proportioned, without any &s;pot or blemi&s;h.</P>
<P>The next day was &s;olemnly appointed, for imbowelling the Corps, in the pre&s;ence of &s;ome of the <HI>Coun&s;ell,</HI> all the <HI>Phy&s;icians, Chirurgions, Apothecaries,</HI> and the <HI>Pal&s;graves Phy&s;ician.</HI></P>
<P>And this is the true Copy of
<PB N="152" REF="81">their view,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">And view|ed by Cer|ti&s;icate.</NOTE> under their hands as followeth.</P>
<P>The <HI>Skin,</HI> as of others, <HI>Blac|ki&s;h,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Skin,</NOTE> but no way &s;potted with <HI>Blackne&s;&s;e,</HI> or <HI>Pale</HI> marks, much le&s;&s;e purpled, like Flea bites, could &s;hew any <HI>Contagion,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r <HI>Pe&s;tilenticall Venome.</HI></P>
<P>About the place of His <HI>Kidnies,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Kidnies.</NOTE> Hipps,</HI> and behind His <HI>Thighs,</HI> full of redne&s;&s;e; and becau&s;e of his continuall lying upon his <HI>back,</HI> his <HI>belly</HI> &s;omewhat <HI>&s;wollen,</HI> and &s;tretched out.</P>
<P>The <HI>Stomach</HI> who&s;e &amp; hand&s;om,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stomach.</NOTE> within and without; having never in all his &s;ickne&s;&s;e, been troubled with vomiting, lothing or yelping; or any other accidents which could &s;hew any <HI>taint.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Liver</HI> marked with &s;mall &s;pots above;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Liver.</NOTE> and in the Lower parts, with &s;mall lines.</P>
<P>The <HI>Gall Bladder,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gall.</NOTE> void of any humour; full of wind.</P>
<PB N="153" REF="81">
<P>The <HI>Spleen</HI> on the top,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Spleen.</NOTE> and in the lower end, blacki&s;h, fill'd with black heavy blood.</P>
<P>The <HI>Kidnies</HI> without any blemi&s;h.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Kidnies.</NOTE></P>
<P>The <HI>Midri&s;e,</HI> under the Filme or Membraine,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Midriffe,</NOTE> containing the <HI>Heart</HI> (wherein a little moy&s;ture) &s;potted with black leadi&s;h colour by rea&s;on of the bru&s;ing.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heart.</NOTE></P>
<P>The <HI>Lungs,</HI> the greate&s;t part black,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lungs.</NOTE> the re&s;t all &s;potted with black, imbrewed and full of a|du&s;t blood, with a corrupt, and thick Serocity, which by a vent made in the <HI>Lungs,</HI> came out fo|ming in great abundance. In which doing, and cutting a &s;mall Skin, which invironeth the <HI>Heart</HI> to &s;hew the &s;ame, the <HI>Chirurgian</HI> by chance cutting the Trunck of the great Veine, the mo&s;t part of the blood i&s;&s;ued out into the Che&s;t, leaving the lower Veins empty; upon &s;ight whereof, they concluded an <HI>extream heat</HI> and
<PB N="154" REF="82">fullne&s;&s;e; &amp; the &s;ame more appea|red, that the windpipe, with the Throat &amp; Tongue,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Throat.</NOTE> were covered with thick blackne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>The <HI>Tongue</HI> cleft and dry in many places.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tongue.</NOTE></P>
<P>The <HI>hinder Veins</HI> called <HI>Pia|mater,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Piamater.</NOTE> in the Inmo&s;t Filme of the <HI>Braine,</HI> &s;wolne, abundance of blood, more than naturall.</P>
<P>The Sub&s;tance of the <HI>Braine,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Braine.</NOTE> faire and clcere; but the ventricks thereof, full of cleere water, in great abundance, which was en|gendred by rea&s;on of the <HI>Feaver Maligne,</HI> divers humors being gathered together, of a long time before. He not being &s;ubject to any dangerous Sickne&s;&s;e by Birth.</P>
<P>The other part,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Without poy&s;on.</NOTE> by rea&s;on of the Convul&s;ions, re&s;oundings and benummings, and of the fullne&s;&s;e, choaking the naturall hear, and de&s;troying the vitalls,
<PB N="155" REF="82">by their <HI>Malignity, have convayed Him to the Grave without any teken or accident of Poy&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>His admirable patience, in all his &s;ickne&s;&s;e, might deceive the <HI>Phy&s;icians</HI> never dreaming dan|ger.</P>
<P>The <HI>Urines</HI> &s;hewd none. And the unknown &s;tate of His greate&s;t griefe, lay <HI>clo&s;ely rooted in His head,</HI> which in the opening was di&s;co|vered.</P>
<P>But the Picture of <HI>Death</HI> by a &s;trange extraordinary Counte|nance, from the beginning,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">And vain|ly &s;urmi|&s;ed.</NOTE> po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ing him, hath been the cau&s;e, that &s;ome vainely rumored, that <HI>He was Poy&s;oned.</HI></P>
<P>But no Symptome appearing,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">By &s;ent.</NOTE> it is &s;urmi&s;ed, that He might be <HI>Poy&s;oned</HI> by a <HI>Sent.</HI></P>
<P>But indeed, <HI>He died in the Rage of a Malicious Extraordinary Bur|ning Fever.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;eventh of <HI>December,</HI>
<PB N="156" REF="83">He was Interred at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> 1612.</P>
<P>His Motto's <HI>Fax mentis, Hone&s;tae Gloria.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Juvat ire per Altum.</HI></P>
<P>He was comely <HI>tall;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">De&s;cripti|on,</NOTE> five Foot eight Inches high; <HI>Strong</HI> and well made; &s;omewhat <HI>broad Shoulders;</HI> a &s;mall <HI>Waste, Amiable</HI> with <HI>Ma|je&s;ty.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">and</NOTE> His <HI>Haire</HI> Aborn colour. Long <HI>Faced,</HI> and broad <HI>For-head,</HI> a pearcing grave <HI>Eye;</HI> a gracious <HI>Smile;</HI> but with a <HI>Frowne, dan|ting.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Courteous</HI> and <HI>affable;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Character.</NOTE> naturall <HI>Shamefa&s;t</HI> and <HI>modest. Patient</HI> and &s;low to Anger. <HI>Mercifull</HI> and ju|dicious in puni&s;hing offendors. <HI>Quick</HI> to conceive, yet not ra&s;h. Very con&s;tant in re&s;olves. Won|derfull <HI>&s;ecret</HI> of any <HI>tru&s;t,</HI> even from his <HI>Youth.</HI> His <HI>Corage Prince|like, fearle&s;s, noble, undaunted;</HI> &s;ay|ing that there &s;hould be nothing impo&s;&s;ible to Him, that had bin
<PB N="157" REF="83"><HI>done</HI> by another. Mo&s;t <HI>Religious</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;tian,</HI> Prote&s;ting His great <HI>de&s;ire</HI> to compo&s;e <HI>differences</HI> in <HI>Religion.</HI></P>
<P>In a word; He was never heard, by any body living to <HI>&s;wear</HI> an <HI>Oath,</HI> And it was remembred at his <HI>Fu|nerall Sermon</HI> by the Archbi&s;hop, that He being commended by one for not replying with pa&s;&s;ion in <HI>Rlay,</HI> or <HI>&s;wearing</HI> to the <HI>truth;</HI> He &s;hould an&s;wer, That He knew no <HI>Game,</HI> or <HI>Value</HI> to be won or lo&s;t, that could be worth an <HI>Oath.</HI></P>
<P>To &s;ay no more, <HI>Such and &s;o many were His Virtues, that they co|vered Sin.</HI></P>
<P>We are told by our Pam|phlet <HI>[that his death was foretold by Bruce,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 85</NOTE> who was therefore bani&s;hed]</HI> And if &s;o, he de&s;erved rather to be hanged.</P>
<P>But in truth, He was not ba|ni&s;hed at all, but wi&s;ely remo|ved
<PB N="158" REF="84">him&s;elf into <HI>Germany,</HI> where his Profe&s;&s;ion of <HI>Prophe&s;ying</HI> gai|ned mo&s;t profit. And from whence all Chri&s;tendome are fill'd with &s;uch <HI>lying foretellings.</HI> But in this particular he needed not much <HI>Art</HI> or <HI>Devills</HI> help to &s;ay <HI>[That Salisburies crazy body &s;hould yeeld to Nature before Prince Henry's.]</HI></P>
<P><HI>And this true &s;tory of Prince</HI> Hen|ry,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 86</NOTE> <HI>may an&s;wer the fourth Remarke in the Preface, that he came not to untimely death.</HI></P>
<P>Sir <HI>Arthur Ingram,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir <HI>Arthur Ingram.</HI> Sir <HI>Lionell Cranfield.</HI></NOTE> and Sir <HI>Lionell Cranfield,</HI> our Pamphlet couples upon the &s;core of <HI>Mer|chants;</HI> though the latter being of merit and was rank'd with the Peers.</P>
<P><HI>Ingram</HI> was bred a <HI>Merchant,</HI> and for his wit and wealth imployed as a <HI>Cu&s;tomer:</HI> and afterwards came to that e&s;teem, as to be pre|ferred <HI>Cofferer</HI> in the <HI>Kings hou&s;e;</HI>
<PB N="159" REF="84">and with much <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> and <HI>Policy,</HI> &s;o to be. For the va&s;t expence of the <HI>State,</HI> kept the <HI>Trea&s;ury</HI> dry; E&s;pecially, the needfull <HI>di&s;bur&s;e|ments</HI> of the <HI>Court,</HI> divided into <HI>Severalls,</HI> of <HI>King, Queen, Prince, Prince&s;s, and Pal&s;grave, and Duke.</HI> And at this time al&s;o of the <HI>Mar|riage,</HI> and, who more proper to a&s;&s;i&s;t (the <HI>Revenue</HI> failing) but &s;uch able men as the&s;e; who could, and hone&s;tly might, di&s;cover the cun|ning craft of the co&s;ening <HI>Mer|chant.</HI> And it was high time &s;o to doe, or the <HI>Cu&s;tomers</HI> had In|gros'd all the <HI>wealth</HI> of the <HI>Com|monweal.</HI></P>
<P>Though our <HI>Pamphlet</HI> be&s;towes on them the Characters <HI>[of evill Birds de&s;iling their own Ne&s;ts]</HI> what is our <HI>Anthor</HI> then?
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 87</NOTE> <HI>who de|&s;il'd the Court that gave him bree|ding, defamed the King that gave him hread?</HI></P>
<P>And this I know, That the <HI>King</HI>
<PB N="160" REF="85">mo&s;t prudent, put this cour&s;e in <HI>practice</HI> at <HI>Court</HI> (&s;omewhat dif|fering I confe&s;s in the Line of <HI>A&s;|cent,</HI> to the <HI>Hou&s;hold preferment,</HI> which ri&s;es by <HI>Order</HI> and <HI>Suc|ce&s;&s;ion.</HI>)</P>
<P>This Man Sir <HI>Arthur Ingram</HI> a <HI>&s;tranger</HI> in <HI>Court,</HI> &s;tept in to di&s;|cover the <HI>concealments</HI> of the <HI>Green Clo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">h</HI> al&s;o, and when this Tyde had its Ebb, it returned a|gain to its wonted Chanell. And 'tis true, that the <HI>King</HI> &s;hif|ted the fault upon his <HI>Favorit. An ordinary fate, which of ten fol|lows them, to beare the burthen of their Ma&s;ters mi&s;takes.</HI> Which yet was but an <HI>Experiment,</HI> proper enough for the <HI>Lord Chamberlain</HI> to put in practice.</P>
<P>He being layd a&s;ide,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir <HI>Lionell Cranfield.</HI></NOTE> Sir <HI>Lionell Craufield</HI> came into publick, up|on &s;uch like <HI>De&s;ign,</HI> but in a <HI>nobler way.</HI></P>
<P>I find him of an antient Fami|ly
<PB N="161" REF="85">in <HI>Gloce&s;ter&s;hire,</HI> as by their bea|ring of Arms in the Heralds office appears.</P>
<P>This <HI>Gentleman,</HI> a Brother unto Sir <HI>Randall Cranfield,</HI> who inhe|rited his fathers po&s;&s;e&s;sions <HI>there,</HI> and in other <HI>Counties,</HI> of good <HI>value;</HI> And in <HI>Kent;</HI> Neigh|bouring Our <HI>Authors habitati|on.</HI></P>
<P>He was bred, a <HI>Merchant Ad|venturer,</HI> in <HI>London,</HI> and by his extraordinary qualities, and the ble&s;sing of God upon his <HI>indea|vours,</HI> in that mo&s;t commendable way of <HI>Adventure,</HI> (be&s;ides his great under&s;tanding in the affairs of the <HI>Cu&s;tomes</HI>) became u&s;efull to the <HI>State.</HI></P>
<P>And fir&s;t, had the honour of <HI>Knighthood;</HI> then the <HI>Cu&s;tody</HI> of the Kings <HI>Wardrobes;</HI> afterwards <HI>Ma&s;ter of the Court of Wards and Liveries;</HI> and la&s;tly &s;ucceeded <HI>Suffolke,</HI> in the place of <HI>Trea&s;urer</HI>
<PB N="162" REF="86">of <HI>England;</HI> and in that time, created <HI>Earle of Middle&s;ex.</HI></P>
<P>In all which Offices of <HI>Tru&s;t;</HI> I never knew <HI>then,</HI> nor can find <HI>&s;ithence,</HI> any &s;u&s;picion, unle&s;&s;e in that of the <HI>Trea&s;ury. The ground whereof is hinted unto us by our Author.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 166.</NOTE> But in truth, in this He hath but <HI>Scumm'd the Pot,</HI> to <HI>cleere the Broth.</HI> For indeed, who more fit (for the rea&s;ons I have &s;hewed) than this man of <HI>experience,</HI> in Stating the <HI>Accompts,</HI> for the <HI>Revenues</HI> of the <HI>State,</HI> which I know he improved, and not unlikely <HI>thereby,</HI> purcha&s;ed <HI>Envy</HI> for his <HI>Eminency.</HI> And to &s;ay truth, according to his <HI>Place,</HI> He did indeavor to <HI>Husband</HI> the &s;ame <HI>to piece out with the expence,</HI> which the <HI>Princes Iourney</HI> into <HI>Spain,</HI> had wonderfully and unne|ce&s;&s;arily <HI>exhau&s;ted;</HI> as by the <HI>Prin|ted accompt</HI> thereof lately divul|ged by <HI>Parliament,</HI> doth manife&s;tly
<PB N="163" REF="86">appeare. Then which no better <HI>Evidence</HI> can be produced to ac|quit the <HI>Trea&s;urer,</HI> together with what the <HI>Pamphletter</HI> publi&s;hes as a &s;uppo&s;ed crime,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 166.</NOTE> <HI>[His refu&s;all to &s;upply that journey and Bucking|hams folly and prodigality;]</HI> and this <HI>[He did deny]</HI> as the duty of his Office required, and which He well under&s;tood, as being <HI>[of Coun&s;ell and acted as a Coun&s;el|lour in that undertaking] to My knowledg;</HI> and as indeed being then the State&s;man at the <HI>Coun&s;ell</HI> Table.</P>
<P>But his refu&s;all of <HI>&s;upplying Buckingham,</HI> upon that <HI>Score only,</HI> wrought him (no doubt) at his returne home, the <HI>Trea&s;urers</HI> great enemy.</P>
<P>And whom He oppo&s;ed <HI>[a &s;mall accu&s;ation might &s;erve the turne, to turne any Man out of all]</HI> as He did, Him.</P>
<P>And yet to the Honour of his
<PB N="164" REF="87"><HI>Memory;</HI> though they raked into all his <HI>actions,</HI> and <HI>racked</HI> all mens <HI>di&s;coveries,</HI> to the <HI>height</HI> of <HI>Infor|mation,</HI> the power of <HI>Buckingham</HI> could never produce any <HI>Crime,</HI> (though mightely attempted) again&s;t his <HI>exact accompts, in that boundle&s;&s;e tru&s;t of the tempting Trea&s;ury.</HI></P>
<P>And in &s;pite of <HI>Malice,</HI> though they dive&s;ted him of that <HI>Office,</HI> yet He lived long after in <HI>Peace, Wealth,</HI> and <HI>Houour;</HI> And died &s;ince the&s;e times of inquiry, lea|ving to his <HI>Heire, his Honors un|taint; with a plentifull E&s;tate to all his Children; enabling them to beare up the worthy Character of their Fathers meritts.</HI></P>
<P>And thus, having digre&s;&s;ed in our <HI>matter</HI> beyond our <HI>time;</HI> we returne to the fir&s;t <HI>appearance</HI> of our <HI>new Favorite,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>George Villiers,</HI> 89 His di|&s;cent.</NOTE> George Villiers,</HI> who was of an Ancient <HI>Family</HI> in <HI>Leice&s;ter&s;hire.</HI> His Father Sir <HI>Ed|ward
<PB N="165" REF="87">Villiers,</HI> begat him, upon a &s;econd <HI>Wife, Mary Beomont,</HI> of <HI>Noble birth;</HI> whom for Her <HI>beauty</HI> and <HI>goodne&s;&s;e</HI> He <HI>Married.</HI> He had by Her three Sonnes, <HI>Iohn Vi&s;|count Purbeck, George Duke of Buckingham,</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Earle of Angle&s;ey;</HI> and one <HI>Daughter, Su&s;an Counte&s;&s;e of Denbigh.</HI></P>
<P>Our <HI>Pamphlet</HI> tells us.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Page. 90.</NOTE> <HI>[That He came over by chance, from his French Travells; and &s;ought his pre|ferment in Mariage with any body, but mist of his match, for want of a hundred Marks Ioynture.]</HI> And &s;o pieces him for the Court (like in the Story of <HI>Dametas Capari|&s;ons</HI>) borrowing of every one <HI>piecemeal,</HI> to put him forward for the <HI>Kings Favourite.</HI></P>
<P>The truth is thus, His <HI>Mother</HI> a <HI>Widdow,</HI> was lately Married unto Sir <HI>Thomas Compton,</HI> &s;econd <HI>Brother</HI> to the <HI>Lord Compton;</HI> who by chance falling upon a wonder|full
<PB N="166" REF="88">match (for matchle&s;s wealth) with <HI>Alderman Sir John Spencers</HI> Daughter and Heir.</P>
<P>And his Father then lately dead, this <HI>Lord</HI> was <HI>Ma&s;ter</HI> of all, which was of more than credible; and &s;o might be enabled bountifully to &s;et up a <HI>Kin&s;man,</HI> without help, or alms of the <HI>Pari&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>And it was plotted long before, and <HI>Villiers</HI> &s;ent for to the &s;ame purpo&s;e. And this indeed, was done by practice of &s;ome <HI>Engli&s;h Lords.</HI></P>
<P>And I can tell him the <HI>time</HI> and <HI>place.</HI> There was a great, but private <HI>Entertainment</HI> at Supper, at <HI>Baynards Ca&s;tle,</HI> by the Family of <HI>Herberts, Hartford</HI> and <HI>Bedford,</HI> and <HI>&s;ome others;</HI> By the way in <HI>Fleet|street,</HI> hung out <HI>Somer&s;ets picture,</HI> at a Painters Stall; which one of the <HI>Lords</HI> envying, bad his Foot|man <HI>&s;ling dirt in the face;</HI> which he did: and gave me occa&s;ion there|by,
<PB N="167" REF="88">to ask my Companion upon what <HI>&s;core</HI> that was done. He told me, That this meeting would di&s;|cover. And truly, I waited neer, and opportune, and &s;o was ac|quainted with the <HI>De&s;ign,</HI> to bring in <HI>Villiers.</HI> And thus backt. <HI>[Our new Favourite needed not to borrow, nor to &s;eek out many Bravo'es to &s;econd his Quarrels,]</HI> which at fir&s;t, I con|fe&s;s he met with.</P>
<P>For, having bought the place of <HI>Cup bearer</HI> to the <HI>King,</HI> his right was, to have the upper end of the <HI>Table,</HI> at the rever&s;ion of the <HI>Kings Diet;</HI> only during his mo|nethly wayting. But he, not &s;o perfect a <HI>Courtier</HI> in the <HI>Orders</HI> of the <HI>Hou&s;e,</HI> &s;et him&s;elf fir&s;t (out of his month) when it was not his due; and was told of it, and &s;o removed: which was not done with over much <HI>kindne&s;&s;e;</HI> for in|deed, the <HI>Other</HI> was <HI>Somer&s;ets Crea|ture.</HI></P>
<PB N="158" REF="89">
<P>But not long after, this party by chance, (rather than by de&s;igne) &s;pilt upon <HI>Villiers</HI> cloaths, as he carried meat to the <HI>Kings Table;</HI> and returning to Dinner, <HI>Villiers</HI> gave him a <HI>box</HI> on the <HI>Eare;</HI> For which the <HI>Cu&s;tome</HI> of the <HI>Court</HI> was to have his hand cut off, and which belonged to <HI>Somer&s;et, as Chamberlain,</HI> to pro&s;ecute the <HI>Exe|cution,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Favorite.</NOTE> as he did. And here the <HI>Kings</HI> mercifull <HI>pardon,</HI> without any &s;atisfaction to the party, made him appear a <HI>Budding Favorite.</HI></P>
<P>And now we are fallen upon a &s;tory <HI>[of fooling and fidling]</HI> &s;ometime u&s;ed for <HI>Courtlike recre|ations</HI> I confe&s;&s;e;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 91.</NOTE> but alwayes, with &s;o much <HI>wit</HI> as might well become the <HI>Exerci&s;e</HI> of an <HI>Acade|my;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Not <HI>Ger|biers.</HI></NOTE> which our Author mi&s;con|&s;trues, and calls <HI>[a Brothelry] to u&s;her in the New Favorite, and to out the Old One,</HI> (who&s;e Misfor|tunes with his Lady, brake out,
<PB N="159" REF="89">even now as we have told of before.</P>
<P>And now indeed,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 124.</NOTE> all the brow&s;e boughs cut downe, or removed, to plain the <HI>Stemm;</HI> our <HI>Favorite</HI> appears, like a <HI>proper Palm.</HI></P>
<P>His fir&s;t &s;tep into honourable <HI>Office,</HI> was in the <HI>Admiralty,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Admiralls.</NOTE> to &s;ucceed a good and gallant <HI>Old Lord</HI> of <HI>Nottingham,</HI> who being almo&s;t <HI>Bed ridd,</HI> made &s;ute to the King, That him&s;elf might di&s;po&s;e his place, as a <HI>Legacy,</HI> in his life time upon <HI>Villiers:</HI> which was &s;o done; and who, to my know|ledge, went in <HI>Per&s;on</HI> to acknow|ledg the <HI>Kindne&s;&s;e,</HI> and pre&s;ented his <HI>Young Lady,</HI> with a very <HI>noble</HI> and <HI>valuable reward,</HI> which my <HI>Lord Compton paid for,</HI> and be&s;ides a <HI>Pen&s;ion</HI> therefore, during his life. And all this was done with &s;o much <HI>love</HI> and <HI>liking,</HI> that I have often ob&s;erved <HI>Villiers</HI> his great
<PB N="170" REF="90">Civility to him ever after, at each meeting to call him <HI>Father, and bend his knee,</HI> without the lea&s;t re|gret of the <HI>Lord,</HI> that <HI>gained</HI> more than he lo&s;t by the <HI>bargain,</HI> and did not co&s;t the <HI>King a penny.</HI></P>
<P>And becau&s;e Sir <HI>Robert Man&s;ell</HI> (a dependant of <HI>Nottingham</HI>) had the place of <HI>Vice-Admirall</HI> at plea|&s;ure only; <HI>Villiers</HI> (for his Lords &s;ake) continued him by <HI>Patent, during life.</HI></P>
<P>For which <HI>Courte&s;ie,</HI> the good <HI>Old man</HI> came him&s;elf to give thanks, (as I remember) the la&s;t <HI>Complement his age gave him leave to offer.</HI></P>
<P>And thus was this <HI>Office</HI> of Ho|nor and Safety to the Kingdom, <HI>Ordered</HI> from the Command of a decrepid old Man to a proper young Lord, and &s;trengthned with the abilities of an experien|ced <HI>A&s;si&s;tant,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 124.</NOTE> without de&s;erving the lea&s;t quarrelling <HI>Item,</HI> of
<PB N="171" REF="90">our <HI>Carping Pamphleter.</HI></P>
<P>The next in our way,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chancel|lor <HI>Eger|ton.</HI></NOTE> is that of the Lord <HI>Egerton,</HI> He was <HI>Chan|cellor of England,</HI> a man very aged, and now with &s;ickne&s;&s;e fallen on his <HI>aeath-bed.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 125.</NOTE></P>
<P>The <HI>Term</HI> come, and the <HI>Scal to be di&s;po&s;ed,</HI> In order thereunto, the <HI>King</HI> &s;ent <HI>Secretary Winwood</HI> (not <HI>Bacon</HI>) for the <HI>Seal,</HI> with this <HI>Me&s;&s;age, That him&s;elf would be his under keeper,</HI> and <HI>not to di&s;po&s;e it whil&s;t he lived, to bear the name of Chancellor.</HI> Nor did any receive the <HI>Seale,</HI> out of the Kings &s;ight, till <HI>Egerton</HI> was <HI>dead,</HI> which fol|lowed &s;oon after.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Francis Bacon</HI> &s;ucceeded him in the <HI>Chancery.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chancel|lor <HI>Bacon.</HI></NOTE> He was <HI>Attorney Generall,</HI> and as others by that <HI>Place,</HI> and the u&s;uall way of pre|ferment (time without memory) come to high <HI>Office</HI> of <HI>Iudicature,</HI> either in <HI>Chancery,</HI> or to the other <HI>Benches,</HI> &s;o did he ri&s;e.</P>
<PB N="172" REF="91">
<P>He was a man of Excellent parts, of all other learning, as of that of the <HI>Law;</HI> and as proper for that <HI>place</HI> as any man of the <HI>Gown.</HI> His <HI>merits</HI> made him &s;o then, which in after time his <HI>vi|ces</HI> blemi&s;hed, and he ju&s;tly re|moved to his private <HI>Studies,</HI> which <HI>render</HI> him to the world full of <HI>worth:</HI> and with the &s;mall <HI>Charity</HI> of our <HI>Author,</HI> might merit the <HI>Bayes,</HI> before any <HI>Man of that age.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o we &s;hall &s;pare our labor, to ob&s;erve his entrance into that Honor; <HI>by the idle Me&s;&s;age from Buckingham,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 127.</NOTE> made up only by our Au|thors mouth. [Who tells us of his grow|ings, heighth and pride. Particularly intimated afterwards to the King in Scotland,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 131.</NOTE> by Letters from Winwood, which the King read unto our Au|thor.]</HI> At which [he &s;ayes, <HI>they were very merry.</HI>] Good God! The King opens his <HI>bo&s;ome</HI> to him, at
<PB N="173" REF="91">that in&s;tant (not u&s;uall to any of the <HI>Green-cloth</HI>) when this <HI>Man,</HI> &s;o vilely &s;tudied, and plotted his <HI>Soveraigns,</HI> and that <HI>Kingdoms di&s;|honor?</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Vide</HI> Pre|face.</NOTE> for which he was turned out of the <HI>Court.</HI> Was the King &s;o gracious to him, &amp; he &s;o grace|le&s;s, then, and &s;ince, in the Pam|phlet to defame him, and his Po|&s;terity? <HI>He that eats of his bread, lifts up his hand to de&s;troy him.</HI></P>
<P>And afterwards we are told his downfall: <HI>which he &s;ays, at la&s;t hum|bled him to a</HI> Hor&s;e boy.</P>
<P>He did (as became him to do to the Hou&s;e of Peers) pro&s;trate <HI>him|&s;elf</HI> and <HI>&s;ins,</HI> which ingeniou&s;ly he <HI>acknowledged,</HI> craving <HI>pardon</HI> of <HI>God</HI> and <HI>Them,</HI> promi&s;ing with <HI>Gods</HI> mercy to <HI>amend his life;</HI> which he made good to the <HI>worlds Eye.</HI> Tho&s;e excellent <HI>works</HI> contrived in his <HI>Retirements,</HI> dee manife&s;t.</P>
<P>And let me give this <HI>light</HI> to His <HI>better Character;</HI> from an <HI>ob&s;ervation</HI>
<PB N="174" REF="92">of the <HI>late King,</HI> then <HI>Prince;</HI> re|turning from hunting, He e&s;pied a Coach, attended with a good|ly Troop of <HI>Hor&s;emen,</HI> who it &s;eems were gathered together, to wait upon the <HI>Chancellour</HI> to his Hou&s;e at <HI>Gorembury,</HI> at the time of his <HI>declen&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P>At which, the <HI>Prince</HI> &s;miled; <HI>Well! do we what we can, &s;aid He, This Man &s;cornes to go out like a Snuffe.</HI> Commending his un|daunted <HI>Spirit,</HI> and <HI>excellent parts;</HI> not without &s;ome regrett, that &s;uch a <HI>Man</HI> &s;hould be <HI>falling off.</HI> And all this, much differing from <HI>Our Authors Character of Him.</HI></P>
<P>Tho&s;e times are complained of.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 129.</NOTE> <HI>[What ba&s;e cour&s;es our Favourite took to rai&s;e moneys for advance of his beggerly Kindred.]</HI> Heretofore we are told, that the <HI>Great Men ma&s;tered all:</HI> &amp; now, the affairs are <HI>Managed</HI> with <HI>beggerly fellows;</HI> &amp;
<PB N="175" REF="92">concludes again&s;t him&s;elfe, that <HI>Riches make Men Cowards, and Poverty Valiant.</HI></P>
<P>Tis true, <HI>Plenty</HI> makes Men <HI>Proude,</HI> and <HI>Indu&s;try</HI> brings a <HI>Man</HI> to <HI>Honour.</HI> Had our <HI>Author</HI> lived to <HI>the&s;e</HI> our <HI>dayes,</HI> and ob&s;erved as much now, as he pried into then; He mu&s;t have &s;poke other Lan|guage; unle&s;&s;e (as likely He could) hold with the <HI>Hare,</HI> and run with the <HI>Hounds.</HI></P>
<P>We all know the <HI>Duke</HI> of <HI>Buckingham</HI> had many <HI>Kindred,</HI> for his <HI>Family were Antient.</HI> And di&s;per&s;ed by time, into &s;everall <HI>Matches with the Gentry;</HI> who no doubt, did addre&s;&s;e to the <HI>Favou|rite</HI> for preferment. And what &s;trange, or new device was it in Him, to rai&s;e them, that were neere in Blood, by <HI>Noble</HI> and worthy wayes, as he did; and if our Author had liked, to lick after the <HI>Kitchen-maid,</HI> had
<PB N="176" REF="93">it been hand&s;ome for a <HI>Kin&s;man,</HI> to have <HI>kickt</HI> at his <HI>kindne&s;&s;e?</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 129, 130.</NOTE></P>
<P>Good God, what a Summary Bead-roll of <HI>Pen&s;ioners</HI> are li&s;ted in our <HI>Authors Account;</HI> Sure He became <HI>Regi&s;ter,</HI> to the <HI>Revenue</HI> of that <HI>Rabble. Chancellour, Attorney, Deans, Bi&s;hops, Trea&s;urers, Rich and Poore,</HI> raking upon the rates of <HI>Offices, Bi&s;hopricks, Deaneries with Fines and Pen&s;ions.</HI> Other|wi&s;e he &s;ayes <HI>It had been impo&s;&s;ible that three Kingdomes could have Maintained His Beggerly Kin|dred.</HI></P>
<P>Oh,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 7.</NOTE> <HI>but He mu&s;t tell us,</HI> He made them all Lords, w^c^h^. got him much haued. He did &s;o, and he did <HI>well.</HI> He made his two <HI>Brothers Peers,</HI> his <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Si&s;ter Counte&s;&s;es,</HI> the re&s;t of his kindred, by his Countenance, got means to live like their <HI>Birth-rights,</HI> being a <HI>Race Hand&s;ome and Beauti|full.</HI></P>
<PB N="177" REF="93">
<P>And yet let me tell him, I have been often pre&s;ent, when it hath been urged <HI>as a Crime to this great Man, the neglect of his owne;</HI> when the di&s;cour&s;e hath been pre&s;t, <HI>for preferment of his Freinds.</HI> And this I know, for I acted there|in. The Late <HI>King in honour of Buckinghams Memory</HI> &s;upplied the nece&s;&s;ities of his <HI>Kindred,</HI> which his untimely death left without &s;upport.</P>
<P>As for the ba&s;e Ob&s;ervations, through and through the <HI>Pam|phlet,</HI> though I liv'd in the <HI>&s;hadow</HI> of the <HI>Court rea&s;onable years,</HI> to &s;ee many <HI>turns</HI> of <HI>State;</HI> Yet I confe&s;&s;e, my time other wayes <HI>diverted,</HI> than to rake after &s;o much <HI>Ribaldry,</HI> and <HI>bea&s;tly baw|dery,</HI> as now to que&s;tion this his <HI>peeping, pimping,</HI> into each <HI>Petti|coat Placket;</HI> and for his &s;ufficien|ency therein, he might have been made <HI>Master</HI> of the <HI>Game.</HI></P>
<PB N="178" REF="94">
<P>In <HI>Bacons</HI> place,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 139. Doctor <HI>Williams</HI> Lord Kee|per.</NOTE> comes to pre|ferment <HI>Doctor Williams</HI> (by the title of <HI>Keeper of the Seal,</HI> during plea&s;ure, which the <HI>Chancellor</HI> hath for life.) He was al&s;o <HI>Dean of We&s;t|min&s;ter,</HI> and <HI>Ei&s;hop of Lincolne;</HI> brought in (&s;ayes he) <HI>[to &s;erve turns, to do that, which no Layman was &s;ound bad enough to undertake.]</HI></P>
<P>Former <HI>Ages,</HI> held it more <HI>con&s;onant to Rea&s;on,</HI> to tru&s;t the <HI>Con&s;cience of the Clergy,</HI> with the <HI>Ca&s;e of the Layman</HI> they be&s;t know|ing a <HI>Ca&s;e of Con&s;cience.</HI></P>
<P>And antiently, the <HI>Civill Law</HI> was allwayes judged by the <HI>Mi|ni&s;ters of the Church:</HI> and the <HI>Chan|cery,</HI> and <HI>Courts of Equity,</HI> in charge of a <HI>Divine Mini&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>So ran that <HI>Channell,</HI> till <HI>Bacons Father had it from a Bi&s;hop,</HI> and now a <HI>Bi&s;hop</HI> has it again.</P>
<P>And had <HI>King Iames</HI> lived to have effected his de&s;ires, the <HI>Cler|gy</HI> had fixed firm footing in <HI>Courts
<PB N="179" REF="94">of Iudicature,</HI> (out of the rode of the <HI>Common Law.</HI>)</P>
<P>And this was the true <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> of <HI>Williams Initiation</HI> thither. How he fell from <HI>that,</HI> and other his wayes <HI>&s;ince,</HI> from <HI>wor&s;e to wor&s;t of all,</HI> we leave him, if he be <HI>living, to lead a better life, and make a Godly end, Amen.</HI></P>
<P>'Tis no new matter to tell us,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 143. <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Match. Fift Re|mark.</NOTE> That the <HI>Spani&s;h Ie&s;uit</HI> is more than our <HI>Match</HI> in the intricate way of <HI>Treaty,</HI> being enabled to <HI>Out-wit</HI> us and all the <HI>world</HI> be&s;ides. Of which we made <HI>tryall,</HI> upon <HI>tru&s;t</HI> of our <HI>Emi&s;&s;aries,</HI> and now the <HI>King</HI> was minded to put it to the <HI>touch.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o re&s;olved, That the <HI>Prince,</HI> with <HI>Buckingham</HI> and <HI>Cot|tington,</HI> and a dome&s;tick of the <HI>Dukes,</HI> &s;hould hazard a <HI>Iourney</HI> into <HI>Spain;</HI> Being invited thither by <HI>&s;ecret Intimation of Sir Walter A&s;ton, Amba&s;&s;ador Extraordinary,</HI> with the <HI>Earl of Bri&s;tow, Leiger.</HI> Which was
<PB N="180" REF="95">to put period to that bu&s;ine&s;s of a <HI>Marriage,</HI> that had la&s;ted long enough in <HI>De&s;ign,</HI> to weary both <HI>Parties.</HI> Nor was it held &s;uch a <HI>Ranting journey</HI> by wi&s;e Men, that knew more perhaps, than our <HI>Author</HI> would make us beleeve he did.</P>
<P>For the great bu&s;ines <HI>Inclu&s;ive</HI> with the <HI>Match,</HI> was to get <HI>Render</HI> of the <HI>Palatinate,</HI> which this <HI>way,</HI> or <HI>none,</HI> was to be expected.</P>
<P>And it appeared afterwards, That though the <HI>Spaniard</HI> did pre|tend it, yet he had other <HI>Overtures</HI> with the <HI>Hou&s;e of Au&s;tria,</HI> as a <HI>double bow-string.</HI></P>
<P>All which, we &s;u&s;pected before; and therefore it was a <HI>Prince-like boldne&s;&s;e,</HI> to bring it to i&s;&s;ue by <HI>him|&s;elf,</HI> or to break the <HI>Bonds</HI> a&s;under. Which at his being <HI>there,</HI> he &s;oon <HI>di&s;covered,</HI> and &s;o retur|ned.</P>
<P>Wherein, <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> a &s;u&s;pected
<PB N="181" REF="95"><HI>Pen&s;ioner</HI> to that <HI>State,</HI> did not &s;o timely unmask the <HI>Spani&s;h Coun|&s;ells,</HI> to the <HI>Princes advantage,</HI> as he might and ought to have done. For which neglect, it had like to have co&s;t him his <HI>life,</HI> when he came <HI>home</HI> to the true <HI>Examina|tion.</HI></P>
<P>But evermore we mu&s;t expect a <HI>bawdy tale</HI> in our <HI>Authors</HI> &s;tories.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamp. 146.</NOTE> Which, to all <HI>Men</HI> that know the retired <HI>cu&s;tome</HI> of the <HI>Spani&s;h Wives</HI> (much more of the <HI>Grandees Ladies</HI>) from conver&s;ing, or &s;ight of <HI>their owne,</HI> either <HI>kindred,</HI> or <HI>friends,</HI> (much more of &s;trangers) mu&s;t needs di&s;credit this <HI>Tale</HI> of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> with <HI>Olyvares Counte&s;s,</HI> as ab&s;urd and feigned.</P>
<P>Nor hath our <HI>Author,</HI> either <HI>Court&s;hip</HI> or <HI>Civill</HI> breeding other|wi&s;e to under&s;tand, what the <HI>Princes</HI> behaviour &s;hould have been, towards &s;o great a <HI>Per&s;on</HI> as the <HI>Infanta of Spain:</HI> but to al|low
<PB N="182" REF="96">him, his <HI>cap cap on his head, and prevacy in her Cabinet.</HI></P>
<P>But above all the &s;trains of <HI>im|pudency,</HI> Give me leave to marke out the <HI>In&s;amy</HI> which he endea|vours (oh horrid!) to ca&s;t on <HI>King James;</HI> as of many other which he a&s;perts him, &s;o this <HI>Sans-parell;</HI> intimating thus much, [<HI>That, not glutted with the blood of his dear,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 149.</NOTE> and elde&s;t Sen (that mo&s;t incomparable) Prince Honry, for who&s;e death he &s;hould cunningly di&s;|&s;emble with a feigned &s;orrow. So now to adde to that, and for hatred to Buckingham</HI> (whom the world know he could have bla&s;ted with his breath) <HI>He &s;hould think it no ill bargain, to lo&s;e this Prince, his only Son, and Succe&s;&s;or to all his Crowns.</HI></P>
<P>And to illu&s;trate the Kings wearine&s;&s;e of <HI>Buckingam,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 150.</NOTE> he tells us a <HI>Tale</HI> of the <HI>Lieger Spanish Am|ba&s;&s;ador Marque&s;a d'Innoco&s;&s;a,</HI> and a
<PB N="183" REF="96">Spani&s;h Confe&s;&s;or, <HI>Padre Maie&s;tre,</HI> which he &s;ayes, <HI>was &s;ent to reveal to the King, what he had received under &s;eal of Confe&s;sion, and on pain of dam|nation never to utter) which was,
<MILESTONE N="153"> That the King &s;hould be Murthered by Buckingham, or &s;ome body el&s;e,</HI> (or no body at all.)</P>
<P>Then, <HI>The Kings pa&s;sion hereupon,</HI>
<MILESTONE N="154">(without any other proceeding, to &s;ecure his own life, that was &s;o fearfull to lo&s;e it.)</P>
<P>And then, <HI>That the Duke being challenged with the truth, dur&s;t not fight in his own defence;</HI> which cer|tainly, had he bin &s;o wicked to de&s;igne, the <HI>Devil</HI> might have a&s;&s;i&s;ted him with <HI>courage to</HI> have <HI>countenanced</HI> it.</P>
<P>Indeed,
<MILESTONE N="155" UNIT="Pamph."> there was a Letter of <HI>Complaint</HI> &s;ent to <HI>Spain,</HI> by advice of the <HI>whole Councell</HI> here, to de|mand of that <HI>King,</HI> how far he had Commi&s;&s;ioned his <HI>Amba&s;&s;dor</HI> in an affair of <HI>Con&s;equence,</HI> which
<PB N="184" REF="97">Letter was inclo&s;ed and returned to him, with peremptory com|mand, to give <HI>&s;atisfaction</HI> to the <HI>Prince</HI> and <HI>Duke:</HI> or to be &s;ubject to wor&s;e <HI>Con&s;truction.</HI> Which to my knowledge the Amba&s;&s;ador did recant, (for I copyed the tran|&s;actions;) and with much adoe, begg'd favour of the <HI>Prince,</HI> to be reconciled, upon <HI>&s;ulmi&s;sion;</HI> which the <HI>Prince</HI> in Honor was plea&s;ed to accept, or it might have co&s;t <HI>Innoco&s;&s;a</HI> his head, at his <HI>comming home.</HI></P>
<P>The former &s;tory is interlaced,
<MILESTONE N="151" UNIT="Pamph."> with Ob&s;ervation; [<HI>How Buck|ing ham&s;hifted from tru&s;ting the King, as knowing his de&s;ire to be rid of him. And &s;o the Duke wrought him&s;elf into the Princes poor &s;pirit, with much re|gret of the old King, and every body el&s;e, E&s;pecially, when he &s;hould rather have call'd to mind, the bravery of his brother who hated the whole Family, although, he &s;ayes, none of them
<PB N="185" REF="97">had ever offended him.</HI></P>
<P>Certainly, <HI>Euckingham</HI> was not in <HI>beeing,</HI> when <HI>Prince Henry</HI> died; And if he were, he was more <HI>brave</HI> indeed, than to hate the Family that never did him hurt. But &s;ure our Author meant, <HI>So|mer&s;ets Ladies Family</HI> Howards; For he tells us before, <HI>That Prince Henry would not leave one of them to pi&s;&s;e against the wall</HI> (the Male ones he means.)</P>
<P>And taking occa&s;ion before, to &s;mell out &s;omething of <HI>&s;u&s;pition of Poy&s;on in Prince Henries death;</HI> we are promi&s;ed in his <HI>page</HI> 84.
<MILESTONE N="84" UNIT="Pamph."><HI>that his di&s;cour&s;e following will tell you the truth thereof,</HI> and yet he ne|ver &s;peaks word of him, no more, nor otherwi&s;e than in this place.</P>
<P>Our Author proceeds, and &s;ays,
<MILESTONE N="156" UNIT="Pamph.">[<HI>Now that we have heard, what made the King hate Buckingham, wee &s;hall know the rea&s;on of Bucking|hams
<PB N="186" REF="98">extreme hatred to the King, which is believed to be the cau&s;e of his &s;o &s;peedy death.</HI>]</P>
<P>More poy&s;on yet?</P>
<P>But fir&s;t we proceed to the &s;tory <HI>of Yelverton.</HI></P>
<P>Sir <HI>H.
<MILESTONE N="156" UNIT="Pamph."> Yelverton,</HI> was <HI>Attorney Generall;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir <HI>H. Yel|verton.</HI> Attorney Gener all.</NOTE> and by his place of <HI>Im|ployment,</HI> it was his duty to <HI>manage the charge of Impeachment again&s;t Somer&s;et,</HI> or any Subject what&s;o|ever, without di&s;pute: which he refu&s;ed, as receiving that <HI>place</HI> by his <HI>Favour;</HI> and this <HI>contempt</HI> to the <HI>Kings &s;ervice,</HI> (not without &s;u&s;pition of <HI>concealment</HI> of &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages concerning <HI>Overburies death</HI>) He was for tho&s;e <HI>Rea&s;ons,</HI> (and de&s;ervedly) by the <HI>whole coun|cell,</HI> committed to the <HI>Tower, clo&s;e Pri&s;oner.</HI></P>
<P>Where (we are to be per&s;waded [<HI>the Lieutenant Balfore, admits the Dake to treat with him in pri|va<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e, and then, to peece out a
<PB N="187" REF="98">Peace between them.</HI></P>
<P>Certainly <HI>Yelverton</HI> had Law to teach him, or any other <HI>Pri|&s;oner</HI> of <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> that this was <HI>trea|&s;on</HI> in <HI>Balfore,</HI> and in the Duke to attempt. And therefore to cleer it, <HI>Balfore</HI> him&s;elf hath vowed to a <HI>Pri&s;oner,</HI> &s;ometime under his <HI>Guard,</HI> that there was never any &s;uch <HI>act done</HI> by the Duke, or by his permi&s;&s;ion to any body el&s;e.</P>
<P>But afterwards, upon <HI>Yelvertons</HI> humble &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion, for his former fault; and his Innocency cleared in the other <HI>&s;u&s;pitions;</HI> he was &s;et at liberty. And in truth, accor|ding to the merit of the <HI>Man,</HI> other wayes, he was afterwards tru&s;ted with the <HI>Judgement Seat.</HI></P>
<P>And what was this &s;ecret in|formation, which we are told he &s;hould tell the Duke, [<HI>For|&s;ooth, That which the King &s;pake in
<PB N="188" REF="99">Parliament [not to &s;pare any that was deare&s;t or lay in his bo&s;ome, by which he pointed to you; (meaning the Duke.)]</HI></P>
<P>And mu&s;t <HI>Buckingham</HI> adven|ture his, and the Lieutenants head to learn this <HI>News,</HI> which no doubt the <HI>Duke</HI> heard before, being then at the KING's <HI>Elbow.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="161" UNIT="Pamph."> After this impertinent <HI>digre&s;|&s;ion</HI> (or great &s;ecret) he di&s;|covers (which none ever dream'd of) a wonderfull [<HI>failing of the Spaniards both wi&s;dom and gravity</HI>] And why? gravity?) for&s;ooth. [<HI>That</HI> (which had bin again&s;t all Humanity, Comerce and Cu|&s;tome of Nations) <HI>the Spaniard mi&s;t of the advantage, to impri&s;on the Prince</HI>] a &s;ure pledge (no doubt) for the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> to have gotten the <HI>Heir-dome</HI> of <HI>Eng|land.</HI></P>
<P>And this he tells us for truth,
<PB N="189" REF="99"><HI>[out of their own confe&s;&s;ions]</HI> But they were caught with a trick <HI>[having the Princes faith, and his Proxy to boot, remaining with Dig|by, which might co&s;en them into this kindnes, to let him come home again]</HI> Where at <HI>a Conference of both hou|&s;es of Parlament, Bri&s;toll is blam'd,</HI> and (it being truth) <HI>the Prince owns</HI> it, and <HI>Bri&s;toll</HI> is &s;ent for by au|thority, (otherwi&s;e it had bin pet|ty Trea&s;on in him to return home from his Commi&s;sion.)
<MILESTONE N="163" UNIT="Pamph."></P>
<P>The King of <HI>Spain</HI> (he &s;ayes) <HI>di&s;|&s;wades</HI> Bri&s;tolls <HI>return,</HI> as <HI>doubting the &s;ucce&s;&s;e,</HI> (as well he might, knowing him to be his <HI>Pen&s;ioner</HI>) <HI>who for his &s;ake is like to &s;uf|fer.</HI></P>
<P><HI>But, he being come, and convented before the Parliament, endeavors to cleer him&s;elf, with a &s;ingle Copy of a Paper (and a bawdy tale to boot) again&s;t</HI> Buckingham, <HI>but forbore to tell it out, for offending their cha&s;t Ears.</HI></P>
<PB N="190" REF="100">
<P>In this,
<MILESTONE N="165" UNIT="Pamph."> the Author is &s;o in|genious; as to be judged by the Reader, <HI>what a horrible wound,</HI> Bri&s;toll <HI>gave the Prince or</HI> Buckin|ham? and yet by his Confelsion the wi&s;dome of the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> com|mitted Bri&s;toll to the <HI>Tower, but &s;ome dayes after (not the next day) he was &s;et at liberty, nor dur&s;t any bring him to further tryall.</HI></P>
<P>He was committed for his con|tempt, and might have lain there longer, Pri&s;oner; But the Duke made means for his <HI>Relea&s;e,</HI> le&s;t it &s;hould move a <HI>jealou&s;ie,</HI> that it was his de&s;igne thereby to delay the Tryall. Which, to my knowledg, was earne&s;tly pur&s;ued, by the Duke, and had that Parliament la&s;ted, might have been a dear bar|gain for <HI>Bri&s;toll.</HI></P>
<P>In this Parliament,
<MILESTONE N="168" UNIT="Pamph."> our Author ob&s;erves [<HI>the Princes early hours to act by, where</HI> (he &s;ays) <HI>he di&s;cer|ned &s;o much juggling, to &s;erve his
<PB N="191" REF="100">own ends, that being afterwards come to be King, he could not affect them.</HI></P>
<P>A notable Note, he calls that Parliament <HI>Iugglers,</HI> and gives it a <HI>rea&s;on,</HI> why the late <HI>King</HI> mu&s;t needs di&s;affect all other <HI>Parlia|ments</HI> that &s;ucceeded.</P>
<P>Then have we a di&s;covery of our Authors owne making,
<MILESTONE N="169" UNIT="Pamph."> which is intended (he &s;ays) <HI>as a caution to all States men,</HI> with a &s;ingular Commendation of the wi&s;dome of the late Earl of <HI>Sa|lisbury,</HI> (whom before through|out his Pamphlet he loads with &s;ingular di&s;graces.)</P>
<P>He tels us of a Treaty hereto|fore with <HI>Spain,</HI> for a <HI>Match</HI> with Prince <HI>Henry,</HI> where the jugling was di&s;covered, that there was no &s;uch <HI>intention.</HI> And that the Duke of <HI>Lerma,</HI> the Favorite of <HI>Spain,</HI> leavs the Spani&s;h <HI>Amba&s;&s;ador</HI> here in the lurch to an&s;wer for all; who
<PB N="192" REF="101">in a great &s;nuff, again&s;t tho&s;e that &s;ent him hither, pro&s;trates his Commi&s;sion and letters of Cre|dit, (under the King his Ma&s;ters hand and &s;eale) at the foot of our Councell Table; and &s;o returnes home, (and yet was not hanged for his labour) but liv'd and died, <HI>bonus Legatus.</HI></P>
<P>And thus, our author having hunted the King hitherto; <HI>blowes</HI> his <HI>death</HI> at <HI>parting;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pam. 171. King <HI>James's</HI> Sickne&s;s.</NOTE> which he &s;ayes <HI>[began with a Fever; but en|ded by a poy&s;oned Plai&s;ter, applyed by</HI> Buckingham. <HI>For which being que&s;tiond the very next Parliament, it was ha&s;tily di&s;&s;olved for his &s;ake, only to &s;ave his life.]</HI></P>
<P>In the entrance of the <HI>Spring,</HI> the King was &s;eized with a <HI>Ter|tian Ague;</HI> which to another <HI>Con&s;titution</HI> might not prove <HI>Pe|&s;tilentiall.</HI></P>
<P>But all Men then knew his
<PB N="193" REF="101">Impatience in any pain, and al|wayes utter <HI>Enmity</HI> to any <HI>Phy|&s;ick.</HI> So that nothing was admi|ni&s;tred, to give him <HI>ea&s;e</HI> in his <HI>&s;its.</HI></P>
<P>Which at length grew <HI>violent,</HI> and in tho&s;e <HI>Maladies,</HI> every one is apt to offer advice, with &s;uch <HI>Pre&s;criptions</HI> as have been <HI>helpfull</HI> unto <HI>others;</HI> and in truth, <HI>tho&s;e</HI> as <HI>various,</HI> as the <HI>di&s;ea&s;e</HI> is <HI>Com|mon.</HI></P>
<P>So it was remembred (by a <HI>Noble, vertuous,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Play|&s;ter.</NOTE> and <HI>untaint La|dy,</HI> for <HI>Honour and Honesty,</HI> yet living) of a pre&s;ent ea&s;e, by a <HI>Plai&s;ter</HI> approved upon &s;everall <HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> which, becau&s;e the <HI>Ingre|dients</HI> were <HI>harmle&s;s</HI> and <HI>ordinary,</HI> it was forthwith compounded, andready for <HI>application;</HI> not with|out &s;erious <HI>re&s;olution,</HI> to pre&s;ent it to the <HI>Phy&s;icians con&s;ent.</HI></P>
<P>But the <HI>King,</HI> fallen into <HI>&s;lum|ber,</HI> about <HI>Noone</HI> the <HI>Phy&s;icians</HI>
<PB N="194" REF="102">took opportunity to retire, having <HI>watch'd</HI> all <HI>Night,</HI> till that Time.</P>
<P>When in the interim of their ab&s;ence, the <HI>King</HI> wakes, and falls from a change of his Fit, to timelier effect, than heretofore it u&s;ually happened; which to allay, this <HI>Play&s;ter</HI> was offered, and put to his <HI>Stomach.</HI></P>
<P>But it wrought no <HI>mitigation,</HI> and therefore it was removed by the <HI>Doctors.</HI> Who being come, were much offended, that any <HI>One</HI> dur&s;t a&s;&s;ume this boldne&s;s with|out their <HI>con&s;ents.</HI></P>
<P>But by <HI>Examination,</HI> they were a&s;&s;ured of the <HI>Compo&s;ition,</HI> and a peece therof eaten downe by the <HI>Counte&s;&s;e</HI> that made it; and the <HI>Play&s;ter</HI> it &s;elfe then <HI>in being,</HI> for further <HI>tryall</HI> of any <HI>&s;u&s;pition of poy&s;on.</HI> Which, if not <HI>&s;atisfactory,</HI> it mu&s;t, and ought to <HI>lodge</HI> upon their <HI>&s;core.</HI> Sir <HI>Mathew Li&s;ter,</HI> Doctor <HI>Chambers,</HI> and others,
<PB N="195" REF="102">who were afterwards examined herein, with very great &s;atisfacti|on, to clear that calumny, and are yet living, to evince each <HI>ones &s;u&s;pition.</HI></P>
<P>It was, indeed, remembred the next <HI>Parliament</HI> following; and whereof the <HI>Duke</HI> was accu&s;ed, as a <HI>Boldne&s;s unpardonable;</HI> But in the Charge, (which as I re|member, <HI>Littleton Managed,</HI> at a <HI>Conference</HI> in the <HI>Painted Chamber,</HI>) it was not urg'd as <HI>poy|&s;onous,</HI> but only <HI>criminous.</HI></P>
<P>But [<HI>ere the King dyed,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 174.</NOTE> it is told us, <HI>That Buckingham was accu&s;ed to his face, by an hone&s;t &s;ervant of the Kings,</HI> (name him if you can) <HI>who valiantly tript up the Dukes heels</HI> (that his pate rung Noone) for which, <HI>he call'd upon the ga&s;|ping King</HI> (no body being by) <HI>for Ju&s;tice.</HI> And though &s;peechle&s;&s;e, we are told, <HI>what he would have &s;aid,</HI> viz. <HI>Not wrongfully accu|&s;ed.</HI>]</P>
<PB N="196" REF="103">
<P>And here ob&s;erve;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pamph. 175.</NOTE> he makes <HI>Archbi&s;hop Abott</HI> the <HI>Kings Con|fe&s;sor</HI> at his death; who before, he &s;ayes (pag. 78.) <HI>lived in di&s;|grace, and excluded the Coun&s;ell Table. And dyed in di&s;grace of this King on Earth,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">175.</NOTE> but in favour of the King of Kings. [Bi&s;hop Willi|ams, then Lord Keeper, was the other Confe&s;sor]</HI> and in the mouths of two Witne&s;&s;es con&s;i&s;ts the Truth. What regrett and jea|lou&s;ie remaines then in our <HI>Au|thors</HI> heart? that &s;ome <HI>Mi&s;chief</HI> &s;hould lye hid in the &s;ecrets of the <HI>Sacrament of Confe&s;&s;ion;</HI> which he could not learn, to out-live the Honour and Fame of his <HI>Sacred Soveraign?</HI></P>
<P>How hath our <HI>Author</HI> patch'd up a <HI>Pamphlet</HI> of <HI>State Notions,</HI> pick'd up from the <HI>Gleanings</HI> of &s;ome <HI>Smell-fea&s;t Gue&s;ts,</HI> at his <HI>Ta|ble Diet,</HI> afforded him by the bounty of his <HI>Soveraign Master?</HI>
<PB N="197" REF="103">and which, this <HI>Man</HI> hath as a <HI>Rap|&s;odie,</HI> mingled with <HI>Mi&s;con&s;tru|ction, Incertainties, Improbabilities, Impo&s;&s;ibilities,</HI> In as much he can <HI>to poy&s;on the Memory of His Ma|je&s;ty,</HI> and blanch the Govern|ment of the State, and Court. Wherein, his <HI>Fore-Fathers,</HI> and <HI>Him&s;elfe</HI> tooke <HI>Li&s;e and Livings,</HI> in the advance of his Family, with &s;ome repute and Fortune, to be what they are.</P>
<P><HI>But he is dead; Peace be upon his Grave.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Conclu&s;ion:</HEAD>
<P>ANd thus have we done, with our <HI>Pamphleter,</HI> and his <HI>Book,</HI> My pen being dull'd with di&s;dain, to deale with &s;uch a &s;ubject, were i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> not to enligh|ten <HI>good Men</HI> with the knowledg of a <HI>Truth;</HI> before that either
<PB N="198" REF="104"><HI>age,</HI> or longer time had <HI>wa&s;ted</HI> with too much <HI>Oblivion,</HI> or that the <HI>negligence of others,</HI> (of any) (more able I confe&s;&s;e) had given but too much way to <HI>con|firm</HI> the <HI>ignorant.</HI></P>
<P>What I have don, may &s;eem <HI>defe|ctive</HI> in &s;ome part to &s;ome <HI>Per&s;ons;</HI> who&s;e <HI>Eminence</HI> in <HI>Court,</HI> and years of <HI>Experience,</HI> could have limm'd the <HI>Originalls</HI> with a bolder <HI>Pencill.</HI></P>
<P>However, I have adventured upon this <HI>Copy;</HI> not to <HI>di&s;cou|lour Truth,</HI> by any <HI>Conceale|ment.</HI></P>
<P>A hard Taske, I confe&s;&s;e; When <HI>Mode&s;ty</HI> forbidds the <HI>de|facement of Per&s;ons, departed</HI> to their <HI>Graves of Re&s;t,</HI> whom <HI>living,</HI> we &s;hould not dare to look in the <HI>Face;</HI> And who&s;e <HI>Po&s;terities</HI> enjoy the <HI>merits</HI> of their <HI>Parents Vertues.</HI></P>
<PB N="199" REF="104">
<P>To them I &s;ubmit; <HI>craving par|don,</HI> that without their leave, I have bin bold to &s;peak in their <HI>Cau&s;e;</HI> which might better be|come greater <HI>Abilityes</HI> to <HI>plead.</HI></P>
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<PB N="200" REF="105">
<HEAD>THE CHARACTER</HEAD>
<P>_IT may merit di&s;|pute, whether I &s;hall Quarrell with the <HI>Character of King James,</HI> or let it alone, as the <HI>Pamphletter</HI> hath <HI>de&s;crib'd</HI> Him, which (he &s;ays) <HI>Is ea&s;ier to doe, than to take his Picture;</HI> and he gives the <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> for't, <HI>His Character was obvious to every eye,</HI> I am &s;ure His outward ob&s;ervations are &s;o; in|fering that His <HI>Picture was Inward;</HI> Tis true indeed, His be&s;t <HI>Peece</HI> was His <HI>In&s;ide,</HI> which wi&s;e <HI>men</HI> admir'd.</P>
<P>Was ever <HI>Prince</HI> thus <HI>Limn'd</HI>
<PB N="201" REF="105">out to <HI>Po&s;terity,</HI> by His quilted <HI>Doublets,</HI> and full &s;tuft <HI>Breeches?</HI> who reads His <HI>Court,</HI> needs none of this <HI>Character;</HI> &s;o like they are in <HI>belying.</HI> But I &s;pare the Author, and pitty the <HI>Publi|&s;her.</HI> &mdash; The <HI>deficiency</HI> of the <HI>One,</HI> could not make out the <HI>O|ther.</HI> For it becomes the <HI>Wit</HI> of <HI>Man,</HI> in truth, to apprehend King <HI>James,</HI> who&s;e <HI>wi&s;dome</HI> in His <HI>So|veraignty,</HI> had e&s;teem beyond any Contemporary <HI>Potentate,</HI> with His <HI>Reign.</HI> Take Him in His turn, who had to do <HI>with all</HI> about Him. For at his entrance into His <HI>In|heritance,</HI> He was engaged to go through with the <HI>difficulties,</HI> in <HI>Order as He found them,</HI> Or to make <HI>Bargain</HI> with <HI>All,</HI> the better to <HI>con&s;erve it.</HI></P>
<P>Had He not done &s;o, He might have &s;ound little lei&s;ure, to live in <HI>Peace,</HI> and to enjoy His <HI>Realms</HI> as He did, with as much <HI>quiet</HI> as
<PB N="202" REF="106">ever any King upon <HI>Earth,</HI> &s;ince the Story of <HI>Solomon,</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Who bent all his Coun&s;ells and endea|vours to promote that now exploded Motto of <HI>Beati Pa|cifici.</HI></NOTE> and yet (in the like <HI>Example</HI> with us) fell to <HI>di&s;traction</HI> in his Son that &s;ucceeded. Compare them toge|ther, and find me a <HI>Parallell</HI> with more <HI>even conclu&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P>I know it were to be wi&s;hed, That in <HI>evill effects</HI> we could find out the true <HI>Cau&s;e;</HI> But like blind men, we grope, and catch hold of the neere&s;t; not looking up to Him who ballanceth <HI>Coun&s;ell</HI> with His <HI>Hand,</HI> and di&s;po&s;eth the <HI>Suc|ce&s;&s;e</HI> in the <HI>future,</HI> not alwayes by the <HI>failings</HI> of the <HI>former.</HI></P>
<P>In the Government of His <HI>Birth|place</HI> at home, what <HI>wi&s;dome</HI> was there not, to pre&s;erve Him&s;elfe from <HI>jealou&s;ie</HI> of His <HI>Predece&s;&s;or,</HI> of being too ha&s;ty an <HI>Inheritour</HI> here? what <HI>Je&s;uiticall</HI> plots in the many again&s;t Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> as <HI>Defender</HI> of the <HI>Prote&s;tant Faith,</HI> which becau&s;e <HI>Providence</HI> prote|cted
<PB N="203" REF="106">Her to the la&s;t, was not <HI>re|vived</HI> with more cunning <HI>de&s;igns</HI> upon Him, who was to act over Her part, with di&s;advantage a|gain&s;t fre&s;h <HI>plots</HI> to <HI>oppo&s;e</HI> Him?</P>
<P>What <HI>Emi&s;&s;aries,</HI> and &s;ecret <HI>di&s;|patches</HI> by &s;everall <HI>Princes</HI> addre&s;|&s;ed to prepare and gain Him, as an advance to eithers <HI>Intere&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>VVith what <HI>amaze</HI> to all <HI>Chri|&s;tendome?</HI> how He could &s;o ea&s;ily <HI>enter</HI> His <HI>po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions,</HI> and then to <HI>amuze</HI> them all, how to <HI>deal</HI> with Him?</P>
<P>How He was <HI>welcommed,</HI> and <HI>care&s;&s;ed,</HI> by <HI>Amba&s;&s;adors</HI> of each <HI>Potentate,</HI> upon &s;everall <HI>de&s;igns</HI> of their <HI>Own?</HI></P>
<P>VVhat <HI>Contracts</HI> were made, and to be made, among&s;t His <HI>Neigh|bours,</HI> upon &s;undry <HI>Overtures</HI> in <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> He &s;hould <HI>doe,</HI> even any thing but <HI>what He did,</HI> with what <HI>difficulty</HI> to any other, He main|tained Him&s;elfe in <HI>Peace</HI> again&s;t
<PB N="204" REF="107">the <HI>Envy</HI> of them <HI>all.</HI></P>
<P>How was He by <HI>Con&s;anguinity imbroyl'd</HI> in His <HI>Son in Law's</HI> too ha&s;ty <HI>Acce&s;&s;ion</HI> to the <HI>Kingdome</HI> of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> when as a <HI>wi&s;e King</HI> He forewarn'd, and prophe&s;ied His <HI>de&s;truction,</HI> and Chri&s;tendoms <HI>di&s;traction?</HI></P>
<P>VVhat <HI>Amba&s;&s;ies</HI> publick, and <HI>Me&s;&s;engers</HI> priva<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e He wi&s;ely di&s;|po&s;ed, for advantage of His and the Peoples <HI>Intere&s;t?</HI></P>
<P>How he managed the <HI>Generall</HI> affairs of the <HI>Church Prote&s;tant,</HI> as a wi&s;e <HI>Patriarch,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>plots</HI> of the <HI>Pope?</HI></P>
<P>How far His <HI>Reputation,</HI> reacht out, to <HI>Forraign Princes</HI> far off?</P>
<P>How from abroad and at home, He <HI>enriched</HI> His <HI>Subjects,</HI> and en|crea&s;'d His own <HI>Revenue?</HI></P>
<P>VVhat did he not doe without the <HI>Pike,</HI> if not with his <HI>Pen?</HI></P>
<P>How He pre&s;erved <HI>Him&s;elf</HI> with friend&s;hip of <HI>all?</HI></P>
<PB N="205" REF="107">
<P>And thus in particular to put down in <HI>print,</HI> is the <HI>work</HI> of a <HI>weighty Pen.</HI></P>
<P>But to take His true <HI>dimen&s;ion,</HI> we have no <HI>Scale.</HI></P>
<P>Nor can it be done without much <HI>di&s;honor,</HI> to patch Him up in a petit <HI>Pamphlet:</HI> We &s;hall re|mit it to mature <HI>deliberation.</HI></P>
<P>And for the <HI>pre&s;ent,</HI> leave Him &s;o great a King to His continued <HI>Memory,</HI> by His own excellent <HI>Impre&s;&s;ions</HI> in <HI>Print,</HI> that &s;ame Him to <HI>Po&s;terity;</HI> whom we did not <HI>value,</HI> becau&s;e we could not <HI>comprehend.</HI></P>
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