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A25867	The arraignment and conviction of Sr VValter Rawleigh, at the Kings Bench-barre at Winchester. on the 17. of November. 1603. Before the right Honorable the Earle of Suffolke, Lord Chamberline, the Earle of Devon-shire, Lord Henry Howard, Lord Cecill, Lord Wotton, Sir John Stanhope Lord Chiefe Justice of the Common-pleas, Popham and Andrewes, Justice Gaudy, Justice Warberton, Sir William Wade, commissioners. / Coppied by Sir Tho: Overbury.	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Overbury, Thomas, Sir, d. 1684.	1648 (1648)	Wing A3744; ESTC R206249	25,636	40

sinne for the Prophet David did make himselfe a foole and suffered spittle to fall down upon his beard to escape from the hands of his enemies and it was not imputed unto him so what I did I intended no ill but to gaine and prolong time till his Majesty came hoping for some Commiseration from him But I forgive this French-man and Sir Lewis Stewkelye withall my heart for I have received the Sacrament this morning of Master Deane of Westminster and I have forgiven all men but that they that are persideous I am bound in charity to speake that all men may take heede of them Sir Lewis Stewkeley my keeper and kinsman hath affirmed that I should tell him that my Lord Carewe and my Lord of Doncaster heer did advise me to escape but I protest before God I never told him any such thing neither did the Lords advise me to any such matter neither is it likely that I should tell him any such thing of two privy-Councellors neither had I any reason to tell him or he to report it for it is well knowne he left me 6,7,8,9 and 10 dayes together alone to go whither I listed whilest he rod himselfe about the Countrey He further accused me that I should shew him a letter whereby I did signifie unto him that I would give him ten thousand pounds for my escape But God cast my soule into everlasting fire if I made any such profer of 10000 pounds or 1000 but indeed I shewed him a letter that if he would go with me there should be order taken for his debts when he was gone neither had I 10000 pound to give him for if I had had so much I could have made my peace better with it otherwayes then in giving it to Stewkeley Further when I came to Sir Edward Pelhams house who had been a follower of mine and who gave me good entertainment He gave out that I had there received some dramme of poyson when I answered him that I feared no such thing for I was well assured of them in the house and therefore wisht him to have no such thought now God forgive him for I do and I desire God to forgive him I will not onely say God is a God of revenge But I desire God to forgive him as I do desire to be forgiven of God Then looking over his noate of remembrance well said he thus farre I have gone a little more a little more and I will have done by and by It was told the King that I was brought per-force into England and that I did not intend to come againe But Sir Charles Parker M. Trefham M. Leake and divers know how I was dealt withall by the common-souldiers which were 150 in number who mutined and sent for me to come into the ship to them for unto me they would not come and there was I forced for to take an oath that I would not go into England till that they would have me otherwise they would have cast me into the sea and therewithall they drove me into my Cabbin and bent all their forces against me Now after I had taken this oath with wine and other things such as I had about me I drew some of the cheifest to desist from their purposes and at length I perswaded them to goe into Ireland which they were willing unto and would have gone into the North parts of Ireland which I disswaded them from and told them that they were Red-Shankes that inhabited there and with much adoe I perswaded them to go into the south parts of Ireland promising them to get their pardons and was forced to give them 125 pound at Kinsall to bring them home otherwise I had never got from them I heare likewise there was a report that I meant not to go to Guyana at all and that I knew not of any myne nor intended any such thing or matter but onely to get my liberty which I had not the wit to keep But I protest it was my full intent and for gold for gold for the benefit of his Majesty and my selfe and of those that ventured and went with me with the rest of my countreymen But he that knew the head of the myne would not discover it when he saw my sonne was slaine but made away himselfe And then turning to my Earle of Arundel he said My Lord being in the Gallery of my ship at my departure I remember your Honor took me by the hand and said you would request one thing of me which was that whither I made a good voyage or a bad I should not fayle but to returne againe into England which I then promised you and gave you my faith I would and so I have To which my Lord answered and said it is true I do very well remember it they were the very last words I spake unto you Another slander was raised of me that I would have gone away from them and left them at Guyana But there was a great many worthy men that accompanied me alwayes as my Serieant Major George Rawleigh and divers others which knew my intent was nothing so Another opinion was held of me that I carried with me to sea 16000 peeces and that vvas all the voyage I intended onely to get mony into my hands As I shall ansvver it before God I had not in all the world in my hands or others to my use either directly or indirectly above a hundred pound whereof when I went I gave my wife 25 pounds thereof but the error thereof came as I perceived by looking over the Screvenors bookes where they found the bills of adventure arising to a great sum so raised that false report Onely I will borrow a little time of M. Sheriffes to speake of one thing that doth make my heart to bleed to heare that such an imputation should be layd upon me for it is said that I should be a persecutor of the death of the Earle of Essex and that I stood in a window over against him when he suffered and puffed out tobacco in disdaine of him God I take to witnesse I shed teares for him when he died and as I hope to looke God in the face hereafter my Lord of Essex did not see my face when he suffered for I was a farre off in the Armory where I saw him but he saw notme I confesse indeed I was of a contrary faction but I know my Lord of Essex was a noble gentleman and that it would be worse with me when he was gone for I got the hate of those which vvishad me well before and those that set me against him afterwards set themselves against me and was my greatest enemies and my soule hath many times been grieved that I was not nearer him vvhen he died because as I understood aftervvards that he asked for me at his death to have been reconcyled unto me And these be the materiall points I thought good to speake of and I ame novv at

brother And he said out of that which was in my Lord Treasurers house in the Strand Whereupon my Lord Cecil published that after his Fathers death Sir VValter desired to search for some Cosmographycall descriptions of the West-Indies which he thought werein his study and were not to be had in print which he granted and said he would as soon have trusted Sir Walter as any man though since for some infirmities of Sir VValters the bonds of his affection had been crackt yet reserving his duty to the King his Master which he could not despence withall in his service hee swore by God he loved him and found a great conflict in himselfe in that so compleat a member in a common-wealth was fallen away But he must needs say that Sir VValter used him discourteously to take the book away and not to acquaint him therewith Neverthelesse he said he need not to make any Apology in the behalfe of his Father considering how usuall and necessary a thing it is for Councellors and those in his place to intercept and keep all such kinde of writings for whosoever should now search his study or at least his Cabinet should like enough finde all the famous libells that ever were made against the Queene that dead is and shall also finde divers made against the King our Soveraigne Lord that now is since his coming to the Crowne Sir VValter said that the book was a manuscript and had noted in the beginning with my Lord Treasurers owne hand this is the book of one Rob. Snag and affirmed that as my L. Cecil had said he thought a man might finde also in his house all the libells that had been made against the late Queene But M. Attourney said that he was no privy councellor nor he hoped never should be my Lord Cecil answered that he indeed was no councellor of state yet he had been often called to consultation Sir VValter thought it a very severe interpretation of the law to bring him within the compasse of Treason onely for this book written so long agone as it was whereof no man had read more than the Titles of the Chapters and which was burned by George Brook without his privity admitting that he had delivered it to my Lord Cobham not advancing nor approving the same but discommending it as Cobhams first confession was and he put this case If he should come to my Lord Cecil as oft he had done and finde a searcher with him with a packet of libells and my Lord let him have one or two to peruse this he hoped was no treason To prove this treason against the State and common-weale my Lord Cobhams confessions were read to this effect That it was agreed between Sir VValter Rawleigh and him that my Lord Cobham should deale with Count Aremberg to procure six hundred thousand crownes that Count Aremberge did promise to satisfie his request to the intent to advance the Title of Arabella and that it was likewise concluded that Cobham should under pretence of travelling Goe into the Low-Countries into France and Spaine and carry three letters from the Lady Arabella to the Arch-Duke to the Duke of Savoy and to the King of Spaine to obtaine the said summe of Crownes and thereby to promise three things unto the Princes First that there should be a peace concluded with Spaine Secondly that there should be a toleration of Religion in England Lastly that she would not marry but by the direction of the said Princes And that she should come back by Iersey and there he should meet with Sir VValter Rawleigh and then they would agree how to dispose the mony to discontented persons whereof he thought he should finde many at his returne and that Sir VValter should have a great number of crownes from the said Count Aremberge And that Sir VValter thought that the best course to trouble England was to cause division in Scotland And my L. Cobham further accused Sir Walter to have b in the only instigator of him to all these treasons And one Mat. de Lawrencie a merchant of Antwerp that was used between Count Aremberge and my L. Cobham confessed that Sir Walter Rawleigh supped with my Lord Cobham one night when he came to my Lord Cobhams house and that they three went alone to Sir Walter Rawleighs house in the Strand by water and that the said Mathew de Lawrencie delivered a letter to my Lord Cobham from Count Aremberge at Durham-house and immediately Sir Walter went up with my Lord Cobham into his chamber and Mathew de Lawrencie tarried below Sir Walter confessed that he knew very well that Mathew de Lawrencie held intelligence betweene Count Aremberg and my Lord Cobham and so did the Lords of the councell know that it had been so these seaven yeares by licence of the Queene But that he knew to what purpose it was now of late he denied other then he took it to have been concerning the businesse of the peace with Spaine for that my Lord Cobham said that his brother George Brook was very loath to accuse him Sir Walter proceeded and asked whither my Lord Cobham had accused him or confessed any such thing It was answered that my Lord Cobham had been asked whither he had spoken any such thing concerning his said brothers unwillingnesse and he would make no other answer but that he had however he said it proceeded out of a discontented minde from the said George Brook which M. Attourney said was a confession of their pretence in law Then Sir VValter Rawleigh said that if my Lord Cobham had accused him as they alledged he ought to renew his accusation to his face that so he might not be massacred by heersay and affirmed it was Sir Nicolas Throgmortons case There was further urged against Sir VValter for intending to make away the King the testimony of one that had been lately at sea who was in the Court in a blew cassock and deposed That being at Lisbone not long after the coming in of the King into England a Portugall Gentleman asked him whence he was and said of of England Then he asked whither our King were crowned or not and he answered he hoped so by this time whereupon the Portugall said that my Lord Cobham and and Sir VValter Rawleigh would make him away before it were long Sir VValter made light of this rumour and of the witnesse and said that he thought it might be so for that my Lord Cobham knowing that he had written a book and presented it to the King to move his minde not to make his peace with Spaine hearing him one day at his Table dispute very violently against the peace told him in his Gallery presently after he need not be so much against the peaces for he should have seven thousand crownes to labour for it and that he thought it to be a toye nor knew how to deserve it yet his answer was let me see the mony and then I will answer