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A25875	The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Robert Earl of Essex and Henry Earl of Southampton, at Westminster the 19th of February, 1600 and in the 43 year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth for rebelliously conspiring and endeavouring the subversion of the government, by confederacy with Tyr-Owen, that popish traytor and his complices ... were the 5th of March ... arraigned, condemned, and executed ...	Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601.	1679 (1679)	Wing A3758; ESTC R18141	22,973	32

any man in the World besides but since you have stirred up this Point my Lord I dare warrant you this Letter will not blush for I did but perform the part of an honest man and ever laboured to have done you good if it might have been and to no other end for what I intended for your good was wished from the Heart without Touch of any man's Honour Essex Well my Lord I do here protest before the Living God that an Honourable Grave and Wise Councellor hath lamented and grieved at the Courses he hath seen taken and therewith hath wished himself often dead and this I speak upon Credible and Honourable Information but I can prove thus much from Sir Cecil's own mouth that he speaking to one of his Fellow-Councellors should say that none in the world but the Infanta of Spain had Right to the Crown of England Here Sir Robert Cecil stepped forth into the Court having kept himself private till then and humbly desired Leave to speak to Essex Sir Rob. Cecil The Difference between you and me is great for I speak in the Person of an honest man and you my Lord in the Person of a Traytor For well I know you have it at Will The Preheminence hath been yours but I have Innocence Truth of Conscience and Honesty to defend me against the Scandal of slanderous Tongues and aspiring Hearts and I protest before God I have loved your Person and justified your Vertues and I appeal to God and the Queen that I told Her Majesty your Afflictions would make you a fit Ser-Servant for her And had not I seen your ambitious Affections inclined to Usurpation I could have gone on my Knees to Her Majesty to have done you good but you have a Sheep's Garment in Show and in Appearance are humble and Religious but God be thanked we know you for indeed your Religion appears by Blunt Davies and Tresham your chiefest Councellors for the present and by promising Liberty of Conscience hereafter I stand for Loyalty which I never lost you stand for Treachery wherewith your Heart is possessed and you charge me with high things wherein I defie you to the uttermost You my good Lords Councellors of State have many Conferences and I do confess I have said the King of Scots is a Competitor and the King of Spain a Competitor and you I have said are a Competitor you would depose the Queen you would be King of England and call a Parliament Ah my Lord were it but your own Case the loss had been the less but you have drawn a number of Noble Persons and Gentlemen of Birth and Quality into your Net of Rebellion and their Bloods will cry Vengeance against you For my part I vow to God I wish my Soul was in Heaven and my Body at rest so this had never been Essex Ah Mr. Secretarie I thank God for my humbling that you in the Ruff of your Bravery came to make your Oration against me here this day Cecil My Lord I humbly thank God that you did not take me for a fit Companion for you and your Humours for if you had you would have drawn me to betray my Sovereign as You have done but I would have you name the Councellour you speak of name him name him name him if you dare if you dare I defie you name him if you dare Essex Here stands an Honourable Person meaning the Earl of Southampton that knows I speak no Fables he heard it as well as I. Cecil Then my Lord of Southampton I adjure you by the Duty you owe to God Loyalty and Allegiance you owe to your Sovereign by all tokens of true Christianity and by the antient Friendship and Acquaintance once between us that you name the Councellour Southamp Mr. Secretary If you will needs have me name the Councellour it was Mr. Comptroller whereupon the Secretary falling down upon his Knees said I thank God for this day and upon his Knee desired the Lord High Steward that a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber or one that might have Access to the Queen might go and humbly intreat Her Highness to command Mr. Comptroller to come before your Grace Here the Lord High Steward calling Mr. Knevet a Gentleman of Her Majesties Privy Chamber said unto him go Mr. Knevet unto Her Majesty and let Her understand Mr Secretaries Demand Cecil Mr. Knevet You shall have free Access unto Her Majesty tell Her that I vow before the God of Heaven that if she refuse to send Mr. Comptroller whereby I may clear my self of these open Scandals I will rather die at her Foot as her Subject and Vassal than live to do her any more Service in this Honourable Degree wherein her Highness employs me And withal let me adjure you Mr. Knevet that you do not acquaint Mr. Comptroller with the Cause why you come for him Mr. Knevet went and not long after returned with Mr. Comptroller to whom the Lord High Steward repeated the Cause why he was sent for and desired him to satisfie the Lords whether Mr. Secretary did use any such Speech in his Hearing or to his knowledge Mr. Comptroller I remember that once in Mr. Secretaries Company there was a Book read that treated of such matters but I did never hear Mr. Secretary use any such words or to that effect whereupon Mr. Secretary thanked God that though the Earl stood there as a Traytor yet he was found an honest man and a faithful Subject withal saying I beseech God to forgive you for this open wrong done unto me as I do openly pronounce I forgive you from the bottom of my Heart Essex And I Mr. Secretary do clearly and freely forgive you with all my Soul because I mean to die in Charity Bacon My Lord you may now perceive that my Lord of Essex went about to procure matter and to give over on the instant Southamp Well I beseech your Lordship let me satisfie your Lordship and the rest thus much that for my own part I did never know the Laws Now to shew the Causes that made me adventure so far as I did The first occasion that made me adventure into these Courses was the Affinity betwixt my Lord of Essex and me I being of his Blood and marrying his Kinswoman so that for his sake I should have hazarded my Life But what I have by my forwardness offended in Act I am altogether ignorant but in Thought I am assured never And if through my Ignorance in the Law I have offended yet I humbly submit my self to Her Majesty and from the bottom of my Heart do beg Her Gracious Pardon if it please Her and I hope that neither your Lordship nor any of the Peers will hold any of the former Resolutions spoken of by these Orators for any Certainty which depends no otherwise than one upon another For if any foolish Speeches have passed I protest as I shall be saved that they were never purposed by me nor understood to