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A67903	The five years of King Iames, or, The condition of the state of England, and the relation it had to other provinces. Written by Sr Foulk Grevill, late Lord Brook.; Five years of King James.	Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628.; Wilson, Arthur, 1595-1652, attributed name.	1643 (1643)	Wing W2887; ESTC R12332	56,301	91

intent to incense the people the more against them and to make the matter the more hainous and grievous to the world At this time the Lady Arbella died a matter more remarkable then was observed and gave some occasion of speech to many but yet neverthelesse past over in silence These Hurly-burlies being growne somewhat calme and the minds of men a little setled the Countesse and others authorised for that purpose to be examined and my Lord Coke was the man that prest the Evidence against them which as it was thought procured some great enemies two and twenty Articles were objected against them Somerset pleaded Ignorance and that these Objections were meere tricks to intrap him and set the King against him The same answer was in the Countesse and that it might rather seeme to proceed out of envie then for any just cause They cause it to be given out that their accusations were wrong●ull and none were accused but such as were the greatest Favourites to the King so that there was much ado to little purpose At last when they heard that Weston Turner Francklin and Yeluis were all hanged and that they had confest the matter the Countesse being brought before the Councell confest the whole truth but Somerset stood to it still that he was not agent in it and that these accusations did nothing touch him and therefore ought to be excused Neverthelesse his lands and goods were committed to custodie part to my Lord Treasurer and part to others to the Kings use The Money Plate and Jewels which he had heaped up together amounted by report unto 200000. pounds his lands 19000. pounds per annum and the King bestowed many of them upon the Prince There was little speech of this in respect that both person and matter wherein hee was agent were both envied and facinerous nei●her was there any that pitied him but most said that hoe had but his just deserts for the injuries and wrongs that he offered unto Essex The Arraignment was put off and in the meane time Sir Walter Rawleigh was set at liberty This man had continued in the Tower now almost ten yeares a condemned person for a plot intended against his Majesty at his first comming in he bore a great envie against Somerset because he had begged his lands of the King and got it into possession giving him many quips and taunts during the time that he was in the Tower These two accidents happening beyond expectation that the one being the speciall favourite of the King the other a condemned man the one imprisoned the other set at liberty gave great occasion of speech and rumour and so much the more wonder and admiration because of Rawleighes wit and policie And this yeare also the Countesse of Shrewsbury who was committed for being privie to the escape of the Lady Arbella was set at liberty and the Earle her husband dyed leaving the greatest part of his land unto his daughters during all this time that is from Michaelmas Terme unto the short vacation betweene Easter and Trinity Terme the Arraignment was put off some attributed the cause to be for because the Countesse was with child and in the meane time was delivered of a daughter some that further proofes of incertainties might be brought in others to give them longer time to consider on the matter and that it was a great favour I say these rumours being published amongst the people at length the King authorised my Lord Chancellor to be High Steward of England for the time being and joyned eight of his Judges with him for his assistance viz. The foure Judges of the Kings Bench my Lord Chiefe Justice of the Common Pleas Justice Niccols my Lord Chiefe Barron and others of the Barrons with power to call Somerset and the Countesse before them to shew cause why they should not have sentence of death passed upon them for this offence committed both against the Laws of the Land and against the King his Crowne and Dignity So upon the foure and twentieth of May in this yeare 1616. There being a Seat Royall placed at the upper end of Westminster-hall a little short of the Kings Bench and seats made round about it for the rest of the Justices and Peeres to sit on and a little cabbin built close by the Common Pleas for the Prisoners when they came from the Tower to be put to rest them in They proceed to the triall after this manner As soone as my Lord High Steward with great State came into Westminster-hall with his assistants the Judges divers Lords and Gentlemen attending and foure Serjants at Armes before him ascending a little gallery made of purpose to keep off the croud he takes his seat and the rest of the Assistants and Peeres according to their places This being done after silence proclaimed one of the Harrolds at Armes reaches the High Steward his Patent and delivers it to the Clerke of the Crown to reade it After Sir Ralph Conis●y reaches him his staffe and i● there present according to his place to give attendance After the Patent read and proclamation for silence and that the accusers should come in the Prisoners were sent for by the Clerke of the Checker whose office it was to attend the Prisoners This being done and the Prisoners placed at the Barre Sir Henry Fanshaw reades the Indictment to which the Countesse pleaded guilty and confessed the fact But Somerset pleaded not guilty and had time from ten of the clock at night to cleare himselfe much was said but to little purpose At last the Peeres having conferred of the matter returne their verdict laying their hands upon their brests and swearing by their Honours for they doe not m●ke an Oath as ordinary Jurors do that he was guilty of the murther and poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury whereupon my Lord High Steward pronounced sentence of death ag●inst him and so he was had back to the Tower where hee remaineth at the mercy of the King This man may justly say as Pope Barbaressa said when hee was put from the Popedome Qui modo summus eram laetatus nomine praecel Tristis abjectus nunc mea fata gemo Excelsus solio nuper versa●ar in alto Cunctaque gens pedibus oscula prona dabant Nunc ego poenarum sundo devulvor in imo Vultum deformem pallidaque ore gero Omnibus e terris aurum mihi sponte ferebant Sed nec gaesa juvet nec quis amicus adest Sic varians fortuna vices adversa secundis Su●dit ambiguis nomine ludit atr● Cedit in exemplum cunctis quos gloria tollit Vertice de summo mox ego Papa cado Loe here I am that sometime tooke delight in name of Pope Now being sad and abject doe bewaile my fate and hope Of late preferr'd I did converse with stately pompe and grace And every Nation to my feet their ready kisses place But now in dungeon deepe am throwne of paines

be consummated betweene the Countesse and Rochester that so being tyed in this bond of matrimony and joyned in affinity with my Lord of Northampton more trust might be had in him and better use might be made of his Honour and greatnesse Now there is none to support him no man to disswade him his loosenesse with the Countesse gaules his conscience and that it might be the more offensive to him and make him the willinger to consent unto this motion he is still prest with it and that it is both unfit and unseemely whereas on the otherside if they marry it will be both lawfull honourable and commendable and the eares of the vulgar will be then stopt and none dares bee so bold as to touch it This carries shew of truth so that what with his former affection what with his present offence that he conceives at these courses concludes the marriage Times are appointed to conferre how impediments might be avoyded and what should be fitting to be dome in this behalfe How the Lieutenant came acquainted with the businesse Encouraged to persist by Northampton Rewards promised him Be examined Sir Thomas to find out his affection Most thinke of Religion Some think towards the Countesse IT is now high time to enter into this action and the Countesse meanes to be the first and for this purpose shee went and got a glasse of blew water some two inches long this being wrapped in a paper shee delivers to Westons sonne with instructions that he should go to the Tower and deliver it to his father he doth so who having his matter aforehand put into his head at supper time takes the same in one hand and part of Sir Thomas Overburies supper in the other hand and who should he meet withall but Sir Iarvace Yeluis the Lieutenant So he demanded of him with a kind of caution whether he should give it him now the Lievtenant stopt and asked him what to which Weston answered Sir you know what is to be done This made him stand in a maze and doubt the worst whereupon he cals Weston into examination and makes him confesse all his intention from what grounds and of whom he received it and partly the cause of it he now being made a slave unto greatnesse and having laid out much mony to purchase his place for feare to lose the one and to offend the other lets Weston go with this caution to omit it for that time whereas a wise man rather then he would have run himselfe headlong into perdition would have discovered and have made them a meanes to have manifested his faithfulnesse in his office But what shall we say to a man lost The next day he is sent for to the Lord of Northampton These after many long and large discourses at length the Earle discloses to him his intention concerning Overbury and with those things mingles many of his insolencies First of his obstinacie against the Viscount his insolencie against the Countesse his opposition almost against all good men and that for the causes of such a thing happened there being none to look after him it would passe unregarded or unrespected but withall gives him many cautions how he should manage himselfe in the businesse letting him understand what manner of man he was a Scholler and one that had an excellent tongue and wit a Traveller experienced in the course of the world and besides that favoured the contrary Faction and as great a Polititian as any was this day in England therefore in regard he ought to be the more wary both who came to him and who went from him and above all that no Letters passe to and fro These and many other such like speeches having past betweene them for the Earle was two houres by his owne confes●ion prompted him with cautions and considerations that he might be the readier to act his part in this adventure he was to deale in Lastly he concludes that above all he should insinuate with him to see how he stood affected to these proceedings and what words he uttered from a heart full of thirst with griefe and sorrow must either speake or burst and his service and diligence herein shall be rewarded with a thousand pounds Whether it was the greedinesse of the reward or the foolish desire he had to give content to the Earle and Viscount they being his only Favourers or some other hope still unknowne but he by this meanes is brought to his owne destruction and so gives consent to conceale that which was intended At his comming back he repaires to Sir Thomas Overbury under pretence to comfort him in his sorrow and adviseth him to be more lightsome and not to consume himselfe with griefe by this meanes entring into further discourse secretly insinuates into his intentions Sir Thomas having a good opinion of him and supposing all was done out of faith and honesty towards him having by this meanes learned what he could of him writes unto the Lord of Northampton a Letter to this effect MY especiall good Lord having undertooke my Prisoner according to your instructions after long silence as standing betweene hope and fear he takes his Bible and after he had read upon it and by it protested his innocencie after upon further conference concerning the Countesse he said that he had justified her already and that hee could doe no more then what he had done But for himselfe alas quoth he what will they doe with mee I answered so reason you as you shall make no question hereafter of your purenesse and I left him in some sense to worke upon him As I was going he concluded that in the generality shee was so worthy that shee might be a wife in particular ●or my Lord of Rochester he would not say it lest my Lord should condemne him for weighing his worth At my next comming to him I found him not in sense but fury He let fly at you but was respective to my Lord of Rochester whose part hee taketh altogether I see the event I desire it may be safely covered what my service may doe you in this or any thing else I will be faithfull to your Lordship and so I rest Jervace Yeluis These and many other things being inserted into this Letter was sent unto the Earle which he read and in reading laughs and smiles at the simplicity of the one and ignorance of the other neverthelesse in outward appearance hee applauds all the actions of Sir Iervace but especially to my Lord of Rochester holding him both a discreet and wise man and that his secrecie and honest dealing in this imployment deserves everlasting praises with after ages More Poysons are sent from the Countesse Sir Thomas Monson is suspected to have a hand in the businesse Overbury growes sickly Iealous of his dyet No accesse is suffered to him WEston having received 24l of his allowance and yet neverthelesse nothing accomplished according to the Countesse her expectation is checkt by Mistris

Turner for delaying it whereupon he gets into his hands certaine Poysons viz. Rosacre white Arsnick Mercury sublimate Cantarides red Mercury with three or foure more severall poysons tempering them with his broth and his mea● according as he saw them affected increasing and diminishing their strength as he was instructed by his ancient friend Master Franklin besides these Tarts and Jellies are sent by the Viscount and Countesse to Sir Thomas Monson as from thence by the hands of one Simon master servant unto Sir Tho to be delivered to Weston and so to Overbury every of which Tarts and Jellies were poysoned with a severall poyson These courses caused Sir Thomas Monson to be suspected of this act and to have a hand in it First in respect he preferred Weston to his service Secondly poysoned Tarts and Jellies went out of his house And lastly for that he did not discover these things his men only having accesse to the Tower and that to speak with Weston Now his salt his meat his drink and whatsoever he eates is mingled with poyson and for the increase of his torment is increased or diminished as the saw Sir Thomas Overbury affected By this meanes he begins to grow extreme sickly having beene hereto●ore accustomed to very good health insomuch that he can s●arce stand or goe what with the paine of his body and the heat yet neverthelesse being a strong man he stood it out a long time till at length he begun to grow jealous of his man Weston for his maladie increased or diminished as he affected but yet some Physick he desired and at his speciall instance and request and not without some gratitude as was thought one Paule de la Bell an Apothecarie by the advice of Doctor Marvin brought a Bath to coole his body with advice to be sparing of his dyet for that he suspected that his meate was not wholsome Surely this did him much good and preserved his life longer then they expected insomuch that they misdoubt some fallacy or fraud and therefore send new Letters to the Lieutenant to have a speciall care that none may be suffered to see him or speak with him for evill men are full of needlesse feares and now there is such speciall watch had over him that none of his men might be permitted so much liberty as to speak with him out at a Window and the reason being asked Answer was made that the Lieutenant had commandment from the Councell that it should be so Thus the good gentleman passed away his tedious and sorrowfull dayes with many discontents being filled with paines and griefe without friends and comforters ready to be vext and tormented upon every occasion and consuming and languishing away without any common society that was allowed to the meanest Prisoner in the house In this man may wee see the misery of such as fall into the hands of Popish Catholiques for by Northamptons meanes was this strictnesse shewed towards him here will wee leave him languishing in sorrow and lamenting his misfortune The Marriage betweene the Viscount and the Countesse published questioned whether it might be lawfull A nullity obtained to make it lawfull My Lord of Essex repayes the Portion The Viscount made Earle of Somerset TIme can no longer conceale these secret meetings but they must at length come to light The Marriage betweene the Viscount and the Countesse is published this is strange to the world and so much the more strange by how much three such great and eminent persons as the Earle of Essex the Countesse and the Viscount were interessed in it And now according to the common course every one speakes as he stands affected some boldly some sparingly some call her a loose woman and pities the good Earle of Essex and say that he had sustained more wrong then ever any English Peer had done First to suffer disgrace by the Prince now by his wife others blame her with words harsh and unseemly a third sort Rochester and that it is pity but that shee should prove as bad a wife to him as ever shee was to the Earle of Essex then if Overbury had beene at liberty this had never happened Others that were more stayed and judicious in their opinion foresaw the ruine and downfall of Rochester by this meanes but none durst speake of it For who will put his finger into the fire unlesse he be compelled neverthelesse to stop the mouthes of the vulgar this Marriage is called into question whether it may be lawfull or not because her Husband was then living For this cause the Bishops of this Land were divided By the opinion of some shee might by the opinion of others she might not my Lord of Canterbury London and many others were ut●erly against it But Winchester and Ely stood stiffely it might provided a Nullitie might be had for by that meanes the former Marriage should bee utterly determined A Nullity was obtained and upon the grant of that it was ordered that my Lord of Essex should repay her Portion that he received with her at his marriage that so to the shew of the world it might be said there had been no marriage betweene them This afterwards was called into question and thought a meere tricke of Northampton to discharge some of the greatest of the Clergie and to discountenance our Religion it left a foule scarre and gave a foule occasion to the Adversary to speake broadly where they had liberty and of some even in our Kingdome This Order being sent to my Lord of Essex hee forthwith prep●res for the repayment of five thousand pound for so much hee had received with her and for this purpose he sold and fell divers woods at Adderston and neere thereabouts His Grandmother the Countesse of Leicester helpt him much or else he should have been constrained to sell much land to have paid it verily a hard course having sustained so many injuries The King neverthelesse continues his favour towards Rochester and that he might be as eminent as the best he is installed Earle of Somerset Thus favours are heapt upon him though hee little deserved them And the Countesse what shee desireth is still to be a Countesse but called after another name that is Countesse of Somerset many are the chances that happen in the world some good some bad and those things we least suspect do soonest happen to divert us At this time my Lord of Somerset little thought to have been laid in the Tower and made heire of Overburies bed-chamber but by this we may see that all things are in the hands of God The Marriage comes to Overburies Eares Hee prophesieth his owne death He falleth into a relapse He writes to the Earle to remember his promise Answer is sent him with white Mercury instead of a medicinable Powder His death The state of his body after his death The Rumour th●t is spread of him The Authors Lamentation NOw although Sir Thomas Overbury was kept private and that no man