Proclametion That Essex and Southampton were Traitors all those that followed their faction Many dropping from the Crowd there was little defence by his party though some were killed and himselfe forsaken of the wisest He retires back to Queenhithe and so to Essex-house by water where finding the Birds flowen the Councellors released by their Keeper who in hope of pardon accompained them to the Queenes presence discovering so much as he knew concerning his Lord who finding himselfe too weake to withstand the force of a peece of Cannon mounted upon the Church to batter his House He and Southampton yeelded themselves Prisoners to the Tower Arraigned and executed where being arraigned and condemned Southamton had repreeve and after pardon But Essex the reward of his merits and Executed in March 1601. upon the Inner Hill in the Tower to the regret of None either wise or honest Leaving behind him one onely Son the last of his Line William Cecill Cecils Pamp. 10. illustrate from the family of Cecils who suffered persecution in the times of Henry 8. Edward 6. and Queen Mary he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth so soone as she was setled in her Crowne then Secretary and Councellor of State Afterwards created Baron of Burligh Then made Lord Treasurer of England and Knight of the Garter and died Chauncellor of the Vniversity of Cambridge Anno 1598. Intomb'd at Westminster leaving two Sons The elder Thomas was then Lord President of the North And afterwards created Earle of Exeter by King James and privy Councellor of State He died Anno discreet and honourable whom the world could never tax with any taint The other son Robert Sr. Robert Cecill was the second But a true Inheriter of his Fathers wisdome and by him trained up to future perfections of a Judicious States-man after his Knighthood the first imployment from Court for he was not at all bred out of it sent him Assistant with the Earle of Darby Embassadour to the French King At his returne the Queen took him second Secretary with Sir Fr. Walsingham after whose decease he continued Paincipal and so kept it to his death Not relinquishing any Preferment for the Addition of a Creater A remarkeable Note which few men of the Gowne can boast of His Father liv'd to see him setled in these preferments and after Master of the Wards and Liveries These he held to the Queenes death Being in all Her time used amongst the Men of weight as having great sufficiencies from his Instruction who begat him Those offices here in public with perpetual Correspondence by Emissaries of his own into Scotland might no doubt make him capable of Reception with King James who was to be advised by him how to be received here of his people Without any necessity then to make use of Sir George Hewmes or his Initiatiation afterwards with any juggling trickes Pamp 13. his merrits certainly appeared to the King who not onely not diminished his forformer preferments But often added to them even to the day of his death As first Baron of Essenden then Viscount Cranborne after Earle of Salisbury and Knight of the Garter and lastly Lord Treasurer of England He was a Councellor of singular merit A very great discoverer of the late Queens enemies abroad and of private Assinations at home For which She valued him and the Papists hated him which they published by several Manuscripts which I have seen and printed Libels and that most pestilent against his birth and honour threatning to kill him which himselfe answered wisely learnedly and religiously Extant in English and Latine Adversus Perduelles Indeed It behoved the King to bestow upon him the waight of the Treasurers Staffe The Cofers then in some want which the King was not likely soon to Recover but rather to increase in debt having the addition of wife and children to boot And being now come with common opinion into the Capacity by his additional Crownes to reward his old servants and to appear obliging unto new Ones The world wondering at the worth of this great Councellor I know not upon what score our Pamphleter should endeavour to scandal his memory Which he rancks into Numbers of ill Offices to his Nation Pamp. 12. as the burning of a whole cart-load of Parliaments Presidents which no man can be so sottish as to beleeve that knowes the strict concerving of those Records by sworne Officers As for the Baronets Baronets It was the earnest suite of two hundred prime Gentlemen of Birth and estates to my knowledge for I copied the list before ever it came this Lord. And as true it is That this Lord's Reception thereto was in the same words which our Pamphlet puts upon the King That it would discontent the Gentry to which themselves replyed Nay my Lord It will rather satisfie them in advance of Dignity before others who now come behind those Meaner Men whom the King was forced to Knight for his own honor and some merits of theirs having no other Reward or money to spare and therein not much to blame to oblige them that way As for that supposed jugling Pamp. 13. which the Duke of Bullion should discover As it was never known to wiser men So we may take it a devise of his who in these as in other such like of his own may truly merit that Character which he bestowes before On the good Gentleman Pamp. 9. I desire pardon if I speake much and truth in the memory of this Noble Lord being somewhat concerned to speak my owne knowledge I know that this Earle of Salesbury declining his health with continuall labour for the good of this Nation both in the former and in this his Soveraign's Service And am willing to give some light thereof to such as are pleased to read these particulars being an Account of his concernments For first Salisbury his service to the State Mannors Lands he found the King's Mannors and fairest possessions most unsurveyed and uncertain rather by report then by Measure Not more known then by ancient Rents the Estate granted rather by chance then upon knowledge The Custody-Lands Custody-hands antiently termed Crown-Lands much charged upon the Sheriffs yearly discharged by annual pensions A Revenue which seemed decayed by descent of times and worne out of all remembrance these he evermore revived by Commissioners of Asserts The Woods Woods were more uncertain then the rest No man knew the Copices Number of acres growth or value nor of Timber-Trees either Number or worth So as truly he might well find himself in a Wood indeed The Trees wasted without controwle because no Record kept thereof These he caused to be numbred marked and valued easily to be questioned when thereafter missing The Copy-hold Lands Copy-holds where the arbitrary sines ceased by the discretion of the Stewards and did seldome yeeld the Parsons part and that also vanish'd in fees and charges The State was then after like
Aulicus Coquinariae OR A VINDICATION IN ANSWER TO A PAMPHLET ENTITVLED The Court and Character of KING JAMES Pretended to be penned by Sir A. W. and published since his death 1650. Auribus oculisque recepta Nemesis à tergo London Printed for Henry Seile over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1650. ERRATA PAge 5. line 20. which read with p. 7. l. 24. Chimstry r. Chimistry p. 11. l. 15. Turnpike p. 36. l. 24. sore p. 39. l. 10. Tercera's p. 45. l. 1. deserve p. 52. l. 14. Assassinations p. 54. l. 5. to p. 54. l. 7. Exception p. 67. l. 15. the. p. 82. l. 2. leave p. 97. l. 6. of p. 105. l. 24 was p. 120. l. 11. her Preface THere are some Men so delight in sinne who rather than be idle from doing evil will take much pains to scandall the Dead My fear to offend hath withheld my hand a convenient time lest I should fall into the like error with Him that published the Pamphlet Entituled The Court Character of King James and Father 's the Brat upon Sir A. VV And if common fame mistake not the meaning His Parent took rise from Q. Elizabeths Kitchin and left it a Legacy for preferment of his Issue This Man went the same way and by grace of the Court got up to the Green-cloth Jn which place attending King James into Scotland he practised there to libell that Nation which at his return home was found wrapt up in a Record of that Board and by the hand being known to be his he was deservedly removed out as unworthy to eat of his bread whose Birth-right he had so vilely defamed Yet by favour of the King with a piece of money in his Purse and a pension to boot to preserve him loyall during his life though as a bad creditor he took this course to repay him to the purpose And I have heard that in his life he discovered a part of this Peece to his fellow Courtier who earnestly diswaded him not to publish so defective and false a scandall which as it seems in Conscience he so declin'd And therefore my Exception willingly falls upon the practice of the Publisher who by his Additions may abuse us with this false Story which he discovers to the Reader in 5 Remarkable Passages and gives me the occasion to spare my censure on the deceased person but to bestow my unkindness which necessarily intervenes in this Vindication on him who yet lives to make out his bad act with a Reply if he please more Pestilent upon Me. THE CONTENTS QUeen Elizabeth pag. 1 1. Remark Gowryes Conspiracy of the name Ruthens and Family the manner of the Treason and effects afâ—erwards 5 George Sprott Confederate with Gowry his confessions arraignment execution and testimony hereof 16 E. of Essex his Character undertakings Treason and execution 36 Caecils Sir Rob. Caecil his services sicknesse and death 49 Hen. Howard E. of Northampton his character and death 64 James L. Hay E. Carlisle his character Embassies and Interest 67 2. Remark Sir Walter Raleigh his character treason tryall and reprieve observations upon him and his former voyage to Guiana sentence and execution 74 Sir Tho. Lake his character rising ruine with his Wife and Daughter 98 3. Remark Sir Tho. Overbury and Sir Rob. Carr 110 The Nullity of Essex Marriage with Suffolk's daughter with the Legall proceedings 113 Of Archbishop Abbot 130 Sir Rob. Carr E. of Somerset his Marriage with Essex's Relict 133 3. Remark Sir Tho. Overbury his imprisonment and poysoned 135 Somerset and his Wifes tryall and Sir Thomas Monson 138 4. Remark Pr. Henry his character sickness disease and death not by poyson 143 Sir Arthur Ingram his condition 158 Sir Lionel Cranfield E. of Middlesex his birth breeding and advance 160 George Villiers his discent and advance a Favorite and Duke of Buckingham occasioning severall narrations c. 164 E. of Nottingham Admirall 169 Egerton Lord Chancellor 171 Bacon Lord Chancellor 171 Buckinghams Kinred 174 Williams Lord Keeper 178 5. Remark Spanish Match the Princes journey into Spaine and return 179 Bristolls concern'd 180 Inicossa Spanish Ambassador 182 Yelverton Attorney Generall 186 King James sicknesse the playster and death not by poyson 192 Conclusion 197 The Character 200 Aulicus Coquinariae OR THE CHARECTER Of Him who SATARIZ'D KING JAMES AND HIS COURT QUeen Elizabeth died Queen Elizabeth Anno Domini 1602. having bin long sick and indeed desperate which gave this State time enough to conclude for his reception the undoubted Heir to these Crownes JAMES then King of Scotland She hath been highly valued since Her death the best of any former Soveraigne over us She was fitted for fortunes Darling but with some Imprisonment the better to mould Her for the Rule and Soveraignty of a Kingdome and for the custody of a Scepter She shewed Her Justice and Piety as a President to posterity She was a Princesse learned even then when Letters had estimation and began them into fashion which brought forth many rare and excellent Men both of the Gowne and of the Sword Some say She had many Favorites but in truth She had none They were neer and dear to Her and to Her affaires as Partners of her care not Minions of phansey And yet such as they were she ever mastered by her own Rules not they Her by their own Wills And she wanted not many of them at need or pleasure She was Magnificent comparativè with other Princes which yet she disposed frugally Having alwaies much to do with little money for truly those either Wise or Gallant Men were never cloied with her Bounty more then in her Grace which with her Mannage passed for good payment The Irish affaires was to her Maligne which drew her Treasure almost dry the only cause of distemper in the State and ended not but with her life At which time she left her Cofers empty and yet her Enemies potent Pamp. 34. And therefore it could be no Treason in them that afterwards councelled the Peace but rather in such who indeavoured then and after the re-establishing a New War Amongst Her Favourites of the Sword none could boast more of her Bounty and Grace Essex Pamp. 10. then the Earle of Essex whose ingrate disposition blown beyond the Compasse of his steere by too much Popularity and Pride cosened him into that absolute Treason against his Soveraigne that notwithstanding many forewarnings of his neerest friends and unwilling Resentments of his deerest Mistresse his open Rebellion at last brought him to publique tryall condemned and executed as the most ingrate that former times could produce Of which we shall take occasion hereafter in some particular Wherein Sir Robert Cecill acted no more then a dutiful Subject Councelour and Judge ought to have done against him and such like of her time evermore attempting by Assassination or Poyson to take away her life As were also the like attempts by others in Scotland witnesse the
forth a Dagger reversed proper piercing a bloudy heart The point crowned Empcriall with this Distick Haec Dextra Vindex Principis Patriae Afterward he was created Lord Haddington and Earle of Holdernesse And our Pamphlet bestowes on him this Character A very good Gentleman by nature but in this Story a Lier by practise Pamp. 9. for which all these favours were too little Reward Sir Thomas Erskin was after wards created Earl of Kelly Knight of the Garter Captain of the King's Guard and Groome of the Stoole And the Fellow designed for the Murtherer had a large Pension confirm'd by Act of their Parliament And all these men but Herries were living with other witnesses at King JAME'S journy when he went from hence to visit Scotland and met together by direction at the same House with Ceremony and all of them with a number of Courtiers ascended into the same Roome the bloud yet remaining where the King related the Story and confirmed by them And afterwards kneeling down with tears of Contrition for his Sinnes to God and thankfulnesse for this Mercy using many pious Ejaculations embraced all these Actors in the former Tragedy when the poor fellow also kist the King's hand These circumstances gave occasion then that this whole story was freshly revived to the common Satisfaction of the whole Countrey and our English Courtiers And in especiall unto the very Reverend Bishop and Nobly borne James Mountegue then present to whom the King addressed himself in this Relation and from whose Mouth I received these particulars at his return into England And thus much we have by word of mouth somewhat I shall add out of writings for more satisfaction This Treason was attempted the 4. of August 1600. And though there followed sundry Suspitions and Examination of several other Persons supposed Abbetters Contrivers yet it lay undiscovered tanquamè postliminio untill 8. years after by the circumspection principally of the Earle of Dunbar a man of as great wisdome as those times and that Kingdome could boast of Upon the person of one George Sprot Notary-publick of Ayemouth in Scotland From some words which at first he sparingly or unawares expressed and also by some papers which were found in his House whereof being examin'd with a little adoe he confessed and was condemned and executed at Edenburgh the 12. of Aug. 1608. A Relation I conceive not common but in my hands to be produced and written by that learned Gentleman Sir William Hart then Lord Justice of Scotland and Principall in all the Acts of Judicature herein And first George Sprot confesseth That he knew perfectly that Robert Logane late of Restalrig was privy and upon foreknowledge of John late Earl of Gowrie's Treasonable Conspiracy That he knew there were divers Letters interchanged betwixt them anent their Treasonable put pose July 1600. which Letters James Bour called Laird Bour Servitor to Restalrig imployed betwixt them and privy to all that arrand had in keeping and shewed the same to Sprot in Fast-Castle That Sprot was present when Bour after 5. daies absence returned with â—nswers by letter from Gowry and staid all night with Restalrig at his house Gunuesgreen rode the next morne to Lothiane where he staid six daies then to Fast-Castle where he abode a short space That he saw and heard Restalrig read these letters which Bour brought back from Gowry and all their Conference there anent And that Bour said Sir if you think to get Commodity by this dealing lay your hand on your heart and that Restalrig answered though he should lose all in the world yet he would passe through with Gowry for that matter would as well content him as the Kingdome To whom Bour said you may do as you please Sir but it is not my Councell that you should be so suddain in that other matter But for the Condition of Darlton I would like very well of it To this Restalrig answered content your self I am not at my wits end That Sprot himself entered into conference with Bour demanding what was to be done between the Earle and the Laird Bour answered that he beleeved that the Laird would get Darlton without gold or silver but he fear'd it would be deerer to him That Sprot inquiring further how that should be done Bour said they have another pie in hand then buying and selling of land But prayed Sprot for God's sake that he would let be and not be troubled with the Lairds business for he fear'd that within few daies the Laird would be landlesse and livelesse And Sprot being demanded afterwards if all these Confessions were true as he would answer upon the salvation of his soul seeing his death was neer approaching Sprot said That he had no desire to live and had care only of cleering his Conscience in the truth And that all the former points and circumstances were true with the depositions made by him the 5. of July last and the whole confession made by him since as he hoped to be saved and which he would seale with his bloud And further being deposed where was now the letter of Restalrig to Gowry He answered That he had this letter amongst other of Restalrig's papers which Bour had in keeping and which Sprot copied out and that he left the principall letter in his Chest amongst his writings when he was taken and brought away and that it is closed and folded in a sheet of paper These depositions made by George Sprot the to of August 1608. and others before being all included in his Indictment following to which for brevity I shall remit the Reader and written by James â—rimrose Clerk of the King's Councell and subscribed Georgè Sprot Present Earl of Dunbar Earl Lothiane Bishop of Rosse Lord Schone Lord Hallo-rod-house Lord Blautire Sir William Hart Lord Justice Mr. John Hall Mr. Patrick Gahoway Mr. Peter Hewet Ministers of Edenburgh and subscribed with all their hands The next day 11. of August Sprot was re-examined and to him declared the assurance of his death and was advis'd not to abuse his Conscience to witnesse untruths and upon the Innocency of the dead or living To which he deposeth That being resolved to die and as he wishes to be participant of Heaven upon the salvation or damnation of his Soul that all that he had deposed were true in every point and circumstance and no untruth in them The next day being the 12. of August 1608. Sprot was presented in Judgement upon Pannell within the Talboth of Edenburgh before Sir William Hart Knight Lord Justice of Scotland assisted with these Persons viz. Alexander Earle of Dunferling Lord Chancelour George Earle of Dunbar Lord Treasurer John Arch-bishop of Glascoe David Bishop of Rosse Gawen Bishop of Galloway Andrew Bishop of Brechine David Earl of Crawford Mark Earl of Lotharine James Lord Abernethie of Saltonne James Lord of Balmerinoth Senitapie Walter Lord Blautire John Lord Burley Sir Richard Coburn Knight Master John Preston Collector Generall
had an eye of favour upon Blunt often saying That She presaged him the Man to end Her cares in that Kingdome And She was a true Prophetesse though not in Her time but in Her Successor King James This Blunt was a Gallant Gentleman and learned on whom She bestowed a Jewell for his behaviour at a Tilting which he wore after tackt with a Scarlet Riband upon his Arme and for no other cause Essex must needs fight with him and was runne through the Arme for his labour But Essex got Imployments from them all offering the Service evermore at lesse charge of Men and Money then others his Competitors And over he goes Deputy of Ireland and Generall Deputy of Ireland and Generall of all the forces there with Commission strickt enough to imbound his Popularity with the Souldiery and his own family which followed him in Troops either to devour or undo him No sooner landed but ere he drew sword on the Enemy he dubbs Knighthood upon seven Gentlemen Volunteers which honour he had very lavishly bestowed at Cadiz and was therefore soundly chidden by the Queen And now restrained by his Commission with much a do unlesse to Men of known Merit and those after Battaile For this first Act the Queene swore he began his Rant Of which he had present Intelligence from his deerest Friend and Uncle Sir Francis Knowls a Councelor of State Sr. Francis Knowles his Correspondent and Controwler of Her Houshold and after Earl of Banbury Who spared not his advise and Councel at all times And between them there passed Intelligence with every dispatch whose letters and papers Principall from Essex and Copies to him I have seen by which there appears even from the beginning of that Imployment a very plaine and Intentional resolution in Essex to make himself Master of his own Ambition and by this way and meanes to effect it grounding all his discontents and dislikes that the Queens eare was open to his Enemies at Court. And therefore it behooved him to guard himself which he resolv'd to do by help of his Friends and fate And indeed having fallen into remarkeable offences together with the Treaties with Tyrone the Arch-Rebell without Order from England and without acquainting his Councell of Warre with whose advise he was limitted to act 'T is true Treats with Tyrone he advanced against the Enemy and soon accepts an Invitation to a Treaty accompanied with his Councell of Warre But comming to the brinck of a River the place assigned he plunges his Horse to the Midde stream alone and there meets him Tyrone on Horseback where their private discourse gave sufficient Caution to all that looked on a-loof-off that Essex meant no fair play for his Mistresse For which fact and no blow stroock in all this time Men and Money wasted He was soundly blamed by the Councell at home and no more letters from the Queens own hand which he usually received afore In great choler Returns home as to Dispute or Revenge and without leave from hence he leaves his Command to a Lieutenant and comes over with a hundred Gentlemen his best Confidents hastens to Court ere it was known to any but to his deer Vncle to whom he writes Deer Vncle Receiving your last at my entring on Ship-board Ireturn the accounts thereof at my Landing being resolved with all speed and your Silence to appear in the face of my Enemies not trusting afarre off to my own Innocency or to the Queens favour with whom they have got so much power c. At sight of him with amaze to the Queen She swore God's death my Lord what do you here Your presence is most unwelcome without Tyrone's head in your Portmantle But he falling more to a Dispute then any Excuse She in disdaine to be taught but what She pleased to do Bid him begone his bootes stunck And so was he presently commanded is committed censured and committed to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to Lambeth where not long after he was convented before a Committee of the Councel and Correctionem not ad destructionem The Queen very gracious hoping his offences might discerne favour for according to his Examinations then and the merit of his cause I have seen his Vncles papers breviates who was one of his Judges intended as his Censure to condemnation and so fitted for further Tryall But the day before they had other direction from the Queen saying he was young enough to mend and make amends for all And so their Censures shew'd him his Errors and left him to Her grace and mercy only restraining him to his own House against Saint Clements Not without dayly letters from Knowles with advice to be rid of his ranting followers Captaines and Sword-men of the Town flocking and Incouraging him to a Revenge on his Enemies It was not long that he could contain Saying His rebellious rising he was engaged to go on And on a Sunday morning the Councell sat which was usuall untill the late Arch-Bishop Lawd in honour of the Morning Sacrifice altered that course to the Afternoon Then the first flame brake out To him Imprisons the Clerk of the Councell they sent their Clerke of the Councell to know the reason from his Lordship of the meeting of so many weaponed Men at his house But the Messenger not returning being kept Prisoner the chiefest Councelours commanded by the Queen came to him and no sooner entered Essex house but the Gates were clapp'd too all their Train kept out the Court-yard full of Gallants Some cryed kill them Imprison them and the Lords of the Councell To the Court seise the Queen and be our own Carvers Essex comes down with all reverence ushers them up resolving to detain them Prisoners and pledges for his Successe Indeed in this hurly burly of advice he took the worst For leaving them in safety with Sir Ferdinando Gorges He with the Earle of Southampton in one boat and some others in other boats took water at his Garden staires and landing neer the Bridge went on foot up the streets with such stragling company as came in their way To whom he protested that the Queen should have been murthered and his and other good Councellors lives in perill by enemies of the State that forced a power from the Queene to the emiment destruction of the Kingdome These speeches with their swords drawne took little effect with the people who came running out of the Churches being Sermon-time without weapons or any offensable assistance contrary to his expectation But on he goes to Sir Thomas Smith's where he kept his Shreevealty neere Fan-church his confiding friend by whose countenance he hoped to worke with the Multitude He being absent at Paul's Crosse Sermon Essex staid no longer then to shift his shirt and so passed through Cheape-side to Paul's west-end where he found his first opposition by some forces got together by the Bishop of London and the trained band And after
was the Instrument of messages and letters betweene Ralegh and Cobham often to protest in my hearing That in truth he was threatned with the Rack which was shewed to him but had he tasted therof he said that he should have bin inforced to tell an odd tale meaning of discovery Sr. Walter was admitted a chair pen Inck and paper for his memory And truly he rather tyâ—ed the Court and Jury Repreeâ— ed. with Impertinences And thus was Sr. Walter Ralegh reprieved to the Tower and many years of Imprisonment in that liberty till his future merits and fame of learning begat many to pitty his sufferings So that at last by meanes of the French Embassadour with others of our own Lords he had freedome to repair for his health to his House at Saint James and after a year or two he procured a Commission to make a Voyage to Gueana in the West-Indies for the return of Gold Oare or Mine But was expresly limitted not to trench upon the Spaniard to the breach of Peace His landing was at St. Tomaz a Town of the Spaniards upon the opening of the Great River Orenoque in America Where he killed many of them and there lost his eldest son Walter under the Walls Then sends he Captain Kemish his old Servant upon whose confidence it appears this voyage was resolved up this River to the foot of a Mountain where heretofore and also during Ralegh's Imprisonment he had been sent and returned with wonderfull Remarks of a rich Mine or rather Madre-del-Ore But now comes from thence And all the account came to no more but that the Mountain was fled away he could not find it Upon this the whole sleet 4. or 5. saile mutiny forces him home again as a Prisoner in the return Kemish kills himself in his own Cabin so no tales could be told Ralegh's ships were first cast upon the south of Ireland then they land in the West of England where warrants were ready to apprehend him Prisoner to the Tower In the West he is discovered to deal with a French Master of a ship to steal away into France Then in his journy to London he combines with a French Mountebanck who assisted him with Ingredients which he desired that would without danger of life bring him to breake forth into Blanes Purposely done by this meanes to get longer time to work opportunities to save his life which he knew he had so deeply forfeited Then being delivered into the hands of Sir John Stukely Lieutenant of the Tower he deales with him for a sum of Money part in hand being paid to join with him in Escapeboth of them into France Stukely yields to all and accompanies him by water in the way to Gravesend where by designe of Stukelie's treachery in that and so it prospered with him being hang'd afterwards for clipping of Gold they were seized and brought back to the Tower From whence very speedily Ralegh was commanded to the King's-Bench-bar at Westminster before the Lord chief Justice Mountegue where the Records of his former Sentence only were read hedemanded why Execution should not be done Sir Walter acknowledged that Sentence and the King's Mercy for his life thus long And that he hoped seeing he had bin imployed by Commission with power of life and death over the King's Lie ge People it did make void that former sentence He was told to the contrary and that his time of Execution was the next morning and so the Sheriff of Middlesex took him into custody to the Gate-House and to Execution the next day in the old Palace yard at Westminster where he had the favor of the Ax. which he said smilingly touching it was a sharp Medioine but a true Physitian to cure all diseases and so it proved to him at this very time in his Ague sit At his death himselfe endeavoured to cleere some points which it seemes our Pamphleter knew not of otherwise he would have done it for him To have had often plots with France which he denied but confessed that he had bin solicited thence and indeavoured to escape thither at twice That the French Agent came oft to him with Commission from that King to him But he returned the Commission That he should speake disloyally of the King his accuser he said was a base runagate Frenchman and perfideous whom he trusted being sworne to secrecie which he betrayed much he said in these particulars which he did not deny but traversed So then there were other businesse of charge to which he was liable to a new Tryall But the prudence of the King would not hazard further proceedings having a sufficient upon the old score Pamp. 38. And now for that additional tale of the Pamphleter concerning Sir Walters recovery of Queen Anne for which he begg'd the boone viz. for the Examination of the Lord Cobham by 4. Earles and 2. Councelors I never heard nor read thereof before nor can beleeve it For this I know by severall relations of those great Ladies of her Bedchamber and of her Chirurgians and Physitians now living That She was never cured of her disease but by death that ends all Maladies It followes in the Pamphlet That after he hath ranted his Stories of Mansell and Monson and of the peace ratifyed and sworne He makes Cecill the chief Ringleader of the King by the Nose But to say truth The King was alwaies brought up to his ease though the fore-part of his Raigne in Scotland proved troublesome enough to his Councell And therefore now he was to follow his affaires in peace and his own Inclination in a Sportfull life The rather He being much Subject to unwildines or weaknes in his Limbs and which because of his extream dis-affection to Physick he was advised to the best Aire most agreable to the Nature of Scotland fresh and bleak and for that end he chose Roystan and Newmarket Without that Scandalous Intimation of leaving his Queen without any love or liking We are forced to fall upon One Lake Sir Tho. Lake Pamp. 54. whom we find to be that learned Gentleman Sir Thomas Lake apted in his youth with rudiments of the Book to attend Sir Francis Walsingham that subtile Secretary of State to Queen Elizebeth as Amanuensis to him And after good experience of his desarts he was recommended to the Queen and read to her French and Latine In which tongues she would say that he surpassed her Secretaries and was so imployed to her death for he was reading to her when the COUNTESSE of WARWICK told him that the Queen was departed But not long before merits she received him Clarke of her Signet And he was chosen by this State in that place to attend the King from BARWICK And so sufficient he was that the King made use of his present service in some French affaires after he came into England Which indeed Secretary Cecil had reason to resent as too much trenching on his Office And therefore