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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50030	Leicester's common-wealth conceived, spoken and published with most earnest protestation of dutifull goodwill and affection towards this realme / by Robert Parsons Jesuite ; whereunto is added Leicesters-ghost.; Leycesters commonwealth.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Rogers, Thomas, 1573 or 4-1609 or 10. Leicester's ghost.	1641 (1641)	Wing L969; Wing L970_VARIANT; ESTC R12740	146,895	230

Sunday before the Earles dea●h ensuing the Friday after and when she w●s dead h●r body was swolne unto a monstrous bignesse and deformity whereof the good Earle hearing the day following lamented the case greatly and said in the presence of his Servants Ah poore Alice the cup was not prepared for thee albeit it were thy hard destiny to taste thereof Yong Honnies also whose father is Master of the ch●ldren of her M●jesties chappell being at that time Page to the said Earle and accustomed to take the taste of his drinke though since entert●ined also among other by my Lord of Leicester for better covering of matter by his taste that he then tooke of the compound cup though in very small-quantity as you know the fashion is yet was he like to have lost his life but escaped in the end being yong with the losse onely of his haire which the Earle perceiving and taking compassion of the youth called for a cup of drinke a little before his death and drunke to Honnies saying I drinke to thee my Robin and be not afraid for thi● is a better cup of drinke then that whereof thou tookest the taste when we were both poysoned and whereby thou hast lost thy haire and I must lose my life This hath yong Honnies reported openly in divers places and before divers Gentlemen of worship si●hence his coming into England and the foresaid Lea I●ishman at his passage this way towards France after he had been present at the forenamed Mistris Drayk●ts death with some other of the Ea●les servants have and doe most constantly report the same where they may do it without the terrour of my Lord of Leicesters revenge Wh●refore in this matter there is no doubt at all though most extreame vile and intollerable indignity that such a man should be so openly murdered without punishment What Noble-man within the Realme may be safe if this be suffered or what worthy personage will adventure his life in her Majesties service if this shall be his reward But Sir I pray you pardon me for I am somewhat perhaps too vehement in the case of this my Patron and noble Peere of our Realme And therefore I beseech you to goe forward in your talke whereas you left I was recounting unto you others said the Gentleman made away by my Lord of Leic●ster with like art and the next in order I think was Sir Nicelas Throgmarton who was a man whom my Lord of Leicester used a great while as all the World knoweth to overthwart and crosse the doings of my Lord Treasurer then Sir William Cicill a man specially misliked alwayes of Leicester both in respect of his old Master the Duke of Somerset as also for that his great wisdome zeale and singular fidelity to the Realme was like to hinder much this mans designments wherefore understanding after a certaine time that these two Knights were secretly made friends and that Sir Nicholas was l●ke to detect his doings as he imagined which might turne to some prejudice of his purposes having conceived also a s●cret grudge and griefe against him for that he had written to her Majesty at his being Embassadour in France that he heard reported at Duke Memorances table that the Queene of England had a meaning to marry her Hors●keeper he invited the said Sir Nicholas to a supper at his house in London and at supper time departed to the Court being called for as he said upon the sudden by her M●jesty and so perforce would needs have Sir Nicholas to sit and occupie his Lordships place and therein to be served as he was and soone after by a surfeit there taken he died of a strange and incurable vomit But t●e day before his death he declared to a deare friend of his all the circumstance and cause of his disease which he affirmed plainly to be of poison given him in a Salet at supper inveying most earnestly against the Earles cru●lty and bloody disposition affirming him to be the wickedest most perilous and pe●fidious man under heaven But what availed this when he had now received the bait This then is to shew the mans good fortune in seeing them dead whom for causes he would not have to live And for his art of poisoning it is such now and tea●heth so far as he holdeth all his foes in England and elsewhere as also a good many of his friends in fear therof and if it were knowne how many he h●th dispatched or assaulted that way it would be marvailous to the posterity The late Eale of Sussex wanted not a scruple for many yeers before his death of some dram received that made him incurable And unto that noble Gentleman Monsieur Simiers it was discovered by great providence of God that his life was to be attempted by that art and that not taking place as it did not through his owne good circumspection it was concluded that the same should be ass●ulted by violence whereof I shall have occasion to say more hereafter It ha●h beene told me also by some of the serva●ts of the late Lady Lenox who was also of the blood Royall by Scotland as all men know and consequently l●ttle liked by Leicester that a little before her death or si●knesse my Lord tooke the paines to come and visit her with extraordinary kindnesse at her house at Hackney bestowing long discourses with her in private but as soone as he was departed the good Lady fell into such a fl●x as by no meanes could be slayed so long as she had life in her body whereupon both she her selfe and all such as were neere about her saw her disease and ending day were fully of opinion that my Lord had procured her dispatch at his being there Whereof let the women that served h●r be examined as also Fowler that then had the chiefe doings in her aff●i●es and since hath beene entertained by my Lord of Leicester Ma●et also a stranger borne tbat then was about her a sober and zealous man in religion and otherwise well qualified can say somewhat in this point as I thinke if he were demanded So that this art and exercise of poisoning is much more perfect with my Lord then praying and he seemeth to take more pleasure therein Now for the second point which I named touching marriages and contracts with Women you must not marvaile though his Lordship be somewhat divers variable and inconstant with himselfe for that according to his profit or pleasure and as his lust and liking shall vary wherein by the judgement of all men he surpasseth not onely Sard●napa●us and Nero ●ut even Heliog●batus himselfe so his Lordsh●p also changeth W●ves and Minions by killing the one denying the other using the third for a time and he fawning upon the fourth And for this c●use he hath his tearmes and pretences I warrant you of Contracts Precontracts Postcontracts Protracts and Retracts as for example after he had killed

hath little cause to be solicitour for that God himselfe taketh care commonly that goods and honours so gotten and maintained as hi● be shall never trouble the third heire Marry for himselfe I confesse the matter standing as you s●y that he hath reason to forbeare that Country and to leave off his building begun at Denbigh as I heare say he hath done for that the universall hatred of a people is a perilous matter and if I were in his Lordships case I should often thinke of the end of Nero who after all his glory upon fury of the people was adjudged to have his head thrust into a Pilo●y and so to be beaten to death with rods and thongs Or rather I should feare the successe of Vitellius the third Emp●ror after Nero who for his wickednesse and oppression of the people was t●ken by them at length when fortune began to fa●●e●h h●m and led out of his Palace naked with hooks of Iron fastned in his fl●sh and so dr●wn through the City with infamy wh●re lo●en in the streets with filth and ordure cast upon him and a pri●k put under his chin to the end he should not lo●ke downe or hide hi● f●ce was brought to the banke of Tyber and there af●er many hundred wounds received was cast into the river So implacable a thing is the fur●ur of a mu●titude wh●n it is once stirred and hath place of reve●ge And so heavy is the hand of God upon tyrants ●n this world when it pleaseth his divine Majesty to take revenge of the same I have read in Lean●er in his description of Italy how that in Spoleto if I be not d●ceived the chiefe City of the Country of Umbria there was a strange tyrant who in the time of his prosperity contemned all men and forbare to injury no man that came within his claws esteeming himself sure enough for ever being called to render account in this life and for the next he cared little But God upon the sudden turned upside-downe the wheele of his felicity and cast him into the peoples hands who tooke him and bound his naked body upon a planke in the M●rket place with a fire and iron tongues by him and then made proclamation that seeing this man was not otherwise able to make satisfaction for the publique injuries that he had done every private person annoyed by him should come in order and with the hot-burning tongues there ready should take of his flesh so much as was correspondent to the injury received as indeed they did untill the miserable man gave up the ghost and after too as this author writeth But to the purpose seeing my Lord careth little for such examples and is become so hardy now as he maketh no account to injury and oppresse whole Countries and Commonalties together it shall be bootlesse to speake of his proceedings towards particular men who have not so great strength to resist as a multitude h●th And yet I can assure you that there are so many and so pitifull things published daily of his tyranny in this kinde as doe move great compossion towards the party that doe suffer and horrour ag●inst him who shameth not daily to offer such injury As for example whose heart would not bleed to heare the case before mentioned of M●ster Robinson of Staffordshire a proper yong Gentleman and well given both in religion and other vertues whose Father died at Newhaven in her M●j●sties service under this mans brother the Earl● of Warwick and recommended at his death this his eldest Son to the special protection of Leicester and his Brother whose servant also this Robinson hath bin from his youth upward and spent the most of his living in his service Yet notwithstanding all this when Robinsons Lands were intangled with a certaine Londoner upon interest for●s former maintenance in their service whose title my Lord of Leicester though craftily yet not covertly under Ferris his cloak had gotten to himselfe he ceased not to pursue the poore Gentleman even to imprisonment arraignment and sentence of death for greedinesse of the said living together with the vexation of his brother in law Master Harcourt and all other his friends upon pretence forsooth that there was a man slaine by Robinsons party in defence of his owne possession against Leicesters intruders that would by violence breake into the same What shall I speake of others whereof there would be no end as of his dealing with M●ster Richard Lee for his Manor of Hooknorton if I faile not in the name with Master Ludowick Grivell by seeking to bereave him of all his l●ving at once if the drift had taken place with George Witney in the behalfe of Sir Henry Le●gh for inforcing him to forgoe the Controlership at Woodstock which he holdeth by Patent from King Hen●y the seventh with my Lord Barkley whom he enforced to yeeld up his lands to h●s brother Warwick which his ancestors had held quietly for almost two hundre●h yeeres together What shall I say of his intollerable tyranny upon the last Ar●hbishop of Canterbury f●r D●ctor Iulio his s●ke and that in so foule a matte● Vpon Sir Iohn Th●o●ma●ton whom he brought pitifully to his grave before his time by continuall vexations for a peece of faithfull service done by him to his Countrey and to all the line of King Henry against this mans Father in King Edward and Queen Maries dayes Upon divers of the Lanes for one mans sake of that name before mentioned that offered to take Killing worth-Castle upon some of the Giffords and other for Throgmartons sake for that is also his Lords disposition for one mans cause whom he brooketh not to plague a whole generation that any way pertaineth or is allied to the same his endlesse persecuting of Sir Drew Drew●y and many other Courtiers both men and women All these I say and many others who daily suffer injuries rapines and oppr●ssions at his hands throughout the Realme what should it availe to name them in th●s place seeing neither his Lord careth any th●ng for the same neither the parties agrieved are like to attain any least release of affliction thereby but rather ●ouble oppression for their complaining Wher●fore to return again wheras we began you see by this little who and how great what manner of m●n my Lord of Leycester is this day in the state of England You see and may gather in some part by that which hath bin spoken his wealth his strength his cunning his disposition His wealth is excessive in all kinde of riches for a private man and must needs be much more then any body lightly can imagine for the infinite wayes he hath had of gaine so many ye●res together His strength and power is absolute and irresistable as hath beene sh●wed both in Chamber Court Councell and Country His cunning in plotting and fortifying the same