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A13110	To the Kings most excellent Maiestie. The humble petition and information of Sir Lewis Stucley, Knight, Vice-admirall of Deuon, touching his owne behauiour in the charge committed vnto him, for the bringing vp of Sir Walter Raleigh, and the scandalous aspersions cast vpon him for the same; Humble petition and information	Stucley, Lewis, Sir, d. 1620.	1618 (1618)	STC 23401; ESTC S121293	8,332	20

TO THE KINGS most Excellent Maiestie The humble petition and information of Sir Lewis Stucley Knight Vice-admirall of Deuon touching his owne behauiour in the charge committed vnto him for the bringing vp of Sir Walter Raleigh and the scandalous aspersions cast vpon him for the same BEing deterred by your Maiesties more important affaires from any hope of redresse of those scarres cast vpon my reputation by Sir Walter Raleigh at his death without some remonstrāce of the businesse made by my selfe I haue presumed to offer to your most Excellent Maiestie a iust defence of my carriage in that affaire Wherein as I hold it the part of an honest man to preferre publique duety before priuate affection so I cannot but keepe the heart of a Gentleman which is euer more sensible of a wound giuen to his reputation then to his life I haue noe pleasure to fight with a ghost But seeing an Angel of darkenesse did put on him the shape of an Angel of light at his departure to performe two Parts most cunningly First to poison the hearts of discontented people Secondly to blemish me in my good name a pooreinstrument of the iust desires of the State with false imputations Giue mee leaue most Gracious Souereigne to speake for my selfe which I doe not to insult vpon the dead but to defend my selfe against the false reports of the liuing taken from the dead vpon trust to strike me directly but through my sides indirectly ayming at a higher marke All men haue long knowen that this mans whole life was a meere sophistication and such was his death in which hee borrowed some tincture of holinesse which he was thought not to loue in his life therewith to couer his hatred of others in his death As it appeareth that being moued by the Deane of westminster and thereupon promising charitie to mee in the prison doth thus vent his hatred on the Scaffold in shew of charitie to the liuing to take heede of so dangerous a man An vncharitable charitie not much vnlike that mans repentance who purposing to hang himselfe writes his repentance of that sinne before hand in his booke which he did purpose to commit Yet will not I take vpon me to iudge of his last repentance I leaue him vnto God to whom hee stands or falls but I would he had giuen a better signe of it then by godly words at his death to gather credit to himselfe to worke vpon the compassion of men thereby to infuse more warily the venome of sedition into the hearts of as many as hee might and to gaine reputation vpon his Soueraigne but to spend his malice vpon mee your poore seruant who did nothing but execute your iust Commands with the perill of my life Witnesse his open inuitation of diuers to his death wherein hee meant as in his last Will and Testament to leane a Legacie of his hatred vnto me to be executed vpon me by them to my destruction But it is nothing in respect of his generall end to spread by them whom hee had inuited the contagion of his seditious humour vnto others which the euent doth manifest That it growes verie questionable whether this man did more hurt by his life or by his death By his life through his ill example By his death through his false testimony to traduce the Iustice instruments of the State Yea but it was the testimony of a dying man now a penitent as alsay as some say a Saint euen then when as himselfe said it was no time to flatter or feare Princes yea but it was the testimony of an enemie of a periur'd of a condemned man First of an enemie and of an angrie enemie euen with your Maiestie that would haue iustice executed on him vpon his originall condemnation who were satisfied as he publikely did speake of his innocencie in that cause as priuately before hee bewrayed his deepe discontentment when it was vrged that the testimony of the Lord Cobham was neuer retracted Sir Walter Raleigh did peremptorily denie it To whom answere was made that then the publike Act registred in the Counsell booke would manifest it for there it appeares So faine would this man cast aspersion vpon your Iustice for taking the life of an innocent in that cause wherein hee was condemned by his Countrey When this would not serue his turne then did he flie to the Commission of a generall pleading it as an implicit pardon of that former offence Not considering that being already a man condemned for treason he was as the learned in the Law held vncapable of another triall by which hee might haue been found as Nocent as before For he hauing a Commission to goe into those parts of America vnpossessed by any Christian Prince in league with your Maiestie and no where else either to plant or trade hee made his designe for the Riuer of Oreonoque where hee knew the Subiects of the King of Spaine were already planted which as he confessed vnder his hand to your Maiestie hee concealed from you and this vnder pretence of his gold Mine which he did apparantly to this end to breake the League and to imbroyle the two States Many Generals haue for exceeding their Commissions beene punished euen for good seruices how then could he haue escaped for this his disseruice being against his Commission if hee might by the law haue beene tryed vpon it It s cleere then that he was angry with your Maiestie for commaunding Iustice to bee done vpon him how then could hee chuse but be angry with mee the poore Instrument who brought him backe to Iustice from whence hee intended often to make an escape First at Sea vpon his returne making motion to be set on shore in France and to quit his Ship to his company on that condition for the which hee was blocked vp in his Cabin a moneth together as himselfe hath confessed vnto mee and is to be prooued by diuers of his company By which it is cleere againe that out of his guiltinesse he did not so much trust in your goodnesse as hee saide on the Scaffold hee did too much or else he had not suffered death Next at Plymouth after hee was by your Maiesties speciall command committed to my keeping hee plotted with two French Captaines by name with Captaine Flory and Captaine Le'Grand to escape in one of their shippes then there in harbour as he then confessed to the Lords Commissioners it beeing first euidently prooued against him by which it appeareth againe hee did not trust your Maiesties goodnesse as he writte and said at his death But I am sure by this he did much wrong my kindnesse to my vndooing had not the goodnesse of heauen preuented him Next hee plotted his escape at Salisbury which my worthy Cozen William Herbert first discouered to your Maiestie Last vpon the same Saturday when I receiued your Maiesties Commission by my Cozen Herbert by whom also I receiued intelligence that at that instant he was flying

from my custody without my priuity not hauing as yet made him any semblance of condiscent so that I almost came on him at vnawares euen at the instant that hee was putting on his false beard and his other disguisements Which declares hee did still distrust your goodnesse doubtlesse out of the conscience of his guiltinesse whatsoeuer he writte or saide to the contrary And is it any maruaile then that he was angry with mee at his death for bringing him backe Besides that beeing a man as he was thought of so great a Wit it was no small griefe that a man of so meane a wit as I should bee thought to goe beyond him Yea but you should not haue vsed such craft to goe beyond him No Sie ars deluditur arte Neque enim'lex iustior vlla est quam'necis artifices arte perire sua But why did not you execute your Commission barely to his apprehension on him in his house Why my Commission was to the contrary to discouer his other pretensions and to seaze his secret papers c. And can any honest Subiect question mine honesty in the performance of such a Commission which tended to the discouery of the secret intentions of an ill affected heart to my Soueraigne How can any dislike this in mee and not bewray his owne dishonest heart vnto the State Yea but though another might haue done this yet how might you doe it beeing his kinsman and his friende Surely if I had beene so yet in a publique imployment and trust laid vpon mee I was not to refuse it much lesse to prefer priuate kindnesse or amity before my publique duety and loyalty For what did I know the dangerous consequence of these matters which were to bee discouered or who knowes them yet of those that make themselues my competent Iudges But if there were no kindred or amity betweene vs as I auow there neuer was what bond then might tie me to him but the tie of compassion of his miserie which was in my Soueraignes heart to distribute when hee saw time that did command mee and not in the dispensation of mee nor of any other instruments power that is to bee commanded Hitherto I haue prooued hee was angry both with your Maiesty with my selfe and therefore his testimony ought not to be of any force against me It followeth next to proue that his protestations and oathes concerning others were false both before he came to the Scaffold and vpon the Scaffold Before against Queene Elizabeth of infinite famous memory who aduanced him with great fauour from the dust For one day my selfe vpbrayding him with the notorious extreame iniury he did my father in deceiuing him of a great aduenture which my sayd father had in the Tyger when hee went to the West Indies with my Vnkle Sir Richard Grenuill which was by his owne confession worth fifty thousand pound which came all to his hands my fathers portion at the least being tenne thousand pound that hee might lawfully clayme Hee answered that the Queene howsoeuer she seemed a great good mistresse vnto him in the eyes of the world yet was so vniust and tyrannous vnto him that she layde the enuie aswell of this as of many other her oppressions vpon him and that shee tooke all the pearle in a Cabinet vnto her selfe without euer giuing him so much as one pearle This hee swore to me and to Captaine Pennington he did so basely and barbarouslie raile vpon that our most excellent Queene oftentimes as hee can attest that no man hath cause to beleeue his oth against others that would breake his oath of Allegeance to so excellent a mistresse that had raysed him from such meannesse to such greatnesse as we of his countrey did well know Now that hee swore that he was not guiltie of the plotting of the Earle of Essex death nor did insult vpon him being dead there is a Gentleman of worth which about that time came from out of a long captiuitie which hee had suffered in Spaine who touched at Sherborne and Sir Walter Raleigh asked him What they said in Spaine of Essex death He answered They heard not of it there But that he was sory he heard in the Iland voyage That the Earle had brought him to his mercy To which Sir Walter Raleigh answered But I trust I am now quittance With him which this Gentleman is ready to attest Besides in his Letters written to others hee did ordinarily vpbraid him That hee died like a Crauen and in another That the great boy dyed like a Calfe And he was often heard to say That he died like a foole and like a coward So persecuting his ghost and insolently trampling in his ashes that it thence grew into many mens mouthes That it was better to be a liuing dogge then a dead Lyon But a more euident demonstration there cannot be of any thing then that an olde Warder of the Tower will depose that hee saw Sir Walter Raleigh the night before the Earles suffering with his footman onely with him to come to the Tower and heard him giue strait instructions to the Lieutenant of the Tower for execution of the Warrant for that worthy Lords execution which shortly followed him Whether then he for swore not himselfe euen at his death for publicue applause about the not plotting the destruction and not insulting on the death of that most noble Earle and excellent Saint of God whole Christian humilitic and charitie if Sir Walter had followed hee had not called his repentance and Saintship so farre into question as now he hath done and so seditiously haue poisoned the hearts of discontented people nor so maliciously wounded the reputation of an honest Subiect Who vpon iust reason beleeuing the disloyall and dishonourable wordes spoken by such a proude vassall against your sacred person to Monsieur Manourij as other his disloyall deeds which hee intended against you That if he had escaped he was like to prooue as dangerous a Traitour to this Crowne as euer Antonio de Pcres was to the Crowne of Spainc tooke them to heart and performed my best deuoyer to bring him vnto Iustice. But whether I say hee forswore not himselfe in these things I referre my selfe to them that are better acquainted with the Tragoedie of that time Not to forget in the end that which hee confessed himselfe vnto me and others that he tooke an oath vpon the Bible to his Company which he purposed to breake which periury his Lady hath said was the cause of all his ruine And what interpretatiō can my greatest enemie make of his oath which voluntarily he swore vnto my selfe in the Lieutenants dining chamber the Wednesday after his commitment which was That he loued me as well as any friend he had in the world to which I haue substantiall witnesse But in all these things he vsed an aequiuocation as he doeth in these things now concerning me To which I answere in generall once for all Sir

Nicholas Throgmorton father to his wife was thought iustly to except against the testimonie of one Vaughan brought against him because he was a condemned man And may not I then except against the testimonic of Sir Walter Raleigh vrged against me vpon the Scaffold comming from an Outlaw after Iudgement euen in a case of high Treason Yet to answere in particular to the points hee sayth first I neuer did receiue aduice from my Lo. Carew to make mine escape And I doe now verely beleeue he neuer did receiue any such aduice as I euer said to the Lords But that Raleigh tolde it vnto Stucley yea and that many times I will auow it vnto death and take the Sacrament vpon it To the second I neuer named my Lord Hay and my Lo. Carew in other wordes and sence then as my honourable friends amongst other Lords my honourable friends That is very true and I would the rest of his Honourable friends vnderstood how farre he named them as well as I doe But as euer I beleeued that he did abuse their Honourable names to seduce mee and to draw me to his purpose So did I promise to my selfe that some of the chiefe of them being ioyned in the bond either of blood or affinitie with mee a poore Gentleman would be a comfort vnto me in the way of my loyaltie and renounce the testimonie of such a disloyall man that was neuer true to any but to himselfe There is no mans displeasure can further hurt me then hee hath threatned me That if I reuealed the things he tolde me in priuate I should die for it And die for this cause I am content so it be not by an assacinate But whensoeuer I die there shall die your Maiesties faithfull and loyall seruant and one that will part with his blood at as deere a rate as he can For the third concerning the shewing of a letter to mee about money his wife if shee were put to her oath can tell whether it were so or no. But vnder the former protestation I auow it to be true that he shewed me such a letter though I thinke it not true what the letter spake I omit his periury in swearing hee had no designe for Fraunce when as Sir Iohn Fearne and Captaine Penington are able to testifie vpon their oathes that hee often told them hee had commission to stand them in stead from the High Admirall of France which confirmes the testimony of M. Mannowry who saw the Commission at Plimmouth as he will deposeit I vrge not his periury in that Article concerning Sir Iohn Fearne that he neuer had it in his thought to goe from Trinidado to leaue his company which Sir Iohn Fearn is ready to prooue by the deposition of 60. persons that Sir Walter propounded it vnto them whatsoeuer he intended And therefore how this man equiuocates at his death all the world may see O barbarous cruelty to leaue so many gentlemen when hee had secretly heard that his son was dead to the mercy of their enemies without hope or meanes to returne Where hee also perswaded Captain Penington to goe away who answered him hee would rather die then lay the guilt vpon his soule of the death ofso many gentlemen But if I would you lately swore you haue no money left quoth Captaine Penington without which wee cannot victuall at Virginia Tut whatsoeuer I swore sayd Sir Walter I haue 300. pieces in a corner at a dead lift as he confessed also to the Lords that he gaue one hundred and fifty pieces to his company to come home And how then can that be true which he swore at his death that hee carried but 60. pieces with him and brought home neere the same summe Certainly periury was but a Peccadillio with this man which he shewed also towards me when he protested that I perswaded him to goe to Sir Edward Parrhams fathers house which is most vntrue For Sir Walter Raleigh hauing a secret intention which afterwardes appeared to play the mountbanke at Salisbury to pretend the taking of a doze of poyson by which hee deceiued mee first that by me he might deceiue others which was a most base vnmanly part thought Sir Edward Parrhams fathers house whom he thought to bee a Papist to bee a fit subiect of suspicion which hee meant to cast vpon his friend who had so louingly and worthily entertained vs. For sayd Sir Walter though the Gentleman would not hurt mee yet there might bee Priests or Iesuites there that did it For I remember after my mornings draught of a cuppe of Ale which Sir Edward Parrham offred me in the Hall I felt presently a kinde of excoriation in mine Intralls as if some Iesuit had beene the Butler Now when I saw the pustales breake out vpon him at Salisbury my Compassion I confesse was too credulous to report from his mouth so much wherein I made no lie but told a lie Non mentientis astu sed compassionis affectu which hath beene ill required by him to whom I shewed it But I am heartily sory for it that being so farre abused as I was I should wrong my true kinsman which mooued mee after to no small iust indignation against Sir Walter who had thus abused vs both When I heard of his often purposes to escape to mine vndoing to draw him forward to it which hee intended of himselfe by making of a lie Non amore mendacij sed officij the rather because hee had inuegled mee to hurt my kinsman by telling of a lie which I doubt that Diuinitie would not beare but reason of State as the best Philosophers doe hold doth beare it to bee lawfull to lie for the discouerie of Treason to doe seruice to the common wealth Yea but they say that hee hath not left so sufficient a man behinde him and that therefore his death is a losse to the common-wealth I doubt much of both But no man denies but he had many sufficiēcies in him But what were these but so many weapons of practise and danger to the State if hee escaped being so deepely tainted in so many points of discontent dishonesty and disloyaltie He knew as he writ that as in nature so in policy A priuatione ad habitum non fit regressio and therefore being desperate of any fortune heere agreeable with the height of his minde who can doubt but he would haue made vp his fortune elswhere vpon any tearmes against his Soueraigne and Countrey No Coriolanus heart could bee more vindicatiue then he was vnto them to whom he did impute his fault Yea but hee died most resolutely Yea but hee was taken most sheepishly Neuer was there man out of the conscience of his owne corruption and guiltinesse so cowed at his taking as he was trembling and weeping to come before Iustice. Yea but he gathered his spirits afterwards and died resolutely Euen so hath many a Iesuite done at Tyburne a cancred enemy to God and his Soueraigne But with this difference that they died in hope of false Martyrdome and this with a desire of a false popular fame But he died like a Saint too Hee hath before verie much called his Saintshippe into dispute by the carriage of his life Wee may now iudge of it by that hee did a night before his death who after his Conferences with the Deane of Westminster for his better instruction and preparation of his soule for God called the Keeper of the Gatehouse Master Weekes to him and was curiously inquisitiue to know whether hee had any Romish Priests vnder his charge and custodie and what they were but vpon his answere that he had not any whether hee mistrusted that Master Weekes would not deale plainely with him or would not bee true vnto him hee presently surceased from any further Inquisition of that matter which whether it might proceed of an irresolution in the Religion wherein hee professed himselfe to die or out of a popular affectation to insinuate and applie himselfe to all factions I leaue it to the censure of the Iudicious Reader and of such as best obserued the whole Scene of his action vpon the Scaffold But to go further they say he died like a Souldier a Saint therfore then to be beleeued not only against me but against the attestation of the State O wicked times to say no more But my hope is that Religion and the feare of God and the conscience of our duty and loyaltic to your Maiestie will sway more with the most and best by that time men shall from the State be better informed Opinionum commenta delebit dies veritatis iudicia confirmabit saith Tully Wherfore I doe heere make two most humble petitions to your most excellent Maiestie First that seeing I your poore loyall Subiect am burthened and oppressed with the Testimony of a bitter enemy of a periurd and condemned man which is against all reason conscience and law That I may haue your Maiesties leaue to the confirmation of the truth which I haue avowed to be sufficient to receiue the Sacrament vpon it in your Maiesties Chappel The next is that your Maiestie will be so gracious vnto mee as to suffer a declaration to come forth from the State for the cleering of these matters and further satisfaction of the world By which it may appeare that the Iustice of God and the Iustice of the King did neuer better meete together in one man Which my iust and humble request I hope your Maiestie will not deny to Your Maiesties loyall Subiect and Seruant LEVVES STVCLEY Imprinted at LONDON by BONHAM NORTON and IOHN BILL Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO 1618.