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A94193	Aulicus coquinariæ or a vindication in ansvver to a pamphlet, entituled The court and character of King James. Pretended to be penned by Sir A.W. and published since his death, 1650.	Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.; Heylyn, Peter, 1660-1662, attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing S645; Thomason E1356_2; ESTC R203447	57,703	213

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 ty●ed the Court and Jury Repree● 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

with much honour and magnificence Sir Themas Overbury And Sr. Thomas Overbury congratulating the Ceremony with as publique profession as others in Court expressed And it concerned this great Favourite to look upon Him with respect of preferment and as he failed not the meanest so it became Him to advance his Confident Overbury most eminent Pamph. 65. Whose Character Our Pamphletter hath more deservedly hit upon than any other And therefore it was his own seeking as best fitting his excellent parts to present the Kings Person in Embassie to France which to my knowledge he accepted and seemingly prepared to advance Conceiting perhaps that the power which he usurped over Somerset and the Interests of eithers affection which Overbury knew best how to Master could not endure absence without much regret which accordingly had for some time the true effects as Overbury intended But when Somerset had wisely considered that there would be no great loss of so loose a friend Then Overbury would not goe no though I know his Instructions were drawn and Additionalls thereto by his own consent And this was a just and true ground for the King and Councell to punish so great Insolency with Imprisonment in the Tower which Somerset heartily endeavoured in due time to release But Overbury to shadow his own demerits devised the reason and cause from his disaffection of the former Marriage and which he published with much dishonor though not the tythe which is studied in our Pamphleters Libell For which the Malice of Women as it often meets sought Revenge by Poyson to punish him to the death And for which Fact they were arraigned and some suffered death In prosecution of which it behoved the Kings Piety and Iustice to be severe and serious without any King-craft And therefore needed not such an additionall falsehood as to kneel down to the Iudges when then as usuall he gave them their Charge upon their Itinerate Circuits For then the truth of Overburies poysoning was but suspected And therefore it was not unnaturall nor wonderous for the King to take his leave of his Favorite and friend with expressions of great kindness who yet in Iustice he exposed to Persecution And truly in this much forced story of our Author take him at his own dimension an ingenious good Nature may find out much strugling in the King to make Iustice and Mercy kiss each other I was present at their Arraignments and the Pictures Puppets for Magick spells were no other but severall French Babies some Naked others Clothed which were usuall then and so are now a dayes to teach us the fashions for dresse of Ladies tyring and apparrell And indeed Foremans Book was brought forth wherein the Mountebanck had formerly for his own advantage and credit sawcily inserted the Countesses name so of many others that came to seek Fortunes which she cleared by her own Protestation and Foremans confession that she was never with him Sir Thomas Monson was brought to the Bar Sir Thomas Monson and began his Tryall but was remitted to the Tower with as much Civility as is usuall to other Prisoners And Sir Geo. More then Lieutenant of the Tower took him from the Bar and both together were carried in his Coach to the Tower I say the truth for I saw it But I cannot pick out the meaning why so much pains is taken to tell out Monsons tale was he Guilty or No By the story he had hard measure So perhaps had some of the others for He was a Creature of that Family And yet for some no doubt private respects of our Author for he was his Companion He is in and out and out and in and in and out again And now comes Somerset Pamph. 115. who he sayes being warned to his tryal absolutely refused and was assured by the King never to come to any when was this assurance For he tells us At their parting at Royston they never met after but we must conceive it by Message And why for this must More a wise man be at his wits end The warrant for Tryall came over night late and it is so usual as it never failes that the Lieutenant of the Tower hath freedome of accesse to waken his Soveraign at any hour The importance of his Place and Trust having that consequence annexed And in speciall to give Knowledge of Warrants either of Tryalls or of Execution of Prisoners And this of Course he did When the King in tears is told a tale in his Eares that none knew but he that was furthest off A trick of wit brings him to the Barre and a desperate plot by two men placed at his Elbow with Clokes to clap over him made him calm at his Tryall And thus it was that the Lieutenant on his right and the Gentleman Iaylor on his left hand with Clokes on their backs but not on their armes might colour our Authors conceipt It had appeared a mad President when a Prisoner at his tryall upon Life and Death hath Freedome to speak for himself in publique Course of Justice to be snatch'd from the Bar and from the power of the Iudge at the pleasure of a Iaylor But to make out this Monument the King rewards him with 1500 l. Pamph. 119. And for a truth More tells all this to the Author of whom himselfe confesses he had no assurance of his honesty nor I beseeve any body else The Conclusion of all is That due execution was done upon Sir Iervice Ellowayes Mrs. Turner Weston and Franklyn Mo●son cleared the Countesse and Earl reprieved our Author and most men cleer him of the Poyson and condemn him only in the high point of friendship for suffering his imprisonment which he could not release And the Countesse only guilty of connivance And now comes this Our Prefacers 3. Remarke to the Iudgment Seat for sentence Let him pick out a greater President in any History more Remarke than this of the King to make good this His former Protestation wherein by the way He may take leave to be allowed His owne even Conscience for Iustice and Mercy both Which no doubt hath found acceptance at Gods Tribunall in behalfe of Him and His His own death being Ordinary not forced by any Poyson And His posterity in due time by our Saviours merits shall be gathered up in the mystery of everlasting salvation But by the way how smoothly we are told a Story of the Pittifull Palsgrave how He Married a Kings Daughter with much joy Pamph. 82 Palsgrave and great misfortune to all the Princes of Christendom but fayling of that and all the rest how He was cast out He and His to beg their bread But had His Father-in-law been half so wise with our Authors good Counsell to boot and had He bought swords with a quarter expence of words He had bin What As his Sonne that succeeds him Palsgrave But we hasten Prince Henry having much matter to meddle with confusedly put together