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B12208	The copie of a leter, vvryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his friend in London concerning some talke past of late betvven tvvo vvorshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England. Conceyued, spoken and publyshed, vvyth most earnest protestation of al duetyful good vvyl and affection, tovvardes her most excellent Ma. and the realm, for vvhose good onely it is made common to many.	Morgan, Thomas, 1543-1606, attributed name.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610, attributed name.	1584 (1584)	STC 5742.9; ESTC S108682	125,586	206

yonger adding also to thes the coūsaile of his Doctor Baylie a man also not a litle studied as he seemeth in this arte For I heard him once my self in a publique acte in Oxeford and that in presēce of my Lord of Leycester if I be not deceyued maintein that poyson might so be tempered and giuen as it should not apeare presentlie and yet should kill the partie aftervvard at vvhat time should be appoi●t●d VVhich argument belike pleased vvel his Lordship and therfore vvas chosen to be discussed in his audience yf I be not deceyued of his being that daye present So though one dye of a Flux an other of a Catarre yet this importeth litle to the mater but shevveth rather the great cunning and skill of the Artificer So Cardinal Chatilian as I haue said before hauing Death of Cardinal Chatiliā accused my L. of Leycester to the Q. Ma. and after that passing from London tovvardes Fraunce about the mariage died by the vvay at Canturburie of a burning Feuer so proued D. Bailies assertion true that poyson may be giuen to kill at a day SCHOL At this the Lavvyer cast vp his eyes to heauen I stood somvvhat musing thinking of that vvhich had bene spokē of the Erle of Essex vvhose case indeed moued me more then al the rest for that he vvas a very noble Gentleman a great aduauncer of true religion a Patron to many preachers and studentes and tovvardes me and some of my friendes in particular he had bene in some thinges very beneficial therfore I said that it grieued me extremlie to heare or thinck of so vnvvorthie a death cōtriued by such meanes to so vvorthie a Peere And so much the more for that it vvas my chaunce to come to the vnderstanding of diuers particulars cōcerning that thing both from one Lea an Iris he-man Robyn Honnies and other that vvere present Lea. Honnies at Penteneis the marchants house in Deueling vpon the kay vvher the murder vvas committed The mater vvas vvrought especialie by Crompton yeomā of the bottels by the procuremēt of L Loyde as you haue noted before and ther vvas poysoned at the same tyme and vvithe the same cuppe as gyuen of curtesie by the Earle one Misteris Ales Draykot a goodlie Gētlevvoman vvhom the Erle affectioned much vvho departing thēce tovvardes Mesteris Draykot poisoned vvith the Earle of Essex her ovvn house vvhich vvas 18. miles of the forsaid Lea accompagning her and vvayting vpon her she began to fall syck very grieuouslie vpon the vvaye cōtinevved vvyth increase of paynes excessiue tormētes by vomiting vntill she dyed vvhich vvas the Sunday before the Erles death ensevvinge the fryday after vvhen she vvas dead her body vvas svvolen vnto a monstrous bygnes and deformitie vvherof the good Erle hearing the day folovvinge lamented the case greatly said in the presence of his seruants Ah poore Ales the cuppe vvas not prepared for the albeit it vvere thy hard destinie to taste therof Yong Hōnies also vvhose father is Master of the children of her Ma. Chappel being at that tyme Page to the said Erle and accustomed to take the taste of his drink thoughe synce enterteyned also among other by my L. of Leycester for better couering of matter by his taste that he then toke of the compovvnde cuppe thoughe in verie smal quātitie as you knovv the fashion is yet vvas he like to haue lost his lyfe but escaped in the ende being yong vvyth the losse only of his heare vvhich the Erle perceyuing and taking cōpassion of the youth called for a cuppe of drynk a lytle before his death and dronk to Honnies saying I drynk to the my Robin and be not a feard for this The Erle of Essex speech to his Page Robyn Honnies is a better cuppe of drynk then that vvherof thovv tokest the taste vvhen vve vvere both poysoned vvherby thou haste lost thy heare I must leese my lyfe This hath yong Honnies reported openlie in diuers places and before diuers Gētlemen of vvorship sythence his comming into England the forsaid Lea Irisheman at his passage this vvaye tovvardes Fraunce after he had bene present at the fornamed Misteris Draykots death vvyth some other of the Erles seruaunts haue do most constantlie reporte the same vvhere they maye do it vvithout the terrour of my L. of Leycesters reuenge VVherfore in this matter ther is no doubt at all thoughe most extreme vile and intollerable indignitie that such a man should be so openlie murdered vvithout punishment VVhat noble man vvithin the Realm may be safe if this be suffered or vvhat vvorthie personage vvil aduenture his life in her Ma. seruice if this shal be his revvarde But Sir I. pray you pardon me for I am somevvhat perhaps to vehement in the case of this my Patron and noble peere of our Realm And therfore I beseeche you to goe forvvarde in your talk vvheras you lefe GENTL I vvas recounting vnto you others said the Gentleman made avvay by my L. of Leicester vvyth lyke arte and the next in order I think vvas Sir Nicolas Death of Si● Nicholas Throgmarton Throgmarton vvho vvas a man vvhom my L. of Leycester vsed a great vvhile as all the vvorld knovveth to ouer-thvvart and crosse the doinges of my L. Treasurer then Sir VVill. Cicill a mā specialie misliked alvvayes of Leycester both in respect Sir VVil. Cycyll novv L. Treasurer of his olde master the Duke of Somerset as also for that his great vvisdom zeale and singular fidelitie to the Realm vvas like to hinder much this mans designemētes vvherfore vnderstanding after a certaine tyme that thes tvvoe knightes vvere secretlie made friendes and that Sir Nicholas vvas like to detect his doinges as he imagined vvhich might turn to some preiudice of his purposes hauing conceiued also a secret grudge grief against hym for that he had vvritē to her Ma. at his being Embassador in Fraunce that he heard reported at Duke Memorāces table that the Q. of Englād had a meaning to marrye her hors keeper he inui●ed the said Sir Nicholas to a supper at his house in Lōdon and at supper tyme departed to the Court being called for as he said vpon the sudden by her Ma. and so perforce vvould needes haue Sir Nicolas to sit and occupie his Lordships place and therin to be serued as he vvas and soone after by a surfeit their taken he died of a sttaunge and incurable vomit But the day before his death he declared to a The poysoning of Sir Nicholas i● a Sala●e deare friend of his al the circumstance cause of his disease vvhich he affirmed plainlie to be of poyson giuen him in a Salate at supper inueyhing moste earnestlie against the Erles crueltie blood die dispositiō affirming him to be the vvickedest moste perilous and perfidious man vnder heauen But vvhat auailed this vvhen he had novv receyued the bayte This then is to

their friendes vvere turned into great fynes of money vvhich they vvere constreined to pay and yet besides to agree A singular oppression also vvith my L. of Leycester for their ovvn landes acknovvledging the same to be his and so to buy it of him againe VVherby not onelie thes priuate Gētlemen but al the vvhole countrie ther about vvas and is in a maner vtterlie vndonne And the participation of this iniury reacheth so far and vvide and is so general in these partes as you shal skarce finde a man that commeth from that coast vvho feeleth not the smart therof being either impouerished beggered or ruinated therby VVherby I assure you that the hatred of al that Leycester extremly hated in VVales countrie is so vniuersal and vehement against my Lord as I think neuer thing Created by God vvas so odious to that Nation as the verie name of my Lord of Leycester is VVhich his Lordship vvel knovving I doubt not but that he vvil take heed hovv he go thither to dvvell or send thither his posteritie GENTL For his posteritie quoth the Gentleman I suppose he hath litle cause to be solicitous for that God him self taketh care commonlie that goodes and honours so gotten and mainteined as his be shal neuer trouble the third heire Marie for him self I confesse the matter standing as you saye that he hath reason to forbeare that countrye and to leaue of his buildyng begonne at Denhighe as I heare saye he hath done For that the vniuersal hatred of The ende of Tyrāts a people is a perilous matter And if I vvere in his Lordships case I should often thinke of the ende of Nero vvho after al hys glorye Nero. vpon furie of the people vvas adiudged to haue his head thrust into a Pillorie and so to be beaten to death vvith roddes and thvvonges Ot rarher I should feare the successe of Vitellius Vitellius the third Emperour after Nero vvho for his vvickednes and oppression of the people vvas taken by them at length vvhen fortune began to fayle him and led out of his Palace naked vvith hookes of Iron fastened in his fleshe and so dravven through the Citie vvith infamie vvhere loden in the streets vvyth filth and ordure cast vpon him and a prick put vnder his Chinne to the end he should not looke dovvn or hide his face vvas brought to the banke of Tyber and ther after manie hundreth vvoundes receiued vvas cast into the riuer So implacable a thing is the furor of a multitude vvhen it is once stirred and hath place of reuenge And so heauie is the hand of God vpon Tyrantes in this vvorld vvhen it pleaseth his diuine Maiestie to take reuenge of the same I haue red in Leander in his description of Italie hovv that in Spoleto if I be not deceiued A most terrible reuenge take vpō a Tyraut the chiefe Citie of the countrie of Vmbria ther vvas a straunge Tyraunt vvho in the tyme of his prosperitie contemned al men and forbare to iniurie no man that came vvithin his clavves esteming him self sure enough for euer being called to render accompt in this lyfe and for the next he cared litle But God vpon the sudden turned vpsidedovvn the vvhele of his felicitie and cast him into the peoples handes vvho tooke him and bound his naked bodie vpon a planke in the marcket place vvith a fyar and iron tonges by him and then made proclamation that seeing this man vvas not othervvise able to make satisfaction for the publique iniuries that he had done euerie priuate person annoied by him should come in order and vvith the hoat burning tonges there redie shoulde take of his flesh so much as vvas correspondent to the iniury receyued as indeed they did vntil the miserable man gaue vp the ghoste after to as this authour vvriteth But to the purpose seing my Lorde careth litle for suche examples and is become so hardie novv as he maketh no accompte to iniurie and oppresse vvhole countries and commonalties together it shal be bootles to speake of his procedinges Leye oppression of particular mē tovvardes particular men vvho haue not so great strength to resist as a multitude hath And yet I can assure you that there are so manie and so pytyful thinges published daylie of his Tyrannie in this kinde as do moue great compassion tovvardes the partie that do suffer and horrour against him vvho shameth not dayly to offer such iniurye As for example vvhose harte vvoulde not bleed to heare the case before mentioned of M. Robinsō of Staffordshire a properyong gentlemā M. Robinson and vvel giuen both in religion ond other vertues VVhose father died at Nevvhauē in her Ma. seruice vnder this mans brother the Earle of VVarvvik recōmended at his death this his eldest sōne to the special protectiō of Leycest his brother vvhose seruaunt also this Robinson hath bene from his youth vpvvard and spent the most of his liuing in his seruice Yet notvvythstanding al this vvhen Robinsons landes vvere intangled vvyth a certaine Londoner vpon interest for his former maītenaunce in their seruice vvhose title my L. of Leycester though craftilie yet not couertlie vnder Ferris his cloke had gotten to him self he ceased not to pursue the poore Gentleman euen to imprisonment arraignement and sentence of death for greedines of the said liuing together vvith the M. Harcourt vexation of his brother in lavve M. Harcourt and al other his friendes vpon pretence for sooth that ther vvas a man slayne by Robinsons partie in defence of his ovvn possession against Leycesters intruders that vvould by violence breake into the same VVhat shal I speake of others vvherof ther vvould be no ende as of his dealing vvith M. Richard Ric. Lee. Lee for his Manor of Hooknorton if I faile Lodouik Greuill not in the name vvith M. Lodourke Griuell by seeking to bereaue him of al his liuing at once if the drifte had taken place vvith George VVitney George VVitney in the behalf of Sir Henrie Leigh for inforcīng him to for-go the Coūtrollership of VVoodstock vvhich he holdeth by patent from K. Henrie the seuenth VVith my L. Barkley vvhom he enforced L. Barkley to yeeld vp his landes to his brother VVarvvike vvhich his auncestors had held quietlie for almost tvvo hundreth yeares to gether VVhat shal I say of his intollerable Tyrānie vpō Archbis of Cātur the last Archbisshop of Canturburie for doctor Iulio his sake and that in so fovvle a matter Vpon Sir Iohn Throgmarton Sir Iohn Throgmarton vvhom he brought pitifullie to his graue before his tyme by cōtinual vexations for a peece of faithful seruice done by him to his countrie and to al the line of K. Henrie against this mās father in K. Edvvard Q. Maries dayes Vpon diuers of the Lanes for one mans sake Lane of that name before mentioned that offred to take Killinvvorth Castle vpon some of the

of ch●ef rule vnder other pretences and after to deuise vpō the title at his leysure But novv to come to the third argument I saie The 3. argument The nature of the cause it self more and aboue al this that the nature and sta●e of the matter it self permitteth not that my L. of Leycester should meane sincerelie the Crovvn for Huntington especialie seing ther hath passed betvven them so many yeares of dislike and enimity vvhich albeit for the time present commodity be couered and pressed dovvn yet by reason and experience vve knovv that aftervvard vvhen they shal deale together againe in matters of importaunce and vvhen ielousie shal be ioyned to other circumstaunces of their actiōs it is impossible that the former mislike should not breake out in far higher degre then euer before As vve savve in the examples of the reconciliation The nature of olde reconciled enimyty made betvvixt this mans father and Edvvard Duke of Somerset bearing rule vnder king Edvv. the sixt and betvven Richard of York Edmund Duke of Somerset bearing rule in the time of king Henry the 6. Both vvhich Dukes of Somerset after reconciliatiō vvyth their olde craftie ambitious enimies vvere brought by the same to their destruction soone after VVherof I doubt not but my L. of Leycester vvil take good heed in ioyning by reconciliation vvyth Huntington after so long a breach and vvil not be so improuident as to make him his soueraign vvho novv is but his dependēt He remembreth to vvel the successe of the L. Stāley vvho helped K. Hērie the 7. to the Crovvn of the Duke of Buckingham vvho did ●he same for Richard the 3. of the Earle of VVarvvick vvho set vp K. Edvvard the 4. and of ●he three Percies vvho aduaūced to the Scepter K. Henry ●he 4. Al vvhich noble men vpon occasions that after fel out vvere revvarded vvyth death by the self same Princes vvhom they had preferred And that not vvythout reason as Siegnior Machauel The reason of Machauel my L. Councellor affirmeth For that such Princes aftervvard can neuer giue sufficient satisfaction to such friendes for so great a benefit receiued And consequentlie least vpon discontentmēt they may ●haunce do as much for others against them as they haue done for them against others the surest vvay is to recompence them vvyth such a revvarde as they shal neuer after be able to complaine of VVherfore I can neuer think that my L. of Leycester vvil put him self in daunger of the Like successe at Huntingtons hādes but rather vvil folovv The meaninge of the Duke of Nort●umber vvyth Suffolk the plot of his ovvn father vvyth ●he Duke of Suffolk vvhom no doubt but he meant onelie to vse for a pretext and help vvherby to place him self in supreame dignitie and aftervvardes vvhat so euer had befallen of the state the others head could neuer haue come to other end thē it enioyed For yf Q. Marie had not cut it of K. Iohn of Northūberland vvould haue done the same in tyme and so al men do vvel knovv that vvere priuie to anie of his cunning dealinges And vvhat Huntingtons secret opinion of Leycester is notvvythstanding this ovvtvvarde shevv of depēdence ●t vvas my chaūce to learne from the South hovvse mouth of a special man of that Hastie king vvhoe vvas his ledger or agent in London and at a tyme faling in talke of his masters title declared that he had heard him diuers tymes in secret complaine to his Ladie Leycesters sister as greatlie fearing that in the end he vvould offer him vvrong and pretend some title for him selfe LAVV. VVel quoth the Lavvyer it seemeth by this last point that thes tvvo Lords are cunning practisioners in the arte of dissimulation but for the former vvherof you spake in truth I haue hearde men of good dicourse affyrme that the Duke of The meani●g of the D. of No●thū tovvards the D of Suffolk Northumberland had straunge deuises in his head for deceauing of Suffolk vvho vvas nothing so fine as him self and for bringing the Crovvn to his ovvn familie And among other deuises it is thought that he had most certaine intention to marrie the Ladie Marie him self after once he had brought her into his ovvn handes and to haue bestovved her Ma. that novv is vpon some one of his children yf it should haue bene thought best to giue her lyfe so cōsequentlie to haue shaken of Suffolk and his pedegre vvyth condigne punishment for his bolde behauiour in that behalf SCHOL Verilie quoth I this had bene an excellent Stratageme yf it had taken place But I pray you Sir hovv could him self haue taken the Ladie Matie to vvyfe seing he vvas at that tyme married to an other GENTL Oh quoth the Gentlemen you question like a Scholar As though my L. of Leycester had not a vvyfe a liue vvhen he first began to pretend mariahe to the Q. Ma. Doe not you remember the storie of K Richard the third vvho at such tyme as he thought best for the establishing of his title The practise of K. Richard for dispatching his vvyfe to marrie his ovvn nepce that aftervvard vvas married to king Henrie the seuēth hovv he caused secretlie to be giuen abroode that his ovvn vvyfe vvas dead vvhom al the vvorld knevv to be then a liue and in good health but yet soone aftervvard she vvas sene dead indeed Thes great personages in matters of such vveight as is a kingdom haue priuileges to dispose of vvomens bodies mariages liues and deathes as shal be thought for the tyme moste conuenient And vvhat do you think I pray you of this nevv A nevv Triumuirate betvvē Ley. Talbot the Coūtesse of Shre●sbury TRIVMVIRAT so latelie concluded about Arbella for so I must cal the same though one of the three persons be no Vir but Virago I meane of the mariage betvvene yong Dēbigh the litle daughter of Lenox vvherby the father in lavve the Grandmother the vncle of the nevv designed Queene haue conceyued to them selues a singular tryumphant reigne But vvhat doe you think may ensue hereof is ther nothing of the olde plot of duke Iohn of Northumberland in this LAVV. Marie Sir quoth the Lavvyer yf this be so I dare assure you ther is sequele enough pretended hereby And first no doubt but ther goeth a deep drift by the vvife and sonne against olde Abraham the husband and father vvith the vvel lyned large poutch And secondlie a far deeper by trustie Robert against his best Mistres but d●●pest of ●l by the vvhole Cravv against the designememes of the Hastie Earle vvho thirsteth a kingdome Huntington vvith great intemperaunce and seemeth yf there vvere plaine dealing to hope by thes good people to quenshe shortlie his drought But either parte in truth seeketh to deceyue other and therfore it his hard to saye vvher the game in fine vvil reste GENTL VVel hovv so euer that be quoth

reuenge As also doth the disdeigne of certaine checkes disgraces receyued at some tymes especialie that of his last mariage vvhich irketh him so much the more by hovv much greater feare and daunger it brought him into at that tyme and did put his vvidovve in such open phrensie as she raged manie monethes after against her Ma. and is not cold yet but remayneth as it vvere a svvorne enimie for that iniurie and standeth like a fiend or furie at the elbovve of her Amadis to stirre him forvvard vvhē occasion shal serue And vvhat effect such female suggestiōs may The force of female suggestions vvorke vvhen they finde an humour proude and pliable to their purpose you may remember by the example of the Duches of Somerset vvho inforced her husbāde to cut of the head of his onely deare brother to his ovvn euident destruction for her contentation VVherfore to conclude this matter vvythout An euident Cōclusion that the executiō is meat● tyme of her Ma. further dispute or reasō seyng ther is so much discouered in the case as ther is so great desire of reigne so great impatience of delay so great hope and habilitie of succes if it be attempted vnder the good fortune and present authoritie of the competitors seing the plattes be so vvel layde the preparation so forvvarde the fauorers so furnished the tyme so propitious and so manie other causes conuiting together seing that by differring al may be hazarded and by hastening litle can be indaungered the state and condition of thinges vvel vveyed finding also the bandes of duetie so broken alredie in the conspiratours the causes of mislike and hatred so manifest and the solicitours to execution so potent and diligent as vvomen malice and ambition are vvount to be it is more then probable that they vvil not leese their present commoditie especialie seing they haue learned by their Architype or Protoplote vvhich they folovv I meane the conspiracie of Nortumberland and Suffolk in An error of the father novv to be corrected by the sonne king Edvvards dayes that herein ther vvas some error committed at that tyme vvhich ouerthrevv the vvhole land that vvas the differring of some thinges vntil after the kinges death vvhich should haue bene put in execution before For yf in the tyme of their plotting vvhen as yet theyr desygnementes vvere not publyshed to the vvorld they had vnder the countenance of the kinge as vvel they might haue done gotten into their handes the tvvo sisters and dispatched some other fevv affaires before they had caused the yong Prince to die no doubt but in mans reason the vvhole designement had taken place and consequentlie it is to be presupposed that thes men being no fooles in their ovvn affaires vvil take heed of falling into the like errour by delay but rather vvil make al sure by striking vvhile the iron is hoat as our prouerbe vvarneth them LAVV It can not be denied in reason quoth the Lavvier but that they haue manie helpes of doing vvhat they list n 〈…〉 vnder the present fauour countenaūce authoritie of her Ma. vvhich they should not haue after her highnes discease vvhen ech man shal remain more at libertie for his supreame obedience by reason of the statute ptouided for vncertentie of the next successor and therfore I for my parte vvould rather counsail them to make much of her Ma. lyfe for after that they litle knovv vvhat may ensue ot befal their designementes GENTL They vvyl make the most therof quoth the Gētleman for their ovvn aduantage but after that vvhat is like to folovv the examples of Edvvard Richard the secōd as also of Henrie Edvvard the sixt doe sufficientlie for vvarne vs vvhos liues vvere prolonged vntil their deathes vvere thought more profitable to the conspirators not longer Her Ma. lyfe and ●eath to serue the conspirators turn And for the statute you speak of procured by them selues for establishing the incertaintie of the next true sucessor vvheras al our former statutes vvere vvount to be made for the declaration certentie of the same it is vvyth PROVISO as you knovv that it shal not endure longer then the lyfe of her Ma. that novv reigneth that is indeed no longer then vntil them selues be redie to place an other A proclamation vvyth halters For then no doubt but vve shal see a faire proclamation that my L. of Huntington is the onelie next heire vvith a bundle of halters to hāg al such as shal dare once open their mouth for deniall of the same LAVV. At thes vvordes the olde Lavvyer stepped back as some vvhat astonied and began to make crosses Papistical ●lessing in the ayer after theyr fashyon vvherat vve laughed and then he said truelie my masters I had thought that no man had conceyued so euil imagination of this statute as my self but novv I perceiue The statute of cōcealīg the heire apparent that I alone am not malitious For my ovvn parte I must confesse vnto you that as often as I reade ouer this statute or think of the same as by diuers occasions manie tymes I do I feele my self much greeued and afflicted in minde vpon feares vvhich I conceyue vvhat may be the end of this statute to our countrie and vvhat priuie meaning the chiefe procurers therof might haue for their ovvn driftes against the Realm and lyfe of her Ma. that novv reigneth And so much more it maketh me to doubt for Richard going tovvards Hierusalē begā the custome by parlement as Polydore noteth Anno 10. of Rich. 2. to declare the next heire that in al our recordes of lavv you shal not finde to my remembraunce anie one example of such a deuise for concealing of the true inheritour but rather in all ages states and tymes especiallie from Richard the first dovvnevvard you shal finde statutes ordinaunces and prouisions for declaration and manifestation of the same as you haue vvel obserued and tovvched before And therfore this straunge nevv deuise must needes haue some straunge and vnaccustomed meaning God of his mercie graunt that it haue not some straunge and vnexpected euent In sight of al men this is alredie euident that The daunger of our countrie by cōcealing the next heire neuer countrie in the vvorld vvas brought into more apparent daunger of vtter ruin then ours is at this daye by pretence of this statute For vvher as ther is no Gentleman so meane in the Realm that cannot giue a gesse more or lesse vvho shal be his next heire and his tennauntes soone coniecture vvhat manner of person shal be theyr next Lord in the title of our noble Crovvn vvherof al the rest dependeth nether is her Ma. permitted to knovv or saye vvho shal be her next successor nor her subiectes allovved to vnderstand or imagine vvho in right may be their future soueraigne An intollerable iniurie in a matter of so singular importaunce For alas vvhat should become of

this our natiue countrie if God should take frō vs her moste excellent Ma. as once he vvil and so leaue vs destitute vppon the sudden vvhat should become of our liues of our states and of our vvhole Realm or gouernement can anie man promisse him self one Great inconueniences daye longer of rest peace possession lyfe or libertie vvithin the land then God shal lend vs her Ma. to reigne ouer vs VVhich albeit vve do are bound to vvish that it may be long yet reason telleth vs that by course of Nature it cannot be of anie great continuance and by a thovvsand accidentes it may be much shorter And shal then our moste noble common vvealth and kingdome vvhich is of perpetuitie and must continevv to our selues and our posteritie hang onelie vpon the life of her highnes alone vvel strocken in years and of no great good health or robustious and strong complexion I vvas vvithin hearing some six or seuen yeares Sir Christopher Hattons oration ago vvhen Sir Christopher Hatton in a verie great assemblie made an eloquent oratiō vvhich after I vvene vvas put in print at the pardoning and deliuerie of him from the gallouse that by errour as vvas thought had discharged his peece vpon her Ma. Barge and hurte certain persons in her hignes presence And in that oration he declared and described verie effectualie vvhat inestimable dāmage had ensued to the Realm yf her Ma. by that or anie other meanes should haue bene takē from vs. He set foorth moste liuelie before the eyes of al men vvhat dyuysion vvhat dissension vvhat bloodshed had ensued and vvhat fatal daungers vvere moste certaine to fal vpon vs vvhen so euer that doleful day should happen vvherin no man should be sure of his lyfe of his goods of his vvife of his childrē no mā certaine vvhether to flie vvhō to folovv or vvhere to seek repose and protection And as all the hearers ther present did easilie graunt that he therin said trouth and far lesse then might haue bene said in that behalf thinges standing as they do so manie one I trovve that hearde thes vvordes proceed from a Councellor that had good cause to knovv the state of his ovvn coūtrie entered into this cogitation vvhat punishmēt they might deserue then at the vvhole state common vvealths hādes vvho first by letting her Ma. from Intollerable treasons mariage thē by procuring this statute of dissembling the next inheritour had brought their Realm into so euidēt ineuitable daūgers for euerie one vvel cōsidered vveighed vvith him self that the thing vvhich yet onely letted thes daūgers miseries set dovvn by Sir Christopher must necessarilie one day faile vs al that is the lyfe of her Ma. novv present And then say vve hovv falleth it out that so general a calamitie as must needes ouertake vs ere it be long may for anie thing vve knovv to morovv next is not puided for asvvel as foresene Is ther no remedie but that vve must vvillinglie vvyttingly rūne into our ovvn ruin and for the fauour or feare of some fevv aspirours betraye our countrie the blood of so many thovvsand innocentes as liue vvythin the land For tel me good Sirs I pray you yf her Ma. should die to morovv next vvhos lyfe God long preserue and blesse but yf she should be taken The miseries to follovve vpon her Maiest death from vs as by condition of nature and humane frailtie she may vvhat vvould yovv doe vvhich vvay vvould you looke or vvhat head or parte knevv anie good subiect in the Realm to folovv I speake not of the cōspiratours for I knovve they vvilbe redie and resolued vvhom to folovv but I speake of the plaine simple and vvel meaning subiect vvho folovving novv the vtter letter of this fraudulent statute fraudulēt I meane in the secret conceipt of the cunning aspirours shal be takē at that day vpō the sudden being put in a maze by the vnexpected cōtentiō about the Crovvn shal be brought into a thousand daungers both of bodie goodes vvhich novv are not thought vpon by them vvho are moste in daunger of the same And this is for the common vvealth and countrie But vnto her Ma. for vvhos good and safitie the statute is onely pretēded to be made no doubt but that it bringeth far greater daungers then anie The daūger to her Ma. by this statute deuise that they haue vsed besides For hereby vnder coulour of restrayning the claymes titles of true successours vvhos endeuours notvvythstanding are commonlie more calme and moderate then of vsurpers they make vnto them selues a meane to forster and set forvvard their ovvn conspiracie vvythout controlment seing no man of might may oppose hīself against thē but vvyth suspition that he meaneth to clayme for him self And so they being armed on the one side vvyth their autoritie and force of present fortune defended on the other side by the pretence of the statute they may securelie vvork and plot at their pleasure as you haue vvel proued before that they do And vvhen soeuer their groundes and foundatiōs shal be redie it can not be denied but that her Ma. lyfe lyeth much at their discretiō to take it or vse it to their best cōmoditie ther is no doubt but they vvil as such men are vvount to do in such affaires Marie one thing standeth not in their povvers so absolutelie and that is to prolong her Ma. dayes or fauoure tovvardes them selues at theyr pleasures vvherof it is not vnlike but they vvil haue due consideration least perhappes vppon anie sudden accident they mighte be found vnredie GENTL They haue good care therof I can assure you quoth the gentleman mean not to be preuēted by anie accident or other mishappe vvhat soeuer they vvilbe redie for al euentes and for that cause they hasten so much their preparations at this day The hastnyng of the conspirators more then euer before by sending out theyr spies and solicitours euerie-vvhere to proue and confirme their friendes by deliuering their common vvatch-vvord by cōplainīg on al hādes of our protestāt Bishoppes Cleargy of al the presēt state of our irreformed religiō as thei cal it by amplyfiyng only the daunger of Papists Scottishe factiō by giuīg out opēly that novv her Ma. is past hope of childbirh cōsequently seing god hath giuē no better succes that vvay in tvvo vvomē one after the other it vvere not conuenient say they that an other of that sexe should ensue vvyth highe commendation of the Lavv Salick in Fraunce vvherby vvomen are forbidden to succede VVhich speech though in shevv it be deliuered against the Q. of Scottes and other of K. Henrie the 7. his line that discend of sisters yet al men see that it tovvcheth as vvel the disabling of her Ma. that is present as others to come and so tendeth directlie to Maturatiō of the principal purpose vvhich I haue declared before

vigilant an eye to the lateral line of K. Edvvard the fourth by his brother of Clarence as they thought it necessarie not onlie to preuent al euident daungers that might ensue that vvaye but euen the possibilities of al peril as may vvel appeare by the execution of Edvvard Earle of VVarvvike before named sonne and heire to the said Duke of Clarence and of Margaret his sister Countesse of Salisburie vvith the Lord Henrie Montague her sonne by vvhos daughter the Earle Persons executed of the house of Clarēce of Huntington novv claimeth Al vvhich vvere executed for auoiding of inconueniences and that at such tymes vvhen no imminent daunger could be much doubted by that Line especialie by the later And yet novv vvhen one of the same house and line of more habilitie and ambition then euer anie of his auncestors vvere maketh open title and claime to the Crovvn vvith plotes packes and preparations to moste manifest vsurpation against al order al lavv and al rightful succession against a special statute prouided in that behalf yet is he permitted borne out fauored and friended therin and no man so hardie as in defence of her Ma. and Realm to controle him for the same It may be that her Ma. is brought into the same opinion of my L. of Huntingtons fidelitie as Iulius The example of Iulius Caesars destruction Caesar vvas of Marcus Brutus his dearest obliged friend of vvhos ambitious practises and aspiring vvhē Caesar vvas aduertised by his careful friēdes he ansvvered that he vvel knevv Brutus to be ambitious but I am sure quoth he that my Brutus vvil neuer attēpt anie thing for the Empire vvhile Caesar lyueth and after my death let him shift for the same among others as he can But vvhat ensued Surelie I am loth to tel the euent for ominations sake but yet al the vvorld knovveth that ere manie monethes passed this moste Noble and Clement Emperoure vvas pitifulie murdered by the same Brutus and his parteners in the publique Senate vvhen least of al he expected such treason So daungerous a thing it is to be secure in a matter of so great sequele or to trust them vvyth a mans lyfe vvho may pretend preferment or interest by his death VVherfore vvould God her Ma. in this case might be induced to haue such due care regarde of her ovvn estate Royal person as the vveighty moment of the matter requireth vvhich cōteineth the blisse and calamitie of so Noble and vvorthie a kingdom as this is I knovv right vvel that moste excellent natures To much cōfidence very perilous in a Prince are alvvayes furdest of from diffidence in such people as profes loue and are moste bounden by devvtie and so it is euident in her Ma. But yet surelie this confidence so commendable in other men is scarse alovvable often tymes in the person of a Prince for that it goeth accompanied vvyth so great peril as is ineuitable to him that vvil not suspect principallie vvhen daungers are fortolde or presaged as commonlie by Gods appointment they are for the speciall hand he holdeth ouer Princes affaires or vvhen ther is probable coniecture or iust surmise of the same VVe knovv that the forenamed Emperour Caesar had not onlie the vvatning giuen him of the inclination and intent of Brutus to vsurpation but euen the verie day vvhen he vvas going tovvardes the place of his appointed destinie ther vvas giuen vp into his handes a detection of the vvhole treason vvyth request to read the same presentlie vvhich he vpon confidence omitted to do VVe read also of Alexander the great hovv he vvas not The example of Alexāder the great hovv he vvas for tolde his daunger onelie forbidden by a learned man to enter into Babylō vvhether he vvas then going for that ther vvas treason meant agaīst him in the place but also that he vvas foretolde of Antipaters mischieuous meaning against him in particular But the yong Prince hauing so vvel deserued of Antipater could not be brought to mistrust the man that vvas so deare vnto him by that means vvas poisoned in a bāquet by three sōnes of Antipater vvhich vvere of moste credit cōfidence in the kinges Chāber SCHOL Here truelie my hart did somevvhat tremble vvyth feare horrour and detestation of such euentes And I said vnto the Gentleman I beseech you Syr to talke no more of thes matters for I cannot vvel abide to heare them named hoping in the Lord that ther is no cause nor euer shal be to doubt the like in Endland specialie from thes men vvho are so much bounden to her Ma. and Late execution● so forvvard in seeking out and pursueing al such as may be thought to be daungerous to her Ma. person as by the sundrie late executions vve haue seene and by the punishmentes euerie vvaye of Papistes vve may perceyue GENTL Trueth it is quoth the Gentleman that iustice hath bene done vpō diuers of late vvhich cōtenteth me greatlie for the terrour and restreint of others of vvhat sect or religion so euer they be And it is moste necessarie doubtles for the compressing of parties that great vigilance be vsed in that behalf But vvhen I consider that onlie one kinde of men are touched herein and that al speech regarde doubt distrust and vvatche is of them alone vvythout reflexion of eye vpon anie other mens doinges or designementes vvhen I see the double diligence vehemencie of certaine instrumentes vvhich I like not bent vvholie to rayse vvounder and admiration of the people feare terrour and attention to the doeinges sayinges and meaninges Fraude to be feared in putsueing one parte o● faction onlie of one parte or faction alone and of that namlie and onlie vvhich thes cōspiratours esteme for most daungerous and opposite to them selues I am belieue me often tempted to suspect fraude and false measure and that thes men deale as vvolues by nature in other countries are vvount to doe VVhich going together in great numbers to assaile a flock of shepe by night do set some one or tvvo of their cōpanie vpō the vvinde side of the folde a far of vvho partly by their sent other bruteling vvhich of purpose they make may dravv the doggs and shepheardes to pursue them alone vvhiles the The comparison of vvolues Rebels other do enter and slea the vvhole flock Or as rebelles that meaning to surprise a tovvn to turn avvay the inhabitantes from consideration of the daunger from defence of that place vvhere they intend to enter do set on fire some other partes of the tovvn furder of and do sound a false al'arme at some gate vvher is ment least daunger VVhich arte vvas vsed cunninglie by Richard Rychard Duke of York Duke of York in the tyme of K. Henrie the sixt vvhen he to couer his ovvn intent brought al the Realm in doubt of the doinges of Edmond Duke of Sometset his enimie But Iohn of Northumberland father to my