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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10377	A declaration of the demeanor and cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, aswell in his voyage, as in, and sithence his returne and of the true motiues and inducements which occasioned His Maiestie to proceed in doing iustice vpon him, as hath bene done.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1618 (1618)	STC 20652.5; ESTC S115419	21,521	68

euery man hee mett that hee was sicke and that hee left him in an extreme loosenesse that very night BVt Raleigh hauing formerly dispatched a messenger to London to prepare him a Barque for his escape came at last to London and hauing wonne his purpose by these former deuices of feigned sickenesse to bee spared from imprisonment in the Tower and to bee permitted to remaine at his owne house till his better recouery there fell out an accident which gaue him great hopes and encouragement speedily to facilitate his intended designe for escape For as he came on his way to London in his Inne at Brentford there came vnto him a Frenchman named La Chesnay a follower of Le Clere last Agent here for his Maiesties dearest brother the French King who tolde him that the French Agent was very desirous to speake with him as soone as might be after his arriuall at London for matters greatly concerning the sayd Sir Walters weale and safetie as in effect it fell out that the very next night after his arriuall at London the said Le Clere and La Chesnay came vnto him to his house and there did the said Le Clere offer vnto him a French Barque which hee had prepared for him to escape in and withall his Letters recommendatory for his safe conduct and reception to the Gouernour of Calis and to send a Gentleman expresly that should attend and meete him there to which offer of his Raleigh after some questions passed finding the French Barke not to bee so ready nor so fit as that himselfe had formerly prouided gaue him thanks and told him that he would make vse of his owne Barke but for his Letters and the rest of his offer he should be beholding to him because his acquaintance in France was worne out So passionately bent was hee vpon his escape as that hee did not forbeare to trust his life and to communicate a secret importing him so neere vpon his first acquaintance and vnto a stranger whom he hath since confessed that he neuer saw before And thus after two nights stay the third night hee made an actuall attempt to escape and was in Boate towards his Shippe but was by Stucley arrested brought backe and deliuered into the custodie of the Lieutenant of the Tower For these his great and hainous offences in actes of Hostilitie vpon his Maiesties confederates depredations and abuses as well of his Commission as of his Maiesties Subiects vnder his charge Impostures Attempts of escape declining his Maiesties Iustice and the rest euidently prooued or confessed by himselfe he had made himselfe vtterly vnwoorthy of his Maiesties further mercy And because he could not by Law bee iudicially called in question for that his former attainder of Treason is the highest and last worke of the Law whereby hee was Ciuiliter mortuus his Maiestie was inforced except Attainders should become priuiledges for all subsequent offences to resolue to haue him executed vpon his former Attainder HIs Maiesties iust and honourable proceedings being thus made manifest to all his good Subiects by this preceding Declaration not founded vpon coniectures or likelyhoods but either vpon confession of the partie himselfe or vpon the examination of diuers vnsuspected witnesses he leaues it to the world to iudge how he could either haue satisfied his owne Iustice his honourable intentions hauing bene so peruerted and abused by the sayd Sir W. Raleigh or yet make the vprightnesse of the same his intentions appeare to his dearest Brother the King of Spaine if he had not by a Legal punishment of the Offender giuen an example aswell of terrour to all his other Subiects not to abuse his gracious meanings in taking contrary courses for the attaining to their owne vnlawfull endes as also of Demonstration to all other forreigne Princes and States whereby they might rest assured of his Maiesties honourable proceeding with them when any the like case shall occurre By which meanes his Maiestie may the more assuredly expect and claime an honourable concurrence and a reciprocall correspondence from them vpon any the like occasion But as to Sir Walter Raleigh his confession at his Death what he confessed or denied touching any the points of this declaration his Maiestie leaues him and his conscience therein to God as was said in the beginning of this Discourse For Soueraigne Princes cannot make a true iudgement vpon the bare speeches or asseuerations of a delinquent at the time of his death but their iudgement must be founded vpon examinations reexaminations and confrontments and such like reall proofes as all this former discourse is made vp and built vpon all the materiall and most important of the said examinations being taken vnder the hands of the examinates that could write and that in the presence of no fewer then sixe of his Maiesties priuie Counsell and attested by their alike seuerall subscriptions vnder their hands which were my Lords the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Verulam Lord Chauncellor of England the Earle of Worcester Lord Priuy Seale Master Secretary Naunton the Master of the Rolls and Sir Edward Coke Imprinted at LONDON by BONHAM NORTON and IOHN BILL Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO 1618. TO The whole World O WORLD THou seest what Contradiction these poor weak Sermons have met withall how they have been and are accused of falshood envy malice peevishness that the Magistrates are standered in them and very lies uttered in the face of City and Country I am necessitated to appeal to God and the World O World I hold forth unto thy view faithfully all that was ●●●ken nothing omitted I call unto thee to be my true and impartial witness and let the God of Truth be Iudg