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A83691	The fore-runner of revenge being two petitions, the one to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, the other to the most Honourables [sic] Houses of Parliament : wherein is expressed divers actions of the late Earle of Buckingham, especially concerning the death of King James and the Marquesse Hamelton, supposed by poyson : also may be observed the inconveniences befalling a state where the noble disposition of the prince is mis-led by a favourite / by George Eglisham ...	Eglisham, George, fl. 1612-1642.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing E256; ESTC R206483	16,502	17

dissembler having heaped so many honours daily upon the Marquesse even to the very last making him Lord high Steward of his Majesties house and Judg of the very Court whom he had made before Vice-roy of Scotland for the time of the Parliament in Scotland Earl of Cambridge privie Councellor in England and Knight of the Garter as if hee had raised him to all these honours that the murthering of him might be the lesse suspected to proceede from him The Kings nature hath alwayes beene observed to have beene so gracious and so free-hearted towards every one that hee would never have wished the Marquesse any harme unlesse that Buckingham had put great jealousies and fea●s into as minde for if any other had done it he would have acquainted his favourite therewith And then was it Buckinghams duty to remove from the King such smistrous conceits of the Marquesse as the marquesse hath often done of Buckingham upholding him upon all occasions and keeping the King from giving way to introduce any other favourite wherefore Buckingham in that diversion of the crime from him hath not onely made the King but also himselfe guilty of the Marquesses death But Buckinghams falsehood and ill intention was long before rightly discovered when he did what he could to make the E. of Nethersdale and my Lord Gordan both neere kinsmen of my Lord Marquesse so incensed at him that they had like all three to have killed one another if it had not been that my Lord Marquesse by his wisdome did let them all know how they were abused If any dissimulation be greater then Buckingams let any man judge For when my Lord Marquesse his body was to bee transported from White-hall to his house at Bishops-gate Buckingham came out muffed and furred in his Coach giving out that he was sicke for sorrow of my Lord Marquesse his death but as soone as he went to his house out of London before his comming to the King he triumphed and domineered with his faction so excessively as if he had gained some great victory And the next day comming to the King put on a most lamentable and mournefull countenance for the death of the Marquesse No greater victory could he have gotten in his mind then to have destroyed that man who would have fetched his head off his shoulders if he had out lived King Iames to have knowne his carriage in the poysoning of him in his sicknesse wherefore he thought it necessary to remove the Marquesse beforehand The same day that my Lord Marquesse died Buckingham sent my Lord Marquesse his sonne out of Towne keeping him as prisoner none could have private conference with him untill his marriage of Buckinghams Neece was compleat but either my Lord of Denbigh or my lady of Denbigh or my Lord Duke of Buckingham or the Countesse of Buckingham was present that none could let him understand how his father was murthered Even your petitioner himselfe when he went to see him was intreated not to speake to him of the poysoning of his father which he did conceale at his first meeting because their sorrow was too recent But he was prevented of a second meeting neither would Buckingham suffer the young Lord to go to Scotland to see his Fathers Funerals and to take order with his friends concerning his fathers estate for feare that their intended marriage should be overthrowne This Captivity of the young Lord Marquesse lasted so long untill that Buckingham caused his Majesty King CHARLS to take the young Lord with himselfe and Buckingham into St. Iames his Parke discharging all others from following them and there to perswade and urge the young Lord without any more delay to accomplish the marriage with Buckingham his Neece which instantly was performed so that Buckingham trusteth and presumeth that albeit the young Lord should understand how his father was poysoned by his meanes yet being married to his Neece he would not stirre to revenge it but comport with it To all that is observed before it is wothy to be added that the bruit went through London long before the Lord Duke of Richmonds death or his brothers or my Lord of Southamptons or of the Marquess that all the Noble men that were not of the Dukes faction should be poysoned and so removed out of his way Also a Paper was found in Kings Street about the time of the Duke of Richmonds death wherein the Names of all those Noblemen who have dyed since were expressed and your Petitioners Name also set next to my Lord Marquess of Hameltons Name with these words to embalme him This Paper was brought by my Lord Oldbarrs Daughter Cousin german to the Lord Marquess Likewise a Mountebanke about that time was greatly countenanced by the Duke of Buckingham and by his means procured Letters Patents and Recommendations from the King to practise his skill in Physick through all England who comming to London to sell Poyson to kill man or beast within a yeare or half a yeare or two yeares or a moneth or two or what time prefixed any man desired in such sort that they could not be helped nor discovered Moreover the Christmas before my Lord Marquess his death one of the Prince his footmen said That some of the great ones at Court had gotten Poyson in theis belly but he could not tell who it was Here your Honours considering the premisses of my Lord Duke of Buckingham his ambitious and most vindicative nature his frequent quarrels with my Lord Marquesse after so many reconciliations his threatning of the Physitians not to speak of the poyson his triumphing after my Lord Marquesse his death his detaining of his son almost prisoner untill the Marriage was compleat with his Neece the preceding bruit of poysoning Buckingham his Adversaries the Paper of their Names found with sufficient intimation of their death by the conclusion of the word embalming the Poyson-monger Mountebank graced by Buckingham may suffice for ground to take him and torture him if he were a private man And herein your Petitioner most earnestly demandeth Justice against that Traitor seeing by Act of Parliament it is made Treason to conspire the death of a Privie Councellor Out of this Declaration Interrogatories may be drawne for Examination of Witnesses wherein more is discovered to begin withall then was laid open at the beginning of the Discoverie of the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury Concerning the poysoning of King JAMES of happy memory KING of GREAT BRITAINE THe Duke of Buckingham being in Spaine advertised by Letters how that the King began to censure him in his absence freely and that many spake boldly to the King against him and how the King had intelligence from Spaine of his unworthy carryage in Spaine and how the Marquesse Hamelton upon the sudden news of the Princes departure had nobly reprehended the King for sending the Prince with such a young man without experience and in such a private and sudden manner without acquainting the Nobility or Councell

and Burgesses of the Parliament of ENGLAND The humble Petition of George Eglisham Doctor of Physicke and one of the Physitians to K. James of happy memory for his Majesties person above the space of ten yeares WHereas the chiefe humane care of Kings and Courts of Parliament is the preservation and protection of the subjects lives liberties and estates from private and publicke injuries to the end that all things may be carried in the equall ballance of Justice without which no monarchy no Common-wealth no society no family yea no mans life or estate can consist albeit never so little It cannot be thought unjust to demand of Kings and Parliaments the censure of wrongs the consideration whereof was so great in our Monarch of happy memory King JAMES that he hath often publickly protested even in the presence of his apparant heire that if his owne sonne should commit murther or any such execrable act of injury he would not spare him but would have him dye for it and would have him more severely punished then any other For he very well observed no greater injustice no injury more intollerable can be done by man to man then murther In all other wrongs fortune hath recourse the losse of honour or goods may be repaired satisfaction may be made reconciliation may be procured so long as the party injured is alive But when the party murthered is bereft of his life what can restore it what satisfaction can be given him where shall the murtherer meet with him to be reconciled to him unlesse he be sent out of this world to follow the spirit which by his wickednesse he hath separated from his body Therefore of all injuries of all the acts of injustice of all things most to be looked into murther is the greatest And of all murthers the poysoning under trust and profession of friendship is the most hey nous which if you suffer to goe unpunished let no man thinke himselfe so secure to live amongst you as amongst the wildest and most furious beasts in the world for by vigilancy and industry means may be had to resist of evict the most violent beast that ever nature bred but from false and treacherous hearts from poysoning murthers what wit of wisedome can defend This concerneth your Lordships every one in particular as well as my selfe They of whose poysoning your Petitioner complaineth viz. King JAMES the Marquesse of HAMELTON and others whose names after shall bee expressed have been the most eminent in the Kingdome and sate on these Benches whereon your Honours doe now sit The party whom your Petitioner accuseth is the Duke of Buckingham woo is so powerfull that unlesse the whole body of a Parliament lay hold on him no justice can be had of him For what place is there of Justice what office of the Crowne what degree of honour in the Kingdome which he hath not sold And sold in such craft that he can shake the buyer out of them and intrude others at his pleasure All the Judges of the Kingdome all the Officers of State are his bound vassals or allies are afraid to become his out-casts as it is notorious to all his Majesties true and loving subjects yea so farre hath his ambitious practice gone that what the King would have done could not be done if hee opposed it whereof many instances may be given whensoever they shall be required Neither are they unknown to this Honourable assembly howsoever the means he useth be whether lawfull or unlawfull whether humane or diabolique so he tortureth the Kingdome that hee procureth the calling breaking or continuing of the Parliament at his pleasure placing and displacing the Officers of Justice of the Councell of the Kings Court of the Courts of Justice to his violent pleasure and as his ambitious villany moveth him What hope then can your Petitioner have that his complaint should be heard or being heard should take effect To obtaine justice he may despaire to provoke the Duke to send forth a poysoner or murthere to dispatch him and send him after his dead friends already murthered he may be sure this to be the event Let the event be what it will come whatsoever can come the losse of his owne life your Petitioner valueth not having suffered the losse of the lives of such eminent friends esteeming his life cannot be better bestowed then upon discovery of so heynous murthers yea the justnesse of the cause the dearnesse and neernesse of his friends murthered shall prevaile so farre with him that he shall unfold unto your Honours and unto the whole world against the accused and name him the author of so great murthers George Villers Duke of Buckingham which against any private man are sufficient for his apprehension and torture And to make his complaint not very tedious he will only for the present declare unto your Honours the two eminent murthers committed by Buckingham to wit of the Kings Majesty and of the Lord Marquesse Hamelton which for all the subtility of his poysoning Art could not be so cunningly conveyed as the murtherer thought but that God hath discovered manifestly the authour And to observe the order of the time of their death because the Lord Marquesse Hamelton died first his death shall be first related even from the root of his first quarrell with Buckingham albeit many other jarres have proceeded from time to time betwixt them Concerning the poysoning of the Lord Marquesse HAMELTON BVCKINGHAM once raised from the bottome of Fortunes wheele to the top by what desert by what right or wrong no matter it is by his carriage the proverb is verified Nothing more proud then basest blood when it doth rise aloft He suffered his ambition to carry himselfe so farre as to aspire to match his blood with the Blood-Royall both of England and Scotland And well knowing that the Marquesse of Hamelton was acknowledged by King Iames to be the prime man in his Dominions who next to his owne line in his proper season might claime an hereditary Title to his Crowne of Scotland by the Daughter of King Iames the second and to the Crown of England by Ioane of Sommerset wife to King Iames the first declared by an Act of Parliament Heretrix of Englond to be in her due ranke never suffered the King to be at rest but urged him alwayes to send some of his Privie Councell to solicite the Marquesse to match his eldest sonne with Buckinghams Neece making great promises of conditions which the meane family of the Bride could not performe without the Kings liberality to wit fifty thousand pound Sterling valuing five hundred thousand Florens with the Earldome of Orkney under the title of Duke whatsoever the Marquesse would accept even to the first Duke of Britaine The glorious Title of a Duke the Marquesse refused twice upon speciall reasons reserved to himselfe The matter of money was no motive to cause the Marquesse to match his sonne so unequall to his degree seeing