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The Connexion being choice collections of some principal matters in King James his reign, which may serve to supply the vacancy betwixt Mr. Townsend's and Mr. Rushworth's historical collections.
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)
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Wing C5882; ESTC R2805
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where so much as in us lies to âoot out and extirpate and Hereticks so convict to punish with Condigâ Punishment holding that such an Hâretick in the aforesaid Form Conviââ and Condemned according to thâ Laws and Customs of this our Kingdom of England in this part accustomed ought to be Burned with Fireâ We command thee that thou cause the said Edward Wightman being iâ thy Custody to be committed to the Fire in some publick and open Placeâ below the City aforesaid for the Cause aforesaid before the People and the same Edward Wightman in the same Fire cause really to be Burned in the Detestation of the said Crime and for manifest Example of other Christians that they may not fall into the same Crime And this no ways omit under the Peril that shall follow thereon Witness c. Anno Dom. 1616. An. Reg. Jac. 14. â Order of the King 's Privy Council sent to the Peers of the Realm for the Tryal of the Earl and Countess of Somerset Whitehall Apr. 24. 1616. AFter our very hearty Commendations to your Lordship âhereas the King 's Majesty hath reâved that the Earl of Somerset and âe Countess his Wife lately indicted âf Felony for the Murder and Poyâning of Sir Thomas Overbury then âs Majesties Prisoner in the Tower âall now receive their Lawful and âublick Tryal by their Peers immeâately after the end of this present âaster Term. At the Tryal of which âoble Personages your Lordship's âresence as being a Peer of the Realm ând one of approved Wisdom and Inâgrity is requisite to pass upon them âhese are to let your Lordship understand that his Majesties Pleasure ââ and so commandeth by these our Leâters that your Lordship make youâ repair to the City of London by thâ Eleventh day of the Month of Mââ following being some days before thâ Tryal intended at which time youâ Lordship shall understand more of hiâ Majesties Pleasure So not doubtinâ of your Lordships Care to observe hâ Majesties Directions we commit yoâ to God Your Lordships very loving Friends G. Cant. T. Ellesmere Canc. Fenton E. Wotton Tho. Lake Lo. Dare. C. Edmonds E. Worcester Lenox P. Herbert R. Winwood F. Grevyll J. Caesar âhe Speech of Sir Francis Bacon at the Arraignment of the Earl of Somerset the Countess having received the King's Pardon âT may please your Grace my Lord High Steward of England and you ây Lords the Peers You have here âefore you Robert Earl of Somerset ââ be Tried for his Life concerning âe Procuring and Consenting to the âoysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury ââen the King's Prisoner in the Tower âf London as an Accessary before the âact I know your Honours cannot beâold this Noble Man but you must âemember the great Favours which âhe King hath conferred on him and âust be sensible that he is yet a Memâer of your Body and a Peer as you âre so that you cannot cut him off ââom your Body but with grief and âherefore you will expect from us that give in the King's Evidence sound ând sufficient matter of Proof to satisfie your Honours Consciences As for the manner of the Evidence the King our Master who amongst other his Vertues excelleth in that Vertue of the Imperial Throne which is Justice hath given us Command that we should not expatiate nor make Invectives but materially pursue the Evidence as it conduceth to the points in question A matter that though we are glad of so good a Warrant yet we should have done of our selves For far be it from us by any Strains of Wit or Arts to seek to play Prizes or blazon our Names in Blood or to carry the Day other ways than on sure grounds We shall carry the Lanthorn of Justice which is the Evidence before your Eyes upright and so be able to save it from being put out with any grounds of Evasion or vain Defence not doubting at all but that the Evidence it self will carry that Force as it shall need no Advantage or Aggravation First My Lords The Course that will hold in delivery of that which shall say for I love Order is First I will speak something of the Nature and Greatness of the Offence which is now to be Tried not to weigh down my Lord with the greatâess of it but rather contrariwise to âew that a great Offence needs a âood Proof And that the King howâever he might esteem this Gentleâan heretofore as the Signeâ upon his âinger to use the Scripture Phrase âet in such a Case as this he was to âut it off Secondly I will use some few words âouching the Nature of the Proofs which in such a Case are competent Thirdly I will state the Proofs And Lastly I will produce the âroofs either out of Examination ând matters of Writing or Witnesses âiva voce For the Offence it self it is of Crimes âext unto High Treason the greatest is the foulest of Felonies It hath âree Degrees First It is Murder by Impoysonment Secondly It is Muâder committed upon the King's Prisoner in the Tower Thirdly I might say it is Murder under the colour â Friendship but that it is a Circumstance Moral and therefore I leavâ that to the Evidence it self For Murder my Lords the firââ Record of Justice which was in thâ World was Judgment upon a ãâã therer in the Person of Adam's First born Cain and though it was not punished by Death but Banishment and marks of Ignominy in respect of the Primogenitors or the Population oâ the World yet there was a severâ Charge given that it should not gââ unpunished So it appeareth likewise in Scripture that the Murder of Abner by Joab though it were by David respited in respect of great Services past or reason of State yet it was not forgotten But of this I will say no more because I will not discourse It was ever admitted and ranked in God's own Tables That Murder is of Offences between man and man next unto High Treason and Disobedience to Authority which sometimes have been referred to the first Table because of the Lieutenancy of God in Princes the greatest For Impoysonment I am sorry it should be heard of in our Kingdom It is not nostri generis nec sanguinis pecâatum it is an Italian Comfit fit for the Court of Rome where that person that intoxicateth the Kings of the Earth is many times really intoxicaâed and poysoned himself but it hath three Circumstances which makes it grievous beyond other matters The First is That it takes a man away in full peace in God's and the King's peace that thinks no harm âut is comforting of Nature with Reâection and Food so that as the Scripture saith his Table is made a Snare The Second is That it is easily committed and easily conceal'd and on âhe other side hardly prevented and hardly discovered For Murder by violence Princes have Guards and Private Men have Houses Attendants and Arms. Neither can such Murder be committed but Cum sonitu with some