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grace_n	john_n	sir_n	thomas_n	12,845	5	10.3056	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01216	A declaration of the practises & treasons attempted and committed by Robert late Earle of Essex and his complices, against her Maiestie and her kingdoms and of the proceedings as well at the arraignments & conuictions of the said late Earle, and his adherents, as after: together with the very confessions and other parts of the euidences themselues, word for word taken out of the originals.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1601 (1601)	STC 1133; ESTC S100347	53,454	126

Pikemen and other forces gathered together by the wise and diligent care of the Bishop of London and commanded by sir Iohn Luson and yet attempting to cleere the passage he was with no great difficultie repulsed At which encounter sir Christopher Blunt was fore wounded and yong Tracie slaine on his part and one Waits on the Queenes part and some other Vpon which repulse he went backe and fled towards the Waterside tooke boat at Queene hiue and so was receiued into Essex house at the Watergate which he fortified and baricado'd but instantly the Lord Lieutenant so disposed his Companies as all passage and issue foorth was cut off from him both by land and by water and all succours that hee might hope for were discouraged and leauing the Earle of Cumberland the Earle of Lincolne the Lord Thomas Howard the Lord Gray the Lord Burghley and the Lord Compton Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Thomas Gerrard with diuers others before the house to landward my Lord Lieutenant himselfe thought good taking with him the Lord of Effingham Lord Cobham Sir Iohn Stanhope Sir Robert Sidney M. Foulk Greuill with diuers others to assaile the Garden and Banketting house on the Water side and presently forced the Garden and woon to the wals of the house and was ready to haue assailed the house but out of a Christian and honorable consideration vnderstanding that there were in the house the Countesse of Essex and the Ladie Rich with their Gentlewomen let the Earle of Essex know by Sir Robert Sidney that hee was content to suffer the Ladies and gentlewomen to come forth Whereupon Essex returning the Lord Lieutenant thanks for the compassion and care he had of the Ladies desired onely to haue an houres respit to make way for their going out and an houre after to barricado the place againe Which because it could make no alteration to the hinderance of the seruice the L. Lieutenant thought good to grant But Essex hauing had some talke within of a sallie and despairing of the successe and thinking better to yeeld himselfe sent word that vpon some conditions he would yeeld But the L. Lieutenant vtterly refusing to heare of capitulations Essex desired to speake with my Lord who thereupon went vp close to the house and the late Earles of Essex and Southampton with diuers other Lords and Gentlemen their partakers presented themselues vpon the leades and Essex sayd hee would not capitulate but intreat and made three petitions The first That they might be ciuilly vsed Whereof the Lord Lieutenant assured them The second That they might haue an honourable triall Whereof the Lord Lieutenant answered they needed not to doubt The third That he might haue Ashton a Preacher with him in prison for the comfort of his soule Which the Lord Lieutenant said he would mooue to her Maiesty not doubting of the matter of his request though he could not absolutely promise him that person Whereupon they all with the ceremony amongst marshall men accustomed came downe submitted themselues and yeelded vp their swords which was about ten of the clocke at night there hauing beene slaine in holding of the house by musket shot Owen Salisburie and some few more on the part of my Lord and some fewe likewise slaine and hurt on the Queenes part and presently aswell the Lordes as the rest of their confederates of quality were seuerally taken into the charge of diuers particular Lords and Gentlemen and by them conueyed to the Tower and other prisons So as this action so dangerous in respect of the person of the Leader the maner of the combination and the intent of the plot brake forth and ended within the compasse of twelue houres and with the losse of little blood and in such sort as the next day all Courts of Iustice were open and did sit in their accustomed maner giuing good Subiects and all reasonable men iust cause to thinke not the lesse of the offenders treason but the more of her Maiesties princely magnanimitie and prudent foresight in so great a perill and chiefly of Gods goodnesse that hath blessed her Maiesty in this as in many things else with so rare and diuine felicitie THE EFFECT OF the Euidence giuen at the seuerall Arraignments of the late Earls of Essex and Southampton before the L. STEVVARD And of Sir Christopher Blunt and Sir Charles Dauers and others before great and Honourable Commissioners of Dyer and Determiner And of the Answeres and Defenses which the said Offendors made for themselues And the Replies made vpon such their Defenses With some other Circumstances of the proceedings as well at the same Arraignments as after THE two late Earles of Essex and Southampton were brought to their triall the nineteenth of Februarie eleuen dayes after the Rebellion At which trial there passed vpon them 25. Peeres a greater number then hath bene called in any former president Amongst whom her Maiestie did not forbeare to vse many that were of neere alliance and blood to the Earle of Essex and some others that had their sonnes and heires apparant that were of his Company and followed him in the open Action of Rebellion The Lord Steward then in Commission according to the solemnitie in such Trials receiued was the Lord Buckhurst L. high Treasurer who with grauity and temperance directed the Euidence and moderated and gaue the Iudgement There was also an Assistance of eight Iudges the three chiefe fiue others The hearing was with great patience and libertie the ordinary course not being held to silence the Prisoners till the whole state of the Euidence was giuen in but they being suffered to answere articulatly to euery branch of the Euidence and sometimes to euery particular deposition whensoeuer they offered to speake And not so onely but they were often spared to bee interrupte'd euen in their digressions and speeches not much pertinent to their cause And alwayes when any doubt in Law was moued or when it was required either by the Prisoners or the Peeres the Lord Steward required the Iudges to deliuer the Law who gaue their opinions seuerally not barely yea or no but at large with their reasons In the Endictment were not layed or charged the treasons of Ireland because the greatest matter which was the desseigne to bring ouer the Army of Ireland being then not cōfessed nor knowen it was not thought conuenient to stuffe the Enditement with matters which might haue bene conceiued to be chiefly gathered by curious inquisition grounded vpon report or presumptiō when there was other matter so notorious And besides it was not vnlikely that in his case to whom many were so partiall some who would not consider how things came to light by degrees might haue reported that hee was twife called in Question about one offence And therefore the late Treasons of his Rebellion and conspiracie were onely comprehended in the Enditement with the vsuall clauses and consequents in Lawe of compassing the Queenes death destruction and depriuation