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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

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

therewith wrot a very kitter letter to the Marquesse of Hamelton conceived new ambitious courses of his owne and used all the devices he could to disgust the Princes mind of the match with Spain so far intended by the King made haste home where when he came he so carryed himselfe that whatsoever the King commanded in his Bed-chamber he controlled in the next yea received Packets to the King from forraigne Princes and dispatched Answers without acquainting the King therewith in a long time after Whereat perceiving the King highly offended and that the Kings mind was beginning to alter towards him suffering him to be quarrelled and affronted in His Majesties presence and observing that the King reserved my Lord of Bristol to be a rod for him urging daily his dispatch for France and expecting the Earle of Gond●mor who as it seemed was greatly esteemed and wonderfully credited by the King and would second my Lord of Bristol his accusations against him He knew also the King had vowed that in spight of all the Devils in hell he would bring the Spanish match about againe and that the Marquesse of Inicosa had given the King bad impressions of him by whose articles of accusation the King himselfe had examined some of the Nobility and Privie Councel and found out in the examination that Buckingham had said after his comming from Spaine that the King was now an old man it was now time for him to be at rest and to be confined to some Parke to passe the rest of his time in hunting and the Prince to be crowned The more the King urged him to be gone to France the more shifts he made to stay for he did evidently see that the King was fully resolved to rid himself of the oppression wherein he held him The King being sick of a certaine Ague and that in the Spring was of it selfe never found deadly the Duke took his opportunity when all the Kings Doctors of Physick were at dinner upon the Munday before the King dyed without their knowledge or consent offered to him a white powder to take the which he a long time refused but overcome with his flattering importunity at length took it in wine and immediately became worse and worse falling into many swounings and paines and violent fluxes of the belly so tormented that His Majesty cryed out aloud of this white powder Would to God I had never taken it it will cost me my life In like manner also the Countesse of Buckingham my Lord of Buckinghams mother upon the Friday after the Physitians also being absent and at Dinner not made acquainted with her doings applyed a plaister to the Kings heart brea●… whereupon he grew faint short breathed and in a great Agony Some of the Physitians after dinner returning to see the King by the offensive smell of the plaister perc●…ved something to be about him hurtfull unto him and searched what it should be fou●… it out and exclaimed that the King was poysoned Then Buckingham entring commanded the Physitians out of the room caused one of them to be committed prisoner his own house and another to be removed from Court quarrelled with others of Kings servants in his sick Majesties own presence so far that he offered to draw sword against them in his Majesties sight And Buckinghams mother kneeling do●… before His Majesty cryed out with a brazen face Iustice Iustice Sir I demand-stice of your Majesty His Majesty asked her for what For that which their li●… are no wayes sufficient to satisfie for saying that my sonne and I have poysoned y●… Majestie Poysoned me said he with that turning himselfe swounded and she 〈◊〉 removed The Sunday after His Majestie dyed and Buckingham desired the Physitians 〈◊〉 attended his Majestie to signe with their hands a writ of testimonie that the pow●… which he gave him was a good and safe medicine which they refused Buckinghams creatures did spread abroad a rumor in London that Buckingham was so srrry for his Majesties death that he would have dyed that he would have led himselfe if they had not hindred him which your Petitioner purposely enqui●… after of them that were neere him at that time who said that neither in the tim●… His Majesties sicknesse nor after his death he was more moved then if there happened either sicknesse or death to His Majestie One day when his Majesty was in great extremity he rode post to London to p●…sue his sister in law to have her stand in sackcloth in S. Pauls for adultery And other time in his Majesties Agonie he was busie in contriving and concluding a m●…riage for one of his cousins Immediately after his Majesties death the Physitian who was commanded to chamber was set at liberty with a caveat to hold his peace the others threatn●… they kept not good tongues in their heads But in the mean time the Kings body and head swelled above measure his h●… with the skin of his head stuck to the pillow his nailes became loose upon his fin and toes Your Petitioner needeth to say no more to understanding men only one thing beseecheth That taking the Traytor who ought to be taken without any feare of greatnesse the other waters may be examined and the Accessaries with the G●… punished FINIS