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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28503	A true and historical relation of the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury with the severall arraignments and speeches of those that were executed thereupon : also, all the passages concerning the divorce between Robert, late Earle of Essex, and the Lady Frances Howard : with King James's and other large speeches / collected out of the papers of Sir Francis Bacon ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1651 (1651)	Wing B338; ESTC R10750	59,190	110

same to be mortal poyson and put and mingled the same in Tarts and Jellies and gave the same to the said Sr Tho. Overb. as good and wholesome to eat which he in like manner took and did eat Also the said Weston and another man unknown being an Apothecary afterwards upon the fourteenth of Decem. felloniously did get a poyson called Mercury sublimate knowing the same to be deadly poyson and ●ut the same into a Glister and the said Glister the said Apothecary for the reward of 20 li. promised unto him did put and administer as good and wholesome into the guts of the said Sr Thomas that Weston was present and aiding to the said Apothecary in ministring infusing the said Glister and immediately after Sr Th. did languish and fell into diseases distempers and from the aforesaid times of taking and eating the said poysoned meats and ministring the said Glister he dyed And so the Jury gave their verdict that Weston in this manner had killed poysoned and murthered the said Sr Tho. Overbury against the Kings peace and dignity Which Indictment being read he was demanded if he were guilty of the Fellony murthering and poysoning as aforesaid yea or no To which he answered doubling his speech Lord have mercy upon me Lord have mercy upon me But being again demanded he answered Not guilty and being then demanded how he would be tryed he answered He referred himself to God and would be tryed by God refusing to put himselfe and his cause on the Jury or Country according to the Law and Custome Hereupon the Lord Chiefe Justice and all other in their order spent the space of an houre in perswading him to put himselfe upon the trial of the Law declaring unto him the danger and mischiefe he runnes into by resisting his ordinary course of triall being the means ordained by God for his deliverance if he were innocent and how by this means he should make himselfe the authour of his owne death even as if he should with a knife or dagger kill or stab himselfe exhorting him very earnestly either with repentance to confesse his fault or else with humility and duty to submit himselfe to his ordinary trial whereupon he stubbornly answered Welcome by the grace of God and he referred himself to God and so no perswasions would prevail The Lord Chiefe Justice plainly delivered his opinion that he was perswaded that Weston had been dealt withall by some great ones guilty of the same fact as accessary to stand mute whereby they might escape their punishment and therefore he commanded for satisfaction of the world that the Queens Attorney there present should declare and set forth the whole evidence without any fear or partiality and yet notwithstanding he once more used much perswasion to the Prisoner to consider what destruction he had brought upon himself by his contempt and declared unto him his offence of contempt was in refusing his triall and how the Laws of the Land had provided a sharp and more severe punishment to such offenders then unto those that were guilty of high Treason and so repeated the form of the Judgement given against such the extremity and rigor whereof was expressed in these words Onore frigore fame For the first that he was to receive his punishment by the Law to be extended and then to have weights laid upon him no more then he was able to bear which were by little and little to be increased For the second that he was to be exposed in an open place near to the prison in the open aire being naked And lastly that he was to be served with the coursest bread to be gotten and water out of the next sink or puddle to the place of Execution and that day he had water he should have no bread and that day he had bread he should have no water and in this torment he was to linger as long as nature could linger out so that oftentimes they lived in the extremity eight or nine dayes adding further that as life left him so judgement should finde him and therefore he required him upon considerations of these reasons to advise himself to plead to the Country who notwithstanding absolutely refused Hereupon the Lord Chiefe Justice willed Sr Lawrence Hide the Queens Attorney and there of Counsel for the King to manifest unto the audience the guiltinesse of the said Weston by his owne confession signed with his owne hand and if in the declaration thereof they met with any great persons whatsoever as certainly there was great ones confederates in that fact he should boldly and faithfully open whatsoever was necessary and he could prove against them whereupon Mr Attorney began his accusation First he charged the Countesse of Somerset and and the Earle to be principal movers of this unhappy conclusion Mrs. Turner to be of the confederacie and the pay-mistresse of the Poysoners rewards in which I could not but observe the Attornies boldnesse in tearming the Countesse a dead and rottten branch which being lopt off the whole Tree meaning that noble Family would prosper the better Secondly he proceeded to the cause which he affirmed to be the malice of the Countesse and the ground of this malice he alleadged and by many inducements he evidently affirmed that Sr Tho. Over. had perswaded him from that adulterate marriage of the Countesse of Somerset then Countesse of Essex and for this he alleadged as followeth Sr Tho. Over. having divers times disswaded the Earle then Viscount Rochester from seeking by any means to procure marrying with the Countesse of Essex to which he saw the Earle too much inclined having very earnest conference with the Earle one night in private in the Gallery at White-hall concerning his intendments perceiving the Earle that time too much to desire that unlawful conjunction in the ardency of his fervent affection unto the Earle and great prescience of future misery it would inevitably bring unto him his wel-beloved Lord and friend used speeches to this effect Well my Lord if you do marry that filthy base woman you will utterly ruine your honour and your selfe you shall never do it by mine advice or consent and if you do you had best look to stand fast My Lord replyed bewitched with the love of the Countesse and moved with the words of Sir Tho. Over. for sleighting her My owne legs are streight and strong enough to bear me up but in faith I will be even with you for this and so parted from him in a great rage This conference was over-heard by some in an adjoyning room and their depositions for the truth thereof were read in Court Although this conference moved the Earle to such a suddain choler yet it seemed Sir Tho. Over. conceited it not to be otherwise then a suddain extream distemperature or passion and not a final conclusion of their bosome friendship in which the Earle seemed as reciprocal as before howsoever in his double dealing it seemed to