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 feaâ—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
joyned to kisse his Majesties hand recommending me to his Majesties favour said I take God to witnesse that this young mans father was the best friend that ever I had or shall have in this World Whereupon the young Lord resolved to put trust in mee and I fully to addict my self to him to deserve of him as much commendations as my father did of his father This Royall celebration of our friends rooted it self so deep in my minde that to my self I purposed this remembrance giving it to my young Lord and to my famillar friends and set it upon the books of my study Semper Hameltonium c. Always the King and Hamelton Within thy breast conserve What ever be thy actions Let Princes two deserve Neither was it in vain for both our loves increased with our age the Marquesse promising to engage his life and whole estate for me if need were and so share his fortunes with me and not onely promising but also performing when ever there was occasion yea for my sake offering to hazard his life in combat whose mind in wishing me well whose tongue in honouring of me and whose hands and means in defending me both absent and present unto the last period of his life hath ever assisted me I should be more tedious then were fit if I should rehearse every particular favour so manifestly knowne to the whole Court and to the friends of us both who then can justly blame me demanding justice as well for the slaughter of the Marquesse of Hamelton as of my most gracious Sovereigne King Iames seeing I know whom to accuse My profession of Physick nor my education to letters cannot serve to hinder me from undertaking the hardest enterprize that ever any Roman undertook so far as the Law of conscience will give way Why should I stay at the decay Of Hameltons the hope Why shall I see thy foe so free Vnto this joy give scope Rather I pray a dolefull day Set me in cruell fate Then thy death strange without revenge Or him in safe estate This soule to heavens hand to the dead I vow No fraudfull minde nor trembling hand I have If pen it shun the sword revenge shall follow Soule Pen and Sword what thing but just doe crave What affection I bore to the living the same shall accompany the dead for when whose truth and sincerity was well knowne unto me told me that it was better that the chiefest of my friends the Marquesse of Hamelton to be quiet at home in Scotland then eminent in Court of England to whom by the opinion of the wiser sort his being at Court will cost him no lesse then his life sith that I stretching forth mine arme apprehending some plots laid against him answered if no man dare to revenge his death I vow to God this hand of mine shall revenge it scarcely any other cause to be found then the bond of our close friendship why in the scrowle of Noble mens names who were to be killed I should be set down next to the Marquesse of Hamelton and under these words viz. the Marquesse and Doctor Eglisham to embalme him to wit to the end that no discoverer or revenger should be left this roll of names I know not by what destiny was found neere to Westminster about the time of the Duke of Richmond his death and brought to the Lord Marquesse by his cozen the daughter of the Lord Oldbarre one of the privy Councell of Scotland did cause no terror in mee untill I did see the Marquesse poysoned and remembred that the rest therein noted were dead and my selfe next pointed at only surviving why stay I any more the cause requireth no more the pen but the sword I doe not write so boldly because I am amongst the Dukes enemies but I have retired my selfe to his enemies because I was resolved to write and doe earnestly against him as may very well appeare for since the Marquesse of Hameltons death the most noble Marquesse de Fiatta Embassadour for the most Christian King of France and also Buckingham his mother sent on every side to seeke me inviting me to them but I did forsake them knowing certainly the falshood of Buckingham would suffer the Embassador rather to receive an affront then to be unsatisfied of his blood-thirsty desire of my blood to silence me with death for according to the proverb The dead cannot bite if he could have found me for my Lord Duke of Lenox who was often crossed by Buckingham with his brother and the Earle of Southampton now dead was one of the roll found of those that were to be murthered well assured me that where Buckingham once misliked no apologie no submission no reconciliation could keepe him from doing mischiefe Neither doe I write this in this fashion so freely for any entertainment here present which I have not nor for any future which I have no ground to looke for seeing Buckingham hath so much mislead your Majesty that he hath caused not only here but also in all Nations all Britaine Natives to be disgraced and mistrusted your Majesties most royall word which should be inviolable your hand and seal which should be uninfringeable to be most shamefully violated and your selfe to be most ingrate for your kind usage in Spaine which Buckingham maketh to be requited with injuries in a most base manner under protestation of friendship a bloody war being kindled on both sides whereby he hath buried with King Iames the glorious name of Peace-making King who had done much more justly and advisedly if hee had procured peace unto Christendome whereby small hope I have of obtaining justice on my most just complaint unto which my deare affection unto my deare friends murthered and extream detestation of Buckingham his violent proceedings hath brought me Your Ma may finde most just causes to accuse him in my Petition to the Parliament which shall serve for a touchstone to your Majestie and a whetstone to me and many other Scotsmen and which if it be neglected will make your Majesty to incurre a censure amongst all vertuous men in the world that your Majesty will be loath to heare of and I am astonished to expresse at this time A Serpent lurketh in the grasse No other way there is to be found to save your honour but to give way to Justice against that traytor Buckingham by whom manifest danger approacheth to your Majesty no otherwise then death approached to King Iames. If your Majesty will therefore take any course therein the examination upon oath of all those that were about the King and the Marquesse of Hamelton in their sicknesse or at their deaths or after their deaths before indifferent Judges no dependants on Buckingham will serve for sufficient proofe of Buckingham his guiltinesse In the meane time untill I see what will be the issue of my complaint without any more speech I rest Your Majesties daily Suppliant George Eglisham To the most Honourable the Nobilitie Knights
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
Buckingham himselfe the chiefe of her kindred was but a novice in Nobility his father obscure amongst Gentlemen his mother a Serving-woman and he being infamous for his frequent consultation with the Ring-leader of Witches principally that false Doctor Lamb publickly condemned for witch-craft whereby the Marquesse knowing that the King was so farre bewitched to Buckingham thrt if he refused the match demanded he should find the kings deadly hatred agains him And seeing that Buckinghams Niece was not yet Nubile in yeares and that before the marriage should be consirmed a way might be found out to annull it unto which he was forced by deceitfull importunity therefore he yeelded unto the King desire of the match whereupon Buckingham and his faction fearing that delayes would bring lets urged my Lord Marquesse to send for his sonne upon a Sunday morning be times in all haste from London to Court at Greenwich where never a word was spoken of marriage to the young Lord till a little before Supper and the marriage madâ— before the King after Supper And to make it more authenticke Buckingham cause his Neece to be lard in bed with the Marquesse his sonne for a short time in the King Chamber and in his Majesties presence albeit the Bride was yet innubile Many werâ— astonisht at the sudden newes thereof all the Marquesse his friends fretting thereat an some writing unto him very scornfull letters for the same The Marquesse having satisfied the Kings demands did what hee could to preveâ—â— the confirmation of the marriage and intended to send his sonne beyond the seas travell through France and so to passe his time a broad untill that meanes were fouâ— to unty that knot which Buckingham had urged the King to tie upon his sonne But Bucking ham to countermand the Marquesse his designe causes the King and Prince to make the Marquesse his sonne to be sworne Gent to the Princes Bed-chamber and so to be detained with him within the Kingdome untill that the Bride was at yeares ripe for marriage The time expired that Buckinghams neece became marriageable Buckingham sent to the Marques to desire him to make the mariage to be coÌ„pleatly confirmed The marquesse not willing to heare of any such matter answered briefely he scorned the motion This answer reported to Buckingham and seeing himselfe like to be frust ated of his ambitious matching of his neece and perceiving that the Lord Marquesse was able to raise a great faction against him whether King Iames did live or die was mightily incensed against the Marquesse At the first incounter with him did challange him for speaking disdainfully of him and his house The Marquesse replyed he did not remember any offensive words uttered by himselfe against Buckingham Buckingham then proudly said unto him out of the words of thy mouth I will judge thee for you have said you scorne the motion of matching with my house which I made unto you The marquesse answered that if he had said so it became not the Duke to speake unto him in that fashion So Buckingham threatned to be revenged The Marquesse uttered his defiance and thus the quarrell began which foure or five times was reiterated and as often reconciled by Marquesse de Fietta alittle before the Marquesse of Hamelton fell sick wherein it is very evident that the quarrel hath beene very violent that needed so many reconciliations The Dukes fire of his anger being unextinguishable as K. Iames did often censure him in his absence albeit that a favourite that he was wonderfull vindicative whose malice was insatiable towards my Lo Marquesse of Hamelton did well shew it selfe as shall appeare hereafter Hardly can any man tell whether by the Marquesse in his sicknesse Buckingham was more suspected then accused of the poyson given or to be given him for he would not taste of any thing that was sent him by any of Buckinghams friends but he would have some of his servants taste of it before and for the love that was mutuall betweene him and your Petitioner whom hee would never suffer to go out of his sight during his sicknesse your Petitioner cast off all that he tooke in that time unto whom his suspition of Buckingham hee expressed by name before sufficient witnesse who will testifie upon oath if there bee any course taken therein for the search thereof all the time of his sicknesse he intreated your petitioner not to suffer my Lo of Buckingham to come neere him and your Petitioner having often sent word and also sometimes fignified himselfe to Buckingham that there was no sit opportunity to see the Marquesse pretending something to be ministred to him But when your petitioner could finde no more excuses he told my Lo Marques that he had put away my Lo of Buckingham so often that he could not keepe him away any longer but that he must needes see him Then he knowing Buckinghams visitation to proceed of disimulation requested your petitioner at last to finde the means to get him away quiekly which your Petitioner did interrupting Buckingham his discourse and intreating him to suffer my Lord Marquess to bee quiet This did evidently shew my Lord Marquess his disliking and distrusting of Buckingham whereas hee was pleased with other Noblemens Company All the time of his sicknesse the Duke and my Lord Denbigh would not suffer his own son to come to him pretending that he was also sicke which was false for the time that my Lord Marquess called for him After this your Petitioner advised his Lordship to dispose of his estate and of his conscience his sicknesse was not without danger which your Petitioner foure dayes before my Lords death did in such manner perceive that hee had cause to commit all the care of his health to God and his Physitians assuring howsoever hee had gotten wrong abroad he should get none in the cure of his disease At length his Lordship burst out in these words to my Lord Denbigh It is a great cruelty in you that you will not suffer my son to come to me when I am dying that I may see him and speake to him before I dye So they delayed his comming with excuses untill my Lord his agony of death was neere to the end that he should not have time to give his son private instructions to shun the marriage of Buckinghams Neece or to signifie unto him the fuspition of poyson for they had rather his son should know any thing then either of these yet many did suspect his poyson before he died for two dayes before his death two of his servants died with manifest signs and suspition of poyson the one belonging to the Wine-celler the other to the Kitchin The Fatall houre being come that my Lord Marquess deceased your Petitioner intreated all were present to suffer no man to touch his body untill that he returned to see it opened For then he protested earnestly that all the time of his sicknesse he judged it to be poyson but this
poyson was such and so farre gone that none could help it Nevertheles to have the matter concealed Buckingham would have him buried that same night in Westminster Church and the Ceremonies of his buriall to be kept afterwards saying that such delicate bodies as his could not be kept But his friends taking hold of the cavet before given by your Petitioner refused so to doe and replied that they would have him as became him to bee buried in Scotland in his owne Chappell where all his Ancesters have beene butied for more then these four hundred yeares and that his body mustbee visited by his Physitians No sooner was he dead when the force of the poysou had overcome the force of his body but it began to swell in such sort that his Thighes were swolne sixe times as bigge as their naturall proportion his Belly became as the belly of an Oxe his Arins as the natural quantity of Thighs his Neck so broad as his Shoulders his Cheekes over the top of his Nose that his Nose could not be seen or distinguished the skin of his fore-head two fingers high swolled the haire of his beard eye-browes and head so farre distant one from another as if an hundred had been taken oat bet weene each one and when one did touch the haire it came away with the skin as easily as if one had pulled hay out of an heap of hay He was all over his neck breast shoulders armes and browes I say of divers colours full of waters of the same colour some white some blacke some red some yellow some greene some blew and that as well within the body as without Also the concavities of his Liver greene his ftomach in some places a little purpurated with a blew clammy water adhering to the sides of it His Mouth and Nose foaming blood mixt with froth mightily of divers colours a yard high Your Petitioner being sent for to visit his body and his servants flocking about him saying See see presently weeping said he was poysoned and that it was a thing not be suffered Moreover he said that albeit his speech might cost him his life yet seeing his sorrow had extorted that speech out he would make it manifest and would have a Jury of Physitians Presently some of my Lord Marquess of Hameltons friends said we must send to my Lord Duke that he may send his Physitlans but your Petitioner replied what have we to doe with the Dukes Physitians Let us have indifferent men Captaine Hamelton hearing your Petitioner so boldly take exceptions at Buckingham and juding that he had good reason for what he had spoken said for all that let us send to the Duke and signifie that they all who have seen the Marquess his body both Physitians Chyrurgeons and others may see that hee is poysoned and that his friends desire more Physitians out of the Colledge of London besides the Dukes Physitians to beare witnesse in what case the Marquess his body is in and then if the Dukes conscience be guilty said the Captain it will shew it self as indeed it did for the Duke being advertised hereof sent for his owne Physitians and others out of London whom he caused first to be brought unto him before they went to see the Marquess his body giving them his directions in these words viz. My Masters there is a bruit spread abroad that the Marquesse of Hamelton is poysoned Goe see but beware what you speak of poyson which he said in a hreatning forme of delivery for every Noble man that dieth must be poysoned If his conscience had not been guilty should not he have commanded the Phyâ—itians to enquire by all meanes possible and made it knowne rather then to uppresse the speech of poysoning so worthy a man These Physitians being come your Petitioner with one hand leading Doctor More to the Table where the Marquess his body was layd and with the oher hand throwing off the cloth from the body said to him Look you here upon his spectacle At the sight whereof Doctor More lifting up both his hands heart and eyes â—o the Heavens agonished said Jesus blesse me I never saw the like I cannot â—istinguish a face upon him and in like manner all the rest of the Doctors and so the Chirurgjons affirmed that they never saw the like albeit that they have â—…availed and practised through the greatest part of Eorope onely one that said â—…y Lo of Southampton was blistered all within the brest as my Lo marquesses was Doctor Leicester one of Buckinghams creature seeing Doctor More others so amazed at the sight of my Lords body drew first him aside and then the others one after another and whispered them in the eare to silence them Whereupon many went away without speaking one word the other who remained acknowledged that those accidents of the dead body could not bee without poyson but they said they could not know how such a subtile art of poysoning could be brought into England your Petitioner replyed that money would bring both the Art and the Artist from the furthest part of the World into England from whence since your Petitioners departure he hath conferred with the skilfullest Pestmasters that could be found who visite the bodies of those that die of the venome of the pest They all admired the description of my Lo Marques his body and testifie that never any of the pest have such accidents but Carbuncles Rubons or Spots no such huge blisters with waters and such a huge uniforme swelling to such dimentions above six times the naturall proportion But he hath met with some who have practised the poysoning of dogs to try the forces of some Antidotes and they have round that some poysons have made the dogs sick for a fortnight or more without any swelling untill they were dead and then they swelled above measure and became blistered with waters of divers colours and the haire came away with the skin when it was touched The Phisitians then who remained were willing to certifie under their hands that my Lo Marquesse was poysoned But your petitioner told them it was not needefull seeing we must needes attend Gods leasure to discover the author the manner being so apparant and so many hundreds having seen the body to witnesse it for the doores were kept open for every man to behold and to bee witnesse who would The Duke of Buckingham making some counterfeit shew of sorrow two men of great quality found no other shift to divert the suspition of the poysoning of the Marquesse from him but to lay it upon his master the King saying that the marquesse for his person spirit and carriage was such as he was born worthy to reigne but the King his Master hated him to death because he had a spirit too much for the commonwealth whereby the Duke did shew himselfe no good subject to the King who made the Kings honour to be tyranicall and the King a blood-thirsty murtherer and a most vile