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A10377	A declaration of the demeanor and cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, aswell in his voyage, as in, and sithence his returne and of the true motiues and inducements which occasioned His Maiestie to proceed in doing iustice vpon him, as hath bene done.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1618 (1618)	STC 20652.5; ESTC S115419	21,521	68

euery man hee mett that hee was sicke and that hee left him in an extreme loosenesse that very night BVt Raleigh hauing formerly dispatched a messenger to London to prepare him a Barque for his escape came at last to London and hauing wonne his purpose by these former deuices of feigned sickenesse to bee spared from imprisonment in the Tower and to bee permitted to remaine at his owne house till his better recouery there fell out an accident which gaue him great hopes and encouragement speedily to facilitate his intended designe for escape For as he came on his way to London in his Inne at Brentford there came vnto him a Frenchman named La Chesnay a follower of Le Clere last Agent here for his Maiesties dearest brother the French King who tolde him that the French Agent was very desirous to speake with him as soone as might be after his arriuall at London for matters greatly concerning the sayd Sir Walters weale and safetie as in effect it fell out that the very next night after his arriuall at London the said Le Clere and La Chesnay came vnto him to his house and there did the said Le Clere offer vnto him a French Barque which hee had prepared for him to escape in and withall his Letters recommendatory for his safe conduct and reception to the Gouernour of Calis and to send a Gentleman expresly that should attend and meete him there to which offer of his Raleigh after some questions passed finding the French Barke not to bee so ready nor so fit as that himselfe had formerly prouided gaue him thanks and told him that he would make vse of his owne Barke but for his Letters and the rest of his offer he should be beholding to him because his acquaintance in France was worne out So passionately bent was hee vpon his escape as that hee did not forbeare to trust his life and to communicate a secret importing him so neere vpon his first acquaintance and vnto a stranger whom he hath since confessed that he neuer saw before And thus after two nights stay the third night hee made an actuall attempt to escape and was in Boate towards his Shippe but was by Stucley arrested brought backe and deliuered into the custodie of the Lieutenant of the Tower For these his great and hainous offences in actes of Hostilitie vpon his Maiesties confederates depredations and abuses as well of his Commission as of his Maiesties Subiects vnder his charge Impostures Attempts of escape declining his Maiesties Iustice and the rest euidently prooued or confessed by himselfe he had made himselfe vtterly vnwoorthy of his Maiesties further mercy And because he could not by Law bee iudicially called in question for that his former attainder of Treason is the highest and last worke of the Law whereby hee was Ciuiliter mortuus his Maiestie was inforced except Attainders should become priuiledges for all subsequent offences to resolue to haue him executed vpon his former Attainder HIs Maiesties iust and honourable proceedings being thus made manifest to all his good Subiects by this preceding Declaration not founded vpon coniectures or likelyhoods but either vpon confession of the partie himselfe or vpon the examination of diuers vnsuspected witnesses he leaues it to the world to iudge how he could either haue satisfied his owne Iustice his honourable intentions hauing bene so peruerted and abused by the sayd Sir W. Raleigh or yet make the vprightnesse of the same his intentions appeare to his dearest Brother the King of Spaine if he had not by a Legal punishment of the Offender giuen an example aswell of terrour to all his other Subiects not to abuse his gracious meanings in taking contrary courses for the attaining to their owne vnlawfull endes as also of Demonstration to all other forreigne Princes and States whereby they might rest assured of his Maiesties honourable proceeding with them when any the like case shall occurre By which meanes his Maiestie may the more assuredly expect and claime an honourable concurrence and a reciprocall correspondence from them vpon any the like occasion But as to Sir Walter Raleigh his confession at his Death what he confessed or denied touching any the points of this declaration his Maiestie leaues him and his conscience therein to God as was said in the beginning of this Discourse For Soueraigne Princes cannot make a true iudgement vpon the bare speeches or asseuerations of a delinquent at the time of his death but their iudgement must be founded vpon examinations reexaminations and confrontments and such like reall proofes as all this former discourse is made vp and built vpon all the materiall and most important of the said examinations being taken vnder the hands of the examinates that could write and that in the presence of no fewer then sixe of his Maiesties priuie Counsell and attested by their alike seuerall subscriptions vnder their hands which were my Lords the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Verulam Lord Chauncellor of England the Earle of Worcester Lord Priuy Seale Master Secretary Naunton the Master of the Rolls and Sir Edward Coke Imprinted at LONDON by BONHAM NORTON and IOHN BILL Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO 1618. TO The whole World O WORLD THou seest what Contradiction these poor weak Sermons have met withall how they have been and are accused of falshood envy malice peevishness that the Magistrates are standered in them and very lies uttered in the face of City and Country I am necessitated to appeal to God and the World O World I hold forth unto thy view faithfully all that was ●●●ken nothing omitted I call unto thee to be my true and impartial witness and let the God of Truth be Iudg

A DECLARATION OF THE DEMEANOR AND CARIAGE OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH Knight asvvell in his Voyage as in and sithence his Returne And of the true motiues and inducements which occasioned His Maiestie to Proceed in doing Iustice vpon him as hath bene done LONDON Printed by BONHAM NORTON and IOHN BILL Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie M.DC.XVIII ALthough KINGS be not bound to giue Account of their Actions to any but GOD alone yet such are his MAIESTIES proceedings as hee hath alwayes beene willing to bring them before Sunne and Moone and carefull to satisfie all his good people with his Intentions and courses giuing as well to future times as to the present true and vndisguised Declarations of them as iudging that for Actions not well founded it is aduantage to let them passe in vncertaine Reports but for Actions that are built vpon sure and solide grounds such as his Maiesties are it belongeth to them to bee published by open manifests Especially his Maiestie is willing to declare and manifest to the World his proceedings in a case of such a nature as this which followeth is since it not onely concernes his owne people but also a forreine Prince and State abroad Accordingly therefore for that which concerneth Sir Walter Raleigh late executed for Treason leauing the thoughts of his heart and the protestations that hee made at his death to God that is the searcher of all hearts and Iudge of all Trueth his Maiestie hath thought fit to manifest vnto the world how things appeared vnto himselfe and vpon what Proofes and euident Matter and the Examination of the Commaunders that were employed with him in the Voyage and namely of those which Sir Walter Raleigh himselfe by his owne Letter to Secretarie Winwood had commended for persons of speciall worth and credit and as most fit for greater employments his Maiesties proceedings haue bin grounded whereby it will euidently appeare how agreeable they haue beene in all points to Honour and Iustice. SIR Walter Raleigh hauing beene condemned of high Treason at his Maiesties entrance into this Kingdome and by the space of fourteene yeeres by his Maiesties princely Clemency and Mercy not onely spared from his Execution but permitted to liue as in Liberâ custodiâ in the Tower and to enioy his Lands and Liuing till all was by Law euicted from him vpon another ground and not by forfeiture which notwithstanding his Maiestie out of his abundant Grace gaue him a competent satisfaction for the same at length hee fell vpon an Enterprise of a golden Mine in Guiana This proposition of his was presented and recommended to his Maiestie by Sir Ralph Winwood then Secretary of State as a matter not in the Aire or speculatiue but reall and of certaintie for that Sir W. Raleigh had seene of the Oare of the Mine with his eyes and tried the richnesse of it It is true that his Maiestie in his owne princely iudgement gaue no beleefe vnto it aswell for that his Maiestie was verely perswaded that in Nature there are no such Mines of gold entire as they described this to bee and if any such had beene it was not probable that the Spaniards who were so industrious in the chase of Treasure would haue neglected it so long as also for that it proceeded from the person of Sir Wal. Raleigh inuested with such circumstances both of his disposition and fortune But neuerthelesse Sir W. Raleigh had so inchanted the world with his confident asseueration of that which euery man was willing to beleeue as his Maiesties honour was in a manner ingaged not to deny vnto his people the aduenture and hope of so great Riches to bee sought and atchieued at the charge of Voluntaries especially for that it stood with his Maiesties Politique and Magnanimous courses in these his flourishing times of peace to nourish and incourage Noble and Generous enterprises for Plantations Discoueries and opening of new Trades Heereupon the late Spanish Ambassadour the Count de Gondomar tooke great alarme and represented vnto his Maiestie by loud and vehement assertions vpon iterated audiences that he knew and had discouered the intention and enterprise of Sir W. Raleigh to bee but Hostile and Piraticall and tending to the breach of the Peace betweene the two Crownes and danger and destruction of the King his Masters Subiects in those parts protesting in a sort against the same To which his Maiesties answere alwayes was that he would send Sir Walter Raleigh with a limited Commission and that hee durst not vpon perill of his head attempt any such matter and if hee did hee would surely doe iustice vpon him or send him bound hand and foot into Spaine and all the gold and goods he should obtaine by Robbery and bring home were they neuer so great And for further caution his Maiesty enioyned Secretary Winwood to vrge Sir Walter Raleigh vpon his conscience and alleageance to his Maiestie to deale plainely and expresse himselfe whether hee had any other intention but onely to goe to those golden Mines in Guiana which hee not onely solemnely protested vnto the saide Sir Ralph Winwood but by him writt a close letter to his Maiestie conteining a solemne profession thereof confirmed with many vehement asseuerations and that hee neuer meant or would commit any outrages or spoiles vpon the King of Spaines Subiects But notwithstanding his Maiestie acquainted the Spanish Ambassadour with this his protestation yet the said Ambassadour would neuer recede from his former iealousie and importuning his Maiestie to stay his voyage alleadging that the great number of shippes that Sir Walter Raleigh had prepared for that voyage shewed manifestly that hee had no such peaceable intent and offering vpon Sir Walter Raleigh his answere thereunto that those ships were onely prouided for his safe conuoy that if Sir Walter Raleigh would goe with one or two ships onely to seeke the said Mine that hee would mooue the King of Spaine to send two or three ships with him backe againe for his safe conuoy hither with all his gold And the said Ambassadours person to remaine here in pledge for the King his Master his performance thereof But such were the constant faire Offers of the said Sir Walter Raleigh and specious promises as his Maiestie in the end reiected the importunate Suit of the said Spanish Ambassadour for his stay and resolued to let him goe but therewithall tooke order both that hee and all those that went in his company should finde good securitie to behaue themselues peaceably towards all his Maiesties Friends and Allies and to obserue strictly all the Articles of the Commission which his Maiestie for that cause had the greater care to haue it well and clearely penned and set downe And that his Maiesties honest intention may heerein the better appeare the words of the Commission are heerein inserted as followeth IAMES by the grace of GOD c. To all to whom these presents shall come to bee read heard or seene and to

way appeares that it was not any traine laide for him by Sir Lewis Stucley or any other as was voyced to mooue or tempt him to an escape but that hee had a purpose to flie and escape from his first arriuall into England But in this his purpose he grew to be more resolute and fixed after that the Lords of his Maiesties Councell obseruing the delaies in his comming vppe had sent vnto Stucley some quicke letters for the hastening thereof But thereupon as his desire of escape encreased so did the difficulty thereof increase also for that Stucley from that time foorth kept a better guard vpon him whereof he tooke that apprehension in so much as knowing Stucley to bee witty and watchfull hee grew to an opinion that it would bee impossible for him to escape except hee could winne one of these two points either to corrupt Stucley or at lest to get to haue some liberty when he came to London of remayning in his owne house for guiltinesse did tell him that vpon his comming to London it was like hee should bee laid prisoner in the Tower Wherefore he saw no other way but in his iourney to London to counterfeit sickenesse in such a manner as might in commiseration of his extremity moue his Maiesty to permit him to remaine in his owne house where he assured himselfe ere long to plot an opportunity of an escape And hauing in his company one Mannowry a French man a professor of Physicke and one that had many Chymicall receipts hee practised by Crownes and promised to draw him into his consort the better to make faith of his counterfeiting to be sicke the story whereof Mannowry himselfe reporteth to haue passed in this manner VPon Saturday the 25. of Iuly Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Lewis Stucley and Mannoury went to lie at Master Drakes where the Letters of Commission from the Priuie Councell were brought vnto Sir Lewis Stucley by one of his Maiesties messengers which caused a sudden departure with much more haste then was expected before and the countenance of Sir Walter Raleigh was much changed after Sir Lewis Stucley had shewed the Commission for Mannowry sawe him from the staire-head hee beeing alone in his chamber the doore standing halfe open how hee stamped with his feete and pulled himselfe by the haire swearing in these words Gods wounds is it possible my fortune should returne vpon me thus againe From Master Drakes they went on their iourney to the house of Master Horsey distant from thence foure miles or thereabouts It was in that houre that Sir Walter Raleigh began first to cause Mannowry to bee sounded what was in his heart by an olde domesticke of his called Captaine King who there began to discourse vnto Mannowry of the infortunitie of his Master and amongst other things sayd thus I would wee were all at Paris To whome Mannowry answered I would wee were all at London alas what should wee doe at Paris Because quoth King that as soone as wee come to London they will commit Sir Walter Raleigh to the Tower and cut off his head Whereupon Mannowry answered That hee hoped better then so and that hee was sorrie for his ill fortune and that according to his small abilitie hee was ready to doe him all honest seruice hee could so it might bee done without offence After dinner it being Sunday Sir Walter Raleigh departed from Master Horsey his house and went to Sherburne and in the way when hee came within view thereof turning to Mannowrie and shewing him the place and the territorie about it hee sayd vnto him sighing That all that was his and that the King had vniustly taken it from him Hee and Stucley lay not at Sherburne but were inuited to the house of olde Master Parham Mannowry and their traine went to lie at Sherburne at the signe of the George The next day being Munday the seuen and twentieth of Iuly Mannowry went to them and from thence they tooke their way towards Salisbury fiue and thirty miles from Sherburne and arriuing there Sir Walter Raleigh going afoote downe the hill addressed himselfe vnto Mannowry and asked him if hee had any of his Vomits or other Medicines which hee telling him that he had he prayed him to make one ready against the next morning and to tell no body therof I know quoth he that it is good for me to euacuate many bad humours by this means I shall gaine time to worke my friends giue order for my affaires and it may bee pacifie his Maiesty before my comming to London for I know well that assoone as I come there I shall to the Tower and that they will cut off my head if I vse no meanes to escape it which I cannot doe without counterfeiting to be sicke which your vomits will effect without suspicion For which cause the same euening as soone as he arriued he laide him downe vpon a bedde complayning much of his head and blaming his great dayes iourney from Sherborne to Salisbury notwithstanding he supped very well but after supper hee seemed to bee surprised with a dimnesse of sight by a swimming or giddinesse in his head and holding his hand before his face hee rose from his bed and being ledde by the arme by Sir Lewis Stucley hee staggered so that hee strooke his head with some violence against a post of the gallery before his Chamber which made Sir Lewis Stucley thinke that hee was sicke indeed in which beleefe Mannowry left him for that time The next day in the morning he sent his Lady his wife and most of his seruants to London and also Captaine King and Cuthbert and Mannowry and Sir Lewis Stucley being in Stucleyes chamber a seruant of the saide Sir Walter named Robine came and told them that his Master was out of his wittes and that hee was naked in his shirt vpon all foure scratching and biting the rushes vpon the Plankes which greatly pitied Sir Lewis Stucley who rising in haste sent Mannowry to him who when hee came found him gotten againe to his bed and asking him what he ailed he answered he ailed nothing but that hee did it of purpose And Sir Walter Raleigh asking him for his vomit hee gaue it him who made no bones but swallowed it downe incontinentlie At which time Sir L. Stucley comming in Sir Walter began againe to crie and raue Then Mannowry went out of the Chamber and the vomit which hee had giuen him was an houre and a halfe before it wrought but in the meane time Sir Walter Raleigh beganne to drawe vp his legges and armes all on a heape as it had beene in a fit of Conuulsions and contractions of his Sinewes and that with such vehemencie that Sir Lewis Stucley had much adoe with the helpe of others to pull out streight sometimes an arme sometimes a legge which against all the strength they had he would draw vp againe as it was before whereat the sayd Sir Lewis Stucley tooke great

compassion causing him to be well rubbed and chafed which Sir Walter Raleigh himselfe afterwards told vnto Mannowry laughing that he had well exercised Sir Lewis Stucley taught him to be a Physitian This fained fitte being thus past Sir Walter Raleigh called Mannowry and when he came hee prayed him to stay by him and said hee would take some rest Mannowrie shut the doore and being alone with him Sir Walter Raleigh tolde him That his vomite had done nothing as yet and said that hee would take another more violent but Mannowry assuring him that without doubt it would worke hee contented himselfe and asked Mannowry if hee could inuent any thing that might make him looke horrible and loathsome outwardly without offending his principall parts or making him sicke inwardly Mannowry studied a little and then tolde him that hee would make a Composition presently of certaine things which would make him like a Leper from head to foote without doing him any harme which at his intreatie hee effected speedily at which time Sir Walter Raleigh gaue him the reason why hee did it telling him that his beeing in that case would make the Lords of the Counsell affraide to come neere him and mooue them with more pitie to fauour him Soone after that Mannowry had put this Composition vpon his Brow his Armes and his Breast Sir Lewis Stucley came into the Chamber and Mannowry went away and Sir Lewis Stucley perceiuing the places where Mannowry had put this Composition to be all pimpled his face full of great blisters of diuers colours hauing in the middest a little touch of yellow and round about like a purple colour and all the rest of his skinne as it were inflamed with heare hee beganne to apprehend the danger of the disease that it was contagious and being very much astonished at the suddaine accident he asked Mannowry what he thought thereof but Mannowry iudged it fit to conceale it from him at that time seeing Sir Walter Raleigh had not yet tolde him that hee meant to flie out of England but that it was onely to gaine time to satisfie his Maiestie Vpon Mannowry his vncertaine answere to Sir Lewis Stucley touching Sir Walter Raleigh his maladie Stucley resolued to goe to my Lord Bishop of Elie now of Winchester to relate vnto him in what case Sir Walter Raleigh was and brought vnto Raleigh two Physicians to see and visite him who being come could tell nothing of what humour the saide sickenesse was composed There came also a third a Bachelour in Physicke who all could not by all that they could doe discouer this disease Onely they gaue their opinion and aduise that the Patient could not be exposed to the Ayre without manifest perill of his life and thereof they made their report in writing vnto which Mannowry also set his hand Sir Walter Raleigh seeing that all these things fell out according to his intention was exceedingly contented thereat especially that in the presence of the sayde Physicians the vomit beganne to worke both vpwards and downewards And because he doubted that the Physicians would aske to see his water hee prayed Mannowry to doe something to make it seeme troubled and badde which to content him giuing him the Vrinall into his bedde Mannowry rubbed the inside of the glasse with a certaine Drugge which as soone as hee had made water therein the Vrine euen in the hands of the Physicians turned all into an earthy humour of a blackish colour and made the water also to haue an ill sauour which made the Physicians iudge the disease to be mortall and without remedy but from Heauen Hee made Mannowry also to tie his armes about with blacke silke ribband which hee tooke from his Poyniard to trie if it would distemper the pulse but that succeeded not as hee thought it would The day following hee called Mannowry and prayed him to make some more such blisters vpon him as vpon his nose his head his thighes and his legges which Mannowry hauing done it succeeded according to his desire for which he was very iocund and merry with Mannowry and sayde vnto him that the euacuation which his physicke had caused had so opened his stomacke that he was exceeding hungry and prayed Mannowry that hee would goe and buy him some meat secretly for quoth he if I eate publiquely it will bee seene that I am not sicke so according to his request Mannowry went to the White-hart in Salisbury and bought him a legge of Mutton and three loaues which he ate in secret and by this subtilty it was thought that he liued three dayes without eating but not without drinke Thus hee continued vntill Friday the last of Iuly seeming alwayes to be sicke in the presence of company and neuerthelesse beeing alone hee writte his Declaration or Apology and prayed Mannowry to transcribe it which was since presented to his Maiestie The same euening Sir Lewis Stuckley discoursing vpon his sickenesse and whence it should proceed Sir Walter Raleigh saide in these words As God saue mee I thinke I haue taken poyson where I lay the night before I came to this Towne I know that Master Parham is a great louer of the King of Spaine and a Papist and that hee keepes alwayes a Priest in his house but I will not haue any of you to speake of it nor you Mounsier quoth hee speaking to Mannowry Also Sir Walter Raleigh his Chamber doores beeing shutte walked vp and downe and only Mannowry with him there naked in his shirt and tooke a looking glasse and looking vpon the spots in his face whereat he tooke great pleasure and laughing said vnto Mannowry these words We shall laugh well one day for hauing thus cozened and beguiled the King his Councell and the Physitians and the Spaniards and all Vpon the Saturday that his Maiestie arriued at Salisbury which was the first of August Sir Walter Raleigh desired to speake with Mannowry in secret and seemed to haue a verie great apprehension of some thing and hauing made him shut the doores prayed him to giue him a redde leather coffer which was within another coffer which when hee had hee was a good while looking in it and then called Mannowry and putting nine peeces of Spanish money of gold into his hand hee saide thus There is twenty Crownes in Pistolets which I giue you for your Physicall receipts and the victuall you bought mee and I will giue you fiftie pound a yeere if you will doe that which I shall tell you and if it happen that Sir Lewis Stucley doe aske you what conference you had with mee tell him that you comfort mee in mine aduersity and that I make you no other answere then thus as is here written which hee had alreadie written with his owne hand in a little peece of paper for Mannowries instruction as followeth Vela M. Mannowry L' acceptance de tout mes trauaus pertie de mon estat demon fils mes maladies doleurs Vela L'