Proclametion That Essex and Southampton were Traitors all those that followed their faction Many dropping from the Crowd there was little defence by his party though some were killed and himselfe forsaken of the wisest He retires back to Queenhithe and so to Essex-house by water where finding the Birds flowen the Councellors released by their Keeper who in hope of pardon accompained them to the Queenes presence discovering so much as he knew concerning his Lord who finding himselfe too weake to withstand the force of a peece of Cannon mounted upon the Church to batter his House He and Southampton yeelded themselves Prisoners to the Tower Arraigned and executed where being arraigned and condemned Southamton had repreeve and after pardon But Essex the reward of his merits and Executed in March 1601. upon the Inner Hill in the Tower to the regret of None either wise or honest Leaving behind him one onely Son the last of his Line William Cecill Cecils Pamp. 10. illustrate from the family of Cecils who suffered persecution in the times of Henry 8. Edward 6. and Queen Mary he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth so soone as she was setled in her Crowne then Secretary and Councellor of State Afterwards created Baron of Burligh Then made Lord Treasurer of England and Knight of the Garter and died Chauncellor of the Vniversity of Cambridge Anno 1598. Intomb'd at Westminster leaving two Sons The elder Thomas was then Lord President of the North And afterwards created Earle of Exeter by King James and privy Councellor of State He died Anno discreet and honourable whom the world could never tax with any taint The other son Robert Sr. Robert Cecill was the second But a true Inheriter of his Fathers wisdome and by him trained up to future perfections of a Judicious States-man after his Knighthood the first imployment from Court for he was not at all bred out of it sent him Assistant with the Earle of Darby Embassadour to the French King At his returne the Queen took him second Secretary with Sir Fr. Walsingham after whose decease he continued Paincipal and so kept it to his death Not relinquishing any Preferment for the Addition of a Creater A remarkeable Note which few men of the Gowne can boast of His Father liv'd to see him setled in these preferments and after Master of the Wards and Liveries These he held to the Queenes death Being in all Her time used amongst the Men of weight as having great sufficiencies from his Instruction who begat him Those offices here in public with perpetual Correspondence by Emissaries of his own into Scotland might no doubt make him capable of Reception with King James who was to be advised by him how to be received here of his people Without any necessity then to make use of Sir George Hewmes or his Initiatiation afterwards with any juggling trickes Pamp 13. his merrits certainly appeared to the King who not onely not diminished his forformer preferments But often added to them even to the day of his death As first Baron of Essenden then Viscount Cranborne after Earle of Salisbury and Knight of the Garter and lastly Lord Treasurer of England He was a Councellor of singular merit A very great discoverer of the late Queens enemies abroad and of private Assinations at home For which She valued him and the Papists hated him which they published by several Manuscripts which I have seen and printed Libels and that most pestilent against his birth and honour threatning to kill him which himselfe answered wisely learnedly and religiously Extant in English and Latine Adversus Perduelles Indeed It behoved the King to bestow upon him the waight of the Treasurers Staffe The Cofers then in some want which the King was not likely soon to Recover but rather to increase in debt having the addition of wife and children to boot And being now come with common opinion into the Capacity by his additional Crownes to reward his old servants and to appear obliging unto new Ones The world wondering at the worth of this great Councellor I know not upon what score our Pamphleter should endeavour to scandal his memory Which he rancks into Numbers of ill Offices to his Nation Pamp. 12. as the burning of a whole cart-load of Parliaments Presidents which no man can be so sottish as to beleeve that knowes the strict concerving of those Records by sworne Officers As for the Baronets Baronets It was the earnest suite of two hundred prime Gentlemen of Birth and estates to my knowledge for I copied the list before ever it came this Lord. And as true it is That this Lord's Reception thereto was in the same words which our Pamphlet puts upon the King That it would discontent the Gentry to which themselves replyed Nay my Lord It will rather satisfie them in advance of Dignity before others who now come behind those Meaner Men whom the King was forced to Knight for his own honor and some merits of theirs having no other Reward or money to spare and therein not much to blame to oblige them that way As for that supposed jugling Pamp. 13. which the Duke of Bullion should discover As it was never known to wiser men So we may take it a devise of his who in these as in other such like of his own may truly merit that Character which he bestowes before On the good Gentleman Pamp. 9. I desire pardon if I speake much and truth in the memory of this Noble Lord being somewhat concerned to speak my owne knowledge I know that this Earle of Salesbury declining his health with continuall labour for the good of this Nation both in the former and in this his Soveraign's Service And am willing to give some light thereof to such as are pleased to read these particulars being an Account of his concernments For first Salisbury his service to the State Mannors Lands he found the King's Mannors and fairest possessions most unsurveyed and uncertain rather by report then by Measure Not more known then by ancient Rents the Estate granted rather by chance then upon knowledge The Custody-Lands Custody-hands antiently termed Crown-Lands much charged upon the Sheriffs yearly discharged by annual pensions A Revenue which seemed decayed by descent of times and worne out of all remembrance these he evermore revived by Commissioners of Asserts The Woods Woods were more uncertain then the rest No man knew the Copices Number of acres growth or value nor of Timber-Trees either Number or worth So as truly he might well find himself in a Wood indeed The Trees wasted without controwle because no Record kept thereof These he caused to be numbred marked and valued easily to be questioned when thereafter missing The Copy-hold Lands Copy-holds where the arbitrary sines ceased by the discretion of the Stewards and did seldome yeeld the Parsons part and that also vanish'd in fees and charges The State was then after like
The Gall Bladder Gall. void of any humour full of wind The Spleen on the top Spleen and in the lower end blackish fill'd with black heavy blood The Kidnies without any blemish Kidnies The Midrise under the Filme or Membraine Midriffe containing the Heart wherein a little moysture spotted with black leadish colour by reason of the brusing Heart The Lungs the greatest part black Lungs the rest all spotted with black imbrewed and full of adust blood with a corrupt and thick Serocity which by a vent made in the Lungs came out foming in great abundance In which doing and cutting a small Skin which invironeth the Heart to shew the same the Chirurgian by chance cutting the Trunck of the great Veine the most part of the blood issued out into the Chest leaving the lower Veins empty upon sight whereof they concluded an extream heat and fullnesse the same more appeared that the windpipe with the Throat Tongue Throat were covered with thick blacknesse The Tongue cleft and dry in many places Tongue The hinder Veins called Piamater Piamater in the Inmost Filme of the Braine swolne abundance of blood more than naturall The Substance of the Braine Braine faire and clcere but the ventricks thereof full of cleere water in great abundance which was engendred by reason of the Feaver Maligne divers humors being gathered together of a long time before He not being subject to any dangerous Sicknesse by Birth The other part Without poyson by reason of the Convulsions resoundings and benummings and of the fullnesse choaking the naturall hear and destroying the vitalls by their Malignity have convayed Him to the Grave without any teken or accident of Poyson His admirable patience in all his sicknesse might deceive the Physicians never dreaming danger The Urines shewd none And the unknown state of His greatest griefe lay closely rooted in His head which in the opening was discovered But the Picture of Death by a strange extraordinary Countenance from the beginning And vainly surmised possessing him hath been the cause that some vainely rumored that He was Poysoned But no Symptome appearing By sent it is surmised that He might be Poysoned by a Sent. But indeed He died in the Rage of a Malicious Extraordinary Burning Fever The seventh of December He was Interred at Westminster 1612. His Motto's Fax mentis Honestae Gloria Juvat ire per Altum He was comely tall Description five Foot eight Inches high Strong and well made somewhat broad Shoulders a small Waste Amiable with Majesty and His Haire Aborn colour Long Faced and broad For-head a pearcing grave Eye a gracious Smile but with a Frowne danting Courteous and affable Character naturall Shamefast and modest Patient and slow to Anger Mercifull and judicious in punishing offendors Quick to conceive yet not rash Very constant in resolves Wonderfull secret of any trust even from his Youth His Corage Prince-like fearless noble undaunted saying that there should be nothing impossible to Him that had bin done by another Most Religious and Christian Protesting His great desire to compose differences in Religion In a word He was never heard by any body living to swear an Oath And it was remembred at his Funerall Sermon by the Archbishop that He being commended by one for not replying with passion in Rlay or swearing to the truth He should answer That He knew no Game or Value to be won or lost that could be worth an Oath To say no more Such and so many were His Virtues that they covered Sin We are told by our Pamphlet that his death was foretold by Bruce Pamph. 85 who was therefore banished And if so he deserved rather to be hanged But in truth He was not banished at all but wisely removed himself into Germany where his Profession of Prophesying gained most profit And from whence all Christendome are fill'd with such lying foretellings But in this particular he needed not much Art or Devills help to say That Salisburies crazy body should yeeld to Nature before Prince Henry's And this true story of Prince Henry Pamph. 86 may answer the fourth Remarke in the Preface that he came not to untimely death Sir Arthur Ingram Sir Arthur Ingram Sir Lionell Cranfield and Sir Lionell Cranfield our Pamphlet couples upon the score of Merchants though the latter being of merit and was rank'd with the Peers Ingram was bred a Merchant and for his wit and wealth imployed as a Customer and afterwards came to that esteem as to be preferred Cofferer in the Kings house and with much Reason and Policy so to be For the vast expence of the State kept the Treasury dry Especially the needfull disbursements of the Court divided into Severalls of King Queen Prince Princess and Palsgrave and Duke And at this time also of the Marriage and who more proper to assist the Revenue failing but such able men as these who could and honestly might discover the cunning craft of the cosening Merchant And it was high time so to doe or the Customers had Ingros'd all the wealth of the Commonweal Though our Pamphlet bestowes on them the Characters of evill Birds desiling their own Nests what is our Anthor then Pamph. 87 who desil'd the Court that gave him breeding defamed the King that gave him hread And this I know That the King most prudent put this course in practice at Court somewhat differing I confess in the Line of Ascent to the Houshold preferment which rises by Order and Succession This Man Sir Arthur Ingram a stranger in Court stept in to discover the concealments of the Green Cloâ—h also and when this Tyde had its Ebb it returned again to its wonted Chanell And 't is true that the King shifted the fault upon his Favorit An ordinary fate which of ten follows them to beare the burthen of their Masters mistakes Which yet was but an Experiment proper enough for the Lord Chamberlain to put in practice He being layd aside Sir Lionell Cranfield Sir Lionell Craufield came into publick upon such like Design but in a nobler way I find him of an antient Family in Glocestershire as by their bearing of Arms in the Heralds office appears This Gentleman a Brother unto Sir Randall Cranfield who inherited his fathers possessions there and in other Counties of good value And in Kent Neighbouring Our Authors habitation He was bred a Merchant Adventurer in London and by his extraordinary qualities and the blessing of God upon his indeavours in that most commendable way of Adventure besides his great understanding in the affairs of the Customes became usefull to the State And first had the honour of Knighthood then the Custody of the Kings Wardrobes afterwards Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries and lastly succeeded Suffolke in the place of Treasurer of England and in that time created Earle of Middlesex In all which Offices of Trust
Aulicus Coquinariae OR A VINDICATION IN ANSWER TO A PAMPHLET ENTITVLED The Court and Character of KING JAMES Pretended to be penned by Sir A. W. and published since his death 1650. Auribus oculisque recepta Nemesis à tergo London Printed for Henry Seile over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1650. ERRATA PAge 5. line 20. which read with p. 7. l. 24. Chimstry r. Chimistry p. 11. l. 15. Turnpike p. 36. l. 24. sore p. 39. l. 10. Tercera's p. 45. l. 1. deserve p. 52. l. 14. Assassinations p. 54. l. 5. to p. 54. l. 7. Exception p. 67. l. 15. the. p. 82. l. 2. leave p. 97. l. 6. of p. 105. l. 24 was p. 120. l. 11. her Preface THere are some Men so delight in sinne who rather than be idle from doing evil will take much pains to scandall the Dead My fear to offend hath withheld my hand a convenient time lest I should fall into the like error with Him that published the Pamphlet Entituled The Court Character of King James and Father 's the Brat upon Sir A. VV And if common fame mistake not the meaning His Parent took rise from Q. Elizabeths Kitchin and left it a Legacy for preferment of his Issue This Man went the same way and by grace of the Court got up to the Green-cloth Jn which place attending King James into Scotland he practised there to libell that Nation which at his return home was found wrapt up in a Record of that Board and by the hand being known to be his he was deservedly removed out as unworthy to eat of his bread whose Birth-right he had so vilely defamed Yet by favour of the King with a piece of money in his Purse and a pension to boot to preserve him loyall during his life though as a bad creditor he took this course to repay him to the purpose And I have heard that in his life he discovered a part of this Peece to his fellow Courtier who earnestly diswaded him not to publish so defective and false a scandall which as it seems in Conscience he so declin'd And therefore my Exception willingly falls upon the practice of the Publisher who by his Additions may abuse us with this false Story which he discovers to the Reader in 5 Remarkable Passages and gives me the occasion to spare my censure on the deceased person but to bestow my unkindness which necessarily intervenes in this Vindication on him who yet lives to make out his bad act with a Reply if he please more Pestilent upon Me. THE CONTENTS QUeen Elizabeth pag. 1 1. Remark Gowryes Conspiracy of the name Ruthens and Family the manner of the Treason and effects afâ—erwards 5 George Sprott Confederate with Gowry his confessions arraignment execution and testimony hereof 16 E. of Essex his Character undertakings Treason and execution 36 Caecils Sir Rob. Caecil his services sicknesse and death 49 Hen. Howard E. of Northampton his character and death 64 James L. Hay E. Carlisle his character Embassies and Interest 67 2. Remark Sir Walter Raleigh his character treason tryall and reprieve observations upon him and his former voyage to Guiana sentence and execution 74 Sir Tho. Lake his character rising ruine with his Wife and Daughter 98 3. Remark Sir Tho. Overbury and Sir Rob. Carr 110 The Nullity of Essex Marriage with Suffolk's daughter with the Legall proceedings 113 Of Archbishop Abbot 130 Sir Rob. Carr E. of Somerset his Marriage with Essex's Relict 133 3. Remark Sir Tho. Overbury his imprisonment and poysoned 135 Somerset and his Wifes tryall and Sir Thomas Monson 138 4. Remark Pr. Henry his character sickness disease and death not by poyson 143 Sir Arthur Ingram his condition 158 Sir Lionel Cranfield E. of Middlesex his birth breeding and advance 160 George Villiers his discent and advance a Favorite and Duke of Buckingham occasioning severall narrations c. 164 E. of Nottingham Admirall 169 Egerton Lord Chancellor 171 Bacon Lord Chancellor 171 Buckinghams Kinred 174 Williams Lord Keeper 178 5. Remark Spanish Match the Princes journey into Spaine and return 179 Bristolls concern'd 180 Inicossa Spanish Ambassador 182 Yelverton Attorney Generall 186 King James sicknesse the playster and death not by poyson 192 Conclusion 197 The Character 200 Aulicus Coquinariae OR THE CHARECTER Of Him who SATARIZ'D KING JAMES AND HIS COURT QUeen Elizabeth died Queen Elizabeth Anno Domini 1602. having bin long sick and indeed desperate which gave this State time enough to conclude for his reception the undoubted Heir to these Crownes JAMES then King of Scotland She hath been highly valued since Her death the best of any former Soveraigne over us She was fitted for fortunes Darling but with some Imprisonment the better to mould Her for the Rule and Soveraignty of a Kingdome and for the custody of a Scepter She shewed Her Justice and Piety as a President to posterity She was a Princesse learned even then when Letters had estimation and began them into fashion which brought forth many rare and excellent Men both of the Gowne and of the Sword Some say She had many Favorites but in truth She had none They were neer and dear to Her and to Her affaires as Partners of her care not Minions of phansey And yet such as they were she ever mastered by her own Rules not they Her by their own Wills And she wanted not many of them at need or pleasure She was Magnificent comparativè with other Princes which yet she disposed frugally Having alwaies much to do with little money for truly those either Wise or Gallant Men were never cloied with her Bounty more then in her Grace which with her Mannage passed for good payment The Irish affaires was to her Maligne which drew her Treasure almost dry the only cause of distemper in the State and ended not but with her life At which time she left her Cofers empty and yet her Enemies potent Pamp. 34. And therefore it could be no Treason in them that afterwards councelled the Peace but rather in such who indeavoured then and after the re-establishing a New War Amongst Her Favourites of the Sword none could boast more of her Bounty and Grace Essex Pamp. 10. then the Earle of Essex whose ingrate disposition blown beyond the Compasse of his steere by too much Popularity and Pride cosened him into that absolute Treason against his Soveraigne that notwithstanding many forewarnings of his neerest friends and unwilling Resentments of his deerest Mistresse his open Rebellion at last brought him to publique tryall condemned and executed as the most ingrate that former times could produce Of which we shall take occasion hereafter in some particular Wherein Sir Robert Cecill acted no more then a dutiful Subject Councelour and Judge ought to have done against him and such like of her time evermore attempting by Assassination or Poyson to take away her life As were also the like attempts by others in Scotland witnesse the
of State and Cecil the Imenire facias thereof Sir Walter Ralegh was a Gentleman of good alliance Sr. Walter Ralegh in the west of England and very well descended He began his Improvements by the Vniversity and Inns of Court the latter was alwaies the place of esteem with the Queen which she said fitted youth for the future But he staid not there And as his fate would have him of the Sword first so his destinie drew him on to have a mixt reputation with the Gown For he was often called to Councell but never sworn He was twice in Expeditions of Land-service into Ireland under Generall Norris and Grey a Volunteer in either as also in the Low-Countries and a voiage at Sea ere he was known at Court And such waies as these were his Introductions the best hopes of his rising some Naturall parts he had a good wit and judgement but his best weapon was his tongue which gave him repute to be learned then but after he improved to a great value in his future troubles the best School to a wise man He had a quarrel with Grey in Ireland which being referred to a Councell of Warre it had like to cost him his life But by reference came afterwards to repetition at home before the Lords Grey had the better cause but Ralegh the advantage in pleading who so took them especially Lester that the Queen was told the tale and somewhat more of him And no sooner he came to be known to Her but She took him to grace In whom as in other of the like form their alwaies meet oposites Enemies of greater ranck and they kept him under sometimes in sometimes out which when it fell out to be so he would wisely decline himselfe out of the Court-rode And then you found him not but by fame In voyages to the West Indies Gueana New Plantations Virginia or in some Expeditions against the Spaniard Against whom his and other the like successe of Drake Candish Forlisher Hawkins with other Island-voyages neer home confirm'd Ralegh a grand Opposer of the generall peace which King James brought in with him and that brought Ralegh to his ruin And for all these his good parts he rose to no more then Governor of Jersey Lord Warden of the Stannaries in the West and Captain of the Guard to the Queens person which last place brought him to esteem in the Court but not in the State at all Yet busie he had been heretofore to speak his mind of the Generall affaires and therein he pleased his late Mistresse For then his inclination went with the humour of those times of War But now his Councell came out of season For at the entrance of the King He was presented by Ralegh with a Manuscript of his own against the peace with Spain It was alwaies his table talk to beget the more esteem which took accordingly And the way to make him the contrary was the work of the Spanish faction Either to buy him out of that humour or to abuse him into a worse condition which was thus effected And indeed to mould this Treason His Treason there was a medly of divers conditions but the contrivers were two Priests Watson and Clarke and count Arembergh Embassedor Extraordinary for the Arch-Duke who brought in the Lord Cobham and he his brother George Brooke and he Parham and these the Lord Grey of Wilton Then came in Sir Walter Ralegh the wisest of them all who dallied like the flie with the flame till it consumed him Willing he was it seemes to know it and thought by his wit to over-reach the confederates whom he knew well enough though none but Cobham for a good while dealt with him And with him Ralegh plaid fast and loose till himselfe was caught in the Gin. There was one Mathew De Lawrencie here at London a Merchant of Antwerpe with whom Cobham held Intelligence for many years before for some reasons of State connived at by the late Queen and her Councel This Man was the property whom Arenbergh made use of to Cobham who now was much discontented These 3. made the first step to the contrivement And it hath bin my jealousie that Lawrency betrayed it to this State for I never could be assured how it was discovered though I have bin often present with Sir Walter in his Imprisonment when he privately discoursed hereof But being ripe they were severally examined resirained first to their owne homes not without watchful eyes on either of them then to Imprisonment and lastly to their Tryals at Winchester whither the Terme removed out of this evermore Pestilentiall City And on the 17. November 1602. His arraignment the day of Arraignment for Ralegh and the Jury called to the Bar. Against whose Persons he did not except nor could for they were the most able sufficient in Middlesex where the fact had its scene I shall name them Sir Ralphe Conisby Sir Thomas Fowler Sir Edward Peacock Sir William Roe Knights Henry Godwin Bobert Wood Thomas Walker Thomas Whitley Thomas Highgate Robert Kempton John Chalke and Robert Bromley Esquries The Indictment was managed by the King's Atturney Sir Edward Cook Serjeant Heal and Ser. Philips and drawne from the 9. Iun. 1603. The accusation was double against the King and the State The personall had 2. parts first against his life Secondly to disable his title to this Crowne To the first was read Brookes confession That his Brother Cobham used these speeches That it would never be well till the King and his cubs were taken away and said that he thought it proceeded from Ralegh To this Ralegh answered That Brookes was his enemy It was replyed but Cobham was ever your friend and it would seeme a strange malice in Brooks to ruin his brother to undo you To the second part there was produced a Booke which I have read a defence of the Queens proceedings against Mary Queen of Scots which Cobham confessed Ralegh had delivered to him and he to Brookes and Brookes to Gray upon Cobhams discontent Ralegh acknowledged that it contained matter of scandal to the Kings title And that he had leave of Sir Robert Ceill after his Fathers death to search his study for Cosmographicall Manuscripts of the Wests-Indies and so lighted on this Book Sir Robert Cecill then present upon the Bench acknowledged this lease and said He would then as really have trusted him as any man Sir Robert Cecils words though since for some Infirmities of Sir Walter the bonds of affection were crackt and yet reserving his duty to the King which may not be dispensed withall in this his Masters service he swore by God he loved him and had a great conflict in himself that so compleat a member was fallen from this State And this passage needs no soothing to excuse Cecill either for the Father or the Son For I have heard Sir Robert Cecil when he was Salisbury say publickly at his own table That he
had intercepted and kept all the considerable Libells against the late Queen and this King But though Justifiable in them as Councelours of State yet it was a crime in Ralegh who never was any And this Book as I remember was of one Bragg or Stagg a Jesuite But Sir Walter excused it That there was nothing acted thereby to the Kings prejudice for the Book was burnt But to insist hereupon Cobham had confessed That Rale g had agreed That Cobham should treate with Aremburgh for 600. thousand Crownes to the intent to advance the title of the Lady Arabella to this Crown That Cobham under pretence of travelling should prosecute this designe in the Lowe-countries France and Spaine and to carry 3. letters from her to the Arch-Duke Duke of Savoy and to the King of Spaine and to promise toleration of Religion and her Marriage to be disposed of by them That at his returne he should meete Ralegh at Jersey the place of his command and there agree to dispose the money to discontents And Ralegh should have 7. thousand crownes from Arenberge for himselfe And further confessed that Ralegh had Instigated him to all these Treasons And that Ralegh should say that he thought the best way to trouble England was to cause division in Scotland To this onely of Scotland he answered confessed the words and that he had so thought these 20. yeares It seemes by the sequell since he was not in staken Lawrencie confessed that he and Cobham and Ralegh being together he delivered a letter to Cobhane from Arembergh and presently Ralegh went with Cobham in private to conferre thereof To all these confessions Ralegh craved that Cobham might appeare to accuse him face to face I may not omit one passage acted heretofore which comes in properly here to be considered When the confederates had suffered under some Examinations and were restrained to their several houses And Ralegh knew well that Lawreney was then suspected but not examined then did Ralegh discover in a letter to Sir Robert Cecil where Cobham was with Lawrency and that then was the time to apprehend Lawrency and so to intercept their Intelligence ere matters were ripe What Ralegh's designe was herein I must confesse my conceipt is very blunt But this use was made of it to Raleghs ruine For after that Cobham had denied much of the former stuffe upon his first Examinations this letter was shewed him under Ralegh's hand upon mature often deliberation to be assured that it was his hand Then Cobham in an Extasie calling Ralegh Villain Traitor delivered his positive Accusation of Ralegh as aforesaid and added That Ralegh after his first Examinations before the Lords had writ to Cobham that although he had bin examined of many things yet that he had cleered Cobham of all when as the Lords protested he had not at all been examined concerning Cobham And thereby this was inferred by the Councell to confirm Cobham to deny all when he should be examined Sir Walter said That Cobham had not signed his accusation and that he was at the worst but singularis Testis To which my Lord Chief Justice gave it for law that it was not necessary to signe nor to have more then One witnesse after much pleading herein and Ralegh alledging law and Scripture for not admitting a single witnesse to condemn one yet the Court was satisfyed therein by the Judges to the contrary Ralegh said Then prove it by One witnesse face to face and I will confesse my self guilty but the Judges were of opinion that it was not to be permitted by law yet Ralegh insisted hereupon with many stories which took up much time Then being asked if he would be concluded thereby if Cobham would now justify his accusation under his hand To this it may be observed that Ralegh made no answer at all but consented that the Jury should go together Then was produced Cobham's letter to the Lords writ but the day before in effect thus That Sir Walter had writ a letter to him wrapt in an apple and cast in at his window ten daies since in the Tower to intreate him for God's sake to write to him under his own hand that he had wronged him in his accusatious and odvised him to be constant in denialls rather then to appeale to the King And now writes Cobham It is no time to dissemble and therefore protested before God and his Angells that all and every part of his accusation of Sir Walter Ralegh was substvntially true And added That Ralegh had dealt with him since the King 's comming to procure him a pension from Spain for Intelligence c. Then Ralegh rayling against Cobham confessed this letter was in an Apple to which Cobham returned an answer which Ralegh produced and desired that it might be read But the Atturney opposed Sir Robert Cecil's consent thereto To whom Cecil replied Sir you are more preremptory then honest come you hither to direct us And so read it Which in effect was a confession that he had wronged Sir Walter and that he was Innocent This bore date 10. dayes before And here Ralegh confessed That Cobham had offered to him a Pension from Spain to the effect before confessed And that he had concealed it as loath to ruine Cobham Then the Jury went out and returned in halfe an houre with their Verdict Guilty So was Sentence as in Case of Treason And he was returned to the Tower of London and there lay upon Reprieve 2. yeares and 3. years after was executed in October 1618. Observations upon this Tryall And because this Second Remarke in the Pamphleter and this Prefacer stickes in their stomacks with which they indeavour to choke the Readers I have theresore bin the more prolix Pam p. 35. that thereby the whole world may judge with the Jury of his guilt or Innocency Vide page 35. Ralegh's rise of preferment was occasioned upon a contest with the Lord Grey in the Queenes time which they were to plead face to face Where indeed but not in truth Sir Walter had the better by the tongue telling his tale to advantage which tooke the Queen who tooke him from that instant into favour as before remembred Belike he expected the same providence at this time when so oft he desired to plead face to face Pamp. 35. with Cobham How could Wade the Lieutenant of the Tower as is surmized tamper with Cobham to write his name to a blanck to which Wade framed the accusation against Ralegh When it appeares Cobham never signed at all to his Examinations which therefore was so much insisted upon at his tryall for his advantage But in truth besides the confession of Cobham the fatal evidence was Cobham's own voluntary last letter of accusation or confession over night writ every whit with his own hand The King commanded as the COURT was assured at the triall that upon any examination there should none be rackt which made Captaine Kemish who
of a decrepid old Man to a proper young Lord and strengthned with the abilities of an experienced Assistant Pamph. 124. without deserving the least quarrelling Item of our Carping Pamphleter The next in our way Chancellor Egerton is that of the Lord Egerton He was Chancellor of England a man very aged and now with sicknesse fallen on his aeath-bed Pamph. 125. The Term come and the Scal to be disposed In order thereunto the King sent Secretary Winwood not Bacon for the Seal with this Message That himself would be his under keeper and not to dispose it whilst he lived to bear the name of Chancellor Nor did any receive the Seale out of the Kings sight till Egerton was dead which followed soon after Sir Francis Bacon succeeded him in the Chancery Chancellor Bacon He was Attorney Generall and as others by that Place and the usuall way of preferment time without memory come to high Office of Iudicature either in Chancery or to the other Benches so did he rise He was a man of Excellent parts of all other learning as of that of the Law and as proper for that place as any man of the Gown His merits made him so then which in after time his vices blemished and he justly removed to his private Studies which render him to the world full of worth and with the small Charity of our Author might merit the Bayes before any Man of that age And so we shall spare our labor to observe his entrance into that Honor by the idle Message from Buckingham Pamph. 127. made up only by our Authors mouth Who tells us of his growings heighth and pride Particularly intimated afterwards to the King in Scotland Pamph. 131. by Letters from Winwood which the King read unto our Author At which he sayes they were very merry Good God! The King opens his bosome to him at that instant not usuall to any of the Green-cloth when this Man so vilely studied and plotted his Soveraigns and that Kingdoms dishonor Vide Preface for which he was turned out of the Court. Was the King so gracious to him he so graceless then and since in the Pamphlet to defame him and his Posterity He that eats of his bread lifts up his hand to destroy him And afterwards we are told his downfall which he says at last humbled him to a Horse boy He did as became him to do to the House of Peers prostrate himself and sins which ingeniously he acknowledged craving pardon of God and Them promising with Gods mercy to amend his life which he made good to the worlds Eye Those excellent works contrived in his Retirements d ee manifest And let me give this light to His better Character from an observation of the late King then Prince returning from hunting He espied a Coach attended with a goodly Troop of Horsemen who it seems were gathered together to wait upon the Chancellour to his House at Gorembury at the time of his declension At which the Prince smiled Well! do we what we can said He This Man scornes to go out like a Snuffe Commending his undaunted Spirit and excellent parts not without some regrett that such a Man should be falling off And all this much differing from Our Authors Character of Him Those times are complained of Pamph. 129. What base courses our Favourite took to raise moneys for advance of his beggerly Kindred Heretofore we are told that the Great Men mastered all now the affairs are Managed with beggerly fellows concludes against himselfe that Riches make Men Cowards and Poverty Valiant T is true Plenty makes Men Proude and Industry brings a Man to Honour Had our Author lived to these our dayes and observed as much now as he pried into then He must have spoke other Language unlesse as likely He could hold with the Hare and run with the Hounds We all know the Duke of Buckingham had many Kindred for his Family were Antient. And dispersed by time into severall Matches with the Gentry who no doubt did addresse to the Favourite for preferment And what strange or new device was it in Him to raise them that were neere in Blood by Noble and worthy wayes as he did and if our Author had liked to lick after the Kitchen-maid had it been handsome for a Kinsman to have kickt at his kindnesse Pamph. 129 130. Good God what a Summary Bead-roll of Pensioners are listed in our Authors Account Sure He became Register to the Revenue of that Rabble Chancellour Attorney Deans Bishops Treasurers Rich and Poore raking upon the rates of Offices Bishopricks Deaneries with Fines and Pensions Otherwise he sayes It had been impossible that three Kingdomes could have Maintained His Beggerly Kindred Oh Pamph. 7. but He must tell us He made them all Lords w ch got him much haued He did so and he did well He made his two Brothers Peers his Mother and Sister Countesses the rest of his kindred by his Countenance got means to live like their Birth-rights being a Race Handsome and Beautifull And yet let me tell him I have been often present when it hath been urged as a Crime to this great Man the neglect of his owne when the discourse hath been prest for preferment of his Freinds And this I know for I acted therein The Late King in honour of Buckinghams Memory supplied the necessities of his Kindred which his untimely death left without support As for the base Observations through and through the Pamphlet though I liv'd in the shadow of the Court reasonable years to see many turns of State Yet I confesse my time other wayes diverted than to rake after so much Ribaldry and beastly bawdery as now to question this his peeping pimping into each Petticoat Placket and for his sufficienency therein he might have been made Master of the Game In Bacons place Pamph. 139. Doctor Williams Lord Keeper comes to preferment Doctor Williams by the title of Keeper of the Seal during pleasure which the Chancellor hath for life He was also Dean of Westminster and Eishop of Lincolne brought in sayes he to serve turns to do that which no Layman was sound bad enough to undertake Former Ages held it more consonant to Reason to trust the Conscience of the Clergy with the Case of the Layman they best knowing a Case of Conscience And antiently the Civill Law was allwayes judged by the Ministers of the Church and the Chancery and Courts of Equity in charge of a Divine Minister So ran that Channell till Bacons Father had it from a Bishop and now a Bishop has it again And had King Iames lived to have effected his desires the Clergy had fixed firm footing in Courts of Iudicature out of the rode of the Common Law And this was the true Cause of Williams Initiation thither How he fell from that and other his wayes since from worse to worst of all we leave him if he be
told he should tell the Duke Forsooth That which the King spake in Parliament not to spare any that was dearest or lay in his bosome by which he pointed to you meaning the Duke And must Buckingham adventure his and the Lieutenants head to learn this News which no doubt the Duke heard before being then at the KING's Elbow Pamph. 161 After this impertinent digression or great secret he discovers which none ever dream'd of a wonderfull failing of the Spaniards both wisdom and gravity And why gravity forsooth That which had bin against all Humanity Comerce and Custome of Nations the Spaniard mist of the advantage to imprison the Prince a sure pledge no doubt for the Spaniard to have gotten the Heir-dome of England And this he tells us for truth out of their own confessions But they were caught with a trick having the Princes faith and his Proxy to boot remaining with Digby which might cosen them into this kindnes to let him come home again Where at a Conference of both houses of Parlament Bristoll is blam'd and it being truth the Prince owns it and Bristoll is sent for by authority otherwise it had bin petty Treason in him to return home from his Commission Pamph. 163 The King of Spain he sayes disswades Bristolls return as doubting the successe as well he might knowing him to be his Pensioner who for his sake is like to suffer But he being come and convented before the Parliament endeavors to cleer himself with a single Copy of a Paper and a bawdy tale to boot against Buckingham but forbore to tell it out for offending their chast Ears In this Pamph. 165 the Author is so ingenious as to be judged by the Reader what a horrible wound Bristoll gave the Prince or Buckinham and yet by his Confelsion the wisdome of the House committed Bristoll to the Tower but some dayes after not the next day he was set at liberty nor durst any bring him to further tryall He was committed for his contempt and might have lain there longer Prisoner But the Duke made means for his Release lest it should move a jealousie that it was his designe thereby to delay the Tryall Which to my knowledg was earnestly pursued by the Duke and had that Parliament lasted might have been a dear bargain for Bristoll In this Parliament Pamph. 168 our Author observes the Princes early hours to act by where he says he discerned so much juggling to serve his own ends that being afterwards come to be King he could not affect them A notable Note he calls that Parliament Iugglers and gives it a reason why the late King must needs disaffect all other Parliaments that succeeded Then have we a discovery of our Authors owne making Pamph. 169 which is intended he says as a caution to all States men with a singular Commendation of the wisdome of the late Earl of Salisbury whom before throughout his Pamphlet he loads with singular disgraces He tels us of a Treaty heretofore with Spain for a Match with Prince Henry where the jugling was discovered that there was no such intention And that the Duke of Lerma the Favorite of Spain leavs the Spanish Ambassador here in the lurch to answer for all who in a great snuff against those that sent him hither prostrates his Commission and letters of Credit under the King his Masters hand and seale at the foot of our Councell Table and so returnes home and yet was not hanged for his labour but liv'd and died bonus Legatus And thus our author having hunted the King hitherto blowes his death at parting Pam. 171. King James's Sickness which he sayes began with a Fever but ended by a poysoned Plaister applyed by Buckingham For which being questiond the very next Parliament it was hastily dissolved for his sake only to save his life In the entrance of the Spring the King was seized with a Tertian Ague which to another Constitution might not prove Pestilentiall But all Men then knew his Impatience in any pain and alwayes utter Enmity to any Physick So that nothing was administred to give him ease in his sits Which at length grew violent and in those Maladies every one is apt to offer advice with such Prescriptions as have been helpfull unto others and in truth those as various as the disease is Common So it was remembred by a Noble vertuous The Playster and untaint Lady for Honour and Honesty yet living of a present ease by a Plaister approved upon severall Persons which because the Ingredients were harmless and ordinary it was forthwith compounded andready for application not without serious resolution to present it to the Physicians consent But the King fallen into slumber about Noone the Physicians took opportunity to retire having watch'd all Night till that Time When in the interim of their absence the King wakes and falls from a change of his Fit to timelier effect than heretofore it usually happened which to allay this Playster was offered and put to his Stomach But it wrought no mitigation and therefore it was removed by the Doctors Who being come were much offended that any One durst assume this boldness without their consents But by Examination they were assured of the Composition and a peece therof eaten downe by the Countesse that made it and the Playster it selfe then in being for further tryall of any suspition of poyson Which if not satisfactory it must and ought to lodge upon their score Sir Mathew Lister Doctor Chambers and others who were afterwards examined herein with very great satisfaction to clear that calumny and are yet living to evince each ones suspition It was indeed remembred the next Parliament following and whereof the Duke was accused as a Boldness unpardonable But in the Charge which as I remember Littleton Managed at a Conference in the Painted Chamber it was not urg'd as poysonous but only criminous But ere the King dyed Pamph. 174. it is told us That Buckingham was accused to his face by an honest servant of the Kings name him if you can who valiantly tript up the Dukes heels that his pate rung Noone for which he call'd upon the gasping King no body being by for Justice And though speechlesse we are told what he would have said viz. Not wrongfully accused And here observe Pamph. 175. he makes Archbishop Abott the Kings Confessor at his death who before he sayes pag. 78. lived in disgrace and excluded the Counsell Table And dyed in disgrace of this King on Earth 175. but in favour of the King of Kings Bishop Williams then Lord Keeper was the other Confessor and in the mouths of two Witnesses consists the Truth What regrett and jealousie remaines then in our Authors heart that some Mischief should lye hid in the secrets of the Sacrament of Confession which he could not learn to out-live the Honour and Fame of his Sacred Soveraign How hath our Author patch'd up a Pamphlet of State Notions