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II. THE LADY ARABELLA STUART TO SIR HENRY BROUNCKER.

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[Extracts.]

1602-03. From Hardwick Hall. Acknowledgments of past Kindness.-Protest

against the Commission of Inquiry now entrusted to him. -Complaints of

the Queen's Ill-usage of her, through the adverse Influence of Sir R. Cecil

and Sir J. Stanhope.-Allusions to her Love Affairs and their Impediments 428

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. cxxv. ff. 130–142 (Hatfield).

III. THE LADY ARABELLA STUART TO THE DOWAGER

COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY,

1603. March 25. From Hardwick Hall. His Uncertainty as to the Council's

Resolves about the Succession to the Crown; and as to the Continuance of

the Imprisonment of the Lady Arabella.

.

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. xcii. § 73 (Hatfield).

435

VI.-PLOTS AND COUNTERPLOTS OF 1602-1603.

I.-LORD HENRY HOWARD (AFTERWARDS EARL OF NORTHAMPTON)

TO SECRETARY SIR ROBERT CECIL.

[Extracts.]

[1602. Probably between March and June.] Suggestions as to the Means of

injuring Ralegh and Cobham in the Queen's Opinion. - Impediments to

the Queen's Service arising out of their Unpopularity. -Advice that

Cobham should be employed in some Negotiations with Spain

From the original Minutes or rough Draft. MS. Cotton, Titus, C vi ff. 386–392.

(British Museum).

436

1602.

II. THE COUNT OF ARENBERGH TO HENRY BROOKE,

Nov. 22.

LORD COBHAM, K.G.

From Brussels. Desire for a renewed Conference. - Im-

portance of a Peace.-His Wish to receive a promised Portrait

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. xcvi. § 53 (Hatfield).

445

III.—HENRY BROOKE, LORD COBHAM, K.G. TO SECRETARY

LORD CECIL OF ESSINGDON.

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IV.-HENRY BROOKE, LORD COBHAM, TO SECRETARY

LORD CECIL OF ESSINGDON.

1603. May 24. Thanks for the Promotion of his Suit for Leave to go abroad.

-His Letters Patent for the Exportation of Woollen Cloth

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. c. § 36 (Hatfield).

V. GEORGE BROOKE TO SECRETARY LORD CECIL.

[Extract.]

447

1603. July 22. Complaints of his Misery.-Entreaties for the Continuance of

Cecil's Favour to him

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. ci. § 85 (Hatfield).

VI.-HENRY BROOKE, LORD COBHAM, TO SECRETARY

LORD CECIL OF ESSINGDON.

1603. July 23. Cobham's Intercourse with, and Project concerning, Lady

Arabella Stuart.-Lapse of Time since the Project was conceived and

abandoned

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. ci. § 87 (Hatfield).

VII. SIR WILLIAM WAAD TO SECRETARY LORD CECIL

OF ESSINGDON.

1603. Aug. 12. Examination of one Penycuik, a Scottish Messenger em-

ployed between Lord Cobham and the Count of Arenbergh

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. ci. § 111 (Hatfield).

VIII. THE DECLARATION AND CONFESSION OF THOMAS

MARKHAM.

1603. Aug. 14. Details of the Plot of his Brother, Sir Griffin Markham, and

others, for surprising the Court and the Tower of London.

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. ci. § 114 (Hatfield).

IX.-"CERTEN QUEERIES MINISTRED UNTO WILLIAM

1603. July or Aug. ?

WATSON."

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. ci. (Hatfield).

448

449

450

452

X.-AN ABSTRACT BY SIR WILLIAM WAAD, FOR THE USE OF

SECRETARY LORD CECIL, OF “A LARGE DECLARA-

454

TION OF WILLIAM WATSON."

1603. Aug. 18.

From the Original. Cecil Papers (Hatfield).

455

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XI. - SECRETARY LORD CECIL TO THE COUNT OF

ARENBERGH.

1603. Aug. 18. [Illustrative of the Relations subsisting between the King's

Government and the Archduke's Ambassador after the Examinations of

Cobham and Ralegh].

From the Original Draft; corrected in Lord Cecil's hand. Cecil Papers, vol. ci. ff. 121,

122 (Hatfield).

XII. SECRETARY LORD CECIL TO SIR GEORGE HARVEY,

LIEUTENANT OF THE TOWER.

1603. Aug. 20. Letters of Supplication from the Prisoners in the Tower.-

Message to Lord Grey

From the original Minute. Cecil Papers, vol. ci. § 125 (Hatfield).

XIII. SIR EDWARD COKE'S ABSTRACT OF THE TREASONS.

1603. Aug.?..

From the Original. Domestic Correspondence: James I. (Rolls House).

XIV. SECRETARY LORD CECIL AND OTHER LORDS OF

THE COUNCIL TO SIR BENJAMIN TICHBORNE, HIGH

SHERIFF OF HAMPSHIRE.

1603. Dec. 4. The King's Reception of Sir Walter Ralegh's Letter.-Direc-

tions for the Burial of George Brooke

From the original Minute. Cecil Papers, vol. cii. § 48 (Hatfield).

XV. ANTHONY WATSON, BISHOP OF CHICHESTER, TO

THE EARLS OF SUFFOLK AND DEVONSHIRE, AND THE

OTHER LORDS COMMISSIONERS.

1603. Dec. 4 From Winchester. George Brooke's Retractation, on re-

ceiving the Holy Communion, of his Charge against Cobham for saying,

'We will kill the fox and his cubs'.

459

460

462

465

467

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. cii. § 49 (Hatfield).

XVI. THE SAME TO THE SAME.

1603. Dec. From Winchester. Statements and Retractations made by George

Brooke, on his Way to the Scaffold

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. cii. § 55 (Hatfield)

PREFATORY NOTE TO LETTER XVII. EXTENT OF LORD

GREY'S PARTICIPATION IN THE PLOT TO SURPRISE THE

KING'S PERSON.-NOTICE OF GREY'S LIFE, CHARACTER,

AND POLITICAL AIMS

ib.

469

XVII. THOMAS, LORD GREY OF WILTON, TO SECRETARY

LORD CECIL OF ESSINGDON.

1603. Dec. From Winchester. Offers to relate, fully and circumstantially,

his entire Knowledge of the Conspiracy, from the Date of his first Compli

city with Brooke, to that of his Quarrel with Sir Griffin Markham

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. cii. § 40 (Hatfield).

482

XVIII-SIR GEORGE HARVEY, LIEUTENANT OF THE Tower,

TO SECRETARY LORD CECIL OF ESSINGDON.

1603. Dec. 17. From the Tower. Enclosure of a suppressed Confession by

Lord Cobham of Remorse for the Falsehood of his Accusation of Ralegh,

prior to the Message sent by Ralegh through the younger Harvey

From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. cii. § 77(Hatfield).

XIX.-ENCLOSURE IN THE PRECEDING LETTER.

1603. Oct. 24. Expression of Remorse for his Charge against Sir Walter

Ralegh

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483

485

XX.

SECRETARY LORD CECIL TO SIR GEORGE HARVEY.

1603. Dec. 20. On the Return of a Trunk containing Papers belonging to

Sir Walter Ralegh.-Letter of Thanks from Ralegh to the King

486

VII-RALEGH'S EXECUTION.

L-QUEEN ANNE OF DENMARK, CONSORT OF KING JAMES I.,

TO GEORGE VILLIERS, MARQUESS OF BUCKINGHAM.

1618. Oct.? Entreaty for his Influence with the King to prevent the Execu-

tion of Ralegh.

1618.

From a Transcript made by Archbishop Sancroft, from the original Letter, then in his

possession. MS. Tanner, vol. ccxcix. fol. 87 (Bodleian Library, Oxford).

II.-CAREW RALEGH TO KING JAMES THE FIRST.

Oct.? Entreaty for his Father's Pardon

From an early Transcript in MS. Ashmole, dcclxxxi. fol. 101 (Bodleian Library,

Oxford).

III.-DR. ROBERT TOUNSON, DEAN OF WESTMINSTER, TO

SIR JOHN ISHAM, BART.

1618. Nov. 9. Narrative of the Manner and Circumstances of Ralegh's

Death.

487

488

489

From the Original, as communicated to Thomas Hearne, in 1731, by its then possessor,

Sir Justinian Isham, Bart.; and by Hearne printed in the Appendix to his Preface

to Walteri Hemingforde Historia (vol. i. p. clxxxi.).

IV.-RALEGH'S FIRST TESTAMENTARY NOTE

493

From the Transcript made by Sir Thomas Wilson. Domestic Correspondence: James I.,

vol. ciii. § 37 (Rolls House).

V.-RALEGH'S SECOND TESTAMENTARY NOTE

From a contemporary Transcript. MS. Cotton, Titus C vi. § 93 (British Museum).

VL-AN INVENTORY OF SUCH THINGS AS WEARE FOUND

ON THE BODY OF SIR WALTER RAWLEY, KNIGHT, THE

10TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1618

From the Original. Domestic Correspondence: James I., vol. xcviii. § 79 (Rolls House).

494

496

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1618.

POSTSCRIPT TO LETTER CLVIII.

Oct. 4. Adventurers' Shares in the Ship Destiny, employed in the last

Guiana Expedition.—The lost Treatise on the Art of War by Sea.

From a Transcript in the hand of Sir Thomas Wilson. Domestic Correspondence:

James I., vol. ciii. No. 21, A.

NOTE ON THE ABOVE POSTSCRIPT, BY SIR T. WILSON

498

499

INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME II.

501

FAC-SIMILE OF a Letter addrESSED BY SIR W. RALEGH TO THE EARL
OF LEICESTER, IN OCTOBER 1587.
To face Title-page.

FAC-SIMILE OF a Letter addressed by Thomas, Lord Grey OF WILTON,
TO MR. PARKER, ONE OF HIS CONFIDENTIAL SERVANTS, FROM THE
TOWER, IN 1611
To face page 479

CORRIGENDA TO VOL. II.

Page 271, line 2, omit the word 'Nottingham.'

329, line 10, for '1610,' read‘1611.'

344, line 5, and 346, line 21, for 'Bisseaux,' read 'Buisseaux.'

380, at top ('LETTER CLX.'). The lost lines in this mutilated letter

(partially burned at Ashburnham House) may be thus supplied

from an early copy:-"For this proves superioritie and not

inferioritie, which noe absolute monarch ever yeilded unto, or

ever will. Thirdly, it shewes that the English beare greater

respect to the Spaniards, and are more doubtfull of their forces,

then either the French or Dutch, who daylie invade all parts of

the Indies, without being questioned at their retourne. Yea, att

my now being at Plymouth," &c.