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Show ~--A Letter'. tot~ ~ing,~i~io.g bim an A ccount,&c. 'I of them ro dchvcr tnetr 0 p11110n, a parr, and m prIVate; whether it ,;ere a croodAnfwer, to deny ir, other wife, than if it were propo:mded, a~the --r:ablc. T~ thi~ ~c [aid, T~1ar the Cafes ~ere not al1ke becau[e tlus concern d Ltfe. To wluch I replyed, fhat Qt!d1io;s of Eft ate, n1~:mght concern T~lou[ands of ~ivcs; and many Things more pr~e1ous, than the Ltfe, of a paruculat; As Wa1r, and.Peace, and thchke. To conclude, his Lordfbip, tan quam Exitum qu£rtns, dcfired ~e, for the time, to leave with him, the Papers, without preffing h1m, to confcnt to deliver a private Opinion,till he had perufed them. I [aid, I w~uld ; And the n1ore willing! y , becaufe I thought his Lordfhip, upon due confideration, of tl1c Papers, would fin de t~1e Cafe tO be fo clear a Cafe, of Treafon, as he would make no dtfficulty, to deliver his Opinion,in private;And fo I '-:'as p~rfwaded, of the rd\:, of the Judges, of theJ(mgs .Bench; who hkewi[e, (as I partly underfl:ood,) I11ade n~ Scruple? to deliver their Opinion, ~n private. Whereunto he [a1d, (whiCh I not~d well, ) tfhat h1s Brethren were wife Men; And that, t~ey tnigl~t make a £hew, as if they would give an 0 pinion, ~s was reqmred; But the end would be,that it would come to this; They would fay;they doul;>tecl of it and io pray advice, with the refi:. But to this I an[ wered, th~t I was forry, to hear him fay [o much, lefi:, if it came fo co pafs, fome that loved him not; might make a ConftrucHon , that that which he had foretold, he had wrought. l;'hus ~ your Maiefiy fee's, that as Solomon faith;. Grej]z.u no/entts tar+quam in Sepi fpinarum; It catcheth upon every Thmg. , . . The latter Meeting, is yet, of more_ Importance; Fo~ then? commincr armed, with divers preftdents, I thought, to fet m, Wlth the befi: ?trength, I could, and [aid~ That. before I defcen~cd, to the Record· I would break the Cfl(e, to hun thus. That 1t was true, we we:e to proceed, upon the anticnt Statute of Kint. Edwar~ tbe 3· becaufe othe:r Temporary Statutes were gone; And th~re.forc, lt muft 'be iaid in the Jnditlment; Imaginatus eft, et Compaffavtt; Mortem, et finalem De~ru£lionem, Dominf ~egu : Then rpu{\: t.he parucular Treafons follow in this manner; v1z. Et quod, ad pertmplendum_ ntfandum Propo{itum [uum, compofu~t, & c?nfcripjit, que_ndam ~etejtabiltm~ et 'L·e. nmofum libe!lum, jive fcrtptum, tn guo tnter cdta prodttorta, contmetur , &c. And then the principal pafiaaes of Treaf~n, taken forth of t~e Paper~, are.ro be entr~d, inptec Ver~; And ~Tlth a c.onclu~<:m, 111 the E nd; Ad Inten.ttonem, quod Ltgem PopulU-1, et Vert Subdttt,. Domini Regi~, cordia'em [uum amorem, a Domino Rege retr~herent, et tp[um Dominum Regemrelinquermt, & Guerram, et InfurreEftonem, 'ontra eum, le·varel.J.t, et faarent, &c. I have, in this former, followed the amient Stile, of the JndiBments, for brevity fake, though when we come to. the Bufinefs it [elf, we {hall enlarge it, accordi~g tO the ufc of the later times. This I,repre[ented co him, <.bemg a thing he is w~ll acquainted with,) that he might perce1ve, the Plat--: A Letter, to the King, gi11lng him an Account, &c. ~-la~~orm of ctun was intend~d, wicnout any Mifiaking, or Obkuuty. But eben I fell tO ~M:~ matter it fdf tO lock h · m · .. Inuch as I could, viz. ' ~ . l 111 ' aw .Th~t there be 4· Mea~s or f!lannets, whereby the Deatb of the Xmg, 1s compaffed., and 1magmed. . T~·e firfi, by fmn~ particular Fact, or Plot. · : '!'11e fecon~, by. Difablmg his Title; As by affirming, that . he 1s not lawjull_Kml{; Or thar another ought tO be '-'Kina. ' Or that hce 1s an Pjurpel · Or . a Baftard. 0 ~~' hke. ' ' r t !C The third~ by ~uhjeaihg his Title, to · the Pope; and t~1~rcby Makwg h1m, of an Alfolute King, a Condition11L Ktn[l.. The fourth,. by D,fabling l:is ~egimmt~. and tnaking him . ~ppea~, to be mcapabk, or .. m~:h_gn, tO retgn. . · · Theft.: t11mgs, I relate to your ll1a1~~y, 111 fumm, as is fit; which when, I. opened to my Lord; I did mGH: a little tnore upon with more eftit acy and edge, and Authority of Law, and RecoHl >than I can now exprefs. ' 1 Then~ placed Peachams Treafon, within the Ia!l Divifion,a'gree- , a ole to d1vers prefidems, whcrco~ I ha;] the Ruords ready. And . concluded, that your Maje~ies Safety, and Life, and Aud~ority : w~s thus by. ~aw infc~nfed? and quartered; And that it was it~ I vam,·to fortify, on Thr~e of the fides, and fo leave you open on the i . Fourcb. 1 lt is true)he heard tne,in a grave fa(hion)tnore than accufiomed . and took a Pen, and took notes of my Divifions; And when h~ re~1~he Preftdents, and Records, woul~ fay; This you mean falleth Wlthtn·your ~rfi, ?r.your fecond, D1v1fion. In the end, I exprdly : ~emandcd lus Op.b~t~n, as thtlt, whereto both he, and I was cnJoyn~ d. But ~e dehrdi me; to leave the Prejittei:tr, with him, that he mtght adVlfe upon them. I told him therefi of my Fe"o ld d. r. l h . ' . "' ws, wo~t . hpatc 1 t eu part,. and I iliould be behinde witt1 mine. w.hich I ptrfwaded my Self, your .Hajefty would impute, rather t~ lus Backwardnefs, than my N cgligen£e. He [aid, as {oon as 1 lhould ~ndcr!fand~ t~at thcrcft ~vcre ready, he would not be long: after, With h1s Op1111on. .. For I. S. your Majefty knoweth,_the day dtaweth on ; And my 1 • Lo,d CbanceUers Re~overy, th~ Sc~f.on; and his.Age,promifing, not £o be t?o ~aay. I f pake wuh hun, on Sunday, at what time, I ound hun m Bed, but his Spirits !lrqng, and not ipent, or wearied; AnJ fpakc wholly of your Bufinefs, leadincr me from 011e M~ner, tO another. And wiilied, and fcemed tO hope; that hee 11~1ght attend the day, for I. s. and it were, (as he fc1id,) to be lus lafi work, to c?nclude his Services, and exprefs his AffeCtion, row.ard.s your Ma1e/iy. I pre[timed to fay to him,r,hat I knew your A-ftz;efty, would be cxceedmg deftrous,ofhis being prefcnt that day, fo ---~~-------------------------~--------------------~-: |
