Attorney-General. Now, my Lords, you shall hear of the stirs which were to be raised in Scotland.

Then was read part of Watson's Examination, 23rd of August, 1603:

'Being asked what he hath heard of the motions for the first beginning of the stirs in Scotland, he answereth that it was intended, as he could judge by the speeches of Mr. Brooke, that the Spaniards should make their I entry by Scotland, and there lay the first beginning.'

Then was read an Examination of Sir W. Raleigh, in which he saith, that he is of opinion that, if any troubles should be, the likeliest place to begin would be in • Scotland.'

Sir W. Raleigh. I think so still; I have often spoken it to divers Lords of the Privy Council in the way of discourse and opinion.

Attorney-General. Now let us come to the words of destroying the King and his Cubs."

Then was read a part of Watson's Examination, taken 23rd of August, 1603, as follows:

'Being examined what was the mystery of this bye⚫ word, the bye and the main, he answereth, that amongst other speeches, Mr. George Brooke told him how the 'Lord Cobham said that Mr. Brooke and the Priests were • on the bye, but he and Sir W. Raleigh were upon the 'main, which was to destroy the King and all his Cubs.' Also a part of Watson's Declaration, 10th of August,

1603:

What the Jesuits traitorously intended, was the 'death of the Sovereign and all his Royal Issue, as then it bolted out (no doubt as God would have it) by a discourse of one nobleman unto another, to this effect, saying, "There is no way of redress save only one, and that is to take away the King and his Cubs, (for these 'were his words as they were to me delivered,) not leav'ing one alive."'

Sir Walter Raleigh. O barbarous! Do you bring the words of these hellish spiders against me? If they, like unnatural villains, used those words, shall I be charged with them?

Attorney-General. Thou art thyself a spider of Hell, for thou dost confess the King to be a most sweet and

gracious Prince, and yet thou hast conspired against him.

Then was read part of Copley's Confession, 18th of July, 1603

"He saith, that Brooke told him the stirs in Scotland came out of Sir Walter Raleigh's head.'

Part of another Examination of Brooke was then read as follows:

Being asked what was meant by this jargon, the bye 'and the main? he said, that the Lord Cobham told him that Grey and others were but upon the bye, but he and Raleigh were upon the main; being asked what exposition his brother made of these words? he saith, he is loath to repeat it, and after, saith, by the main was meant the taking away of the King and his issue, ' and thinks, on his conscience, it was infused into his 'brother's head by Raleigh.'

Then the Lord Cobham's Examination of the 13th of August was read, as follows:

Being asked if ever he had said, “It will never be 'well in England till the King and his Cubs are taken away?" he said, "he had answered before and would answer no more on that point."

Sir Walter Raleigh. Brooke never loved me; and yet until his brother accused me, he said nothing: he hath been taught his lesson.

Lord H. Howard. This Examination was taken before me. Did I teach him his lesson ?

Sir Walter Raleigh. I protest before God, I meant it not of your Lordship nor any Privy Councillor; but when money is scant, men will juggle on both sides.

Attorney-General. Now, Raleigh, answer to all this. Sir Walter Raleigh. In all this I find not myself touched, scarce named; and the course of proof is strange; if witnesses are to speak by relation of one another, by this means you may have any man's life in a week; and I may be massacred by mere hearsay, as Sir Nicholas Throckmorton was like to have been in Queen Mary's time. You say, that Brooke told Watson what Cobham told Brooke, that I had said to him ;-what proof is this? To show that my Lord Cobham accuseth me truly, you youch Watson and Brooke, men with

whom I never had to do in my life, and who after all only relate what Cobham told them.

The Judges here advised the jury to observe, that all this evidence was intended principally to fortify the accusation of my Lord Cobham, by proof of speeches uttered by him, respecting Sir W. Raleigh before his apprehension, and before he had conceived any spleen against Raleigh.

Sir Walter Raleigh. Notwithstanding, I still stand upon it, it is only Cobham's accusation, never subscribed, never avowed, never sworn by him; all your suspicions and inferences are but to fortify my Lord Cobham's accusation.

Then was read another part of the Lord Cobham's Examination, as follows:

He saith, he had a book written against the King's title to this Crown which he had of Raleigh, and that he delivered it to his brother Brooke, but Sir W. Raleigh told him it was foolishly written; he saith, that he had it from Raleigh soon after he came from the "King. Brooke in one of his Examinations saith, that he had the book of the Lord Cobham, but never read more of it than the heads of some chapters which con⚫tained matter against the King's title.'

Attorney-General. This was done in the time of the Lord Cobham's discontentment, for it was observed, that after the Lord Cobham came back from the King out of Scotland, he never came towards the King again, nor never went to see the Queen or the Prince.

Sir Walter Raleigh. Here is much ado about this book; I will tell your Lordships how I came to it, and what little account I made of it. I had it out of a Privy Councillor's library long since, written above twenty-six years past by a lawyer, and dedicated to a stranger.

Sir W. Raleigh being pressed from what Privy Councillor he had it, confessed, My Lord Treasurer Burleigh. Lord Cecil. You may remember that, after the death of my father, you desired the having of some cosmographical maps and books of that kind concerning discoveries of the Indian and West parts, which you thought were in my father's study, and were not to be had in print; I allowed you a search, but if under colour of this

you extended the liberty I gave you to other things I meant not, you abused my trust. It was not hard to find a book of that kind there; for no book that touched the State, nay, scarce a libel that in the Queen's time had been spread against the State, but might have been found amongst those papers, he being a Councillor of State; and so perhaps may be yet found with me, and also divers against our present Sovereign Lord since his coming to the Crown. Therefore let it not seem strange to any that such a book was found there. But you did me wrong, Sir Walter Raleigh, to take it thence.

Sir Walter Raleigh. My Lord, I had no purpose to take that book, but amongst other books and maps it seems it was cast in; and upon sorting of the papers afterwards, it came to my hand. It was a manuscript, and written upon by my Lord-Treasurer Burleigh, "This book I had of Robert Savage." The scope of the book is to justify the late Queen's proceedings against the Queen of Scots. But I marvel it should be now urged as a matter so treasonable in me to have such books, when it is well known that there comes out nothing in these times but I have it, and might as freely have it as another; and, as my Lord Cecil hath said of his library, I think a man might find in my house all the libels that have been made against the late Queen.

Attorney-General. You were no Councillor of State, Sir Walter, nor I hope never shall be.

Lord Cecil. Sir Walter Raleigh was truly no sworn Councillor of State, yet he hath been often called to consultations.

Sir Walter Raleigh. How my Lord Cobham came by this book I know not; but I remember it lay upon my board at a time when he was with me. And at that time I received a challenge from Sir Amias Preston, which I did intend to answer; and resolving to leave my estate settled, I was laying out all my loose papers, and amongst them was this book, which I think my Lord took up; but at that time I knew of no discontentment he was troubled with. And admitting that I delivered this book to my Lord Cobham, not advancing nor approving of it, but discommending the same, as it is proved that I did,

what treason is there in this? If I should go to my Lord Cecil, (as I have often done,) and should find a searcher with him with a packet of libels, and my Lord should let me have one or two to peruse, this, I hope, would be no treason in my Lord Cecil.

Lord H. Howard. I remember well that I being sent to take the Lord Cobham's Confession, I pressed him about this book; he suddenly brake out into a great passion, and said, “A man is unhappy that must accuse his friends; I had the book of Sir Walter Raleigh, but he made no account of it, though he said it was against the King's title." Now, Sir W. Raleigh, you being. questioned what it concerned, said it concerned only the justifying of the late Queen's criminal proceedings against the late Queen of Scots, and nothing against the King's title; and you never gave it my Lord Cobham, but as it lay upon your table, my Lord Cobham might take it. Hereupon my Lord Cobham being afterwards examined, retracted what before he had said, and now said that it contained nothing against the King's title, and that he had it not from Sir W. Raleigh, but took it off from his table when he was sleeping.

Attorney-General. This shows that there was intelligence between Raleigh and Lord Cobham in the Tower; for after Cobham had said the book was against the King's title, he denied it again, and also retracted what he had said, that Raleigh had delivered it to him.

Sir W. Wade. In the first place, my Lord Cobham confessed it, and after he had subscribed his Examination, he revoked it again; to me he always said that the drift of the book was against the King's title.

Attorney-General. The force of this evidence stands upon the time when it was delivered to my Lord Cobham. It appears plainly, by the Lord Cobham himself, that it was after his return from the King, when Sir W. Raleigh could not but know of his discontentment. Now we shall prove the intelligence between the Lord Cobham and Raleigh in the Tower.

Then was read part of an Examination of Lord Cobham, taken 13th October, 1603, as follows:

It is true that Kemys came to me in the Tower with