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
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
had an eye of favour upon Blunt often saying That She presaged him the Man to end Her cares in that Kingdome And She was a true Prophetesse though not in Her time but in Her Successor King James This Blunt was a Gallant Gentleman and learned on whom She bestowed a Jewell for his behaviour at a Tilting which he wore after tackt with a Scarlet Riband upon his Arme and for no other cause Essex must needs fight with him and was runne through the Arme for his labour But Essex got Imployments from them all offering the Service evermore at lesse charge of Men and Money then others his Competitors And over he goes Deputy of Ireland and Generall Deputy of Ireland and Generall of all the forces there with Commission strickt enough to imbound his Popularity with the Souldiery and his own family which followed him in Troops either to devour or undo him No sooner landed but ere he drew sword on the Enemy he dubbs Knighthood upon seven Gentlemen Volunteers which honour he had very lavishly bestowed at Cadiz and was therefore soundly chidden by the Queen And now restrained by his Commission with much a do unlesse to Men of known Merit and those after Battaile For this first Act the Queene swore he began his Rant Of which he had present Intelligence from his deerest Friend and Uncle Sir Francis Knowls a Councelor of State Sr. Francis Knowles his Correspondent and Controwler of Her Houshold and after Earl of Banbury Who spared not his advise and Councel at all times And between them there passed Intelligence with every dispatch whose letters and papers Principall from Essex and Copies to him I have seen by which there appears even from the beginning of that Imployment a very plaine and Intentional resolution in Essex to make himself Master of his own Ambition and by this way and meanes to effect it grounding all his discontents and dislikes that the Queens eare was open to his Enemies at Court. And therefore it behooved him to guard himself which he resolv'd to do by help of his Friends and fate And indeed having fallen into remarkeable offences together with the Treaties with Tyrone the Arch-Rebell without Order from England and without acquainting his Councell of Warre with whose advise he was limitted to act 'T is true Treats with Tyrone he advanced against the Enemy and soon accepts an Invitation to a Treaty accompanied with his Councell of Warre But comming to the brinck of a River the place assigned he plunges his Horse to the Midde stream alone and there meets him Tyrone on Horseback where their private discourse gave sufficient Caution to all that looked on a-loof-off that Essex meant no fair play for his Mistresse For which fact and no blow stroock in all this time Men and Money wasted He was soundly blamed by the Councell at home and no more letters from the Queens own hand which he usually received afore In great choler Returns home as to Dispute or Revenge and without leave from hence he leaves his Command to a Lieutenant and comes over with a hundred Gentlemen his best Confidents hastens to Court ere it was known to any but to his deer Vncle to whom he writes Deer Vncle Receiving your last at my entring on Ship-board Ireturn the accounts thereof at my Landing being resolved with all speed and your Silence to appear in the face of my Enemies not trusting afarre off to my own Innocency or to the Queens favour with whom they have got so much power c. At sight of him with amaze to the Queen She swore God's death my Lord what do you here Your presence is most unwelcome without Tyrone's head in your Portmantle But he falling more to a Dispute then any Excuse She in disdaine to be taught but what She pleased to do Bid him begone his bootes stunck And so was he presently commanded is committed censured and committed to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to Lambeth where not long after he was convented before a Committee of the Councel and Correctionem not ad destructionem The Queen very gracious hoping his offences might discerne favour for according to his Examinations then and the merit of his cause I have seen his Vncles papers breviates who was one of his Judges intended as his Censure to condemnation and so fitted for further Tryall But the day before they had other direction from the Queen saying he was young enough to mend and make amends for all And so their Censures shew'd him his Errors and left him to Her grace and mercy only restraining him to his own House against Saint Clements Not without dayly letters from Knowles with advice to be rid of his ranting followers Captaines and Sword-men of the Town flocking and Incouraging him to a Revenge on his Enemies It was not long that he could contain Saying His rebellious rising he was engaged to go on And on a Sunday morning the Councell sat which was usuall untill the late Arch-Bishop Lawd in honour of the Morning Sacrifice altered that course to the Afternoon Then the first flame brake out To him Imprisons the Clerk of the Councell they sent their Clerke of the Councell to know the reason from his Lordship of the meeting of so many weaponed Men at his house But the Messenger not returning being kept Prisoner the chiefest Councelours commanded by the Queen came to him and no sooner entered Essex house but the Gates were clapp'd too all their Train kept out the Court-yard full of Gallants Some cryed kill them Imprison them and the Lords of the Councell To the Court seise the Queen and be our own Carvers Essex comes down with all reverence ushers them up resolving to detain them Prisoners and pledges for his Successe Indeed in this hurly burly of advice he took the worst For leaving them in safety with Sir Ferdinando Gorges He with the Earle of Southampton in one boat and some others in other boats took water at his Garden staires and landing neer the Bridge went on foot up the streets with such stragling company as came in their way To whom he protested that the Queen should have been murthered and his and other good Councellors lives in perill by enemies of the State that forced a power from the Queene to the emiment destruction of the Kingdome These speeches with their swords drawne took little effect with the people who came running out of the Churches being Sermon-time without weapons or any offensable assistance contrary to his expectation But on he goes to Sir Thomas Smith's where he kept his Shreevealty neere Fan-church his confiding friend by whose countenance he hoped to worke with the Multitude He being absent at Paul's Crosse Sermon Essex staid no longer then to shift his shirt and so passed through Cheape-side to Paul's west-end where he found his first opposition by some forces got together by the Bishop of London and the trained band And after
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
in our Pamphlet The 4th Remarke in the Preface which wee must take leave to separate for each single story and Re-mind back the death of that Heroick Prince HENRY in the midst of Somerset's Greatnes Who had he liv'd to have bin King would no doubt with our Authors leave have been so gracious as to leave alive Pamph. 85 one HOWARD to pisse against the Wall When as with reverence to His Memory it was a notorious truth that He made Court to the Countesse of Essex before any other Lady then living But He is dead and poysoned too as we shall have it in his following discourse and yet speaks not one word more of Him afterwards Prince Henry was borne in Scotland at Striveling Castle in February 1594. the first sonne unto King JAMES and Queene ANNE His breeding apted his excellent Inclination to all Exercises of Honor and Arts of Knowledge which gave him fame the most exquisite hopefull Prince in Christendome In the nineteenth yeare of his Age His Sicknesse appeared the first Symptome of change from a full round face and pleasant disposition to be paler and sharpe more sad and retired often complaining of a giddy heavinesse in his for-head Which was somewhat eased by bleeding at the Nose and that suddenly stopping was the first of his distemper and brought him to extraordinary qualms which his Physicians recovered with Strong waters About this time severall Ambassadors Extraordinary being dispatched home He retired to his House at Richmond pleasantly seated by the Thames River which invited him to learn to swim in the Evenings after a ful supper the first immediate pernicious cause of stopping that gentle flux of blood which thereby putrifying might ingender that fatall Feaver that accompanied Him to his Grave His active Body used violent Exercises for at this time being to meet the King at Bever in Nottinghamshire he rode it in two dayes neer a hundred miles in the extremity of heat in Summer For he set out early and came to Sir Oliver Cromwells neer Huntingdeâ— by ten a clock before Noon neer 60 Miles and the next day bet mes to Bever 40 Miles There and at other places all that Progress He accustomed to Feasting Hunting and other sports of Balloon and Tennis with too much violence And now returned to Richmond in the Fall of the Leaf He complained afresh of His pain in the Head with increase of a meager complexion inclining to Feverish And then for the rareness thereof called the New disease Which increasing Takes His Chamber the 10th of Octob. He took His Camber and began Councel with His Physician Doctor Hammond an honest and worthily learned Man Three dayes after He fell into a loosness by cold 15 times a day Then removes to London to St. Iame's contrary to all advise And with a spirit above his Indisposition gives leave to His Physician to go to his own home And so allowes Himselfe too much liberty in accompanying the Palsgrave and Count Henry of Nassaw who was come hither upon Fame to see him in a great Match at Tennis in His Shirt that winter season his looks then presaging sickness And on Sunday the 25 of Octob. He heard a Sermon The text in Iob Man that is born of a Woman is of short continuance and is full of trouble After that He presently went to White-Hall and heard another Sermon before the King and after dinner being ill craves leave to retire to his own Court where instantly he fell into sudden sicknes faintings and after that a shaking with great heat and Headâ—ach that left Him not And His Bed whilst He had Life Instantly He takes His Bed continuing all that night in great drought and little rest The next day Head ache increasing his Body costive pulse high His water thyn and whitish Doctor Mayern prescribes Him a Glister After which he rose playd at Cards that and the next day But looked pale spake hollow dead sunk eyes with great drought And therefore Mr. Nasmith should have let him blood by Mayerns Counsell But the other Physicians disagreeing it was deferr'd yet He rose all this day had His fit first cold then a dry greatheat On his 4th day comes Doctor Butler that famous Man of Cambridge who approved what had bin ministred gave hopes of revery and allowed of what should be given Him Mayern Hammond and Butler desired the assistance of more Doctors but the Prince would not to avoid confusion in Counsell His Head-ache drought and other accidents increased This Evening there appeared 2. hours after Sun set A Lunar Rainbow directly cross over the House very ominous The 6.7 increasing His disease The 8th His Physicians bleed the Median of his right arm 8. ounces thin and putride After which He found ease with great hopes and was visited by King Queen Duke Palsgrave and Sister The 9th worse than before His disease and therefore Doctor Atkins assisted their opinions That his Disease was a corrupt putrid Feaver seated under the Liver in the first passage The Malignity by reason of the Putrefaction in the highest degree was venemous The 10th increasing Convulsions greater ravings and Feaver violent And therefore Mayern advised more bleeding But the rest would not but applyed Pigeons and Cupping glasses to draw away the pain The 11th small hopes All accidents violently increasing no applications giving ease His Chaplains continuing their daily Devotions by His Bed side The Archbishop of Canterbury and Doctor Melborn Dean of Rochester and others with whom He daily prayed The 12. No hope The King with excessive grief removes to Kensington House There were added Doctor Palmer and Doctor Guifford all imaginable helps Cordialls Dia. phoretick and Quintessentiall spirits a water from Sir Walter Raleigh Prisoner in the Tower all these were by Consent administred withâ—ut any effect And so He died at 8 a Clock at night Friday the 6. His death of November 1612. The Corps laid upon a Table Corps laid out the fairest cleerest and best proportioned without any spot or blemish The next day was solemnly appointed for imbowelling the Corps in the presence of some of the Counsell all the Physicians Chirurgions Apothecaries and the Palsgraves Physician And this is the true Copy of their view And viewed by Certisicate under their hands as followeth The Skin as of others Blackish Skin but no way spotted with Blacknesse or Pale marks much lesse purpled like Flea bites could shew any Contagion â—r Pestilenticall Venome About the place of His Kidnies Kidnies Hipps and behind His Thighs full of rednesse and because of his continuall lying upon his back his belly somewhat swollen and stretched out The Stomach whose handsom Stomach within and without having never in all his sicknesse been troubled with vomiting lothing or yelping or any other accidents which could shew any taint The Liver marked with small spots above Liver and in the Lower parts with small lines