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A25875	The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Robert Earl of Essex and Henry Earl of Southampton, at Westminster the 19th of February, 1600 and in the 43 year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth for rebelliously conspiring and endeavouring the subversion of the government, by confederacy with Tyr-Owen, that popish traytor and his complices ... were the 5th of March ... arraigned, condemned, and executed ...	Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601.	1679 (1679)	Wing A3758; ESTC R18141	22,973	32

any man in the World besides but since you have stirred up this Point my Lord I dare warrant you this Letter will not blush for I did but perform the part of an honest man and ever laboured to have done you good if it might have been and to no other end for what I intended for your good was wished from the Heart without Touch of any man's Honour Essex Well my Lord I do here protest before the Living God that an Honourable Grave and Wise Councellor hath lamented and grieved at the Courses he hath seen taken and therewith hath wished himself often dead and this I speak upon Credible and Honourable Information but I can prove thus much from Sir Cecil's own mouth that he speaking to one of his Fellow-Councellors should say that none in the world but the Infanta of Spain had Right to the Crown of England Here Sir Robert Cecil stepped forth into the Court having kept himself private till then and humbly desired Leave to speak to Essex Sir Rob. Cecil The Difference between you and me is great for I speak in the Person of an honest man and you my Lord in the Person of a Traytor For well I know you have it at Will The Preheminence hath been yours but I have Innocence Truth of Conscience and Honesty to defend me against the Scandal of slanderous Tongues and aspiring Hearts and I protest before God I have loved your Person and justified your Vertues and I appeal to God and the Queen that I told Her Majesty your Afflictions would make you a fit Ser-Servant for her And had not I seen your ambitious Affections inclined to Usurpation I could have gone on my Knees to Her Majesty to have done you good but you have a Sheep's Garment in Show and in Appearance are humble and Religious but God be thanked we know you for indeed your Religion appears by Blunt Davies and Tresham your chiefest Councellors for the present and by promising Liberty of Conscience hereafter I stand for Loyalty which I never lost you stand for Treachery wherewith your Heart is possessed and you charge me with high things wherein I defie you to the uttermost You my good Lords Councellors of State have many Conferences and I do confess I have said the King of Scots is a Competitor and the King of Spain a Competitor and you I have said are a Competitor you would depose the Queen you would be King of England and call a Parliament Ah my Lord were it but your own Case the loss had been the less but you have drawn a number of Noble Persons and Gentlemen of Birth and Quality into your Net of Rebellion and their Bloods will cry Vengeance against you For my part I vow to God I wish my Soul was in Heaven and my Body at rest so this had never been Essex Ah Mr. Secretarie I thank God for my humbling that you in the Ruff of your Bravery came to make your Oration against me here this day Cecil My Lord I humbly thank God that you did not take me for a fit Companion for you and your Humours for if you had you would have drawn me to betray my Sovereign as You have done but I would have you name the Councellour you speak of name him name him name him if you dare if you dare I defie you name him if you dare Essex Here stands an Honourable Person meaning the Earl of Southampton that knows I speak no Fables he heard it as well as I. Cecil Then my Lord of Southampton I adjure you by the Duty you owe to God Loyalty and Allegiance you owe to your Sovereign by all tokens of true Christianity and by the antient Friendship and Acquaintance once between us that you name the Councellour Southamp Mr. Secretary If you will needs have me name the Councellour it was Mr. Comptroller whereupon the Secretary falling down upon his Knees said I thank God for this day and upon his Knee desired the Lord High Steward that a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber or one that might have Access to the Queen might go and humbly intreat Her Highness to command Mr. Comptroller to come before your Grace Here the Lord High Steward calling Mr. Knevet a Gentleman of Her Majesties Privy Chamber said unto him go Mr. Knevet unto Her Majesty and let Her understand Mr Secretaries Demand Cecil Mr. Knevet You shall have free Access unto Her Majesty tell Her that I vow before the God of Heaven that if she refuse to send Mr. Comptroller whereby I may clear my self of these open Scandals I will rather die at her Foot as her Subject and Vassal than live to do her any more Service in this Honourable Degree wherein her Highness employs me And withal let me adjure you Mr. Knevet that you do not acquaint Mr. Comptroller with the Cause why you come for him Mr. Knevet went and not long after returned with Mr. Comptroller to whom the Lord High Steward repeated the Cause why he was sent for and desired him to satisfie the Lords whether Mr. Secretary did use any such Speech in his Hearing or to his knowledge Mr. Comptroller I remember that once in Mr. Secretaries Company there was a Book read that treated of such matters but I did never hear Mr. Secretary use any such words or to that effect whereupon Mr. Secretary thanked God that though the Earl stood there as a Traytor yet he was found an honest man and a faithful Subject withal saying I beseech God to forgive you for this open wrong done unto me as I do openly pronounce I forgive you from the bottom of my Heart Essex And I Mr. Secretary do clearly and freely forgive you with all my Soul because I mean to die in Charity Bacon My Lord you may now perceive that my Lord of Essex went about to procure matter and to give over on the instant Southamp Well I beseech your Lordship let me satisfie your Lordship and the rest thus much that for my own part I did never know the Laws Now to shew the Causes that made me adventure so far as I did The first occasion that made me adventure into these Courses was the Affinity betwixt my Lord of Essex and me I being of his Blood and marrying his Kinswoman so that for his sake I should have hazarded my Life But what I have by my forwardness offended in Act I am altogether ignorant but in Thought I am assured never And if through my Ignorance in the Law I have offended yet I humbly submit my self to Her Majesty and from the bottom of my Heart do beg Her Gracious Pardon if it please Her and I hope that neither your Lordship nor any of the Peers will hold any of the former Resolutions spoken of by these Orators for any Certainty which depends no otherwise than one upon another For if any foolish Speeches have passed I protest as I shall be saved that they were never purposed by me nor understood to

Canopie and Chair of Estate then the Two Chief Judges and the Lord Chief Baron were sent for in to them to deliver their Opinions in Law After half an hour they came all out again and each man took his place which being done the Serjeant at Arms begun at the punie Lord and called Thomas Lord Howard who stood up bare-headed then said the Lord High Steward Lo. Steward My Lord Thomas Howard Whether is Robert Earl of Essex guilty of this Treason whereupon he hath been Indicted as you take it upon your Honour or no Lo. Tho. Howard Whereupon the Lord Thomas Howard made answer bending his Body and laying his Left Hand upon his Right Side said Guilty my Lord of High Treason After which manner all the Peers found him guilty one after another from the Punie to the highest and so delivered in like sort upon their Honours Being called over anew they found Henry Earl of Southampton guilty of High Treason also Serjeant at Arms. Then the Serjeant at Arms commanded the Lieutenant of the Tower to bring his Prisoners to the Barr again Clerk of the Crown Then the Clerk of the Crown speaking first to the Earl of Essex said Robert Earl of Essex you have been Arraigned and Indicted of High Treason you have pleaded Not Guilty and for your Trial you have put your self upon God and your Peers the Peers here who have heard the Evidence and your Answer in your defence have found you Guilty Now what can you say for your self why you should not have Judgment of Death Essex I onely say this That since I have committed that which hath brought me within the compass of the Law I may be counted the Law 's Traitor in offending the Law for which I am willing to die and will as willingly go thereto as ever did any But I beseech your Lordship and the rest of the Lords here to have consideration of what I have formerly spoken and do me the right as to think me a Christian and that I have a Soul to save and that I know it is no time to jest lying and counterfeiting my Soul abhorreth for I am not desperate nor void of Grace now to speak falsely I do not speak to save my life for that I see were vain I owe God a death which shall be welcome how soon soever it pleaseth Her Majestie And to satisfie the Opinion of the World that my Conscience is free from Atheism and Popery howsoever I have been in this Action misled to transgress the Points of the Law in the Course and Defence of private Matters and whatsoever through the weakness of my Wit and dulness of Memory or through violent Courses if there be any violent that seek either life or death or if I have omitted or may have uttered any thing otherwise yet I will live and die in the Faith and true Religion which here I have professed Clerk of the Crown Then the Clerk of the Crown demanded of Henry Earl of Southampton What he could say for himself why Judgment of Death should not be pronounced against him Southampton My Lords I must say for my part as I have said before That since the ignorance of the Law hath made me incur the danger of the Law I humbly submit my self to Her Majesties Mercy and therefore my Lord High Steward and my Lord Admiral I beseech you both that seeing you are Witnesses I am Condemned by the letter of the Law it would please you to let the Queen know that I Crave her Mercy I know I have offended her yet if it please her to be Merciful unto me I may live and by my Service deserve my life I have been brought up under Her Majestie I have spent the best part of my Patrimony in Her Majesties Service with danger of my life as your Lordships know if there were any that could challenge me that I have ever heretofore committed or intended Treason or any other thing prejudicial to Her Majestie or Estate God let me never inherit his Kingdom neither would I desire Mercy but since the Law hath Cast me I do submit my self to death and yet I will not despair on her Majesties Mercy for that I know she is Merciful and if she please to extend it I shall with all humility receive it Lord Steward My Lord of Essex the Queen's Majestie hath bestowed many Favours on your Predecessors and your Self I would wish therefore that you likewise would submit your self to Her Majesties Mercy acknowledging your Offences and reconciling your self inwardly to Her Majestie by laying open all Matters that were intended to prejudice Her Majestie and the Actors thereof and thereby no doubt you shall find Her Majestie Merciful Essex My Lord you have made an honourable Motion do but send to me at the time of my death and you shall see how penitent and humble I will be towards her Majesty both in acknowledging her exceeding Favours to my Ancestors and to my self whereby I doubt not but the penitent suffering of my Death and sprinkling of my Blood will quench the evil conceited Thoughts of Her Majesty against me And I do most humbly desire Her Majesty that my Death may put a period to my Offences committed and be no more remembred by her Highness If I had ever perceived any of my Followers to have harboured an evil thought against her Majesty I would have been the first that should have punished the same in being his Executioner and therefore I beseech you my good Lord mistake me not nor think me so proud that I will not crave her Majesties Mercy for I protest kneeling upon the very knee of my heart I do crave her Majesties Mercy with all humility yet I had rather die than live in Misery Then the Lord High Steward after a few exhortations unto the Earls to prepare themselves for God told them seeing the Law had found them Guilty it followed of course that he must proceed to Judgement The Earl of Essex replied very cheerfully and said yea my Lord with a very good will I pray you go on Then the Lord High Steward gave Judgment as followeth You must go to the place from whence you came and there remain during Her Majesties pleasure from thence to be drawn on a Hurdle through London Streets and so to the place of Execution where you shall be hanged bowelled and quartered your Head and Quarters to be disposed of at Her Majesties pleasure and so God have mercy on your Souls Essex My Lord I am not a whit dismayed to receive this Sentence for I protest Death is as welcome to me as Life and I shall die as chearful a death upon such a testimony as ever did man And I think it fit my poor Quarters that hath done her Majesty true Service in divers parts of the world should be sacrificed and disposed of at her Majesties pleasure whereunto with all willingness of heart I have submitted my self But one thing I beg of you my Lords that have free access to her Majesties person humbly to beseech her Majestie to grant me that during the short time I shall live that I may have the same Preacher to comfort me that hath been with me since my troubles began for as he that hath been long sick is most desirous of the Physician which hath been and is best acquainted with the Constitution of his Body so do I most wish to have the comfort and Spiritual Physick from the Preacher which hath bin and is acquainted with the inward griefs and secret affections of my Soul And my last request shall be only this that it will please her Highness that my Lord Thomas Howard and the Lieutenant of the Tower may be partakers with me in receiving the Sacrament and be a witness of it in token of what I have protested to be true in this life for my Loyalty Religion and peace of Conscience and then whensoever it shall please her Majesty to call me I shall be ready to seal the same with my blood The Lords promised they would move the Queen for his requests Essex I humbly thank your Lordships Then the Serjeant at Arms stood up with the Mace on his shoulder and after Proclamation was made said thus All Peers that were summoned to be here this day may now take their ease and all other Persons attending here this Service may depart in her Majestice Peace for my Lord High Steward is pleased to dissolve this Commission As the Lords were rising the Earl of Essex said My Lord De la Ware and my Lord Morley I beseech your Lordships pardon me for your two Sons that are in trouble for my sake I protest upon my Soul they knew not of any thing that was or should have been done but came to me in the morning and I desired them to stay and they knew not wherefore And so Farewell my Lords His Epitaph There sleeps great Essex Darling of Mankind Fair Honours Lamp foule Envies prey Arts fame Natures pride Vertues Bulwark lure of Mind Wisdoms Flower Valours Tower Fortunes shame England's Sun Belgia's light France's Star Spain's thunder Lisbon's lightning Ireland's cloud the whole Worlds Wonder FINIS