262 HISTORICAL MEMORANDA OF 



the measure of his great knowledge, to prepare to dye resolutelie 

 and chearfuUie." 



" On Sundaye night, he desired us that were present to take notice 

 especially of one thinge, and to testifie it from hira after his deathe, 

 the rather because he had heard some reporte to the contrarie, 

 naraelie, that with his own patrimonie, which he brought to ray 

 lord's service, which he did affirm to be large, as he needed not to 

 have served any nobleman in Englande; also a portion which 

 he had in marriage with a greate gentlewoman, his wife ; besides 

 his longe service and many employments under my lord : yet if he 

 were presentlie to be sould, all he had would not amount to fowre 

 thousand poundes, now saie that I do speake with the most, my 

 debtes being paid, not to three thousand five hundred poundes ; and 

 yet some I do knowe have thought I might have despended as 

 moche yearlie, and I do feare the hope of gaining so moche hath 

 hastened my deathe,* of which last speache being expressed, I for- 

 give them, said he, if it were so." To Dr. Parry he said, " I knowe 

 you shall have raanie enquires of you concerninge me, how I car- 

 ried myself, and what I did saie when I dyed. I praie you tell 

 them from me that all they who are in the heyght of their pleasures 

 and delighted, and now live as they list, as I of late have lived, let 

 them take example of me, and remember my fall ; tell them the 

 course of life that now they most haunte after is nothinge but 

 vanitie.*' 



On the 13th of March Sir Gelly and CufFe were drawn to Ty- 

 burn. Cuffe made a long speech, in which Sir Gelly once or twice 

 interrupted him, advising him to spare a discourse which, however 

 rational, was not very seasonable. Sir Gelly merely said enough 

 to clear Lord Mountjoy from being at all acquainted with the de- 

 sign ; and intreated those noblemen who stood by to intercede with 

 the queen that there might not be any further proceedings against 

 such as had unwarily espoused the unhappy cause. He suffered 

 next to Mr. Cuffe. 



Of Sir Gelly's character we have very scanty materials where- 

 from to form an opinion ; but he seems to have possessed undaunted 

 courage, unblemished integrity, gratitude and friendship which no 

 perils could diminish. 



No treason can be vindicated, but in palliation it may be observed 



• Sir Walter Raleigh took a bribe to save Lyttleton and two others j — 

 (See Birch's Memoirs^ voL ii., p. 496) ;— and this looks as if some tamperihg 

 had been tried with Su: Gelly. 



