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favour onely, where no manner of disloyalty was laide to his charge, for (quoth he?) 

 if that had beene the question, this had not beene the place. Afterwards passing 

 along most eloquently through the carles iourney into Ireland, hee came to charge 

 him with two points not spoken of before. The first was a letter written by the 

 earle unto my Lord Keeper, very boldly and presumptuously, in derogation to 

 her maiesty, which letter he also said was published by the carles own friends. 

 The points of the letter which he stood upon were these ; No tempest to the 

 passionate indignation of a prince ; as if her maiesty were devoid of reason, 

 carried away with passion (the onely thing that ioineth man and beast toge 

 ther) : her maiesties heart is obdurate, he would not say that the earle meant 

 to compare her absolutely to Pharaoh, but in this particular onely, which must 

 needs be very odious. Cannot princes erre ? cannot subjects suffer wrong 1 as 

 if her maiesty had lost her vertues of judgement, justice, &c. Farre be it from 

 me (quoth he) to attribute divine properties to mortal princes, yet this I must 

 truly say, that by the common law of England, a prince can doe no wrong. 

 The last point of that letter was a distinction of the duty a subject oweth to his 

 prince, that the duty of allegiance is the onely indissolueble duty, what then 

 (quoth he) is the duty of gratitude 1 what the duty of obedience, &c. The 

 second point of Master Bacon s accusation was, that a certaine dangerous 

 seditious pamphlet was of late put forth into print, concerning the first yeeres of 

 the raigne of Henry the Fourth, but indeed the end of Richard the Second, and 

 who thought fit to be patron of that booke, but my lord of Essex, who after the 

 booke had beene out a weeke, wrote a cold formall letter to my lord of Canter 

 bury, to call it in againe, knowing belike that forbidden things are most sought 

 after : this was the effect of his speech. The speciall points of the whole accu 

 sation were afterwards proved by the carles owne letters, by some of her maiesties 

 letters, and the counsels, and by the letter of the Earle of Ormond and others of 

 the counsell of Ireland, openly red by the clerke of the counsell. 



The accusation ended, the earle kneeling, beganne to speake for himselfe, in 

 effect thus much : That ever since it pleased her gracious maiestie to remove 

 that cup from him (which he acknowledged to have been at his humble sute), 

 and to change the course of proceeding against him, which was intended in the 

 Starre-chamber ; he laied aside all thought of justifying himselfe in any of his 

 actions, and that therefore he had now resolved with himselfe never to make 

 any contestation with his soveraigne : that he had made a divorce betwixt him 

 selfe and the world, if God and his soveraigne would give him leave to hold it j 

 that the inward sorrow and afflictions which he had laied upon his soule 

 privately, betwixt God and his conscience, for the great offence against her 

 majesty, was more then any outward crosse or affliction that could possibly 

 befall him. That he would never excuse himselfe, neither a toto nor a tanto, 

 from whatsoever crimes of errour, negligence, or inconsiderate rashnes, which 

 his youth, folly, or manifold infirmities might leade him into, onely he must 

 ever professe a loyall faithfull unspotted heart, unfained affection and desire, 

 ever to doe her majesty the best service he could, which rather than he would 

 lose, he would, if Christianity and charity did permit, first teare his heart out of 

 his breast with his owne hands. But this alwaies preserved untouched, he was 

 most willing to confesse and acknowledge whatsoever errours and faults it 

 pleased her maiesty to impute vnto him. The first part of his speech drew 

 plenty of teares from the eyes of many of the hearers ; for it was uttered with 

 great passion, and the words excellently ordered, and it might plainely appeare 

 that he had intended to speake no more for himselfe. But being touched (as it 

 seemed) with the oversharpe speeches of his accusers, he humbly craved of their 

 lordships, that whereas he had perceived many rhetoricall inferences and insi 

 nuations given out by his accusers, which might argue a disloyall, malicious, 

 wicked, and corrupt affection in him, they would give him leave, not in any sort 

 to excuse himself, but only by way of explanation, to lay downe unto them those 

 false guides which had deceived him, and led him into all his errours, and so he 

 entered into a kind of answering Master Atturnies speech, from point to point 

 in order, alleaging, for the point of his large commission for pardoning treason 

 against her maiesties person, that it was a thing he had learned of Master 



