11 PREFACE. 



Page 



II Charges. 



1 . Commission for the Verge (a) 85 



2. Of Subordinate Magistrates . 103 



3. Against Duels . .108 

 Decree of Star Chamber against 



Duels . . .125 



4. Against Mr. Oliver St. John . .138 



5. Mr. Lumsden, &c. (a) . 154 



6. Lord Sanquhar (a) (b) . 167 



7. Mr. Owen (a) . .172 



8. Countess of Somerset (a) 181 



9. Earl of Somerset (a) (6) (d). 20 1 



Letter to the King . 219 

 To Sir G. Villiers . 22 1 



To the King . . 228 



To Sir G. Villiers . 233 



Of Somerset s arraignment 235 

 To the King about Somer 

 set s examination . 238 

 10. William Talbot (a) 452 



III. Papers relating to the Earl of Essex. (e) 



Apology of Sir Francis Bacon . . 245 

 The Proceedings of the Earl of Essex() 277 

 Declarations of his Treasons . . 299 

 Arraignment of Blunt, Davis, &c. . 357 



(6) Of this there is a MS in the Sloane collection. 



(d) Of this there is also a MS in the Hargrave collection. 



(e) There are MSS in the Sloane collection of the letters as 

 from Anthony Bacon to the Queen. 



