A CHARGE DELIVERED BY SIR FRANCIS 

 BACON, KNIGHT, THE KING S SOLICITOR-GENERAL, 



AT THE ARRAIGNMENT OF THE 



LORD SANQUHAR, IN THE KING S BENCH AT 



WESTMINSTER. 



THE ARGUMENT. 



The Lord Sanquhar, a Scotch nobleman, having, in private re 

 venge, suborned Robert Carlile to murder John Turner, master 

 of fence, thought, by his greatness, to have borne it out ; 

 but the king, respecting nothing so much as justice, would not 

 suffer nobility to be a shelter for villainy; but, according to 

 law, on the 29th of June, 1612, the said Lord Sanquhar, 

 having been arraigned and condemned, by the name of Robert 

 Creighton, Esq. was before Westminster-hall Gate executed, 



... where he died very penitent. At whose arraignment my Lord 

 Bacon, then solicitor-general to King James, made this speech 

 following: 



IN this cause of life and death, the jury s part is in 

 effect discharged ; for after a frank and formal con 

 fession, their labour is at an end : so that what hath 

 been said by Mr. Attorney, or shall be said by 

 myself, is rather convenient than necessary. 



My lord Sanquhar, your fault is great, and 

 cannot be extenuated, and it need not be aggravated; 

 and if it needed, you have made so full an anatomy of 

 it out of your own feeling, as it cannot be matched 

 by myself, or any man else, out of conceit ; so as 



