COUNTESS OF SOMERSET. 199 



But these things were not done in a corner, I 

 need not speak of them. It is true that my lord 

 chief justice, in the dawning and opening of 

 the light, finding the matter touched upon these 

 great persons, very discreetly became suitor to the 

 king, to have greater persons than his own rank join 

 ed with him ; whereupon your lordships, my lord 

 high steward of England, my lord steward of the 

 king s house, and my lord Zouch, were joined with 

 him. 



Neither wanted there, this while, practice to sup 

 press testimony, to deface writings, to weaken the 

 king s resolution, to slander the justice, and the like. 

 Nay, when it came to the first solemn act of justice, 

 which was the arraignment of Weston, he had his 

 lesson to stand mute, which had arrested the whole 

 wheel of justice, but this dumb devil, by the means 

 of some discreet divines, and the potant charm of jus 

 tice together, was cast out ; neither did this poison 

 ous adder stop his ear to these charms, but relented, 

 and yielded to his trial. 



Then followed the other proceedings of justice 

 against the other offenders, Turner, Helwisse, 

 Franklin. 



But all these being but the organs and instru 

 ments of this fact, the actors, and not the authors, 

 justice could not have been crowned without this last 

 act against these great persons ; else Weston s cen 

 sure or prediction might have been verified, when he 

 said, he hoped the small flies should not be caught, 

 and the greater escape. Wherein the king, being in 



