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I am farther to know his majesty s pleasure con 

 cerning the day ; for my lord chancellor and I con 

 ceived his majesty to have designed the Monday and 

 Tuesday after St. George s feast ; and nevertheless 

 we conceived also, that his majesty understood 

 that the examinations of Somerset about this, and 

 otherwise touching the Spanish practices, should 

 first be put to a point ; which will not be possi 

 ble, as time cometh on, by reason of this accident of 

 the duke s sickness, and the cause we find of Sir 

 William Mounson s examination, and that divers of 

 the peers are to be sent for from remote places. 



It may please his majesty therefore to take into 

 consideration, whether the days may not well be 

 put off till Wednesday and Thursday after the term, 

 which endetli on the Monday, being the Wednes 

 day and Thursday before Whitsuntide ; or, if that 

 please not his majesty, in respect, it may be, his 

 majesty will be then in town, whereas these arraign 

 ments have been still in his majesty s absence from 

 town, then to take Monday and Tuesday after Tri 

 nity Sunday, being the Monday and Tuesday before 

 Trinity term. 



Now for Sir William Mounson, if it be his ma 

 jesty s pleasure that my lord chancellor and I shall 

 proceed to the examination of him, for that of the 

 duke of Lenox differs, in that there is not the like 

 cause as in that of Somerset, then his majesty may 

 be pleased to direct his commandment and warrant 

 to my lord chief justice, to deliver unto me the ex 

 amination he took of Sir William Mounson, that 



