234 CHARGE AGAINST ROBERT 



and child; and that time, when justice and his 

 majesty s honour is once saved and satisfied, may 

 produce farther fruit of his majesty s compassion : 

 which was to be seen in the example of South 

 ampton, whom his majesty after attainder restored : 

 and Cobham and Gray, to whom his majesty, not 

 withstanding they were offenders against his own 

 person, yet he spared their lives ; and for Gray, his 

 majesty gave him back some part of his estate, and 

 was upon point to deliver him much more. He 

 having been so highly in his majesty s favour, may 

 hope well, if he hurt not himself by his public mis 

 demeanour. 



For the person that should deliver this message, 

 I am not so well seen in the region of his friends, as 

 to be able to make choice of a particular ; my lord 

 treasurer, the lord Knollys, or any of his nearest 

 friends, should not be trusted with it, for they may 

 go too far, and perhaps work contrary to his 

 majesty s ends. Those which occur to me, are my 

 lord Hay, my lord Burleigh, of England I mean, and 

 Sir Robert Carre. 



My lady Somerset hath been re-examined, and 

 his majesty is found both a true prophet and a most 

 just king in that scruple he made ; for now she ex- 

 poundeth the word He, that should send the tarts 

 to Elwys s wife, to be of Overbury, and not of 

 Somerset ; but for the person that should bid her, 

 she said it was Northampton or Weston, not pitching 

 upon certainty, which giveth some advantage to the 

 evidence. 



