THE 

 *PROCEEDINGS OF THE EARL OF ESSEX. 



THE POINTS OF FORM WORTHY TO BE OBSERVED. 



THE fifth of June in Trinity term, upon Thursday, 

 being no Star-chamber day, at the ordinary hour 

 when the courts sit at Westminster, were assembled 

 together at the lord keeper s house in the great 

 chamber, her majesty s privy-council, enlarged and 

 assisted for that time and cause by the special call 

 and associating of certain selected persons, viz. four 

 earls, two barons, and four judges of the law, mak 

 ing in the whole a council or court of eighteen per 

 sons, who were attended by four of her majesty s 

 learned counsel for charging the earl ; and two clerks 

 of the council, the one to read, the other as a regis 

 ter ; and an auditory of persons, to the number, as 

 I could guess, of two hundred, almost all men of 

 quality, but of every kind or profession ; nobility, 

 court, law, country, city. The upper end of the 

 table left void for the earl s appearance, who, after 

 the commissioners had sat a while, and the auditory 

 was quiet from the first throng to get in, and the 

 doors shut, presented himself and kneeled down at 



* At York-House, in June, 1600, prepared for queen Eliza 

 beth by her command, and read to her by Mr. Bacon, but never 

 published. 



