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rit of bitterness, remonstrance, and representation 

 is made to her majesty, as if my lord suffered under 

 passion and faction, and not under justice mixed with 

 mercy ; which letter, though written to her sacred 

 majesty, and therefore unfit to pass in vulgar hands, 

 yet was first divulged by copies every where, that 

 being, as it seemeth, the newest and finest form of 

 libelling, and since committed to the press : her 

 majesty in her wisdom seeing manifestly these ru 

 mours thus nourished had got too great a head to 

 be repressed without some hearing of the cause, and 

 calling my lord to answer; and yet on the other side, 

 being still informed touching my lord himself of his 

 continuance of penitence and submission, did in con 

 clusion resolve to use justice, but with the edge and 

 point taken off and rebated ; for whereas nothing 

 leaveth that taint upon honour, which in a person of 

 my lord s condition is hardliest repaired, in question 

 of justice, as to be called to the ordinary and open 

 place of offenders and criminals, her majesty had 

 ordered that the hearing should be &quot; intra domes- 

 ticos parietes,&quot; and not &quot; luce forensi.&quot; And whereas 

 again in the Star-chamber there be certain formali 

 ties net fit in regard of example to be dispensed 

 with, which would strike deeper both into my lord s 

 fortune and reputation ; as the fine which is inci 

 dent to a sentence there given, and the imprison 

 ment of the Tower, which in case of contempts that 

 touch the point of estate doth likewise follow ; her 

 majesty turning this course, had directed that the 

 matters should receive, before a great, honourable, 



