A DECLARATION OF THE PRACTICES AND 



TREASONS, ATTEMPTED AND 

 COMMITTED BY ROBERT LATE EARL OF ESSEX 



AND HIS COMPLICES, AGAINST 

 HER MAJESTY AND HER KINGDOMS; 



AND OF THE PROCEEDINGS AS WELL AT THE ARRAIGNMENTS AND 

 CONVICTIONS OF THE SAID LATE EARL, AND HIS ADHERENTS, AS 

 AFTER : TOGETHER WITH THE VERY CONFESSIONS, AND OTHER PARTS 

 OF THE EVIDENCES THEMSELVES, WORD FOR WORD, TAKEN OUT OF 

 THE ORIGINALS. IMPRINTED ANNO l601. 



THOUGH public justice passed upon capital offenders, 

 according to the laws, and in course of an honour 

 able and ordinary trial, where the case would have 

 born and required the severity of martial law to have 

 been speedily used, do in itself carry a sufficient 

 satisfaction towards all men, specially in a merciful 

 government, such as her majesty s is approved to be : 

 yet because there do pass abroad in the hands of 

 many men divers false and corrupt collections and 

 relations of the proceedings at the arraignment of 

 the late earls of Essex and Southampton ; and, again, 

 because it is requisite that the world do understand 

 as well the precedent practices and inducements 

 to the treasons, as the open and actual treasons 

 themselves, though in a case of life it was not 

 thought convenient to insist at the trial upon matter 

 of inference or presumption, but chiefly upon matter 

 of plain and direct proofs ; therefore it hath been 

 thought fit to publish to the world a brief declara- 



* See ante, 274. 



