OF ROBERT EARL OF ESSEX. 305 



heads of the rebellion unto him, and to make them 

 of his party. These two ends had in themselves a 

 repugnancy ; for the one imported prosecution, and 

 the other treaty : but he that meant to be too strong 

 to be called to account for any thing, and meant be 

 sides, when he was once in Ireland, to engage him 

 self in other journeys that should hinder the prose 

 cution in the North, took things in order as they 

 made for him ; and so first did nothing, as was said, 

 but trumpet a final and utter prosecution against 

 Tyrone in the North, to the end to have his forces 

 augmented. 



But yet he forgat not his other purpose of mak 

 ing himself strong by a party amongst the rebels, 

 when it came to the scanning of the clauses of his 

 commission. For then he did insist, and that with 

 a kind of contestation, that the pardoning, no not of 

 Tyrone himself, the capital rebel, should be excepted 

 and reserved to her majesty s immediate grace ; be 

 ing infinitely desirous that Tyrone should not look 

 beyond him for his life or pardon, but should hold 

 his fortune as of him, and account for it to him 

 only. 



So again, whereas in the commission of the earl 

 of Sussex, and of all other lieutenants or deputies, 

 there was ever in that clause, which giveth unto the 

 lieutenant or deputy that high or regal point of 

 authority to pardon treasons and traitors, an excep 

 tion contained of such cases of treason as are com 

 mitted against the person of the king; it was 

 strange, and suspiciously strange even at that time, 



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