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luntarily into this his confession, which, if it had 

 been thought fit to have required of him at that 

 time publicly, he had delivered before his convic 

 tion. And the same confession he did after, at the 

 time of his execution, constantly and fully confirm, 

 discourse particularly, and take upon his death, 

 where never any man shewed less fear, nor a greater 

 resolution to die. 



And the same matter so by him confessed, was 

 likewise confessed with the same circumstances of 

 time and place by Southampton, being severally 

 examined thereupon. 



So as now the world may see how long since my 

 lord put off his vizard, and disclosed the secrets of 

 his heart to two of his most confident friends, falling 

 upon that unnatural and detestable treason, where- 

 unto all his former actions in his government in Ire 

 land, and God knows how long before, were but in 

 troductions. 



But finding that these two persons, which of all 

 the rest he thought to have found forwardest, South 

 ampton, whose displacing he had made his own 

 discontentment, having placed him, no question to 

 that end, to find cause of discontentment, and Blunt, 

 a man so enterprising and prodigal of his own life, 

 as himself termed himself at the bar, did not applaud 

 to this his purpose, and thereby doubting how coldly 

 he should find others minded, that were not so near 

 to him ; and therefore condescending to Blunt s ad 

 vice to surprise the court, he did pursue that plot 

 accordingly, and came over with a selected company 



