OF ROBERT EARL OF ESSEX. $ 19 



and in that sort continued till the end of Trinity 

 term following. 



For her majesty, all this while looking into his 

 faults with the eye of her princely favour, and loth 

 to take advantage of his great offences, in other 

 nature than as contempts, resolved so to proceed 

 against him,, as might, to use her majesty s own 

 words, tend &quot; ad correctionem, et non ad ruinam.&quot; 



Nevertheless afterwards, ahout the end of Tri 

 nity term following, for the better satisfaction of the 

 world, and to repress seditious bruits and libels 

 which were dispersed in his justification, and to ob 

 serve a form of justice before he should be set at 

 full liberty ; her majesty was pleased to direct, that 

 there should be associate unto her privy council some 

 chosen persons of her nobility, and of her judges of 

 the law, and before them his cause, concerning the 

 breaking of his instructions for the Northern prose 

 cution, and the manner of his treating with Tyrone, 

 and his coming over, and leaving the kingdom of 

 Ireland contrary to her majesty s commandment, 

 expressed as well by signification thereof, made under 

 her royal hand and signet, as by a most binding and 

 effectual letter written privately to himself, to re 

 ceive a hearing ; with limitation, nevertheless, that 

 he should not be charged with any point of disloy 

 alty ; and with like favour directed, that he should 

 not be called in question in the open and ordinary 

 place of offenders, in the Star-chamber, from which 

 he had likewise, by a most penitent and humble 



