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cry, &quot; Kill them, kill them ;&quot; and others crying, 

 &quot; Nay, but shop them up, keep them as pledges, 

 cast the great seal out at the window ;&quot; and other 

 such audacious and traiterous speeches. But Essex 

 took hold of the occasion and advantage, to keep in 

 deed such pledges if he were distressed, and to have 

 the countenance to lead them with him to the court, 

 especially the two great magistrates of justice, and 

 the great seal of England, if he prevailed, and to 

 deprive her majesty of the use of their counsel in 

 such a strait, and to engage his followers in the 

 very beginning by such a capital act, as the impri 

 sonment of counsellors carrying her majesty s royal 

 commandment for the suppressing of a rebellious 

 force. 



And after that they were come up into his book- 

 chamber, he gave order they should be kept fast, 

 giving the charge of their custody principally to Sir 

 John Davis, but adjoined unto him a warder, one 

 Owen Salisbury, one of the most seditious and 

 wicked persons of the number, having been a noto 

 rious robber, and one that served the enemy under 

 Sir William Stanley, and that bare a special spleen 

 unto my lord Chief Justice ; who guarded these 

 honourable persons with muskets charged, and 

 matches ready fired at the chamber door. 



This done, the earl, notwithstanding my lord 

 Keeper still required to speak with him, left the 

 charge of his house with Sir Gilly Merick ; and, 

 using these words to my lord Keeper, &quot; Have pa 

 tience for a while, I will go take order with the 



