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that he was content to suffer the ladies and gentle 

 women to come forth. Whereupon Essex return 

 ing the lord-lieutenant thanks for the compassion 

 and care he had of the ladies, desired only to have 

 an hour s respite to make way for their going out, 

 and an hour after to barricade the place again : 

 which because it could make no alteration to the 

 hindrance of the service, the lord -lieutenant thought 

 good to grant. But Essex, having had some talk 

 within of a sally, and despairing of the success, and 

 thinking better to yield himself, sent word, that 

 upon some conditions he would yield. 



But the lord-lieutenant utterly refusing to hear 

 of capitulation, Essex desired to speak with my lord, 

 who thereupon went up close to the house ; and the 

 late earls of Essex and Southampton, with divers 

 other lords and gentlemen their partakers, pre 

 sented themselves upon the leads ; and Essex said, 

 he would not capitulate, but intreat ; and made 

 three petitions. The first, that they might be 

 civilly used : whereof the lord-lieutenant assured 

 them. The second, that they might have an ho 

 nourable trial : whereof, the lord-lieutenant an 

 swered, they needed not to doubt. The third, that 

 he might have Ashton a preacher with him in prison 

 for the comfort of his soul ; which the lord-lieutenant 

 said he would move to her majesty, not doubting of 

 the matter of his request, though he could not ab 

 solutely promise him that person. Whereupon they 

 all, with the ceremony amongst martial men accus 

 tomed, came down and submitted themselves, and 



