342 DECLARATION OF THE TREASONS 



yielded up their swords, which was about ten of the 

 clock at night ; there having been slain in holding 

 of the house by musket-shot Owen Salisbury, and 

 some few more on the part of my lord, and some 

 few likewise slain and hurt on the queen s part : and 

 presently, as well the lords as the rest of their con 

 federates of quality, were severally taken into the 

 charge of clivers particular lords and gentlemen, 

 and by them conveyed to the Tower and other 

 prisons. 



So as this action, so dangerous in respect of the 

 person of the leader, the manner of the combination, 

 and the intent of the plot, brake forth and ended 

 within the compass of twelve hours, and with the 

 loss of little blood, and in such sort as the next day 

 all courts of justice were open, and did sit in their 

 accustomed manner, giving good subjects and all 

 reasonable men just cause to think, not the less of 

 the offender s treason, but the more of her majesty s 

 princely magnanimity and prudent foresight in so 

 great a peril, and chiefly of God s goodness, that 

 hath blessed her majesty in this, as in many things 

 else, with so rare and divine felicity. 



The effect of the evidence given at the several 

 arraignments of the late earls of ESSEX and 

 SOUTHAMPTON, before the lord Steward ; and of 

 Sir CHRISTOPHER BLUNT, and Sir CHARLES DA- 

 VERS, and others, before great and honourable 

 Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer: and of 

 the answers and defences which the said offenders 



