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Reply. It was replied, that both that consulta 

 tion in that manner held, if none other act had fol 

 lowed, was treason : and that the rebellion following 

 in the city, was not a desisting from the other plot, 

 but an inducement and pursuance of it ; their mean 

 ing being plain on all parts, that after they had 

 gotten the aid of the city, they would have gone and 

 possessed the court. 



Defence. To the point, that it was a truth that 

 Essex should have been assailed by his private enemies : 

 Reply. First, he was required to deliver who it 

 was that gave him the advertisement of it ; because 

 otherwise it must light upon himself, and be thought 

 his own invention : whereunto he said, that he would 

 name no man that day. 



Then it was shewed how improbable it was, con 

 sidering that my lord Cobham and sir Walter Raleigh 

 were men whose estates were better settled and 

 established than to overthrow their fortunes by such 

 a crime. 



Besides, it was shewed how the tale did not hang 

 together, but varied in itself, as the tale of the two 

 judges did, when one said, under the mulberry-tree, 

 and another said, under the fig-tree. So sometimes 

 it was, that he should have been murdered in his 

 bed, and sometimes upon the water, and sometimes 

 it should have been performed by Jesuits some days 

 before. 



Thirdly, it was asked what reference the going 

 into the city for succour against any his private ene 

 mies had to the imprisoning of the lord Keeper, and 



