ARRAIGNMENTS OF BLUNT, DAVERS, &&amp;lt;. 357 



God s providence prevented. For, if his project had 

 taken effect, &quot; God knoweth,&quot; said he, &quot; what harm 

 it had wrought in the realm,&quot; 



He did also humbly thank her majesty, that he 

 should die in so private a manner, for he suffered in 

 the Tower-yard, and not upon the hill, by his own 

 special suit, lest the acclamation of the people, for 

 those were his own words, might be a temptation to 

 him : adding, that all popularity and trust in man 

 was vain, the experience whereof himself had felt : 

 and acknowledged farther unto them, that he was 

 justly and worthily spewed out, for that was also 

 his own word, of the realm, and that the nature of 

 his offence was like a leprosy that had infected far 

 and near. And so likewise at the public place of 

 his suffering, he did use vehement detestation of his 

 offence, desiring God to forgive him his great, his 

 bloody, his crying, and his infectious sin : and so 

 died very penitently, hut yet with great conflict, as 

 it should seem, for his sins. For he never men 

 tioned, nor remembered there, wife, children, or 

 friend, nor took particular leave of any that were 

 present, but wholly abstracted and sequestered him 

 self to the state of his conscience, and prayer. 



The effect of that which passed at the arraignments 

 of Sir CHRISTOPHER BLUNT, Sir CHARLES D AVERS, 

 Sir JOHN DAVIS, Sir GILLY MERICK, and HENRY 

 CUFFE. 



THE fifth of March, by a very honourable com 

 mission of Oyer and Terminer, directed to the lord 



