378 CONFESSION OF SIR CHRISTOPHER BLUNT. 



Essex sent unto Drury-house, as near as I can re 

 member, were these ; whether both the court and 

 the Tower should be both attempted at one time ? 

 if both, what numbers should be thought requisite 

 for either ? if the court alone, what places should be 

 first possessed ? by what persons ? 



And for those which were not to come into the 

 court beforehand, where and in what sort they might 

 assemble themselves, with least suspicion, to come 

 in with my lord ? 



Whether it were not fit for my lord, and some of 

 the principal persons, to be armed with privy coats ? 



CHARLES DAVERS. 



Knowledged in the presence of Tuo. EGERTON, C. S. 



THO. BUCKHURST, 

 NOTTINGHAM, 

 ROBERT CECIL. 



The first confession of Sir CHRISTOPHER BLUNT, exa 

 mined the 18th of February 1600, befor Jo. HER 

 BERT, second Secretary of estate, and in the 

 presence of NIC. KEMPE, counsellor at law, WIL 

 LIAM WAIMARKE, WILLIAM MARTIN, ROBERT 

 ANDREWS, citizens, JOHN TREVOR, surveyor of 

 the navy, and THOMAS THORNEY, his surgeon. 



HE confesseth that the earl of Essex sent Wise 

 man, about the 20th of January, to visit his wife, 

 with letters of compliment, and to require him to 

 come up unto him to London, to settle his estate 



