388 CONFESSION OF LORD WILLIAM SANDYS. 



The confession of WILLIAM lord SANDYS, of the parish 

 of Sherborne-Cowdry in the county of Southamp 

 ton, taken this 16th of February, 1600, before 

 Sir JOHN POPHAM, lord Chief Justice ; ROGER WIL- 

 BRAHAM, master of the Requests ; and EDWARD 

 COKE, her majesty s Attorney-general. 



HE saith, That he never understood that the earl 

 did mean to stand upon his strength till Sunday in 

 the morning, being the 8th of this instant February : 

 and saith, That in the morning of that day this exa- 

 minate was sent for by the earl of Essex about six or 

 seven of the clock : and the earl sent for him by his 

 servant Warburton, who was married to a widow in 

 Hampshire. And at his coming to the earl, there 

 were six or seven gentlemen with him, but remem- 

 bereth not what they were ; and next after, of a 

 nobleman, came my lord Chandos, and after him 

 came the earl of Southampton, and presently after 

 the earl of Rutland, and after him Mr. Parker, com 

 monly called the lord Montegle : and saith, That at 

 his coming to the earl of Essex, he complained that 

 it was practised by Sir Walter Raleigh to have mur 

 dered him as he should have gone to the lord Trea 

 surer s house with Mr. Secretary Herbert. And saith, 

 that he was present in the court-yard of Essex-house, 

 when the lord Keeper, the earl of Worcester, Sir 

 William Knolles, and the lord Chief Justice, came 

 from the queen s majesty to the earl of Essex ; and 

 the lord Chief Justice required the earl of Essex to 

 have some private conference with him; and that if 

 any private wrongs were offered unto him, that they 

 would make true report thereof to her majesty, who, 



