390 EXAMINATION OF LORD EDWARD CROMWELL. 



The examination of the lord CROMWELL, taken the 

 7th of March, 1600, by Sir J. POPHAM, lord Chief 

 Justice ; CHRIST. YELVERTON, her majesty s ser- 

 jeant ; and FR. BACON, of her majesty s learned 

 counsel. 



* AT the sheriff s house this examinate pressed 

 in with the rest, and found the earls shifting them 

 selves in an inner chamber, where he heard my lord 

 of Essex certify the company, that he had been 

 advertised out of Ireland, which he would not now 

 hide from them, that the realm should be delivered 

 over to the hands of the Infanta of Spain, and that 

 he was wished to look to it ; farther, that he was 

 to seek redress for injuries ; and that he had left at 

 his house for pledges, the lord Keeper, the earl of 

 Worcester, Sir William Knolles, and the lord Chief 

 Justice. 



EDW. CROMWELL. 



Exam, per Jo. POPHAM, CHR. YELVERTON, 

 FR. BACON. 



* This examination, as appeareth by the date, was taken 

 after Essex s arraignment, but is inserted, to shew how the 

 speech, of the realm to be sold to the Infanta, which at his 

 arraignment he derived from Mr. Secretary, at sheriff Smith s 

 house he said he was advertised out of Ireland : and with this 

 latter concur many other examinations. 



