392 EXAMINATION OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON. 



they fell to a second consideration : and therein this 

 exanimate confesseth, That he rather advised him, 

 if needs he would go, to take with him some com 

 petent number of choice men. 



He did not name unto him any particular power 

 that would have come to him at his landing, but 

 assured himself that his army would have been quickly 

 increased by all sorts of discontented people. 



He did confess before his going, That he was 

 assured that many of the rebels would be advised 

 by him, but named none in particular. 



The examination of the earl of SOUTHAMPTON after 

 his arraignment ; taken before the earl of NOT 

 TINGHAM, lord High Admiral ; Sir ROBERT CECIL, 

 principal Secretary ; and Mr. JOHN HERBERT, 

 second Secretary of estate. 



SIR CHRISTOPHER BLUNT being hurt, and lying in 

 the castle of Dublin, in a chamber which had been 

 mine, the earl of Essex one day took me thither with 

 him, where being none but we three, he told us, He 

 found it necessary for him to go into England, and 

 thought it fit to carry with him as much of the army 

 as he could conveniently transport, to go on shore 

 with him to Wales, and there to make good his 

 landing with those, till he could send for more ; not 

 doubting but his army would so increase in a small 

 time, that he should be able to march to London, 

 and make his conditions as he desired. 



To which project I answered, That I held it 



