394 SPEECH OF SIR CHRISTOPHER BLUNT. 



time he spake many things unto me, but descended 

 into no particulars, but in general terms. 



After which time he never brake with me in any 

 matter tending to the alteration of the state, I protest 

 before God, until he came into Ireland, other than I 

 might conceive, that he was of an ambitious and dis 

 contented mind. But when I lay at the castle of 

 Thomas Lee, called Reban, in Ireland, grievously hurt, 

 and doubted of my life, he came to visit me, and then 

 began to acquaint me with his intent. 



[As he thus spake, the sheriff began to interrupt 

 him, and told him the hour was past. But my lord 

 Gray, and Sir Walter Raleigh captain of the guard, 

 called to the sheriff, and required him not to interrupt 

 him, but to suffer him quietly to finish his prayers 

 and confessions. Sir Christopher Blunt said, Is Sir 

 Walter Raleigh there ? Those on the scaffold answer 

 ed, Yea. To whom Sir Christopher Blunt spake on 

 this manner :] 



Sir Walter Raleigh, I thank God that you are 

 present : I had an infinite desire to speak with you, 

 to ask you forgiveness ere I died, both for the wrong 

 done you, and for my particular ill intent towards you : 

 I beseech you forgive me. 



Sir Walter Raleigh answered, That he most wil 

 lingly forgave him, and besought God to forgive him, 

 and to give him his divine comfort : protesting before 

 the Lord, That whatsoever Sir Christopher Blunt 

 meant towards him, for his part he never had any ill 

 intent towards him : and farther said to Sir Christo- 



