CHARGE AGAINST WHITELOCKE. 381 



High Dutch verse, and translated into English in 

 1508 by Alexander Barklay, and printed at London 

 the year following by Richard Pynson^ printer to 

 Henry VII. and Henry VIII. in folio, with the fol 

 lowing title, &quot; The Shyp of Pollys of the World : 

 translated in the Coll. of Saynt Mary Otery in the 

 counte of Devonshyre, oute of Latin, Frenche, and 

 Doche, into Englesshe tongue, by Alex. Barklay, 

 preste and chaplen in the said College M,CCCCC,VIII.&quot; 

 It was dedicated by the translator to Thomas Corn 

 ish, bishop of Tine, and suffragan bishop of Wells, 

 and adorned with great variety of wooden cuts. 



THE CHARGE AGAINST MR. WHITELOCKE *. 



MY LORDS, 



THE offence, wherewith Mr. Whitelocke is charged, 

 for as to Sir Robert Mansell, I take it to my part 



* He had been committed, in May 1613, to the Fleet, for 

 speaking too boldly against the marshal s court, and for giving 

 his opinion to Sir Robert Mansell, treasurer of the navy, and 

 vice-admiral, that the commission to the earl of Nottingham, 

 lord high admiral, for reviewing and reforming the disorders 

 committed by the officers of the navy, was not according to law ; 

 though Mr. Whitelocke had given that opinion only in private 

 to his client, and not under his hand. Sir Robert Mansell was 

 also committed to the Marshalsea, for animating the lord admi 

 ral against the commission. [Sir Ralph Windwood s Memorials 

 of State, Vol. III. p. 460.] This Mr. Whitelocke was probably 



