412 LETTERS RELATING TO 



may be as well Friday and Saturday, or Monday and 

 Tuesday, as London makes it already ? 



A PARTICULAR REMEMBRANCE FOR HIS MAJESTY. 



IT were good, that after he is come into the Hall, 

 so that he may perceive he must go to trial, and shall 

 he retired into the place appointed, till the court call 

 for him, then the lieutenant should tell him roundly, 

 that if in his speeches he shall tax the king*, that 



* The king s apprehension of being taxed by the earl of 

 Somerset on his trial, though for what is not known, accounts 

 in some measure for his majesty s extreme uneasiness of mind 

 till that trial was over, and for the management used by Sir 

 Francis Bacon in particular, as appears from his letters, to pre 

 vail upon the earl to submit to be tried, and to keep him in 

 temper during his trial, lest he, as the king expressed it in an 

 apostile on Sir Francis s letter of the 28th of April, 1616, upon 

 the one part commit unpardonable errors, and I on the other 

 seem to punish him in the spirit of revenge. See more on this 

 subject in Mr. Mallet s Life of the lord chancellor Bacon, 

 who closes his remarks with a reference to a letter of Somerset 

 to the king, printed in the Cabala, and written in an high style 

 of expostulation, and shewing, through the affected obscurity of 

 some expressions, that there was an important secret in his 

 keeping, of which his majesty dreaded a discovery. -The earl 

 and his lady were released from their confinement in the Tower 

 in January, 1621-2, the latter dying August 23, 1632, leaving- 

 one daughter Anne, then sixteen years of age, afterwards mar 

 ried to William lord Russel, afterwards earl, and at last duke 

 of Bedford. The earl of Somerset survived his lady several 

 years, and died in July, 1645, being interred on the 17th of that 

 month in the church of St. Paul s, Covent-Garden. 



