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keepers, stopping access of 

 friends, etc. 



The third is the acts of the 

 impoisonments themselves. 



And the fourth is acts sub 

 sequent, which do vehe 

 mently argue him to be guilty 

 of the impoisonment. 



For the first two heads, upon conference, \v here 

 unto I called serjeant Montagu and serjeant Crew, I 

 have taken them two heads to myself; the third I 

 have allotted to serjeant Montagu ; and the fourth 

 to serjeant Crew. 



In the first of these, to my understanding, is the 

 only tenderness : for on the one side, it is most 

 necessary to lay a foundation, that the malice was a 

 deep malice, mixed with fear, and not only matter 

 of revenge upon his lordship s quarrel : for &quot; peri- 

 culum periculo vincitur ;&quot; and the malice must have 

 a proportion to the effect of it, which was the im 

 poisonment : so that if this foundation be not laid, 

 all the evidence is weakened. 



On the other side, if I charge him, or could charge 

 him, by way of aggravation, with matters tending to 

 disloyalty or treason, then he is like to grow des 

 perate. 



Therefore I shall now set down perspicuously 

 what course I mean to hold, that your majesty may 

 be pleased to direct and correct it, preserving the 

 strength of the evidence : and this I shall now do, 

 but shortly and without ornament. 



