LETTERS RELATING TO 



nature was like to hatch dangerous secrets and 

 practices. I mean to shew likewise what jargons 

 there were and cyphers between them, which are 

 great badges of secrets of estate, and used either by 

 princes and their ministers of state, or by such as 

 practise against princes. That your majesty was 

 called Julius in respect of your empire ; the queen 

 Agrippina, though Somerset now saith it was Lmia, 

 and that my lady of Suffolk was Agrippina ; the 

 bishop of Canterbury Unctius ; Northampton, Do 

 minic ; Suffolk, first Lerma, after JVolsey ; and 

 many others ; so as it appears they made a play both 

 of your court and kingdom ; and that their imagi 

 nations wrought upon the greatest men and matters. 



Neither will I omit Somerset s breach of trust to 

 your majesty, in trusting Overbury with all the dis 

 patches, things, wherewith your council of estate 

 itself was not many times privy or acquainted : and 

 yet this man must be admitted to them, not curso 

 rily, or by glimpses, but to have them by him, to 

 copy them, to register them, to table them, etc. 



Apostyle of the 

 king. 



This evidence can- I shall also give in evidence, 

 not be given in witfi- in this place, the slight account 

 out making me his ac- of that letter, which was 

 cuser, and that upon brought to Somerset by Ash- 

 a very slight ground, ton, being found in the fields 

 As for all the subse- soon after the late prince s 

 quent evidences, they death, and was directed to 

 are all so little eci- Antwerp, containing these 



