Report to the Right honourable the master of the rolls upon the documents in the archives and public libraries of Venice / by Thomas Duffus Hardy.

  • Thomas Duffus Hardy
Date:
1866
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Credit: Report to the Right honourable the master of the rolls upon the documents in the archives and public libraries of Venice / by Thomas Duffus Hardy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    except Raleigh, who was Captain of the Guard to the late Queen. He will be 'taken buck to the Tower of London ; some persons declaring that the like will be done by him also, after a few days, during which they hope to elicit some other details from him, it being°supposed that he ivas better informed about this conspiracy than any of the others. * On Monday, 26th March 1604, at about the 20th hour, the King, Queen, and Prince, with the Council and the whole Court, went by the river from Westminster with a very great quantity of boats to the Tower of London, where, after landing, with much diffi- culty could they ascend the stairs by reason of the crowd whicl^had flocked to see their Majesties; bull's and other animals were baited, and there were several other amusements, as a mark of rejoicing; the King having caused all the prisons of the Tower to be opened, and all the persons within them to be released, tho' a day before his Majesty's coming, the four conspirators, [the Lords Grey and Cobham, and Kaleigh and Markham,] whose lives were spared lately, were removed from the Tower and placed in other prisons.! The like was done also by Sir Anthony Standen, he having been imprisoned lately after his return from Italy ; his Majesty not having deemed these persons worthy of such a grace. At p. 196 and following, in the Italian translation of Mr. Brown's preface, there are three letters written by the Vene- tian secretary Leonello, from London, in January and February 1617, giving an account of Raleigh's projected sack of Genoa, a fact hitherto unknown to his biographers. Those letters were addressed to the Council of Ten, and on the following 14th of April, N. S., Leonello adds, in a letter to the Senate :— Sir Walter Raleigh has gone down the Thames with his seven vessels, with the commissions announced by me, to proceed to Guiana in quest of mines. I know very well that '•' he did not assume this undertaking for any other end than that of freeing himself from perpetual imprisonment, and that he would gladly change his scheme for any other soever ; and many other persons know this, so he leaves behind him a general curiosity for news of his doings. Of those doings many details are given by the Venetian am- bassador in London, Pietro Contarini, and amongst them are the following :— It 4s reported to-day, 14th June 1618, that Sir Walter Raleigh's crews have taken him by force to Ireland, the truth of which must soon be known, as in that case we shall see him here in a few days. * According to Dudley Carleton (vol. i. p. 392, Hardwicke's State Papers) it was already known at Salisbury on the 11th of December, O. S., 1R03, that the King had pardoned Raleigh with the rest, and confined him with the two lordi (Grey and Cobham) in the Tower of London, to remain during pleasure. ■(■ I do not know to what prison Raleigh was taken. This removal is not men- tioned by his biozraphers; but in Nichols' Progresses of King James I., vol. i. p. 414, we see, through Gilbert Dugdale's Time Triumphant, that the prisoners were eonvaict Rome to the Marshahies, others to the Gatehouse, and other appointed prisonnes.
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