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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![Sic Walter Raleigh has arrived at Plymouth, from Ireland, 21st Jane 1G18, with a single shin, the others having left him, and • n • i i ■ his friends are now endeavouring to obtain a free pardon for him from the King, that he may be at liberty to come to court and not go brick to the Tower again. The death of Raleigh is narrated briefly by Pietro Contarini, thus, on the 16th November 1618 :— After a long trial, the evidence and examination having been most careful, Sir Walter Raleigh has suffered death. He in- variably denied having plotted aught to the prejudice of his Majesty, saying that he merely negotiated with the Frenchman to free himself from prison ; aud altho' these fresh practices [i/aeste nooe prattiche]* gave occasion to proceed against him, he was beheaded in execution of a former sentence, having been many years in the Tower, under sentence of death for conspiracy.'' 28. In the Appendix (G.) to this Report I have given extracts from letters relating to two Englishmen of note, Sir Henry Peyton and Sir Henry Mainwaring. 29. The Esposizioni Principi explain the story of the medal alluded to in the Domestic Calendar for the year 1614 (a passage which would be otherwise unintelligible). 30. Another enigma is solved by the Letter-book, in St. Mark's Library, of Alvise Contarini, whose original despatches also exist in the Archives. At the meeting of the Archajological Institute, at Warwick, in August 1864, the late Earl of Denbigh exhibited a dagger, said to be that with which Felton stabbed the Duke of Buckingham. Sir T. Winnington enquired the history of this dagger, the appearance of which was at variance with the account in the State Trials,'' where Felton is said to have stabbed the Duke with a common tenpenny knife, whereas the Earl of Denbigh's weapon is a curious double-bladed dagger. • A year before the Duke of Buckingham's death, his life was said to have been threatened by the Frenchman Toiras, as written from London by Alvise Contarini, thus: — The Court announces, that an individual has been arrested, sent by Toiras to murder the Duke of Buckingham, who was much exasperated, and had determined to press the siege [of St. Martin] to the utmost. Buckingham has sent to his wife, the dagger [ il coltello ] with which, as written, a certain individual commissioned by Toiras, the Governor of the fort (St. Martin), meant to assassinate him. A drawing of this dagger was immediately engraved, that, if true, the deed may irritate the people of England against the French ; and at the same time, thro' compassion, render the Duke popular; which is the object sought above all others, * This would almost make it appear that Raleigh was sacrificed to hatred against France rather than to any deference to Spain. B 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21021284_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
