James, I. Naval Expeditions , &c. of the English,

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The King

-And gtueenarrive atLondon :

Their Coranation .

1603. ci], to carry the new King an Accountof the Queen’s Death, and of his Ac-cession to the Throne, this Monarch leftScotland, the fifth of April, attendedby the Duke of Lenox, the Earl of Mar,and some others of less Distinction, tiemade but easy Journies to London, whereHe did not arrive ’till the seventh ofMay. (a) Shortly after His Arriual atLondon, He sent a numerous Train ofLords and Ladies into Scotland, to at-tend His Queen and Children to Eng-land,' where being arrived, the Kingand Queen were crowned, at Wejhnin-Jler, with the usual Solemnity, on thefive and twentieth of July , being St.James's Day.

Not long before the Coronation, hap-pened an Affair, which, tho’ foreignto this History, it will be requisiteto mention, as one of the principal Ac-tors in it will, in the Sequel, appear inthe Circumstances this Business reducedI mean Sir flatter Raleigh, ofwhom j have had Occasion severalTimes to make honourable Mention inthe foregoing Book. This brave Com-mander, with some others, were accus-ed of having conspired to dethrone theKing and to place Arabella Staart,His Cousin German ,upon it, in his Room.He was brought to his Trial, and upona very slender, or rather illegal Evi-dence, (b) condemned to dy : But theSentence was not then executed, (c) aswe shall fee hereafter.

W e have a Copy of his Arraignment,in a Manuscript in the Cottonian Libra-ry, a Transcript of which may not beunacceptable to the Reader.

A pretended him triot dijcovered.

Sir WalterRaleigh con-demned tody ; But re-prieved.

Julius, F. VI. TraSl. 33. Fol. 62. b.

Sir Walter Raleigh arraigned, the se-venteenth of November .

T h e Points of his IndHhtment.

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HE Lord Cobham, Lord Gray," and Sir Walter Raleigh - - -

“ - - - together indighted, in one In-" dightment j That they purposed to" have taken _ away "the King and all'" his Issue, whom they called his Cub," and to have brought the Lady Ara-" bell a to the Crown; To have stirred" up Rebellion, and to have begun in£s Scotland, for the better effecting of" their Purposes. To have caused thecc Lady Arabella to write one Letter to" the King of Spain, and another to the" Duke of Savoy, and a third to theArch-Duke of Austria-, that in Case" they would lend her Aid, she would" yield to three Things. First, to e-" stablifh Peace. (2.) To tolerate Re-" ligion. (3.) To be at their Disposi-" tion touching her Marriage. And to" this Effect the said Lady was sollicit-" ed, and had a Letter addressed unto" her, of that Content: But slie abso-" lutely rejected them, shewing the" Letter to the King, and was in open" Court cleared from any such Practice,to her great Honour.

" Farther it was agreed, for the" better Effecting of their Purposes," that whereas the King of Spain , by“ Count Arenberg, who then lay in<c London, Ambassadour, did promiseto these Practices six Hundred Thou-tr sand Crowns, the Lord Cobham shouldt£ fetch the Mony over, and should re-cC turn by Jersey, where Sir WalterRaleigh would expect him, to con-“ elude upon the Disposing of the Mo-" ny. Provided always, that Sir Wal-“ ter Raleigh ssould have Th - - -" Thousand Crowns thereof, and the" Lord Cobham as much, the Rest to" have been divided amongst the Dif-• s contented, that were of that Plot.

" There was a Book delivered by" Sir Walter Raleigh, to my Lord Cob-" ham inWriting-hand, against theKing" and his Line, which Book, as they" fay, is now burnt; For they will not" bring it forth. Also, divers Times," the Lord Cobham, and Sir Walter" Raleigh, in the Tower, by Letters,

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(a) He was no sooner in England than he laidHold of every Occasion to express his Resent-ment against the late Queen. The most notableMark he gave was, that he neither went intoMourning himself, nor would admit any Personto his Presence in a Mourning Habit.

(b) It was the written Evidence of one singleWitness, the Lord Cobham , only, not without aSuspicion of foul Play, and even without beingconfronted. The whole Story was so dark andintricate, that it was then looked on as an arrantTrick of State, to overthrow some, ^and disable

others: And it was generally believed, that Ra-leigh’s only Crime was his having, like an honestand worthy Patriot, proposed, that King James,at his Acceffion to the Crown, might be tied tosome Articles ; And what Reason there was forthis Caution, the Sequel but too plainly evidenced.Yet this Crime was never forgiven him, and to-tally effaced all his former Services.

(c) He was kept close Prisoner in the Tower,twelve Years, and, in that Time it was, he wrotehis History of the World,