rot now confesses that he knows he is to die, deposes that no man has
promised him life, and that he has stated nothing in hope of life. With
tears he deplores that he has taken God's name in vain, in swearing to
the truth of his depositions before that of July 5. His last five
depositions under examination are 'true in all points and circumstances,
and he will go to the death with the same.'

'Further the said George Sprot remembers that in the summertide of 1601,
the Laird of Restalrig had indented with the Lord Willoughby, then
Governor of Berwick, concerning my Lord's ship then built and lying at
Berwick, whereof the Laird should have been equal partner with my Lord,
and to take voyage with the said ship, either by the Laird himself, or
some other person whom it pleased him to appoint . . . to pass to the
Indies, the Canarys, and through the Straits, for such conditions as were
set down in the indenture betwixt my Lord and him, which was framed by
Sir John Guevara,' Willoughby's cousin, the kidnapper of Ashfield in
1599.

Now this ship of Lord Willoughby's, at all events, was a real ship; and
here is a grain of fact in the narrative of Sprot. The ship was built by
Lord Willoughby to protect English commerce from the piracies of the
Dunkirkers. On March 28, 1601, he writes from Berwick to Cecil, 'The
respect of my country and the pity of those hurt by such' (the
Dunkirkers) 'persuaded me to build a ship, and moves me now to offer to
serve her Majesty at as reasonable a rate as any ship of 140 tons, with
sixteen pieces of artillery, and 100 men can be maintained with. . . .
If this offer seem good to you and the Council, my ship shall presently
be fitted, if not I purpose to dispose otherwise of her' (to Logan),
'being not able to maintain her.' ('Border Calendar,' ii. 738). On
April 19, Willoughby wrote that he had pursued, with his ship, a pirate
which had carried an English prize into the Forth. But he cannot,
unaided, maintain the ship, even for one summer. On June 14, Willoughby
'took a great cold' in his ship, lying at the haven mouth, awaiting a
wind, and died suddenly. On July 20, Carey says that his body has been
placed, with all honourable rites, on board his ship.

It appears, then, that Willoughby, unable to maintain his ship, and not
subsidised by Government, in the summer of 1601 admitted Logan to a half
of the venture, carrying great expenses. Logan settled the business at
Robert Jackson's h