he trials of the Duke of Arundel;
Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland; and the Earl of Essex. He also
tried Udall, the puritan, and no doubt tried to entrap him into a
confession of guilt. Apart from political trials, he had the reputation
of being a good judge and a sound lawyer.

[9] Henry Brooke, eighth Lord Cobham, was the son of a leading favourite
of Queen Elizabeth's. On his father's death he succeeded to much of his
father's influence; Robert Cecil married his sister; and they were both
enemies of Essex. Cobham's influence did not last into James's reign,
and he entered on the transactions which are discussed in Raleigh's
trial. He himself was tried and convicted after Raleigh (see p. 6), but
after being pardoned on the scaffold he remained a prisoner in the Tower
till 1617, when he was allowed to pay a visit to Bath for his health: he
died on the way home.

[10] Arabella Stuart was the daughter of the Earl of Lenox, younger
brother of Lord Darnley, the grandson of Margaret, eldest sister of
Henry VII., and thus stood next in succession to James. Her claim to the
throne as against James was that she was born in England, whereas he was
an alien. She had been arrested by Elizabeth in consequence of a rumour
that she was to marry William Seymour, grandson of Catherine Grey. She
was imprisoned in 1609 on another rumour of her marriage to some person
unknown. In 1610 she became actually engaged to William Seymour: he
promised not to marry her without the King's consent, but married her
secretly a few months afterwards. The marriage was discovered, and she
was committed to private custody whilst her husband was committed to the
Tower. She escaped, disguised in a man's clothes, but was arrested in
the Straits of Dover. She died in the Tower in 1615.

[11] Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) came of an old Norfolk family, and was
educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar in
1578, having already acquired a reputation as a lawyer. He entered
public life as member for Aldborough in 1589, and as member for Norfolk
in 1592. He became Speaker in 1593, and in opposition to Bacon became
Attorney-General in 1593. In 1598, on the death of his first wife, he
married Elizabeth Hatton, Burghley's granddaughter, again depriving
Bacon of a prize. He was retained to prosecute Essex, Southampton, and
the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, against all of whom he showed the same
animus that he did against Raleigh. In 1606 h