shall understand the main, as before you did the bye. The
Treason of the bye consisteth in these Points: first that the
lord Grey, Brook, Markham, and the rest, intended by force in
the night to surprise the king's court; which was a Rebellion in
the heart of the realm, yea, in the heart of the heart, in the
Court. They intended to take him that is a sovereign, to make
him subject to their power, purposing to open the doors with
musquets and cavaliers, and to take also the Prince and Council:
then under the king's authority to carry the King to the Tower;
and to make a stale of the admiral. When they had the King
there, to extort three things from him, first, A Pardon for all
their Treasons: Secondly, A Toleration of the Roman
Superstition; which their eyes shall sooner fall out than they
shall ever see; for the king hath spoken these words in the
hearing of many, 'I will lose the crown and my life, before ever
I will alter Religion.' And thirdly, To remove Counsellors. In
the room of the Lord Chancellor, they would have placed one
Watson, a priest, absurd in Humanity and ignorant in Divinity.
Brook, of whom I will speak nothing, Lord Treasurer. The great
Secretary must be Markham; _Oculus patriae_. A hole must be found
in my Lord Chief-Justice's coat. Grey must be Earl-Marshal, and
Master of the Horse, because he would have a table in court;
marry, he would advance the earl of Worcester to a higher place.
All this cannot be done without a multitude: therefore Watson
the priest tells a resolute man that the king was in danger of
Puritans and Jesuits; so to bring him in blindfold into the
action saying, That the king is no king till he be crowned;
therefore every man might right his own wrongs: but he is _rex
natus_, his dignity descends as well as yours, my lords. Then
Watson imposeth a blasphemous Oath, that they should swear to
defend the king's person; to keep secret what was given them in
charge, and seek all ways and means to advance the Catholic
Religion. Then they intend to send for the Lord Mayor and the
Aldermen, in the king's name, to the Tower; lest they should
make any resistance, and then take hostages of them; and to
enjoin them to provide for them victuals and munition. Grey,
because the king removed before Midsummer, had a further reach
to get a Company of