oved, let me be guilty
of 10,000 Treasons. It is a strange thing you will impute that
to me, when I never so much as heard the name of Arabella
Stuart, but only the name of Arabella. After being examined, I
told my lords, that I thought my lord Cobham had conference with
Aremberg; I suspected his visiting of him; for after he departed
from me at Durham-house I saw him pass by his own stairs, and
passed over to St. Mary Saviours, where I knew Lawrency, a
merchant, and a follower of Aremberg, lay, and therefore likely
to go unto him. My lord Cecil asked my opinion concerning
Lawrency; I said that if you do not apprehend Lawrency, it is
dangerous, he will fly; if you do apprehend him, you shall give
my lord Cobham notice thereof. I was asked who was the greatest
man with my lord Cobham; I answered, I knew no man so great with
him as young Wyat of Kent. As soon as Cobham saw my Letter to
have discovered his dealing with Aremberg in his fury he accused
me; but before he came to the stair-foot, he repented, and said
he had done me wrong. When he came to the end of his Accusation
he added, that if he had brought this money to Jersey, he feared
that I would have delivered him and the Money to the King. Mr.
Attorney, you said this never came out of Cobham's quiver; he is
a simple man. Is he so simple? no: he hath a disposition of his
own, he will not easily be guided by others; but when he has
once taken head in a matter, he is not easily drawn from it: he
is no babe.

He then goes on to point out the inherent improbabilities of Cobham's
story; he himself had no means for persuading the King of Spain to
disburse money, having lost his wardenship of the Stannaries; he knew
England to be stronger and Spain to be weaker than they had been; the
Spanish fleet had been ruined, and the trade with the Indies had fallen
off. Cobham had no money of his own. When Raleigh was examined, he had
L40,000 worth of Cobham's jewels which he had bought of him. 'If he had
had a fancy to run away he would not have left so much as to have
purchased a lease in fee-farm. I saw him buy L300 worth of books to send
to his library at Canterbury, and a cabinet of L30 to give to Mr.
Attorney for drawing the conveyances; and God in Heaven knoweth, not I,
whether he intended to travel or not. But for that practice with
Arabella, or letters to Aremberg framed, or any