l acquainted with the state of
Spain. Besides, if you could have brought Spain and Scotland to
have joined, you might have hoped to prevail a great deal the
better. For his six Overthrows, I answer, he hath the more
malice, because repulses breed desire of revenge. Then you say
you never talked with Cobham, but about leases, and letting
lands, and ordering his house; I never knew you Clerk of the
Kitchen, etc. If you had fallen on your knees at first and
confessed the Treason, it had been better for you. You say, He
meant to have given me a Cabinet of L30; perhaps he thought by
those means to have anticipated me therewith. But you say all
these are Circumstances: I answer, all this Accusation in
Circumstance is true. Here now I might appeal to my lords, that
you take hold of this, that he subscribed not to the Accusation.

LORD HENRY HOWARD--Cobham was not then pressed to subscribe.

ATTORNEY--His Accusation being testified by the lords, is of as
great force as if he had subscribed. Raleigh saith again, If the
Accuser be alive he must be brought face to face to speak; and
alledges 25 Edw. 3rd, that there must be two sufficient
Witnesses, that must be brought face to face before the accused;
and alledgeth 12 and 13 Elizabeth.

RALEIGH--You try me by the Spanish Inquisition, if you proceed
only by the Circumstances, without two Witnesses.

ATTORNEY--This is a treasonable speech.

RALEIGH--_Evertere Hominem justum in causa sua injustum est._
Good my lords, let it be proved, either by the laws of the land,
or the laws of God, that there ought not to be two Witnesses
appointed; yet I will not stand to defend this point in law, if
the king will have it so: it is no rare thing for a man to be
falsely accused. A Judge condemned a woman in Sarum for killing
her husband, on the testimony of one Witness; afterwards his man
confessed the Murder, when she was executed; who after being
touched in conscience for the Judgment was used to say: _Quod
nunquam de hoc facto animam in vita sua purgaret_. It is also
commanded by the Scripture; _Allocutus est Jehova Mosen, in Ore
duorum aut trium Testium_, etc. If Christ requireth it, as it
appeareth Matt. xviii.; if by the Canon, Civil Law, and God's
Word, it be required, that there must be two Witnesses at the
least, bear with me if I d